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Europe’s Blue Hydrogen Plans Risk Generating Annual Emissions on par With Denmark

DeSmogBlog

However, industry has yet to provide the kind of comprehensive data needed to estimate how far any possible climate benefits from switching to blue hydrogen produced by the planned projects may offset the residual CO2 emissions and methane leaks associated with making it. percent — less than the estimated global average of 1.4

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Climate Pledges Haven’t Stopped These European Banks From Financing LNG

DeSmogBlog

But Energie Baden-Württemberg (EnBW) and Securing Energy for Europe (SEFE) have booked import rights with the import terminal, and both EnBW and SEFE have signed long-term contracts to buy their LNG from Venture Global. “A exporters will report their methane emissions so that importers can make informed decisions about their LNG.

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These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health

GreenBiz

One juicy hamburger for you equates to (about) 600 gallons of water consumed, 0.126 pounds of methane released, 13.5 Moreover, to limit global warming to 1.5 We have access to myriad documentaries and books aimed at increasing awareness. The chief impediment is that the gain is private, yet the cost is public.

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Does talking about climate ‘tipping points’ inspire action — or defeat?

Grist

The long-frozen soil beneath the Arctic could rapidly thaw and release vast amounts of carbon dioxide and methane stored within it, heating up the atmosphere even more in a feedback loop. The framing is intended to draw attention to the radical changes that global warming might bring. It’s a choice to use that framing.

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In D.C. Defamation Trial, Climatologist Michael Mann Confronts the Climate Deniers Who Maligned His Work

DeSmogBlog

The graph, co-created by Mann, shows that while global average temperatures have been rising for the past 500 to 2,000 years, the rate of heating has sharply accelerated since the start of the industrial revolution in the West, and particularly during the 20th century. Oreskes, author of the books “Why Trust Science?”

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Industry-Funded Comic for Kids Casts Hydrogen Fuel as Climate Hero

DeSmogBlog

A hydrogen industry lobby group has produced a comic book aimed at high schoolers that suggests solar and wind power are incapable of fueling decarbonization goals, and that only hydrogen fuel cells provide sufficient energy to eliminate fossil fuels. This is misleading for several reasons,” said Mark Z.

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7 People in Virginia Play an Outsized Role in Progress on Global Climate Goals

DeSmogBlog

Indeed, at 42 inches in diameter and 303 miles long, the MVP is the largest methane gas pipeline currently under construction in the U.S. In 1988, he wrote The End of Nature, the first book for a common audience about global warming. However, it is no less dangerous to the planet than other fossil fuel pipelines.