DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2022

The movie is an allegory for climate change , showing how those with the power to do something about global warming willfully avoid taking action and how those with vested interests can mislead the public. But it also reflects science denial more broadly, including what the world has been seeing with COVID-19. In the U.S.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Taking immediate action to slash emissions towards net zero by 2050 could make a monumental difference to the level, frequency, and breadth of growing climate impacts, the scientists emphasise. The stark fact is that if we keep warming to 1.5?C C we are still facing half a metre of sea level rise.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 16, 2020

As a wake up call to the possible effects of global warming, London-based multidisciplinary design studio Superflux has created “Mitigation of Shock, Singapore,” an immersive exhibition that explores the possible consequences of sea level rise for city dwellers in coastal areas.

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Christopher Kemper

JUNE 20, 2020

For most people, global warming has been an issue that is difficult to grasp?—?oftentimes, global warming is caused by the increase in greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide (CO2) in the earth’s atmosphere. degrees celsius, which could increase sea-level rise from 20cm to 88cm by the year 2100.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Around the same time, the group published an article refuting the idea that weather variations were becoming more extreme, and stated on its website that “those who would like to see massive cuts in energy use associate bad weather with global warming in an effort to promote their cause.” .

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

These included Shell-produced content such as the Time For Energy film, and a book called Energy published the same year. In 1962, Shell’s chief geologist, Houston-based Marion King Hubbert, produced a book-length report on energy for the U.S. A parallel world of Shell-backed publications brushed such warnings aside.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 23, 2021

It’s also a clear example of how climate change is an infrastructure problem – my specialty as a historian of climate science at Stanford University and editor of the book series “ Infrastructures.”. The greenhouse gas emissions those fossil fuels release when burned have raised global temperature by about 1.1°C Edwards , William J.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Champions of the Paris Agreement, as it was called, included both the world’s mega-emitters like the United States and China and the small island nations most vulnerable to sea level rise. And if we follow through on the commitments that this agreement embodies, history may well judge it as a turning point for our planet.”

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Rees-Mogg was also the first cabinet minister to endorse the campaign to reverse the UK’s ban on fracking, spearheaded by the backbench Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG), the parliamentary wing of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 12, 2024

While evidence mounts of the threats we face from climate change, fossil fuelled billionaires are using every trick in the book to deny the truth and delay the transition to clean energy.” As reported by DeSmog, Farage’s coastal Clacton constituency is at risk of flooding and sea level rises as a result of climate change.

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 6, 2020

after releasing the famed book Silent Spring, which celebrated its 50th anniversary last year. Five years later she oversaw the signing of the historic accord at COP21 in which 195 countries agreed to limit global warming. Here are some of those women as reviewed in the Huffington Post.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 14, 2024

Heritage president Kevin Roberts’s new book, Dawn’s Early Light , features a foreword by Trump’s vice presidential candidate, JD Vance. The article also cast doubt on climate science – suggesting “some research shows little change” in extreme weather, while downplaying sea-level rises.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Jordan Peterson delivered an urgent message for the rapt crowd on a warm spring evening at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas, earlier this year. Thousands of people had bought tickets starting at $95 to hear the Canadian psychologist and star talent of conservative media outlet The Daily Wire promote his latest book, We Who Wrestle With God.

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