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Webinar: An Adaptation Blueprint for Communities

Green Market Oracle

Three panelists will talk about new examples of cities approaching the challenge of climate change in creative and innovative ways including transportation, to greening city buildings, to protecting against sea-level rise, to vulnerability assessments that help each community to identify their greatest risks and opportunities.

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‘Don’t Look Up’: Hollywood’s Primer on Climate Denial Illustrates 5 Myths That Fuel Rejection of Science

DeSmogBlog

SupportingTheNation Approximately 60 members of the Colorado National Guard are helping law enforcement respond to the devastating Marshall Fire in Boulder County. Rising global temperatures , worsening storms and sea level rise will affect everyone in harm’s way, regardless of the person’s social group.

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A Window into Louisiana’s Continued Embrace of the Fossil Fuel Industry

DeSmogBlog

Jane Patton, a campaign manager for the Center for International Environmental Law, told me on a recent call that comparing the CO2 Air Products plans to capture and inject to beer is a typical example of how the fossil industry gaslights those questioning the safety of carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects. New construction in St.

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In Their Own Words: The Dirty Dozen Documents of Big Oil’s Secret Climate Knowledge

DeSmogBlog

At a Columbia University symposium, physicist Edward Teller warns oil executives about rising levels of carbon dioxide and the likelihood of global warming and sea level rise by the end of the century. Found in the book “ Energy and Man: A Symposium ” Provenance: Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware.

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Lost Decade: How Shell Downplayed Early Warnings Over Climate Change

DeSmogBlog

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. based Center for International Environmental Law has reported.

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How Big Oil Rigs the System to Keep Winning

DeSmogBlog

In 19 articles that became a widely read book, History of the Standard Oil Company , published in 1904, she exposed its unsavory practices. That didn’t come until the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring. Ida Tarbell is one of the most celebrated investigative journalists in American history.

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How Climate-Friendly is Liz Truss’s Cabinet?

DeSmogBlog

Previously an avowed free marketeer, having written the controversial “Britannia Unchained” book with Liz Truss and others, colleagues say he “underwent a conversion at BEIS, becoming convinced of the need for intervention and the potential for clean energy”, according to the Guardian.