Grist

JANUARY 12, 2023

In the early 1980s, America’s biggest company knew more about climate change than basically anyone else. The chart below shows how global warming projections modeled by Exxon scientists compared to the actual temperature that ensued. Grist / Jessie Blaeser. Spencer Platt / Getty Images.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Telegraph columnists routinely questioned climate science and criticised green reforms as a major backlash against net zero policies raged in the UK, DeSmog can reveal. Ridley wrote last year that global heating was “mostly beneficial”. Overall, nearly one in five (17.6 All of these were anti-green. Credit: Telegraph.co.uk

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Terra Infirma

OCTOBER 14, 2024

On Friday, we were using Climate Interactive’s En-ROADS model which allows you to play with global carbon policies to see how you can limit average climate emissions. As we look at press reports from around the world, the waters of climate change are almost literally lapping around our ankles.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

French oil giant Total knew that its fossil fuel extraction could contribute to global warming as early as 1971 but stayed silent about it until 1988, according to a new study. The company publicly accepted climate science in the 1990s but promoted “policy delay or policies peripheral to fossil fuel control”, the authors found.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

A board member of a new MP-backed ‘Net Zero Watch’ campaign group has said today that “global warming is not a problem”, defended burning fossil fuels, and said carbon dioxide’s “principal effect” is the growth of plants. Experts have dubbed it the “latest tactic” from the “same old climate change deniers”.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 5, 2022

The UN IPCC has released its latest climate change mitigation report, which provides an updated global assessment of mitigation progress and pledges. One of its core findings is that major transitions in the energy industry will be key to mitigating the climate crisis. Climate change policy.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 12, 2024

But it also saw the election of five MPs from Reform UK , a climate science denial party led by right-wing populist Nigel Farage. Reform’s policies are in step with its donors. million from climate deniers, polluters, and fossil fuel interests – who represent 92 percent of its funders.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 12, 2020

As the most prevalent of the greenhouse gases (GHGs), CO2 plays an outsize role in global climate change — for example, it accounted for 81 percent of U.S. GHG emissions are what directly contribute to global temperature rise and are therefore the ultimate target of any action to combat climate change.

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Grist

APRIL 21, 2023

Common wisdom says that the average person doesn’t care about climate change because they think its effects will unfold in the far-off future or in faraway places. This point is repeated ad infinitum in tips about how to talk about the climate crisis, in books, articles, and guides for public officials. One problem?

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Grist

DECEMBER 18, 2024

As global temperatures rise from the burning of fossil fuels, researchers and policymakers have proposed solutions like installing renewable energy, replacing gasoline-powered cars with electric ones, and developing technology to suck carbon out of the air. Read Next Biofuels are a controversial climate solution.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

By 2100, the likelihood of unusually intense fire seasons happening in a given year will have increased by 31 to 57 percent, depending on the rate of global climate change. The rise in the number and frequency of wildfires will exacerbate global warming by releasing the carbon stored in trees.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

A new independent assessment of COP26 and the critical next steps for the UK was published on 2 December by the Climate Change Committee (CCC). There is now a path to expected global warming of under 2°C, but only if all the ambition in new mid-century Net Zero targets is delivered, alongside national 2030 emissions targets.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The new research adds to the urgency of conversations about climate change, just weeks before leaders all over the world are expected to travel to Dubai to meet for the United Nation’s annual climate change conference, COP28. Hansen was the first to sound the alarm on climate change in 1988 in testimony to Congress.

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Grist

AUGUST 9, 2022

In one sense, the climate change link seems obvious. Since 1850, global temperatures have climbed 1.2 Since 1850, global temperatures have climbed 1.2 But the connection between climate change and drought is not as straightforward as it seems. degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Fahrenheit); in areas of the U.S.

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Sustainability Consulting

JUNE 30, 2021

Here’s one of our favorites: The topic of climate change seems boring, technical and not relevant for the majority of people. The solution, according to Communications Specialist and Environmental Advocate John Marshall, is improving how we talk about climate change. Everyone loves a TED Talk. Why is that?

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The letter, sent to 47 company chairs and chief executives, calls on emissions-intensive firms to align all direct corporate lobbying activity and indirect lobbying activity managed by trade associations with the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to 1.5 Investors signing this week's letters have called on the 47 U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 14, 2025

Conservative leader and presumptive prime minister-in-waiting Pierre Poilievre hasnt articulated specific policies so much as rhyming slogans like axe the tax and spike the hike. Like Poilievre, she has regularly voted in parliament against measures that would limit climate change.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 17, 2020

In practice, much of our work centers around developing global climate change solutions to save the planet. Lori Lightfoot of Chicago, Vi Lyles of Charlotte, North Carolina, Libby Schaaf of Oakland, California and Jenny Durkan of Seattle — working in their communities to create powerful dialogues and meaningful policy action.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 4, 2024

Yet Reform’s official register of donations reveals the party is bankrolled by rich businessmen who reject climate science or make money from polluting industries. The firm is owned by Terence Mordaunt , a director and former chair of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s leading climate science denial group.

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2022

In fact, a new study estimates that if countries fulfill the climate pledges they made at the United Nations climate change conference known as COP26 last year, warming could be limited to just below 2 degrees C (3.6 The new study also adds to the growing consensus that limiting warming to 1.5

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 6, 2024

Since 2015, Stringer has been a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation , a group founded to contradict established climate science and advocate against policies to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Stringer has vocally questioned climate science and policies to achieve net zero emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 4, 2024

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage , who is a vocal critic of green policies and climate science, is standing in a constituency threatened by rising sea levels and flooding due to global warming. However, Farage is actively campaigning to scrap the green policies that may help to limit local flooding. metres) and 3.61

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 18, 2025

Badenochs Climate Denial Ties While serving in the last Conservative government, Badenoch described the 2050 net zero emissions target as crucial. However, her support for the policy has waned in more recent times. Green groups were not so enthusiastic.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

I think it’s funny that humans have this enormous taboo about a biological function that’s ultimately going to help us survive climate change,” said Sarah Everts, the author of The Joy of Sweat. Worryingly, climate change is also driving up the moisture content of the air, especially in the tropics.

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Business Green

JANUARY 9, 2023

The detrimental effect of global warming on worker productivity is already having a tangible impact on global labour markets and economic growth, according to a major new report from the London School of Economics' Grantham Research Institute. hours per worker between 2016 and 2019 as a result of warming. Dasgupta said.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2024

Conservative Party leadership hopeful Kemi Badenoch received £10,000 towards her campaign from the chair of a climate science denial group, DeSmog can reveal. Based in 55 Tufton Street , Westminster, the GWPF is the UK’s leading climate science denial group.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. Climate impacts 2. Climate action 4. From sunny day flooding caused by higher tides to a sewer system on the brink of total collapse, the city undeniably lives in a climate changed world.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2024

Hintze, a Conservative peer and hedge fund manager, was one of the early funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , founded by the late Conservative chancellor Nigel Lawson. Steve has never discussed environmental policy with him. Steve is fully committed to the government’s net zero aims.”

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 7, 2025

The controversy reveals a paradox at the heart of climate diplomacy: recent hosts such as the United Arab Emirates last year and Azerbaijan this year acknowledge the reality of climate change but have a vested interest in the worlds continued consumption of fossil fuels. Read the full op-ed in Global Policy Journal

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The self-styled PopCons included politicians critical of climate policies and science, including Lord Frost, who is a director of the climate science denial Global Warming Policy Foundation , as well as Conservative MP Lee Anderson and Reform party president Nigel Farage.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Proposed Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill would see international aviation, shipping, and consumption fall within the UK's 2050 net zero target, while putting climate assemblies on a formal standing. Based on the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to 1.5C

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

As understanding of the climate crisis increases and the harm to ourselves, the environment, business, industry, and the economy that will follow, so a desire to not only reduce carbon but to be seen reducing carbon increases. Net Zero Carbon Commitments always involve emission reductions.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Funders and directors of the UK’s leading climate science denial group have donated more than £7 million to the Conservative Party over the past two decades, DeSmog can reveal. percent of peer-reviewed scientific papers agree that climate change is mainly caused by humans. More than 99.9

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 9, 2020

Read time: 6 mins Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has doubled down on his refusal to strengthen his administration’s approach to climate policy as his country burns.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Methane is a major contributor to climate change, and if we can’t measure it, we can’t manage it. Accurate, localized data on the sources of methane emissions will allow us to make critical progress toward the goals of the Global Methane Pledge – and our latest announcement aims to help do just that,” said Michael R.

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Solar Power World

MARCH 26, 2020

Although most clean energy commitments have come from state policymakers, electric utilities are making efforts to curb climate change too. Here are five utilities that have committed to net-zero electricity by 2050 or sooner, in accordance with the IPCC’s report that limiting global warming to 1.5°C

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2022

UK and US researchers have run the numbers on the huge costs of runaway climate change – and the myriad benefits of achieving net zero emissions. How much could climate change impacts cost the UK economy, and how much will it cost the UK to decarbonise and avoid the worst of these impacts? per cent by 2050 rising to 7.4

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