DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

I live in South Louisiana on the front lines of the climate crisis and cover the fossil fuel industry and impacts related to the warming planet, so facing gaslighting is a regular occurrence for me. So it resonated with me that Merriam-Webster dictionary chose “gaslighting” as the word of the year.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

A lawsuit filed by the city and county of Honolulu against nearly a dozen fossil fuel companies is moving towards trial in Hawaii after the Hawaii Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the companies’ arguments for dismissing the case on appeal. by cities, counties, and states, and one fishermen’s trade association, over the past six years.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 6, 2024

The international journal Oceans and Coastal Management also produced a study in 2022 suggesting that the Tendring area, which encompasses Clacton, is exposed to sea level rises – potentially affecting hundreds of homes. million) was given by fossil fuel interests, polluting industries, or climate science deniers.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

A report released Wednesday gives that distinction to fossil fuel runoff from highways, parking lots, and other land-based infrastructure, mostly transportation related. The report was co-sponsored by the American Petroleum Institute, a fossil fuel industry trade group, in addition to federal agencies from the U.S.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2022

But a group of nations led by the Republic of the Marshall Islands — a low-lying island nation at risk of being swallowed up by sea-level rise if the world warms by 2 degrees — formed a “High Ambition Coalition” which sought to enshrine a lower, more ambitious temperature target. degrees. “It All this doesn’t mean that the 1.5-degree

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 27, 2024

Heat pumps use electricity rather than fossil fuels, and are up to five times more efficient than gas boilers according to the International Energy Agency. It added: “After all, moving away from fossil fuel heating systems is crucial for achieving energy independence and net zero targets.”

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Selwin Hart, the assistant secretary general of the UN, has warned that policies to reduce emissions are being hindered by a “prevailing narrative… pushed by the fossil fuel industry and their enablers – that climate action is too difficult; it’s too expensive.” to “drill baby drill” for more fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2021

For example, recent research found that human-caused sea-level rise increased the damages suffered when Hurricane Sandy hit the US East Coast in 2012 by $8.1 Another study found that climate change was responsible for $67 billion of damage caused by Hurricane Harvey, which hit Texas in 2017.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This shift has forced fossil fuel companies — and the organizations they fund — to alter their tactics to avoid regulation. A page on sea-level rise says “levels have been rising at a fairly steady pace since at least the mid-1800s,” but the rate has actually more than doubled in the 2000s when compared to most of the 20th century. “It’s

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 26, 2020

It will sit 55 feet above sea level, near an engineered harbor that provides physical barriers in the event of tsunamis or sea level rise. But since it had to import fossil fuels to burn, renewables and batteries became cost-competitive there earlier than many places on the mainland.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2025

Just today, a new analysis from think tank Transport & Environment showed how the electric vehicle boom is driving down transport emissions , while also reducing fuel costs for motorists and curbing fossil fuel imports across the EU. This is not a game.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

New research for the first time links wildfire risks and impacts in western North America to carbon emissions traceable to the world’s largest fossil fuel and cement companies. This research builds on over a decade of science tracing heat-trapping emissions and impacts on a global scale to particular fossil fuel operations.”

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Grist

JANUARY 19, 2022

For four decades, scientists from across the globe have tried to warn humanity about the unmitigated burning of fossil fuels. They’ve predicted debilitating heat waves, crushing droughts, and rising seas. Their demand is somewhat understandable.

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Grist

MARCH 20, 2023

degrees Celsius (2 degrees Fahrenheit) since preindustrial times, and that this warming has “ unequivocally ” been caused by human activities , primarily burning fossil fuels. report from October found that countries’ climate policies and planned fossil fuel projects would cause nearly 3 degrees C (5.4 degrees C (2.7

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Planet Pulse

DECEMBER 11, 2023

NASA led an evaluation on the potential impacts of sea level rise on the Maldives with Planet imagery, highlighting the use of remote sensing for predicting shoreline change. Researchers from WattTime estimated fossil fuel power plant CO2 emissions using proxy signals, like water vapor plumes, identified in PlanetScope data.

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Grist

MARCH 3, 2025

Beyond these artifacts, the industries that created them have left their own scars upon the planet: Atmospheric signatures in carbon isotopes, fly ash from burning fossil fuels, and radioactive waste will be among the clues left for geochemists studying what Zalasiewicz calls our carbon extravaganza” and energy binge.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

These revelations quickly spurred calls for Congress to investigate Exxon’s and other fossil fuel companies’ efforts to obstruct climate action. For years, academics, journalists, and activists have been unearthing documents proving that the fossil fuel industry knew about the dangers of climate change since the late 1950s.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Isle de Jean Charles sits about 80 miles southwest of New Orleans, where sea-level rise and coastal erosion are intensified by oil and gas canals and climate change, and it took a major hit from Hurricane Ida. Isle de Jean Charles on Aug. 22, 2021, before Ida arrived.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

According to DeSmog’s investigation, they include icon carver and YouTuber Jonathan Pageau, who has characterized fears about climate change as “secular apocalypticism,” as well as podcaster and author Michael Malice, who has said that projections of sea-level rise are “literally a religious belief.”

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Arctic ice levels are both a primary indicator of rising global temperatures and a key determinant of how bad climate change might get. Serious ice loss means sea levels rise, more heat is absorbed by the ocean and planet, and weather and ocean currents could change. Stopping Arctic melt is key,” Field says.

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Eco-Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Scientists are urgently calling for global action, including reducing fossil fuel use, as the Pacific Ocean's sea levels rise faster than the global average and the warming Indian Ocean drives storms, erratic rainfall, and droughts.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 29, 2020

The tower will also be built 5 feet above the city for Boston’s suggested level for sea level rise. New BU academic tower will be 100% free from fossil fuels. Energy loss will be minimized with external sun shading devices, triple-glazed windows, enhanced heating and ventilation systems and LED lighting.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Secretary General António Guterres asked nations to arrive at the session with concrete commitments for phasing out fossil fuels, observing in his opening remarks that “humanity has opened the gates of hell.” A two-week hearing on the case before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg, Germany concluded on Monday.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2022

The first page of Menlo Park, California’s 2030 Climate Action Plan shows a map predicting which parts of the city will be underwater by the end of the century, flooded by the rising waters of San Francisco Bay. Sea level rise is just one imminent threat for Silicon Valley.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

above pre-industrial levels, and is likely to be reach 1.5C - the optimal target set out in the Paris Agreement - within the next 20 years regardless of potential actions taken to slash greenhouse gas emissions in the meantime. The report concludes that the world's average surface land temperature currently stands at around 1.1C

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

These runaway global temperatures have had far-reaching repercussions, such as creating climate extremes, unpredictable precipitation, retreating glaciers, sea level rise , ecosystem imbalances and endangerment of many flora and fauna. NOAA + NASA Image via Angie Agostino.

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Christopher Kemper

JUNE 20, 2020

The theory of climate change is boiled down into a few sentences: Human activity is leading to increasing levels of GHG emissions from a wide variety of sources (e.g. utilizing fossil fuels for automobiles and electricity) which are difficult for the earth to adequately absorb through its natural cycles. degrees celsius and 5.8

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The findings, which follow analyses of satellite imagery, indicate that a natural buffer that prevents the glaciers from breaking away is deteriorating at a rapid rate and could lead to destructive sea level rise. Currently, the two glaciers already contribute to about 5% of global sea level rise.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 16, 2019

They are aware that we are not doing what we must to address biodiversity loss, sea-level rise, and extreme weather including devastating heat waves. However, fossil fuel funded conservative groups are trying to deny kids a fact-based climate education. This is called strategic framing.

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Business Green

JULY 28, 2022

That is despite sky high global gas prices being overwhelmingly responsible for the looming crisis, driven by lingering pandemic disruption and Russia's war in Ukraine, all of which has underscored the huge risk and volatility associated with fossil fuels, and the benefits of cheaper, green energy sources.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

Compared with CIM’s previous analyses, the current clean investment boom indicates a disproportionately positive impact on underserved and historically fossil fuel-dependent communities.   Equity. Despite record investment, deployment is lagging behind.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The Paris Agreement indicates that wealthier nations should pay an increasing amount to less wealthy countries to assist with climate-related investments like flood defense from sea level rise, clean energy development, or the use of energy efficiency retrofits.

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Andrew Winston

AUGUST 7, 2019

Many highly populated coastal areas will be in consistent trouble, as sea levels rise. Here’s some good news: Due to continuing drops in the cost of clean technologies, renewable energy is dramatically on the rise , making up more than half the global new power capacity every year since 2015.

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Andrew Winston

AUGUST 7, 2019

Many highly populated coastal areas will be in consistent trouble, as sea levels rise. Here’s some good news: Due to continuing drops in the cost of clean technologies, renewable energy is dramatically on the rise , making up more than half the global new power capacity every year since 2015.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The WRI warned that we need to stop burning coal (Yang & Cui, 2012) and the IPCC synthesis report (2014) said that we must stop using fossil fuels. A report from the Global Carbon Project, (GCP, 2019) expects that emissions from industrial activities and the burning of fossil fuels will add an estimated 36.8

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2022

Currently, society is continuing to subsidise the combustion of fossil fuels at a direct and indirect cost the IMF estimates to have been $5.9tr in 2020.

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

We now have less than seven years to cut emissions in half in order to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees C, the limit scientists say is necessary for averting some of the most dangerous climate impacts. 2022 saw flooding, drought and severe.

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