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Whales and Lobstermen Have a Common Enemy

Union of Concerned Scientists

GOM communities, not fossil fuel interests, should determine policies that affect GOM people. He was on to something And the lobsterman was correct: we can blame carbon emissions for ocean acidification and warming in the Gulf of Maine. Exxon and other companies knew , but deliberately misled us for decades.

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On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare

Environmental Progress

Over the last few years I helped save enough nuclear plants from being replaced by fossil fuels to prevent a sharp increase in emissions But until last year, I mostly avoided speaking out against the climate scare. Environmental groups have accepted hundreds of millions of dollars from fossil fuel interests.

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Green on Top: Zoning Against Climate Change with Green-Roof Legislation

Vermont Law

Predictions based on the 1995 Chicago and 2003 Europe heatwaves anticipate 25-31 percent higher frequencies and 72-76 percent longer heatwaves by 2090. green-roofs can cut the urban global warming contributions in half and could reduce urban carbon emissions dramatically. According to meteorological simulations.

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Climate Feedback Unscientifically Confuses "Disasters" & Weather Events & Endorses Pseudoscientific Claim That We Are in A "Sixth Mass Extinction"

Environmental Progress

Two authors, Daniel Swain and Hausfather, admit my claim, “Fires have declined 25% around the world since 2003,” is accurate, but somehow misleading. more land than fossil fuels, but those numbers are incorrect, and Hausfather has cherry-picked them, while ignoring better data. I was, and I have published the invitation.

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Bad science and bad ethics in Peter Gleick’s Review of “Apocalypse Never” at Yale Climate Connections

Environmental Progress

I further argue that, if we continue to develop in these ways, deaths from natural disasters will continue to decline, food surpluses will continue to rise, and global carbon emissions will likely peak and decline soon, preventing temperatures from rising more than three degrees centigrade over pre-industrial levels.

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Snopes' Alex Kasprak Makes 17 False And Misleading Claims About Apocalypse Never and Misrepresents the Best-available Science

Environmental Progress

Kasprak misinterprets my inclusion of the fact that fires have declined 25% around the world since 2003 as my somehow challenging the severity of climate change, but I wasn’t, and indeed had made clear that it was a list of “some facts few people know” and not about climate change. “In

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Shell called out for promoting fossil fuels to youth via Fortnite game

Corp Watch

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Behind the Shine: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth and others (2003). The Ogoni say that Shell was behind the hanging of nine Ogoni activists fighting Shell, including poet Ken Saro-Wiwa.