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Lisa Baiton: Big Oil’s Climate Misinformation Maestro

Enviromental Defense

The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. 636 fossil fuel lobbyists were part of official country delegations to the last United Nations climate negotiations ( UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and Conference of Parties 27, or COP27 ).

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Whales and Lobstermen Have a Common Enemy

Union of Concerned Scientists

At the evening seafood reception that year, in a corner near the fresh oysters, a board member of the Maine Lobstermen’s Association remarked to me, “Everyone blames everything on climate change, but they blame the Right Whale on lobstering.” His remark has remained with me ever since. Fortunately, Maine is up to the challenge.

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

Environmental Progress

We know we must now work to both cut greenhouse gas emissions to reduce the severity of climate change and at the same time work to adapt to the impacts we can no longer avoid. Gleick disagrees and defends the Malthusian notion that future food surpluses are highly uncertain due to climate change, and argues that I ignore such risks.

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New Shell documents could aid climate cases, attorneys say

Corp Watch

New Shell documents could aid climate cases, attorneys say Follow the Money PaulaR Thu, 01/25/2024 - 16:59 Thursday, January 18, 2024 Read more Matthew Green, Merel de Buck & Birte Schohaus Latest Shell-files show that the company reflected on climate change caused by fossil products as early as the 1970s.

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Budget Briefing: Senate, House Budget Hearings Should Talk About Once-In-A-Generation Investments In Cleaning Up The Environment; Oil & Gas Program At A Crossroads

PA Environment Daily

The departments of Environmental Protection, Conservation and Natural Resources and Agriculture appear before House and Senate budget committees starting February 28. Wolf Announced PA Received The Initial $244.9

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Living in the wilderness edge: A dream came true?

HumanNature

With the increase of wildfire frequency and severity as a consequence of the interaction between climate change and residential expansion effects, these spaces got attention, and different management strategies have been put in place to address fuel mitigation in the WUI (Radeloff et al., link] Hammer, R. Stewart, S.

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Shell’s reckless divestment from Niger Delta

Corp Watch

Behind the Shine: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth and others (2003). Climate change: Extinction Rebellion end blockade at Shell's Aberdeen HQ The BBC | January 16, 2020 Extinction Rebellion protesters have ended a blockade at the entrances to Shell's Aberdeen headquarters.