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Lisa Baiton: Big Oil’s Climate Misinformation Maestro

Enviromental Defense

For years CAPP has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to boost advertising on Facebook , including ads that explicitly urged people to oppose limits on greenhouse gas emissions from the oil and gas industry. As always, the format is satirical but the information is real.

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What is happening in the Atlantic Ocean to the AMOC?

Real Climate

Broecker 1987 who warned about “unpleasant surprises in the greenhouse”. We don’t have direct measurements over such a long time (only since 2004 from the RAPID project ), but various indirect indications. Major abrupt past climate changes are linked to AMOC instabilities, including Dansgaard-Oeschger-Events and Heinrich Events.

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The Bottom Line: Are incentives enough to offset the costs of “carbon-smart” farming practices?

HumanNature

Candidate in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences and Trainee in the CSU InTERFEWS Program What if agriculture – a sector responsible for more than a fifth of total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 1 – was actually capable of storing more CO 2 than it emits? By the time Barry took over the farm in 2004, soils were dusty and depleted.

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9th Compendium Of Studies On Health & Environmental Harms From Natural Gas Development Released - ‘The Rapidly Expanding Body Of Evidence Compiled Here Is Massive, Troubling And Cries Out For Decisive Action’

PA Environment Daily

Dr. Steingraber noted similar conclusions were reached in 2014 when New York State banned fracking, saying “At the time, and again, this is nine years ago in 2014, there were 400 studies and investigations in the peer-reviewed scientific literature in government reports and by journalists that showed evidence for harm.

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Global coal and oil use to peak in 2020

Edouard Stenger

We knew that global greenhouse gases emission from energy had been peaking for the past three years – largely thanks to China – but now, here is another series of nails in the coffins of coal and oil. When I discovered solar photovoltaics in 2004, the global capacity was of three gigawatts (or 3,000 megawatts if you prefer).

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Families condemn Koch brothers over ploy to avoid asbestos compensation

Corp Watch

Individual Records & Summaries Click here for violation data on Koch Industries Total Penalties $935,266,865 (September 30, 2022) Number of Records 436 Books Axis of Ideology: Conservative Foundations and Public Policy (National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, March 2004).

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New Draft Guidance on Climate Change and NEPA Reviews Unlikely to Significantly Affect Agency Practice or Judicial Interpretation of NEPA Obligations

Law Columbia

The draft guidance acknowledges that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are an environmental impact, that both direct and indirect GHG emissions should be quantified where it is practicable to do so, and that “comparing alternatives based on potential effects due to GHG emissions… can help agencies differentiate among alternatives.” USFS, 52 F.