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Oil Executives Privately Contradicted Public Statements on Climate, Files Show - New York Times - Climate Forward (Sep 14, 2022) |
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Sep 14, 2022 · The documents, subpoenaed in a House investigation of climate disinformation, show company leaders contravening industry commitments.
Documents obtained by congressional investigators show that oil industry executives privately downplayed their companies’ own public messages about efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and weakened industry-wide commitments to push for climate policies.
Internal Exxon documents show that the oil giant pressed an industry group, the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative, to remove language from a 2019 policy statement that “could create a potential commitment to advocate on the Paris Agreement goals.” The Paris Agreement is the landmark 2015 ... | By Hiroko Tabuchi Read more ...
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NYTimes: Cloud Wars: Mideast Rivalries Rise Along a New Front - New York Times - Climate Forward (Aug 28, 2022) |
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Aug 28, 2022 · As climate change makes the region hotter and drier, the U.A.E. is leading the effort to squeeze more rain out of the clouds, and other countries are rushing to keep up.
Artificial lakes like this one in Dubai are helping fuel an insatiable demand for water in the United Arab Emirates.Credit...
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Iranian officials have worried for years that other nations have been depriving them of one of their vital water sources. But it was not an upstream dam that they were worrying about, or an aquifer being bled dry.
In 2018, amid a searing drought and rising temperatures, some senior officials concluded that someone was stealing their water ... | By Alissa J. Rubin Read more ...
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NYTimes: Arctic Warming Is Happening Faster Than Described, Analysis Shows - New York Times - Climate Forward (Aug 11, 2022) |
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Aug 11, 2022 · The warming at the top of the globe, a sign of climate change, is happening much faster than previously described compared with the global average, scientists said Thursday.
The rapid warming of the Arctic, a definitive sign of climate change, is occurring even faster than previously described, researchers in Finland said Thursday.
Over the past four decades the region has been heating up four times faster than the global average, not the two to three times that has commonly been reported. And some parts of the region, notably the Barents Sea north of Norway and Russia, are warming up to seven times faster, they said.
One result of rapid Arctic warming is faster ... | By Henry Fountain Read more ...
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NYTimes: It's Been a ‘Summer of Disasters,' and It's Only Half Over - New York Times - Climate Forward (Aug 03, 2022) |
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Aug 03, 2022 · Subscriber-only Newsletter
David Wallace-Wells
Opinion Writer
“We’re naming summer 'Danger Season’ in the U.S.,” wrote Kristy Dahl, the principal climate scientist for the Union of Concerned Scientists, in early June. A couple of days later, at Axios, the climate reporter Andrew Freedman echoed that warning: “America is staring down a summer of disasters.”
The season is now only half over, and the worst months for California fires, which typically provide the most harrowing images of the summer, still lie ahead. But the calendar has already been stuffed with climate disruption, so much so that one disaster often seemed layered over the last, with newspaper ... | By David Wallace-Wells Read more ...
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NYTimes: Heat Waves Around the World Push People and Nations ‘To the Edge' - New York Times - Climate Forward (Jun 24, 2022) |
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Jun 24, 2022 · Millions of Americans are once again in the grips of dangerous heat. Hot air blanketed Europe last weekend, causing parts of France and Spain to feel the way it usually does in July or August. High temperatures scorched northern and central China even as heavy rains caused flooding in the country’s south. Some places in India began experiencing extraordinary heat in March, though the start of the monsoon rains has brought some relief.
It’s too soon to say whether climate change is directly to blame for causing severe heat waves in these four powerhouse economies - which also happen to be the top emitters of heat-trapping gases - at roughly the same time, just days into summer. Read more ...
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NYTimes: Extreme Weather Hits China With Massive Floods and Scorching Heat - New York Times - Climate Forward (Jun 23, 2022) |
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Jun 23, 2022 · HONG KONG - China is grappling with extreme weather emergencies across the country, with the worst flooding in decades submerging houses and cars in the south and record-high heat waves in the northern and central provinces causing roads to buckle.
Water levels in more than a hundred rivers across the country have surged beyond flood warning levels, according to the People’s Daily, the ruling Communist Party’s mouthpiece. The authorities in Guangdong Province on Tuesday raised alerts to the highest level after days of rainfall and floods, closing schools, businesses and public transport in affected areas.
The flooding has disrupted the lives of almost half a million ... Read more ...
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NYTimes: Indoor Farming Is a ‘No-Brainer - New York Times - Climate Forward (Jun 21, 2022) |
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Jun 21, 2022 · Mr. Alexander is the author of “Ten Tomatoes That Changed the World: A History.”
It’s shaping up to be a tough year for agriculture: With record drought gripping the West, farmers in California’s Central Valley are leaving vast tracts of fertile land unplanted. A January cold snap in Florida devastated tomato crops there, leaving the survivors vulnerable to disease. Two months later, an unusually hard freeze in the Carolinas left some farmers with little to no strawberries and blueberries.
Yet neither drought nor frost is ever a concern for the growers of tomatoes, strawberries and other crops currently ripening inside enormous greenhouses, some sprawling across 175 ... | By William Alexander Read more ...
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NYTimes: Why Do We Swallow What Big Oil and the Green Movement Tell Us? - New York Times - Climate Forward (May 17, 2022) |
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May 17, 2022 · It has long been said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. By that definition, we’re the ones detached from reality if we keep accepting what the oil industry and the green movement keep telling us over and over again and expecting a different result.
The greens keep saying that because the price of wind and solar is now as cheap as, or cheaper than, fossil fuels, they’ve won the energy war. Game, set, match - welcome to the green planet.
The oil companies say - as they have in each previous energy crisis since 1973 - that the only answer to this energy crisis is the one they’ve offered for the past ... | By Thomas L. Friedman Read more ...
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California Reveals Its Plan to Phase Out New Gas-Powered Cars by 2035 - The New York Times - New York Times - Climate Forward (Apr 13, 2022) |
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Apr 13, 2022 · If adopted, the new measures would make a dent in the state’s greenhouse gas emissions and set the bar for the broader auto industry.
WASHINGTON - California on Wednesday made public an aggressive plan to mandate a steady increase in the sale of electric and zero-emissions vehicles, the first step in enacting a first-in-the-nation goal of banning new gasoline-powered cars by 2035.
Under the proposed rule, issued by the California Air Resources Board, the state will require 35 percent of new passenger vehicles sold in the state by 2026 to be powered by batteries or hydrogen. Less than a decade later, the state expects 100 percent of all new car sales to be free of the ... | By Lisa Friedman Read more ...
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NYTimes: Putin's War Has Started a Global Food Crisis - New York Times - Climate Forward (Apr 05, 2022) |
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Apr 05, 2022 · Note: Prices as of April 4.
Ms. Menker is the founder of Gro Intelligence, an artificial-intelligence company that forecasts global agricultural markets and the impacts of climate change. Mr. Shah is the president of the Rockefeller Foundation and a former administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
The humanitarian disaster produced by Russia’s needless invasion of Ukraine shocks the conscience: 10 million Ukrainians displaced and innumerable Ukrainians killed. But because Ukraine and Russia are both major food exporters, the human toll will grow much larger, far from Ukraine’s borders.
As Ukraine’s farms have turned into battlefields, ... | By Sara Menker and Rajiv Shah Read more ...
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