Most recent 40 articles: Heated World
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MAGA's scariest environmental proposal - Heated World (Sep 17) |
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Sep 17 · Diane Cotter is a proud “firewife”: the wife and mother of firefighters. On a phone call last week, she told me she’s “very much afraid” for her family and firefighting community, because of a little-known environmental proposal in Project 2025.
In the Heritage Foundation’s 900-page blueprint for Donald Trump’s second term, there’s a brief proposal to potentially deregulate a class of toxic chemicals called PFAS, found in firefighting foam and gear and linked to high rates of cancer among firefighters nationwide. Written by former members of Trump’s administration, it says the Environmental Protection Agency should “revisit the designation of PFAS chemicals as 'hazardous ... Read more ...
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Everyone's heads are in the sand - Heated World (Sep 11) |
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Sep 11 · Over the last few months, I’ve heard myriad folks argue that climate change is not a driving force in this election because it’s not a relevant issue in people’s day-to-day lives.
Respectfully, that’s total bullshit. Because if you care about the fact that food prices and inflation are skyrocketing; that water and electric bills are through the roof; that health care costs just keep getting higher; that immigration is on the rise; or that the American dream of owning a home is out of most people’s reach; then guess what - you care deeply about climate change. Rising temperatures made worse by unchecked fossil fuel expansion are driving all of these problems - and they’ll all ... Read more ...
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A high-stakes climate debate - Heated World (Sep 10) |
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Sep 10 · Tonight’s debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump has massive ecological and existential stakes.
A whopping 30 percent of Americans say tonight’s televised showdown will help them determine who to vote for in November. And their choice will help determine whether 4 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions get released into the atmosphere over the next six years - an amount equating to $900 billion in global climate damages.
That’s why, despite some pretty severe jet lag, I’ll be watching - and reacting/chatting live with subscribers starting at 8:45 p.m. Eastern time.
Chat with me during the debate
If you’ll also be watching, and if you’d like a place ... Read more ...
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The MAGA plan to stop forest fires: Remove the forest - Heated World (Sep 3) |
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Sep 3 · As the world continues to burn fossil fuels, the climate crisis has pushed wildfires into unnatural “megafires” that consume millions of acres in a single season. This year’s wildfire activity is nearly 3,000 percent higher in California than last year; and within the next three decades, one in seven homes could be at major risk. More concerning is the threat to human lives; last year, the deadliest wildfire in over a century killed 102 people in Maui; and much of the East Coast experienced its worst air quality ever because of Canadian wildfires.
But MAGA Republicans have put together a plan that they say will help ease the wildfire crisis. It’s laid out in Project 2025, a ... Read more ...
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The overlooked climate plans of Project 2025 - Heated World (Aug 26) |
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Aug 26 · It’s often said that Republicans have no plan for climate change. This is not accurate. Republicans have a massive and well-developed agenda for global heating, and it boils down to three words: “Let it rip.”
The Republican climate agenda is summarized nicely in Project 2025, the notorious 900-page policy plan developed for Donald Trump by the conservative Heritage Foundation. It proposes gutting the Environmental Protection Agency and its climate regulations; re-opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for drilling; defunding the nationwide transition to renewable energy; and eliminating environmental justice initiatives. In addition, political appointees serving under ... Read more ...
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Why vilify the oil and gas industry? - Heated World (Aug 19) |
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Aug 19 · The richest man in the world has a new message about climate change: It’s real, but don’t knock the industry most responsible.“I don’t think we should vilify the oil and gas industry,” Elon Musk said while speaking about climate change during his two-hour conversation with former president Donald Trump last week. It was a sentiment Musk repeated four times throughout the 10-minute climate discussion. “I don’t think it’s right to sort of vilify the oil and gas industry,” he said, using the same verb - vilify - every time.
“Vilify,” interestingly, has two different meanings. It can be a synonym of “defame,” which means to speak falsely about someone. Or it can be a synonym of ... Read more ...
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A line-by-line fact check of the Musk-Trump interview - Heated World (Aug 13) |
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Aug 13 · Donald Trump told some wild lies about climate change in his two-hour live-streamed conversation with Elon Musk last night.
He falsely said that sea levels would only rise “one-eighth of an inch over the next 400 years.” In reality, sea levels are currently rising at more than a one-eighth of an inch every year.
He also falsely said that sea level rise would bring “more oceanfront property” to the country - an almost stunningly ignorant claim, as sea level rise makes land masses smaller. It’s basic geometry, as The Washington Post points out.
But even more interesting than Trump’s asinine climate claims were the climate falsehoods spewed by Musk, a man who's been ... Read more ...
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Tim Walz’s green resume has an oily stain - Heated World (Aug 8) |
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Aug 8 · Tim Walz, the vice presidential pick of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, is “one of the nation’s most forceful climate advocates.” As governor of Minnesota, he helped pass one of the most aggressive fossil fuel phase-out laws in the country. He signed legislation to speed up the permitting process for renewable energy; ushered in a sweeping, $2 billion law funding decarbonization, environmental justice initiatives, and clean water protections; and passed a $9 billion sustainable transportation law.
But if you ask Indigenous water protectors in Minnesota about Walz, they won’t primarily bring up the governor’s green achievements. They’ll bring up the fact that ... Read more ...
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Fossil fuels made the Olympics 5 degrees hotter - Heated World (Aug 1) |
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Aug 1 · I haven’t had time to analyze media coverage of the 2024 Olympic Games. So I’m not sure how many stories about Tuesday’s dangerous heat in Paris mentioned that the high temperatures were fueled by climate change.
But just in case you didn’t see, here’s an important stat: Fossil fuels, deforestation, and animal agriculture made outdoor temperatures at Tuesday’s Olympics about 5.2°F degrees hotter than they would have normally been. The reason we know this is because of incredible recent advancements in attribution science, which uses observational data and statistical methods to figure out how likely and severe an extreme weather event would be today, compared to how it would ... Read more ...
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Lefty climate groups to endorse Harris - Heated World (Jul 31) |
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Jul 31 · A coalition of lefty green groups that had not publicly endorsed Joe Biden for president in 2024 are planning to formally endorse Kamala Harris on Wednesday, HEATED has learned.
The groups - part of the more upstart, agitator wing of the national environmental movement - include the political arms of Friends of the Earth, the Center for Biological Diversity, Food and Water Watch, and Clean Water Action.
Climate Hawks Vote, a California-based PAC that aims to elect outspoken climate leaders, will also endorse the sitting vice president, marking the first presidential endorsement in the organization’s 10-year history.
Democrats, Republicans, Independents - HEATED ... Read more ...
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When Kamala Harris sued Obama over fracking - Heated World (Jul 23) |
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Jul 23 · It was 2016, and California’s coastline was about to get fracked.
President Barack Obama’s administration had just finalized plans to allow oil companies to resume offshore hydraulic fracturing and acidizing in the Santa Barbara Channel, determining the controversial practices posed “no significant impact” to the local environment or global climate.
Enter: Kamala Harris. Following the lead of state environmental groups, the then-California Attorney General sued the Obama administration in December 2016, seeking a halt to new offshore fracking permits.
The lawsuit called the decision to move forward on Pacific Coast fracking “arbitrary and capricious, an abuse of ... Read more ...
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The electric utility screwing over Texans - Heated World (Jul 18) |
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Jul 18 · When Hurricane Beryl barreled towards Texas last week, the state’s largest electric utility company said it was prepared for the worst. It wasn’t.
More than 2.7 million people lost power on July 8 as Beryl slammed into the state, leaving 80 percent of Centerpoint’s Houston customers in the dark. It was the largest area blackout in the utility's 20-year history. And residents remained without power for over a week, even as temperatures dangerously rose above 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
CenterPoint is now under investigation by the state Public Utility Commission, and Governor Greg Abbott has demanded a detailed future hurricane plan by the end of this month.
In its ... Read more ...
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Trump and Biden are not the same - Heated World (Jul 9) |
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Jul 9 · President Joe Biden is facing a growing number of calls to step aside in his race for re-election this week, following a dismal debate performance and lackluster interview that failed to calm fears over his age and ability to win in November.
It’s a crisis of faith happening at a critical point in the fast-approaching election. But from what I've been seeing and hearing, it seems more a belated expression of angst that’s been brewing inside many American voters for much longer; a nagging apathy that says neither Biden nor former President Donald Trump is right for the job.
When it comes to protecting a livable planet, that feeling is valid and based in fact. According to ... Read more ...
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Stop meatposting - Heated World (Jul 4) |
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Jul 4 · Industrialized animal agriculture is one of the largest sources of water contamination in the country. It is a massive contributor to drought in the West; the number one reason for Brazilian Amazon deforestation; and responsible for up to 18 percent of global carbon pollution. The meat industry has been a huge source of suffering and death for workers, particularly during the pandemic. If meat and dairy consumption continue apace, there could be an 80 percent spike in global agricultural greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2050.
This is why I get annoyed when I see purportedly environmentally-concerned people meatposting. Meatposting, a word I made up in 2021, refers to the ... Read more ...
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The climate stakes of the election just got much higher - Heated World (Jul 2) |
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Jul 2 · One of the most significant powers the U.S. president has is the ability to appoint federal judges. These judges make decisions that influence every facet of American life, for terms that far outpace the president’s time in office.
Joe Biden hasn’t been a perfect climate president, to put things mildly. But one thing Biden has done during his tenure is appoint more than 200 federal judges who are “progressive” on climate change, said Carl Tobias, a University of Richmond law professor and an expert on federal judicial selection. On the whole, Biden’s judges “are people who would view [climate and environmental regulation] from a sympathetic perspective,” Tobias said.
The ... Read more ...
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The media is still falling short on climate - Heated World (Jun 27) |
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Jun 27 · The deadly heat waves and flash floods that have ravaged the United States this month are not normal, and they’re not natural.
Record-breaking concentrations of heat-trapping gases in our atmosphere, driven primarily by fossil fuels, have not only made temperatures hotter. They’ve intensified the Earth’s water cycle, leading to stronger precipitation events.
Yet despite clear evidence that carbon pollution is worsening heat and rainfall, the majority of breaking digital news stories about this month’s unprecedented weather don't mention the climate crisis at all. Instead, most mainstream outlets continue to write about these lethal, record-breaking events as if they were ... Read more ...
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What maniac jumbo sharks can teach us about climate change - Heated World (Jun 21) |
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Jun 21 · This article contains spoilers for the movie Under Paris.
As thousands of athletes compete for a shot at the 2024 Paris Olympics this week, a new wildly popular Netflix movie is shining a light on the event’s struggles with climate change and pollution - albeit in the most absurd, blood-thirsty way possible.
Under Paris, which had the most successful launch for a non-English language film in Netflix history, is both a genre thriller and a political satire in the vein of Don’t Look Up - except instead of a world-destroying comet, it uses homicidal sharks as its metaphor for a climate disaster that everyone in power is inexplicably ignoring. It’s the new, better-made ... Read more ...
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Trip balls, save the Earth? - Heated World (Jun 19) |
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Jun 19 · Personally, when I take mushrooms, the last thing I want to do is think about climate change.
But that’s apparently what I should be doing, according to a new advocacy group. Psychedelics for Climate Action, or PSYCA, argues that the use of mind-altering substances and Indigenous plant medicines - like ayahuasca, psilocybin, ibogaine, ketamine, and LSD - can inspire people to help solve the climate crisis.
PSYCA held its official launch at the Psychedelic Assembly in New York City last month. I decided to attend, because frankly, I’ve been pretty bummed out about the state of the world lately. I figured at the very least, going to this would be fun.
It was - but it ... Read more ...
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How grassroots climate activists are taking on Big Tech - Heated World (Jun 13) |
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Jun 13 · A growing climate threat from an industry worth trillions is spreading across the globe: data centers.
The football-field-size buildings, which house the millions of servers that make the internet work, are not inherently evil. But their unchecked expansion - driven primarily by artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency - is driving a resurgence in coal power and derailing states’ clean energy transition plans.
The IEA estimates that in the next two years, data centers could consume as much energy as the United Kingdom and Germany combined, with a carbon footprint on par with the aviation industry.
And right now, there are few concerted activist movements ... Read more ...
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If Trump can be convicted, so can Big Oil - Heated World (Jun 11) |
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Jun 11 · Climate change is killing people. As time goes on, it’s going to kill a lot more.
The fossil fuel industry should be criminally charged with mass homicide for these deaths, according to a new and novel legal theory. Published by the Harvard Environmental Law Review last year, the argument goes that oil giants knew their products would have lethal consequences, yet actively thwarted efforts to protect people through misinformation and policy delay.
“Prosecutors regularly bring homicide charges against individuals and corporations whose reckless or negligent acts or omissions cause unintentional deaths,” wrote George Washington University law professor Donald Braman and ... Read more ...
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U.N. chief calls for global fossil fuel ad ban - Heated World (Jun 5) |
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Jun 5 · In a major speech that didn’t mince words, the United Nations Secretary-General on Wednesday called fossil fuel companies the “godfathers of climate chaos,” and urged all countries to ban fossil fuel advertising.
António Guterres also called on PR firms, media outlets, and tech companies to stop promoting fossil fuel ads that lie to the public and hide the role the industry plays in the climate crisis.
“Many in the fossil fuel industry have shamelessly greenwashed even as they have sought to delay climate action,” Guterres said. "I urge news media and tech companies to stop taking fossil fuel advertising.”
Guterres compared ad agencies that create content for Big ... Read more ...
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What is a “leftist climate scientist” president, exactly? - Heated World (Jun 4) |
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Jun 4 · Have you heard? The next president of Mexico is a leftist climate scientist.
That’s at least how some news headlines have described Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s first female and Jewish president, who was elected on Sunday with the highest vote percentage in the country’s democratic history.
The identity markers alone were enough to spark joy among U.S. progressives. On Monday, many celebrated the fact that a politician with seemingly similar values would lead the world’s 11th largest oil-producing country.
But what is a “leftist climate scientist,” really? For Americans, the phrase might conjure an image of a radical, anti-fossil fuel, Green New Deal supporter who ... Read more ...
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Are your internet habits killing the planet? - Heated World (May 28) |
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May 28 · This weekend I binged Bridgerton, Netflix’s raunchy, Regency-ish romcom. Along with 45 million other people, I tuned in to find out if incisive, socially-awkward gossip columnist Penelope Featherington could win the heart of her lovable, pirate cosplaying neighbor.
But as I was watching, I had a nagging feeling. Because lately, I've been reading a lot about how the internet contributes to the climate crisis. And I've learned that the web pollutes more than I ever would have guessed.
Everything we do online has an environmental impact, just like the clothes we buy, the food we eat, and the way we travel. But unlike fashion, burgers, and cars, you can’t touch the internet: ... Read more ...
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Democrats ask DOJ to investigate Big Oil - Heated World (May 22) |
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May 22 · The Democrats leading the years-long congressional investigation into Big Oil’s climate deception are formally asking the Department of Justice to step in.
In a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and House Oversight Committee Chairman Jamie Raskin (D-MD) asked the DOJ to launch a probe into fossil fuel climate disinformation in the same manner that it investigated tobacco companies in the 1990s for deceiving the public about the health risks of smoking.
“We believe that there is adequate evidence that fossil fuel industry companies and trade associations may have violated one or more federal ... Read more ...
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The chopped steak eaters - Heated World (May 21) |
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May 21 · There’s a detail I keep coming back to from Donald Trump’s recent fundraising dinner with oil executives, during which he reportedly asked them for $1 billion in campaign donations in exchange for repealing all of the Biden administration’s climate policies.
Surrounded by opulence, wearing fancy suits and discussing a Thanos-level mass extinction plan, the oil executives were eating… chopped steak.
Chopped steak is literally just breadcrumb-less meatloaf. It is, as I understand it, a shaped mound of ground sirloin usually topped with brown gravy. I don’t mean to knock the dish in general; I’m sure it can be good. I just feel like, if I were proposing a literal billion ... Read more ...
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Don’t fall for “climate-friendly” beef - Heated World (May 14) |
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May 14 · Last year, a major meat brand announced a promising product for people who care about the planet - America’s first “climate-friendly” beef.
U.S. meat behemoth Tyson Foods claims “Brazen Beef” is better for the environment than regular beef because it emits 10 percent less greenhouse gas. It is also the first beef to be certified “climate-friendly” by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The label is a big deal for the meat industry as it faces increasing external pressure to reduce its massive carbon footprint. Livestock are responsible for anywhere from 11 to 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, and climate scientists have warned for decades that the world ... Read more ...
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Igniting a spark - Heated World (May 7) |
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May 7 · Hi everyone! I’m on vacation this week, so in lieu of the usual rage-inducing hard news, I thought I’d share a story about how our journalism is slowly but surely moving the needle.It begins last summer, when Eversource - a major power utility - announced it was leaving the American Gas Association (AGA), a major fossil fuel trade group, over differences in opinion about climate change.
This was huge news, because the AGA plays an enormous role in delaying climate progress. Every year, the AGA spends millions obstructing climate policy and spreading climate misinformation - millions that come directly from consumer payments to AGA’s power utility members, like ... Read more ...
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GOP Senator accidentally creates amazing ad for climate activists - Heated World (May 2) |
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May 2 · Geoffrey Supran, the director of the Climate Accountability Lab at the University of Miami, is one of the country’s foremost experts on climate disinformation.
That’s why the former Harvard researcher was called to testify in the Senate Budget Committee’s hearing yesterday, titled “Denial, Disinformation, and Doublespeak: Big Oil’s Evolving Efforts to Avoid Accountability for Climate Change.”
Supran’s opening statement for the hearing included 120 cited sources, all of which he said “clearly demonstrate that the fossil fuel regime has deliberately denied Americans and Congress their right to be accurately informed about the climate crisis, just as tobacco companies ... Read more ...
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Charge Big Oil with conspiracy, former tobacco prosecutor says - Heated World (May 1) |
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May 1 · A former U.S. Department of Justice attorney who prosecuted and won the massive racketeering case against Big Tobacco said she believes the DOJ now has enough evidence to pursue a conspiracy case against Big Oil.
Sharon Eubanks, who now runs her own law firm, made the comments in response to questioning by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) at today’s Senate Budget Committee’s hearing on fossil fuel industry disinformation. The hearing was called as a complement to the boatload of new internal oil industry documents released yesterday.
“If a large corporation knowingly produces a product that gets me sick or kills me,” said Sanders, “what are the legal grounds that we can ... Read more ...
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New internal Big Oil documents just dropped - Heated World (Apr 30) |
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Apr 30 · In 2021, Congressional Democrats subpoenaed Big Oil for internal documents detailing the industry’s role in worsening the climate crisis.
Some of the documents have already been released. But today, we got some more.
The internal materials are from Exxon, Chevron, Shell, BP, the American Petroleum Institute, and the Chamber of Commerce. They’re being released today as part of the Senate Budget Committee’s upcoming hearing on Wednesday morning, titled “Denial, Disinformation, and Doublespeak: Big Oil’s Evolving Efforts to Avoid Accountability for Climate Change.”
Both the hearing and the documents mark the revival of the House Oversight Committee’s two-year ... Read more ...
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Behind the billionaire climate tax - Heated World (Apr 25) |
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Apr 25 · The climate crisis is extremely unaffordable. That’s the conclusion of a new study published in Nature last week, which found that global warming will cost $38 trillion every year by 2050. For comparison, the entire global economy is about $100 trillion per year.
But one economist has a novel idea about how to pay for at least part of the bill. At a meeting of the world’s wealthiest countries and banks last week, Esther Duflo proposed that the richest people should compensate poor people for the climate damages they disproportionately caused. That money would be raised through a climate tax on billionaires and large corporations.
Duflo is the youngest person and second ... Read more ...
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Nobel Prize-winning economist calls for climate tax on billionaires - Heated World (Apr 24) |
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Apr 24 · For the first time, the world’s most powerful countries are considering a proposal that would tax the super rich and send the money directly to the people on the front lines of the climate crisis.
The proposed climate tax is the brainchild of Nobel Prize-winning economist Esther Duflo, who presented it to the Group of 20 summit in Washington D.C. last Wednesday. Duflo suggested taxing global corporations and the world’s top billionaires to raise money for climate adaptation in countries that are most impacted by the climate crisis. The funds would be directly sent to the poorest individuals in those countries to help them prepare for climate disasters.
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An Earth Day response from Al Sharpton - Heated World (Apr 22) |
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Apr 22 · Last week, HEATED reported that Al Sharpton used his annual National Action Network (NAN) civil rights convention to spread fossil fuel industry propaganda to Black communities.
HEATED reported that Sharpton personally introduced a panel titled “Affordable energy is a civil rights issue,” during which four paid gas industry spokespeople falsely told attendees that methane gas is a “clean” fuel; that a net-zero future is primarily being pushed by rich people; and that access to methane should be seen as a civil rights issue.Our article featured reaction from several climate justice activists - including former EPA environmental justice chief Mustafa Santiago Ali - who strongly ... Read more ...
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The only way to save coral reefs - Heated World (Apr 18) |
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Apr 18 · The world’s coral reefs are in bad shape. On Monday, two major scientific bodies announced that record-breaking ocean heat is causing a worldwide coral bleaching event. It’s the fourth-ever mass bleaching event on record, and the second in the last decade. This current global bleaching is expected to be the worst ever recorded, endangering coral from the Caribbean to the South Pacific. I’ve been following this latest mass coral bleaching with concern since Monday. And through it all, I haven’t been able to stop thinking of something one of the world’s premier coral reef scientists told me years ago.
We were chatting for a 2022 story about the world’s most climate-threatened ... Read more ...
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“Reprehensible”: Fossil fuel industry infiltrates civil rights convention - Heated World (Apr 16) |
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Apr 16 · TODAY’S ISSUE, IN BRIEF…
Al Sharpton invited paid fossil fuel industry representatives to speak at his annual civil rights conference.
Sharpton’s group did not disclose representatives’ deep financial ties to the fossil fuel industry. Representatives characterized themselves as former lawmakers speaking “truth to power.”
Representatives argued that expanding methane gas is a civil rights issue; that methane gas is clean energy; and that methane gas is more affordable than renewable energy.
Climate justice advocates, who were not represented on the panel, balked. “The fossil fuel industry puts Black lives in danger,” said Mustafa Santiago Ali. “Energy ... Read more ...
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Big Oil is quietly paying state legal officials to kill climate litigation - Heated World (Apr 11) |
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Apr 11 · At the Society of Environmental Journalists conference this year, we heard about a promising legal case that experts believe actually has a real shot at holding the fossil fuel industry accountable for climate change.
City & County of Honolulu v. Sunoco LP is the first climate liability lawsuit against fossil fuel companies to be greenlit for trial, expected later this year. In it, Honolulu accuses several oil and gas giants of misleading its citizens about the environmental consequences of fossil fuels for decades, and seeks financial compensation for past, present, and future damages to the region.
As a trial comes closer, however, we learned that the lawsuit is facing ... Read more ...
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A guide to electric car misinformation (part 2) - Heated World (Apr 3) |
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Apr 3 · Last week, we talked about the recent uptick in politically-motivated electric vehicle misinformation, and went through some of the most prevalent myths and misleading claims about EV policy.
This week, we’ll be going through some of the most prevalent myths and misleading claims that power-seekers and profit-seekers are spreading about EVs in general.
Financially-motivated EV misinformation comes from both sides of the aisle (the lane?). Industries that see EVs as a threat exaggerate their harms in a bid to get you to hate EVs. And industries that profit from EVs greenwash their benefits in a bid to get you to love EVs.
Most often, you can recognize EV ... Read more ...
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GOP congresswoman blames Green New Deal for bridge collapse - Heated World (Mar 28) |
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Mar 28 · Republicans have blamed the Green New Deal for the war in Ukraine. They’ve blamed it for inflation and striking U.S. workers. They’ve blamed it for blackouts and for coronavirus aid delays. And now they’re blaming the Green New Deal for the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. Read more ...
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A guide to electric car misinformation (part 1) - Heated World (Mar 27) |
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Mar 27 · The closer we get to the 2024 presidential election, the more sketchy information you’re going to hear about electric cars.
Both Joe Biden and Donald Trump have decided to make electric cars central to their campaigns. Biden is doing this by promoting his administration’s efforts to expand EV production and ownership, and Trump is doing this by attacking those efforts.
GOP polling has shown that attacking electric vehicle policy has been “amazing” for Republicans, former Trump energy advisor Michael McKenna recently told the New York Times. And Biden’s EV policies have drawn praise from both green groups and the United Auto Workers union - two important political ... Read more ...
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Boeing's big green disaster - Heated World (Mar 21, 2024) |
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Mar 21, 2024 · If you’ve ever used Google Flights to buy plane tickets, you might have noticed a green symbol telling you which flights have less greenhouse gas emissions.
These flights are the result of a Google algorithm that predicts per-passenger carbon emissions. And there are two planes that pop up over and over again in the results: One is the European Airbus A320neo, and the other is the Boeing 737 Max 9.
The 737 Max 9 is now infamous for an incident in January, when the door blew off an Alaska Airlines flight, exposing passengers to the outside air at 16,000 feet. The culprit was several bolts that hadn’t been attached, according to the preliminary findings of several ongoing ... Read more ...
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