· Christopher J. Castaneda is professor of history at California State University, Sacramento. He has written on the natural gas industry and energy regulation. His publications include Invisible Fuel: Manufactured and Natural Gas in American History, 1800–2000 (Twayne Publishers, 1999), Gas Pipelines and the Emergence of America's
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Texas’ first-ever statewide flood plan estimates 5 million live in flood-prone areas. Texas has introduced its first statewide flood plan, estimating that 5 million residents live in flood-prone areas. We're connecting the dots on environmental, climate, energy, economic, health, and
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· For a safer and fairer world, we must end the fossil fuel era, starting with climate-wrecking new fossil fuel projects, before it’s too late.” Seán Burke, Irish comedian and actor who narrated the English version of the video, said: “We’re way past the point where sponsorship by fossil fuel companies should be acceptable.
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· That’s at least 15% of all fossil fuel emissions every year. To achieve net-zero by 2050 and limit global warming to 1.5°C (2.7°F), we must urgently wean our food systems off fossil fuels.
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Tracking Oil and Natural Gas Supply. Not on track. The production, transport and processing of oil and gas resulted in 5.1 billion tonnes (Gt) CO 2 equivalent in 2022 – just under 15% of global energy sector GHG emissions 1. About half of these emissions came from flaring and methane released during oil and gas operations.
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· This Fund, established under the UNFCCC’s Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage Associated with Climate Change Impacts, would comprise levies placed on the world’s top 200 fossil
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· Fossil fuel companies like TotalEnergies sponsor popular sports events like the Rugby World Cup to distract everyone from their climate destruction. Watch Greenpeace France’s new film to discover the shocking truth. 3 hours 37
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· Ti/Ni co-doped perovskite cathode with excellent catalytic activity and CO 2 chemisorption ability via nanocatalysts exsolution for solid oxide electrolysis cell. Zhen S , Zhang L , Xu C , Zhang D , Yi Q , Sun W , Sun K. Front Chem, 10:1027713, 10 Oct 2022. Cited by: 0 articles | PMID: 36300026 | PMCID: PMC9589057. Free to read & use.
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Fossil fuels are a dead end, warns UN chief. In his statement on the latest IPCC report, Secretary-General António Guterres called for an urgent transition to renewable energy
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We demand that you take these immediate steps to safeguard our collective future: Ban all new fossil fuel projects across the European Union, as they are incompatible with limiting global heating to 1.5°C. Stop all public investments in fossil fuel projects. Completely phase out fossil fuels in a fair way, including a plan for a phase-out of
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· Abstract. Currently, over 80 % of the energy used by mankind comes from fossil fuels. Harnessing coal, oil and gas, the energy resources contained in the store of our spaceship, Earth, has prompted a dramatic expansion in energy use and a substantial improvement in the quality of life of billions of individuals in some regions of the world.
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· Heat causes more deaths in the U.S. than any other weather-related hazard(2) — estimates suggest that approximately 12,000 Americans die of heat-related causes annually, and more than 80 percent of these victims are over 60 years old.(3) As humid heat extremes become more frequent due to climate change, scientists predict
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· "Fossil fuel producers and investors need to recognize that in the main, further investment in fossil fuel combustion is not compatible." Worldwide, countries are on track to use about double the amount of fossil fuels in 2030 than is needed to limit warming to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, according to a report from the United Nations Environment
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· Currently, over 80% of the energy used by mankind comes from fossil fuels. Harnessing coal, oil and gas, the energy resources contained in the store of our spaceship, Earth, has prompted a dramatic expansion in energy use and a substantial improvement in the quality of life of billions of individuals in some regions of the world.
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April 9, 2024. WASHINGTON, D.C. – The United States and a handful of other bad actors are blocking a just transition to renewable energy with continued and outsized financial support for fossil fuels, at rates far beyond the necessary investment in renewable energy. Despite the largest yearly increase to date in 2022 within G20 and
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When fossil fuels are burned, they release large amounts of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, into the air. Greenhouse gases trap heat in our atmosphere, causing global warming. Already the average global temperature has increased by 1C. Warming above 1.5°C risks further sea level rise, extreme weather, biodiversity loss and species extinction
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The long-term legacy of fossil fuels By TOBY TYRRELL∗, JOHN G. SHEPHERD and STEPHANIE CASTLE,National Oceanography Centre Southampton, Southampton University, European Way, Southampton SO14 3ZH, UK (Manuscript received 9 October; in
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October 5, 2022. Scientists, economists and Indigenous activists met in Oxford in September to discuss a challenge central to solving climate change: how can the world
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· Center for Biological Diversity: WASHINGTON— Energy justice, consumer and environmental groups sued the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Housing and Urban Development today for withholding public records and failing to outline plans to use resilient renewable energy to rebuild communities ravaged
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· In 1916, John D. Rockefeller became the first billionaire in America. By 1918, his fortune had grown to just over $1.5 billion, which is equivalent to around $24 billion in today’s inflation-adjusted dollars. To put this into perspective, the total net worth of Jeff Bezos was estimated to be nearly $189.8 billion in July 2020 (Frank, 2018).
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The burning of fossil fuels refers to the burning of oil, natural gas, and coal to generate energy. We use this energy to generate electricity, and to power transportation (for example, cars and planes) and industrial processes. Ever since the invention of the first coal-fired steam engines of the 1700s, our burning of fossil fuels has steadily
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On the one-year anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil blowout and the Massey coal mine explosion in West Virginia, the Center for American Progress released “Fossil
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Objectives: In this commentary I highlight current scientific evidence indicating that the fetus and young child are at heightened risk of developmental impairment, asthma, and cancer from fossil fuel pollutants and from the predicted effects of climate disruption such as heat waves, flooding, infectious disease, malnutrition, and trauma.
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· This year has brought extreme heat waves, wildfires and toxic air pollution to every continent. This changing climate produces real-life emergencies. In September, Greece had just had three feet of rain over four days, destroying much of its agricultural crops and Libya just suffered a disaster on a catastrophic scale, with fears that 20,000
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April 2, 2019. • 5 min read. Decomposing plants and other organisms, buried beneath layers of sediment and rock, have taken millennia to become the carbon-rich deposits we now call fossil fuels
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The April 14, 2022 discussion, held in advance of Earth Day, highlighted health impacts of extracting fossil fuels. “Few communities know better the harms of fossil fuel reliance than Indigenous communities,” said Aaron Bernstein , interim director of the Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment (Harvard Chan C-CHANGE) , in his opening remarks.
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· The post-fossil fuel long-term equilibrium state could differ from the pre-anthropogenic state by as much as 50% for total dissolved inorganic carbon and alkalinity and 100% for atmospheric pCO 2, depending on the total amount of future emissions.
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· Fossil fuels — coal, oil, and gas — lie at the heart of the crises we face, including public health, racial injustice, and climate change. This report synthesizes existing research and provides new analysis that
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We present a new analysis that supports these model findings by elucidating the cause of this ‘fossil fuel hangover’ phenomenon. We explain why the carbonate compensation feedback is atypical, compared to other feedbacks, in the sense that convergence is back towards a new steady-state that is distinct from the starting state.
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· Disadvantages of Fossil Fuels. It is no secret that fossil fuels are responsible for creating most of the world’s energy, and they have gone under many innovations and improvements to become as efficient as they are now, while still having a low cost. While many enjoy the benefits of fossil fuel energy, they tend to ignore all the
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