6 Billionaire Fortunes Bankrolling Project 2025 - DeSmog
WEBAug 14, 2024 · Design: DeSmog. Since 2020, donor networks linked to just six family fortunes have funneled more than $120 million into Project 2025 advisory groups, a DeSmog analysis has found. More than 100 nonprofits led by the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank that has engaged in climate change denial and obstruction for decades, have signed on ...
How to Blunt the ‘New Climate Denial’ with Better Language
WEBJul 29, 2024 · The idea that the climate debate can be neatly divided into two competing camps — with Republican deniers on the right and Democratic advocates on the left — is one of the many myths that Dr. Genevieve Guenther takes on in her new book The Language of Climate Politics. The reality, according to Guenther, a climate communications expert and founder of the advocacy group End Climate Silence ...
About the UK team - DeSmog
WEBWho we are. DeSmog UK was launched in September 2014 as a specialist investigative news and research outlet dedicated to cutting through the spin clouding the debate on energy and the environment in Britain. In April 2021, the content of DeSmog.co.uk was merged with DeSmog.com to create a global investigative outlet to …
A Field Guide to the Petrochemical and Plastics Industry
WEBOct 28, 2018 · Source: The Energy Information Administration. Ethane: Ethane often represents the biggest cut of NGL s from a shale gas well. At room temperature and pressure, ethane is a colorless and odorless gas. Because of its two carbon atoms, ethane is sometimes referred to by the industry as C2.. Ethane “contributes to climate change in three ways,” DeSmog reported in 2016 after researchers found ...
NextDecade Scraps Carbon Capture Plans for Its Rio Grande LNG …
WEBAug 20, 2024 · The NextDecade Rio Grande LNG terminal won’t have a carbon capture component, the company told federal regulators in a filing Tuesday, walking back the company’s heavily marketed plans to make a “lower carbon intensive LNG project.” “[A]s demonstrated by Rio Grande’s inability to respond to the outstanding data requests, the Project is not sufficiently developed to allow Commission ...
The Missing Inner Dimension of System Change - DeSmog
WEBAug 7, 2024 · We now urgently require ways to integrate this understanding and cultivation of the inner into systems approaches. The “elements of the inner” often missing from systems thinking can be understood in two broad categories. First, we risk forgetting the role of paradigms or systems of meaning in shaping societal structures and behaviour.
Drax: The UK's 'Carbon Neutral' Biomass Power Plant - DeSmog
WEBBritain’s biggest power plant, Drax in North Yorkshire, produces around 6% of the UK’s electricity through burning biomass. Drax claims to be Europe’s largest decarbonisation project, after pivoting from coal to biomass in the 2010s. In 2021 Drax officially ended its commercial coal generation, but remains the single biggest emitter of ...
LNG Promoted as Climate Solution at Vancouver Expo Despite …
WEBJun 26, 2024 · LNG Promoted as Climate Solution at Vancouver Expo Despite Evidence. Roger Dall’Antonia, president and CEO of FortisBC, said extreme weather has increased energy demand. The Woodfibre LNG terminal is currently under construction near Squamish, BC. Credit: Woodfibre LNG / YouTube. Maintaining and improving global energy security; empowering ...
Sherwood B. Idso - DeSmog
WEBJun 26, 2024 · Sherwood B. Idso (Deceased) Credentials Background Sherwood B. Idso was the president of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change from 2001 to 2018. He ran the Center with his two sons, Craig Idso and Keith E. Idso. He later held an advisory role at CSCDGC.1 “Emeritus President,” CO2 Science. Archived […]
Exclusive: UN, EU Agencies Reject Ties to Conference Hijacked by ...
WEBMay 31, 2017 · But a DeSmog investigation reveals the event is being hijacked by a group of climate science deniers who have previously claimed they want to investigate climate scientists for fraud and have dismissed human-caused climate change as a hoax. Since being contacted by DeSmog, both the WMO and the EEA have issued statements distancing themselves ...