More than a million people in France have attended a “Climate Fresk” class to understand the process of global warming. The project is now spreading abroad, particularly in Europe and Latin America. Constant Méheut discusses this trendy new approach in an article on the New York Times website. Have you participated in your country? … Continue reading A unique workshop run by a French nonprofit of the same name, that teaches the basics of global warming and highlights possible solutions
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Energy in Demand News, August 20, 2023
Every day we are reading about another disaster, whether it be wildfires, droughts, floods and more. The Financial Times writes (behind a paywall) that the costs of inaction on global warming are potentially vast and often not sufficiently factored into asset values. While such disasters can be counted first in lives lost, the FT writes: … Continue reading Energy in Demand News, August 20, 2023
Do phrases like “global boiling” actually help drive us towards faster and more effective climate action? Or do they risk making us prone to climate doomism, and risk prompting a backlash?
It has been widely reported that UN Secretary General António Guterres declared last week that the era of “global boiling” has arrived. Is this a help or a hindrance? Noel Castree, Professor of Society & Environment at the University of Technology Sydney discusses the impact of such phrases in an article on The Conversation website. … Continue reading Do phrases like “global boiling” actually help drive us towards faster and more effective climate action? Or do they risk making us prone to climate doomism, and risk prompting a backlash?
Energy in Demand News, July 30, 2023
Energy in Demand News… July 30, 2023 No one said the zero carbon energy transition would be easy. This week there have been some interesting news related to making progress: A Financial Times newsletter noted that the energy transition could hinge on recycling because of a shortage of needed metals such as copper, nickel and … Continue reading Energy in Demand News, July 30, 2023
US weatherman receives death threats for conveying messages about the climate crisis
Oliver Milman writes on the Guardian website about a US weatherman, Chris Gloninger , who wove the reality of global heating into his forecasts in the conservative heartland of Iowa. Gloninger said he experienced “a holy shit moment” with climate change as he was drenched while covering 2017’s Hurricane Harvey. Obviously, not all his viewers … Continue reading US weatherman receives death threats for conveying messages about the climate crisis
July 16th EiD newsletter
This week, the New York Times had a news item (behind paywall) entitled: “Climate Disasters Daily? Welcome to the ‘New Normal.’” There were two especially worrying points. The first: “And yet even as storms, fires and floods become increasingly frequent, climate change lives on the periphery for most voters. In a nation focused on inflation, … Continue reading July 16th EiD newsletter
Amid the worst heat waves ever recorded in the United States, China, Mexico, Siberia and beyond, climate denial continues to flourish
An extreme global heat wave has been blamed on climate change, yet online misinformation has evolved to counter the facts — despite platforms like TikTok banning climate denial. Stuart Braun discusses this growth in climate denial in an article on the Deutsche Welle website. Why is climate denial still thriving online? Record global temperatures … Continue reading Amid the worst heat waves ever recorded in the United States, China, Mexico, Siberia and beyond, climate denial continues to flourish
Earlier this year, TikTok vowed to clamp down on climate change denial but the company is struggling to stop false climate information from spreading across the platform
On the BBC News website, Marco Silva and Maryam Ahmed discuss some of the false climate issues still happening on TikTok. Have you confronted any of this misinformation? The climate change-denying TikTok post that won't go away Earlier this year, TikTok vowed to clamp down on climate change denial. But a BBC investigation tracked … Continue reading Earlier this year, TikTok vowed to clamp down on climate change denial but the company is struggling to stop false climate information from spreading across the platform
ExxonMobil continues to maintain that deep decarbonisation would degrade living standards
ExxonMobil's flagrant attempts to undermine climate policies deserve more widespread opprobrium, writes Andrew Warren, chair of the British Energy Efficiency Federation (BEEF) and a friend of EiD on the Business Green website. With ExxonMobil acting this way, the global climate conference (COP28) later this year in Dubai is going to be quite a showdown with … Continue reading ExxonMobil continues to maintain that deep decarbonisation would degrade living standards
Satellite technology holds the potential to fast-forward the net-zero transition
In an article on the Energy Monitor website, Oliver Gordon talks to Inmarsat’s Jat Brainch about the company’s recent research suggesting that wider adoption of satellite technology could reduce global GHG emissions by 18% and bring the net-zero transition forward by ten years. What are your views? Satellites can help the world reach net … Continue reading Satellite technology holds the potential to fast-forward the net-zero transition
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