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Polluter bailouts and lobbying during Covid-19 pandemic

20/04/20
Author: 
Damian Carrington
Link: 
National Observer
Jason Kenney speaks at the Manning Networking Conference in Ottawa on Feb. 10, 2018. Alberta premier Jason Kenney’s government has pledged $5bn in support for the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline. File photo by Alex Tétrault

April 19th 2020

This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration

Polluting industries around the world are using the coronavirus pandemic to gain billions of dollars in bailouts and to weaken and delay environmental protections.

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Canada
Capitalism
Climate Science
Ecology/Environment
Global
Industry Spin
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The IPCC’s Worst Case Scenario

18/03/20
Author: 
Robert Hunziker
Link: 
Counterpunch

MARCH 18, 2020

A recent landmark study of massive ice loss in Antarctica and Greenland fulfills the “worst case” prognosis, as outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It’s a nightmare come true, as the impact of global warming on the planet’s most significant/biggest masses of ice multiplied six-fold in only 30 years. It wasn’t supposed to happen so unexpectedly, so suddenly.

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Climate Change
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What can coronavirus efforts teach us in the fight against climate change?

12/03/20
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CBC Radio The Current
Link: 
CBC Radio The Current

Mar 12, 2020

Writer and environmentalist Bill McKibben says the adaptations we make to fight the COVID-19 outbreak could hold valuable lessons elsewhere — in the efforts to mitigate climate change. 10:56

Listen here.

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Climate Change
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Social tipping dynamics for stabilizing Earth’s climate by 2050

11/03/20
Author: 
Contributed by Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, November 15, 2019 (sent for review January 22, 2019; reviewed by J. David Tabara and Jessika E. Trancik)
Link: 
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States

PNAS February 4, 2020 117 (5) 2354-2365; first published January 21, 2020

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'Alternative' energy and less energy
Climate Change
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Social
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New Study Finds Far Greater Methane Threat from Fossil Fuel Industry

22/02/20
Author: 
Andrew Nikiforuk
Link: 
The Tyee
Fossil Fuel Industry - A new study found that methane emissions from human activities — mainly fossil fuels — are probably 25 to 40 per cent higher than previously estimated. Photo via Shutterstock.

Feb. 21, 2020

The gas plays a powerful role in driving up global temperatures.

A new study published in Nature may have ended a long scientific debate about the key source of rising methane levels in the atmosphere.

It found that methane emissions from human activities — mainly fossil fuels — are probably 25 to 40 per cent higher than previously estimated, while natural sources of methane emissions are up to 90 per cent lower than previously estimated.

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Alberta
British Columbia
Canada
Climate Change
Climate Science
Global
LNG - Fracking
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As Nobel prize winners, we demand Justin Trudeau stop the Teck Frontier mine

21/02/20
Author: 
John Coetzee, Alice Munro, Muhammad Yunus, Elfriede Jelinek and others
Link: 
The Guardian
‘There is no room for expansion of the fossil fuel sector. There is no room for the Teck Frontier tar sands mine.’ Photograph: Patrick Doyle/Reuters

21 Feb 2020

All new projects that enable fossil fuel growth are an affront to our state of climate emergency. It is a disgrace Canada is considering them

Dear Prime Minister Trudeau and Deputy Prime Minister Freeland,

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Alberta
Canada
Climate Change
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Indigenous Peoples
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Natural gas is a much ‘dirtier’ energy source than we thought

20/02/20
Author: 
Alejandra Borunda
Link: 
National Geographic 
Methane gas leaks from the ground both naturally and from coal, oil, and gas extraction. New research shows that more of the gas in the atmosphere comes from the fossil fuel industry than previously thought. PHOTOGRAPH BY KATIE ORLINSKY, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
 
SCIENCE

Natural gas is a much ‘dirtier’ energy source than we thought

Coal, oil, and gas are responsible for much more atmospheric methane, the super-potent warming gas, than previously known.
 
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British Columbia
Canada
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Existential climate-related security risk: A scenario approach

25/01/20
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Excerpted from “Existential climate-related security risk: A scenario approach”, by David Spratt and Ian Dunlop

https://www.breakthroughonline.org.au/papers


Existential climate-related security risk: A scenario approach
 
Foreword by Admiral Chris Barrie, AC RAN Retired
 

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Greta ignores Davos panel question to give warning

25/01/20
Author: 
Greta Thunberg
Link: 
cnn
Greta Thunberg

Greta ignores Davos panel question to give warning

During a panel hosted by TIME, Greta Thunberg issues a stark warning about the IPCC's best case scenario for avoiding climate catastrophe.

Source: CNN Business

Watch video here.

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Climate Change
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The sustainable development index: Measuring the ecological efficiency of human development in the anthropocene

29/12/19
Author: 
JasonHickel
Link: 
Science Direct
The world according to the sustainable development index year 2015

Ecological Economics

Volume 167, January 2020, 106331

Abstract

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Capitalism
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