Category: climate change

Biden’s Climate Change Policies Work More in China’s Interest: Ex-NSA Officer

November 13, 2022
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The Biden administration’s focus on climate change can be geopolitically hazardous as green policies can shift power into the hands of China, which has monopolized the supply chain of rare minerals required in the production of renewable energy technology, said Steve Yates, former deputy national security adviser at the White House from 2001–05, in an…

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Biden Announces War on Methane Emissions and Increased Investments for Clean Energy During Climate Summit

November 11, 2022
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President Joe Biden announced increased investments in countries and projects related to climate change in an effort to adhere to global climate targets, while declaring steps to limit methane emissions within the country in remarks given at the 27th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27). “Today as a…

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Biden Tightens Methane Emissions, Increases Climate Change Investments

November 11, 2022
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President Joe Biden announced increased investments in countries and projects related to climate change in an effort to adhere to global climate targets, while declaring steps to limit methane emissions within the country in remarks given at the 27th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27). “Today as a…

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COVID-19, GMOs, Climate Change: Expert Says Suppression of Dissent in Scientific Circles Is Nothing New

November 9, 2022
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Whether it’s pesticides, genetically modified foods, AIDs, or COVID-19, the silencing of debate occurs regularly in scientific circles, particularly with big contentious issues, says Prof. Brian Martin of Social Sciences at the University of Wollongong. Martin recently co-authored a study into COVID-19 censorship revealing the “extreme and unprecedented” measures used by governments, medical boards, media…

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US, Canada, Australia and UK Accused of Falling Short on UN Climate Funding

November 8, 2022
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The U.S., Canada, Australia and the UK have been accused of failing to meet their United Nations pledge for climate change funding. According to a report by Carbon Brief, a UK-based think tank, the United States fell short of providing its “fair share” of the funding by $49 billion (US $32 billion),  while other countries like Australia did…

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Leading Electricity Operator to Speed up Renewables Rollout

November 8, 2022
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Transgrid, a power grid owner responsible for lighting up Australia’s three largest states along the east coast, has promised to beat an official timeline for delivering $10 billion (US$6.5 billion) worth of projects to embed renewable energy into Australia’s electricity market. Australia’s energy market manager AEMO expected these three transmission projects EnergyConnect, HumeLink, and VNI…

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WTO Wants More Globalization and Asks How to ‘Redesign Global Financial Architecture’ in Name of Climate Change

November 7, 2022
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The World Trade Organization (WTO) has published its 2022 edition of the World Trade Report, which pushes for more globalization and a shift away from fossil-fuel vehicles as part of its fight against climate change. One of the messages of the report is that trade is a force multiplier as countries adapt and adjust to…

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‘Independent’ Climate MPs Raised $10 Million at Last Election

November 6, 2022
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Six Australian Independent MPs that campaigned heavily on a climate change platform managed to raise $10 million (US$6.4 million) at the last federal election, according to figures from the country’s electoral oversight body. The so-called “teal” independents played a key role in dislodging the incumbent centre-right Liberal Party government in May after winning over inner-city…

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Why International Climate Summits Are Doomed to Fail, Part 2: Upward Mobility for Poor Depends on Energy

November 6, 2022
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Commentary Here’s a reality-framing statement for the roughly 190 countries headed to the COP27 climate summit in Egypt that opens on Sunday: Global carbon dioxide emissions in 2022 appear to be higher than pre-pandemic levels, again, and yet, according to the U.N., greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced 43 percent (relative to 2019 levels) by 2030. Why is the…

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Critical Facts Ignored in the Climate Change Debate

November 4, 2022
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Commentary Many Western countries are enacting policies to rapidly transition away from fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, and oil) to less reliable and costly “green” energy sources (mostly wind and solar) while ignoring the critical benefits that hydrocarbons provide. The outcomes will be nothing short of calamitous for more developed countries as their energy industries…

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