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German greenhouse gas emissions fall for first time in four years
This article discusses how German greenhouse gas emissions fall for first time in four years. Though renewables played a role in the 4.2 percent drop it has largely been attributed to warm weather. Despite this good news the country is certain to miss its 2020 target of reducing emissions by 40 […]
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DeSmog Blog
This week’s posting contains articles on the oil industry subterfuge. activists fighting the chemical industry in Louisiana, Australian deniers meeting with the Koch Brothers, the financial impact of Trump’s rollback of clean car standards and his appointing an Independent Petroleum Association of America insider to the top DOI post, […]
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Fracking plan ‘will release same C02 as 300m new cars’
This The Guardian article discusses how a new fracking plan ‘will release same C02 as 300m new cars’. A Labour Party study comes as UK government faces pressure from courts and councils.
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DeSmog Blog
This week’s email contains articles about:
Global Banks, Led by JPMorgan Chase, Invested $1.9 Trillion in Fossil Fuels Since Paris Climate Pact
‘All Rhetoric and No Action’: Oil Giants Spent $1 Billion on Climate Lobbying and Ads Since Paris Pact, Says Report
‘They Have Lied for Decades’: European Parliament Scrutinise […]
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World-wide water problems – drought
These two articles discuss world-wide drought conditions caused by climate change.
Iraq: where water used to flow. The Mesopotamian marshlands in southern Iraq were once the largest wetland ecosystem in Western Eurasia. But after years of drought and political turmoil, they’re in danger of disappearing.
England could run short of water […]
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Renewables Generated a Record 65 Percent of Germany’s Electricity Last Week
This Yale Environment 360 article discusses how renewables generated a 65 percent of Germany’s electricity.
Renewable energy sources supplied nearly 65 percent of Germany’s electricity last week, with wind turbines alone responsible for 48.4 percent of power production nationwide, Clean Energy Wire reported. As a result, fossil fuel plants ran at […]
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Greta Thunberg, schoolgirl climate change warrior: ‘Some people can let things go. I can’t’
This article discusses Greta Thunberg, schoolgirl climate change warrior: ‘Some people can let things go. I can’t’. One day last summer, aged 15, she skipped school, sat down outside the Swedish parliament – and inadvertently kicked off a global movement.
Greta Thunberg cut a frail and lonely figure when she started a […]
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Pledge to cut emissions from dairy farms
This article discusses a pledge to cut emissions from dairy farms.
A dairy firm is pledging to make its operations carbon-neutral from cow to supermarket by 2050, including more than 2,000 farms in the UK.
This will require “radical changes” over the coming decades, including developing new technologies, the dairy […]
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British Government – offshore wind power expansion and elimination of coal
This article discusses how the British government is throwing its weight behind offshore wind power expansion. Deal with wind sector aims to produce one third of UK’s electricity needs by 2030.
This article discusses how How Britain cut carbon emissions more than nearly any other country. The rapid demise of coal […]
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Sweden, Home to the World’s Oldest Cross-Country Ski Race, Confronts a Changing Climate
This Bill McKibben article discusses how Sweden, Home to the World’s Oldest Cross-Country Ski Race, Confronts a Changing Climate.
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