Sentences with phrase «action about fossil»

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The companies include Chevron Corp., ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips Co., BP, Royal Dutch Shell and Peabody Energy Corp. «The American people deserve answers from the fossil fuel corporations about their actions to massively deceive the public in regards to climate science,» Lieu and Welch wrote in a letter to their House colleagues asking for their support.

About Fossil of the Day awards: The Fossil of the Day is a long - standing tradition in the UN climate talks and is voted on and awarded by Climate Action Network International, an international network of over 850 civil society organizations.

Two fossil fuel facts define the basic actions that are required to preserve our planet's climate: (1) it is impractical to capture CO2 as it is emitted by vehicles (the mass of emitted CO2 is about three times larger than the mass of fuel in the tank), and (2) there is much more CO2 contained in coal and unconventional fossil fuels than in oil and gas.

People are part of the climate system: not only are we consumers of fossil fuels and removers of forests, but we also interact with the information about the consequences of our actions in ways that, although complex and sometimes counter-intuitive, can be understood with the help of disciplines that study how we tick.

The genesis of this idea for DOJ to investigate fossil fuel companies lies in the comparison between the actions of the fossil fuel industry and the actions of other industries known to have intentionally misled the public about the nature of their products, including the tobacco and lead paint industries.

The companies include Chevron Corp., ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips Co., BP, Royal Dutch Shell and Peabody Energy Corp. «The American people deserve answers from the fossil fuel corporations about their actions to massively deceive the public in regards to climate science,» Lieu and Welch wrote in a letter to their House colleagues asking for their support.

She released a statement about why she undertook today's action: Today I'm taking action because Vermont Gas is intent upon shackling our communities to fossil fuels, and condemning us to irreversible climate change.

This whole discussion about burning fossil fuels, cap and trade, the EPA attempt to regulate carbon emissions and the current actions of Congress to stop EPA is ALL rooted and based in the Greenhouse Theory.

Also, Inside Climate News recently described a new study published in Science about how fossil - fuel funded climate - science deniers disingenuously shift their arguments and use normal scientific uncertainties to deflect attention from the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change and argue for no action to reduce greenhouse - gas emissions.

That's when fossil fuel industry lobbyists and executives started pouring more money into front groups and advocacy campaigns aimed at spreading doubt about climate science and blocking action to reduce emissions.

We are calling on the Argentinian presidency to demonstrate that they are serious about climate action,» said Alex Doukas, Stop Funding Fossils Program Director at Oil Change International.

Unfortunately, CO2 also moves from the oceans and biosphere (and sequestered fossil fuels, due to our actions) into the atmosphere, which means you are talking about measuring a single interchange rate between various climate compartments, not total concentration changes in any one compartment.

«The Accelerate tour is about inspiring people to join forces and use their combined pressure to speed up action to support the move away from fossil fuels to clean renewable energy.

Yes, and that's where this thing ends up with a weirder problem courtesy of the same Ozone Action place where Gelbspan and their people simultaneously somehow «obtained» the documents which have long been used to accuse skeptic climate scientists of accepting fossil fuel industry bribes in exchange for lying to the public about the certainty of catastrophic man - caused global warming.

The ONA foresaw far - reaching economic and political effects, predicting that by the end of the twentieth century, concerns about greenhouse «could culminate in pressure for action to restrict fossil fuel use».

While the leaders of the world talk about what to do at the U.N. and institutions like the Rockefeller Brothers Fund take positive steps to divest from fossil fuels (announced the day after the march), the movement for climate change action will have to grow, learn, and mobilize; and quickly if the 2 degree Celsius temperature increase scientists have warned about is to be averted.

And, one more thing: let's not forget that Matt Pawa, at his former law office's online page collection, had a particular article about Western Fuels suing a number of environmental organizations including Ozone Action, where it quoted David Hunter's desire to one day make a legal argument about the fossil fuel industry running a misinformation campaign.

«In this case, Exxon scientists knew about fossil fuels causing global warming and Exxon took internal actions based on its knowledge of climate change,» according to DeSaulnier and Lieu's letter.

Pruitt, a «close ally of the fossil fuel industry,» the Times reporters wrote... the Times selectively quoted Pruitt from a piece he authored for the National Journal in May: «Scientists continue to disagree about the degree and extent of global warming and its connection to the actions of mankind.

Norman Frasier, a lifelong resident of Brooklyn and a member of New York Communities for Change, talks about the lingering impact of Superstorm Sandy on his community and why he wants NY Gov. Cuomo to take action for a Fossil Free world.

Norman Frasier, a lifelong resident of Brooklyn and a member of New York Communities for Change, talks about the lingering impact of Hurricane Sandy on his community and why he wants NY Gov. Cuomo to take action for a Fossil Free world.

Yes, it would certainly be better for corporations like ExxonMobil, which alone makes about ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS PER DAY IN PROFIT from fossil fuels, if climate scientists who understand that a rapid phaseout of fossil fuel consumption is urgently needed if we are to have any hope of averting the most catastrophic outcomes of AGW, would just stick to the science and keep their mouths shut about that so as not to «spur political action» to save civilization from destruction.

Just as tobacco and lead companies sowed doubt about the dangers of their products through the use of front groups and third - party experts, so did ExxonMobil — through its funding of a sophisticated network of denialists — work to deceive the public about climate science and the need for political action to end the fossil fuel era.

Rather, it's about recognizing that the fossil fuel industry has played a major role in causing climate change and in opposing action on climate change, and needs to pay a share of the costs.

New Hampshire, USA About Blog Echo Action is a team of frontline community leaders, activists, friends and neighbours with the common goal of promoting clean, renewable energy throughout New Hampshire, our nation and planet for a safe, healthy and prosperous fossil - free future.