I
always knew about climate change, but sustainability didn't become a passion until I discovered zero waste through my cousin and started living with my eco - friendly / sustainable roommate.
The 350,000 - plus signees join dozens of activist groups and politicians in calling for a Justice Department probe into what
Exxon knew about climate change and when, including the Democratic presidential field, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O'Malley.
The EELI's request was in retaliation to recent investigations by state attorneys general into how much ExxonMobil
knew about climate change while simultaneously denying its existence.
«Exxon Knew Everything There Was to
Know About Climate Change by the Mid-1980s — and Denied It,» by Bill McKibben, The Nation, October 20, 2015.
One of the central goals of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change's periodic assessment reports is to communicate what
scientists know about climate change in an understandable way.
In a May 10, 2016, article, Almost Everything You
Know About Climate Change Solutions Is Outdated, Part 1, Joe Romm says climate science and climate politics have moved unexpectedly quickly toward a broad understanding that we need to keep total human - caused global warming as far as possible below 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F)-- and ideally to no more than 1.5 degrees C.
As we wrote: «The clips provide a poignant, historical insight into what scientists
knew about climate change almost four decades ago — and how the world was beginning to react in terms of the resulting geopolitical, technological and societal ramifications.
Investigations alleged that the company
knew about climate change decades ago, but top executives decided to hide the truth and instead, «embarked on a massive campaign of disinformation.»
Yet Shell also made headlines recently due to new documents that reveal
Shell knew about climate change and the risks of fossil fuel emissions as far back as the 1980s.
Yet even here, in one the most sophisticated climate change education units in the nation, teachers still feel the need to balance what the world's scientific bodies
know about climate change with what is represented in the public dialogue: avoiding terms like «global warming» and including a lesson questioning humanity's impact on the problem.
After it was revealed that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office is investigating what oil giant ExxonMobil
knew about climate change compared to what it told the public and investors, reaction poured in quickly.
Investigative reports revealed Exxon
knew about climate change as far back as the 1970s, yet the company's executives chose to embark on a decades - long campaign of deception.
CIEL alerted ClimateWire to the existence of the tobacco documents and has been researching for years what the oil
industry knew about climate change and what it did in response.
On Friday, an international panel of hundreds of scientists will issue its fifth (and perhaps final) comprehensive scientific assessment of what scientists
now know about climate change.
«If climate change is the biggest issue facing the future of human civilisation, to use the rhetoric, then surely a body charged to assess what
humans know about climate change should actually be assessing all forms of knowledge.»
«ExxonMobil, the world's largest and most powerful oil company, knew everything there was to
know about climate change by the mid-1980s, and then spent the next few decades systematically funding climate denial and lying about the state of the science.»
A trip to AAAS archives in downtown Washington revealed how critical the conference was to emerging federal research, how groups of scientists
knew about climate change decades before the public caught on and how Exxon was the only company to have an employee participating.
It faults the five oil and gas companies for
knowing about climate change while continuing to meet the energy demands of consumers, including residents and government officials in cities like San Francisco and Oakland:
The plaintiffs fault oil and gas companies for
knowing about climate change in the mid-20thcentury, accusing them of ignoring the «warnings» and proceeding «to double - down on fossil fuels.»
«It's not a leap of faith to talk about what
we know about climate change.
Children should be taught honestly what
we know about climate change, as well as what we don't know and where the uncertainties lie.