Solving the issue could bring closer the day when disaster victims can successfully sue
oil and coal companies.
It would require a lot of cows to match the huge quantities
of oil and coal extracted from the ground each day.
All the while, low prices for fossil fuels
like oil and coal are undermining incentives for clean energy deployment.
The global energy industry is in the midst of transformational change as traditional forms of energy such
as oil and coal are being replaced by cleaner, renewable alternatives.
If that electricity comes from
burning oil and coal, it might mean that green alternatives aren't that green after all.
Every dollar currently spent
on oil and coal research and development is being poured into obsolete, dangerous technology.
In order to send a message to fossil fuel companies that
oil and coal reserves are best left in the ground, the movement encourages investors to sell their shares in these companies.
The shortfall may grow critical as electricity producers close down old
oil and coal plants in favor of cleaner natural gas.
The big issue around climate change that «nobody's talking about» is
whether oil and coal companies are prepared to write down 80 % of their reserves.
We've had few options but to keep
buying oil and coal - fired electricity, but that's changing.
These are estimated for
oil and coal alone at $ 37 billion a year, a ridiculous figure in light of the need to get away from fossil fuels.
For a country
where oil and coal use have been growing for more than a century, the fall since 2007 is startling.
Over the last 130 years, global temperatures have increased due to carbon pollution from the burning of dirty energy
like oil and coal.
The «narrative» has been increasing well funded over the course of three decades,
with oil and coal producing firms among the biggest donors.
Investors have started to lead the way in putting an end to the age
of oil and coal.
Global demand
for oil and coal will most likely peak and could decline over the next two decades.
Most of the energy we use today comes
from oil and coal, and increasingly from natural gas.
We have five times as
much oil and coal and gas on the books as climate scientists think is safe to burn.
Willie Soon, the notorious climate denier who has made a career out of attacking the IPCC and climate scientists, has received over $ 1 million in funding from Big
Oil and coal industry sponsors over the past decade, according to a new report from Greenpeace.
«There are people,» says Mr. Hoggan, a veteran self - promoting pro in the PR business, «mainly people who are getting paid
by oil and coal interests, and [some] who are just basically ideologues, who are trying to confuse the public about climate change.»
For the time being, much of the analysis on the financial losses focuses on the plunge
in oil and coal prices, and the potential that a huge portion of the global reserves of oil, gas, and coal will be «stranded» in the ground to curb climate change.
It is absolutely true that America's
oil and coal lobbies have consistently blocked legislation and mis - represented facts about global warming to the American people.
But CO2 is Green, an organization backed by
oil and coal executives, unintentionally hints that the anti-CO2 legislation movement might be getting desperate, with a 30 - second ad that boasts: «There is no scientific evidence that CO2 is a pollutant.
Here is what we do know about Lindzen's connections to the fossil fuel industry over the years: Lindzen
charges oil and coal interests $ 2,500 a day for his consulting services; his 1991 trip to testify before a Senate committee was paid for by Western Fuels, and a speech he wrote, entitled «Global Warming: the Origin and Nature of Alleged Scientific Consensus,» was underwritten by OPEC.
UNITED NATIONS, March 30 - The United Nations Security Council blacklisted dozens of ships and shipping companies on Friday
over oil and coal smuggling by North Korea, boosting pressure on Pyongyang as leader Kim Jong Un plans to meet with his South Korean and U.S. counterparts.
The U.N. Security Council on Friday blacklisted dozens of ships and shipping companies over
oil and coal smuggling...
As communities in our region stand up to Big
Oil and Coal export projects, we are rejecting the status quo and keeping the fossil fuels in the ground.
We mandate no more than 110g / km for personal road - registered motor vehicles (with offsets for biofuels) with serious progressively escalating per km charges for vehicles not achieving this and place a tax on locally used
crude oil and coal reflecting at least $ 40 per tonne of CO2.
Even as our nation is pivoting toward a more sustainable energy future, America's
oil and coal corporations are racing to position the country as the planet's dirty - energy dealer — supplying the developing world with cut - rate, high - polluting, climate - damaging fuels.
Trump, who once called climate change a hoax, has vowed to reorient the federal government so that
U.S. oil and coal producers thrive, while manufacturers aren't burdened by «job - killing» restrictions — a commitment he reiterated Tuesday at the Environmental Protection Agency.
CO2 is Green, an initiative backed by
oil and coal execs, makes the case that global warming is a good thing.
Consider the oddball doctors who took tobacco money to deny a link between cigarette smoking and cancer, or the handful of scientists who take
oil and coal money to discredit global warming science, or the people who have done both.