Tag: fossil fuels
Ditching fossil fuels in favor of renewable energy in order to keep warming below the 1.5ºC threshold is both “necessary and technically feasible.” #RenewableEnergy #FossilFuelExit
We have built up civilization to a scale that can temporarily be supported by finite and polluting energy sources, and we have simply assumed that this scale of activity can continue to be supported by other energy sources that haven’t yet been developed or substantially deployed. #fossilfuel
Two reports detail how failure to reduce fossil fuel use and curb emissions are driving catastrophic global warming. #nature #waronnature
A new Carbon Tracker report warns competition with renewables, government climate policies, and the coronavirus pandemic could cause future profits from fossil fuels to fall by $25 trillion. #fossilfuel
In another legal victory for opponents of Keystone XL and similar pipelines, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday upheld a lower court ruling that suspended a federal fast-track permit for the controversial tar sands project that campaigners for nearly a decade have opposed as a climate-destroying effort of the first order. #NoKXL #KeystoneXL
The Center for Biological Diversity on Monday rolled out a new program to push back against the nation’s community- and wildlife-harming energy system that the climate advocacy group says is based on fossil fuels and a “centralized monopoly on power.” #ecofriendly
Goldman Sachs earned cautious praise from environmental advocacy groups Sunday after the bank announced it would not finance new Arctic oil drilling or exploration and ruled out funding new thermal coal mines and coal-fired power plant projects worldwide. #defundclimatechange
Those who risked arrest at the Merrimack Station in Bow, New Hampshire attempted to enter the coal-fired plant via a set of train tracks and carried buckets with them in order to—at least symbolically—remove as much coal from the site as possible. #activism #bucketbybucket
Major donors to both parties are trying desperately to get more fossil fuels to market. Tackling climate change means tackling corruption at the highest levels of our democracy, regardless of party affiliation. #stopbigoil
A new report showed that if just 10 to 30 percent of the annual coal, oil, and gas subsidies were given to the renewable energy sector instead, the world could see a prompt reduction of fossil fuel emissions by nearly 20 percent. #GreenNewDeal
Declaration includes demand for an end to fossil fuel development and for nations most responsible for the crisis to “urgently change direction.” #climatecrisis
People in more than 100 countries are expected to take part in well over 1,000 strikes on Friday, May 24 to demand climate action from their governments.
A United Nations report described as the most authoritative and comprehensive assessment of global biodiversity ever published found that human exploitation of the natural world has pushed a million plant and animal species to the brink of extinction—with potentially devastating implications for the future of civilization.
America’s twisted politics may slow the transition to renewables, but other countries are now pushing the pace. In July of 2017, for instance, the Chinese announced that Qinghai Province—a territory the size of Texas—had gone a week relying on 100% renewable energy, a test of grid reliability designed to show that the country could continue its record-breaking pace of wind and solar installation.
A district judge in ruled that 13 fossil fuel pipeline protesters were not responsible for any infraction because of the necessity of their actions. “This may be a first in America,” tweeted Bill McKibben. The charges the defendants faced stemmed from actions they took in 2016 to block Spectra Energy’s fracked gas West Roxbury Lateral Pipeline.
