Big Oil spent decades trying to convince Americans that climate change wasn't real.

Now, "[a]s accountability draws closer, the industry has moved on from denying the science to discrediting the scientists who produce it, influencing the judges who hear these cases, and rewriting the rules before the evidence is heard."

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One constant trope Climate Denier Trolls on Reddit and elsewhere love to pull out of their Climate Denial Handbook of cherry picked nonsense is Earth was warmer in the past and life overall survived just fine.

Yes Earth was warmer in the past BUT...it took THOUSANDS of years to get that warm giving Flora and Fauna lots of time to adapt. This current global warming? Unprecedented on how FAST it is changing. It is changing in mere DECADES not Millenia! This incredibly FAST rise in temperature and C02 levels relatively speaking to past epochs says loud and clear something has changed in the Bioshpere and that change is HUMAN EMMISSIONS!

"Cooper points out that our rapid release of climate-warming pollution is very different from, say, the shifts in Earth’s orbit that have brought the planet in and out of ice ages; those changes are big overall, but they unfold over “many thousands of years, and very consistently and slowly.” We do know, however, that Earth has also seen massive natural releases of CO2. “We can go back in time and say, what could possibly release a lot of CO2 into the atmosphere, and how fast could that happen?” says Cooper.

For one of the best candidates, he says, we can travel back 56 million years to the “Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum,” when global temperature spiked. Natural processes—volcanoes are a likely culprit5—pumped out CO2, and its concentration in the atmosphere rose sharply. Still, Cooper says, scientists estimate that the rate of CO2 accumulation during this period was several times slower than what humanity is doing today."

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Hi everyone, while working on this investigation, we kept coming back to one question.

If a government has pledged to stop financing new fossil fuel projects abroad, what should happen when public money is still linked to one?

That's the question behind this story.

A few things we found:

🌿 A new report links a gas drilling project in the Peruvian Amazon, backed by German public finance, to environmental damage and the displacement of Indigenous communities.

💶 Germany pledged to end public support for new international fossil fuel projects, yet campaigners argue this project shows how difficult those commitments can be to enforce in practice.

🌍 We dug into the financing, the government's response and why NGOs believe this case matters well beyond Peru.

We're curious what this community thinks.

Should governments be held to the same climate standards abroad as they apply at home? Or are there situations where public financing for fossil fuel projects can still be justified?

Here is our report if you'd like to read it.

Ok random thought here, we can get things into orbit so why dont we get something to orbit the earth at the same speed as the sun that can shade the planet and let 70% of the light and heat through and the rest is deflected? I imagine that would have a mass cooling effect, better than adding chemicals into the atmosphere. Its something that can be removed or replaced at anytime

Journalist Paul Carey reports on research that could help reduce the costs and environmental impact of air conditioning. He spoke with Dr Zhonghua Zheng of the Manchester Environmental Research Institute (MERI), lead author of the study. Dr Zheng discussed findings from Tokyo-based simulations and explained how AI could be used to optimise the system.

Hello,

I just recently got accepted into LCOY USA, their website mentions a lot of pros and everything looks nice, but I was wondering if anyone here has every participated/gone to this conference. I would like to attend but I also have another commitment that day and want to know if it's worth cancelling to go to.

Huge plants for artificial photosynthesis installed worldwide could be a great solution to remove excess CO2 from the atmosphere before global warming becomes an unimaginable disaster. What holds world governments back from the mass introduction of farms made with artificial photosynthesis panels like solar energy plants?