As ever with science not everything is as it seems. As many countries worldwide struggle with the second wave of COVID-19, there is an ongoing scientific debate about how best to control the virus without destroying the economy.
Author: Andy Rowell
Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation to the Supreme Court “would be a catastrophe for the climate”
This week sees President Trump’s highly controversial pick for the Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett, answering questions in front of the Senate Judicary committee as part of her nomination hearings for the top legal job.
Stretching back a decade, Shell is once again brought to court over landmark pollution case
Why does the fight for justice take so long? Why is it so difficult to hold Big Oil to account? Why does it take years even decades to drag oil executives, kicking and screaming, into a court-room?
Despite growing climate emergency, Exxon’s message to world remains: “Drop Dead”
For those hoping that the duel whammy of the pandemic and our climate emergency would belatedly and finally pivot Exxon away from fossil fuels, this is not going to happen. The company just wants to carry on drilling.
It’s a climate emergency: Time to “Kick Polluters Out” of COP26
Some of the world’s worst polluting companies, including BP and Shell, have been regularly lobbying the UK Government offering money to be part of next year’s UN COP26 conference.
Non-Aligned: As Big Oil spews climate denial, oil workers want to “switch to renewables”
Whereas Big Oil bosses still continue a strategy of climate denial, the majority of oil workers would switch to jobs in the renewable industry.
Big Oil’s current climate plans “will raise sea level rise by meters”
We are in a climate emergency. The warnings from Antarctica are real. The message is simple. Big Oil is not to be trusted as driving the solution to the problem they created.
Despite COVID-19 & climate emergency, U.S. Big Oil says it’s “folly” to invest in renewables
Despite our climate emergency and the massive demand reduction caused by COVID-19, American oil executives say it would be “folly” for them to switch to renewables.
A Dying Industry is Leaving A Deadly Legacy
The oil industry maybe dying, but it will still pollute us for decades after its death.
Hothouse US: Catastrophic fires spreading smoke from the West; Five Cyclones to the East
The deadly future that scientists warned us about is here. For years, climate scientists modeled how if we made the earth hotter, that heat had consequences. Unrelenting heat dries vegetation and makes it more likely to burn. It warms the oceans, increasing the fuel available for tropical cyclones.