Bill McKibben Explains Global Warming By The Numbers
Global warming is really a simple math problem. Exceed the Earth’s carbon budget and humans will not survive. Any questions?
Global warming is really a simple math problem. Exceed the Earth’s carbon budget and humans will not survive. Any questions?
Oil companies need to adapt to avoid massive losses and stranded assets. Unfortunately, I expect that they will milk the cow until it is dead. Despite constant dire warnings issued at an increasing rate from the world’s top scientists, oil companies appear to be searching for yet more fossil fuels … [continued]
Originally published by Union of Concerned Scientists, The Equation. By Derrick Z. Jackson, UCS Fellow in climate and energy and the Center for Science and Democracy. It just takes common sense to see that the climate change math of the Biden administration is not adding up: You cannot approve massive oil … [continued]
Many of the oil and gas industry’s top emitters of methane are small, little-known companies, a new analysis of US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) emissions data found. The analysis, commissioned by Clean Air Task Force and Ceres, found that five of the ten biggest methane emitters were small producers, and overall, … [continued]
In an unexpectedly less terrible turn of events, 2020 has seen several oil and gas companies announce more ambitious climate targets. Just last week, ConocoPhillips released a new “net-zero” climate ambition, becoming the first US oil and gas company to do so.
ConocoPhillips and other oil companies operating in Alaska’s North Slope are working to keep the permafrost from melting so they can continue to extract the oil that leads to the permafrost melting in the first place.
A new report from independent financial think tank Carbon Tracker has concluded that the world’s seven leading oil and gas majors must cut production by an average of 35% by 2040 if global emissions are to be reined in and kept “well below” 2°C, in accordance with the Paris Agreement’s commitment.
Big mineral companies like Rio Tinto and energy companies like ConocoPhillips in Australia are embracing renewable energy, and money is only part of the reason.
Two new reports published within days of one another have outlined the difficulties inherent in continuing anything close to “business-as-usual” for oil and gas companies around the world, and the increasing pressure to begin transitioning to low-carbon operations.
The cities of San Francisco and Oakland in California have filed separate lawsuits against 5 of the largest oil companies in the world for the roles played by those companies in anthropogenic climate warming and rising sea levels, public documents have revealed.