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.
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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.
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.
Rebecca Solnit: This is a crossroads
This is a crossroads. The fires, the floods, the heat, the melting tell us how urgent it is. But the financial and industry news tells us that urgency has somewhere to go: to push harder to defang and dismantle the fossil fuel industry, and to protect communities along the way.
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.
As U.S. fires rage on, scientists warn climate change “has not stopped for COVID-19”
Large parts of the American West are currently on fire. Hundreds of homes have been destroyed. At least seven people are dead in different states. An unknown number are missing. Tens of thousands remain under evacuation orders.
Climate Emergency: Records tumble as 2 million acres of California burn
The signs are ominous as yet another climate record is reached. California is once again burning. From near the southern Mexico border, to San Diego and the forests of the Sierra Nevada over two million acres of the sunshine state were on fire yesterday.
We have entered the “end game” for oil — with “permanent demand destruction”
As we have been repeatedly saying for months, we are witnessing the end of the oil age. Even once great giants are now crumbling at their core.
Fossil fuel “fraud” regarding climate risks is a “ticking time bomb” to financial system
A new report argues that “widespread deception by fossil fuel executives regarding the financial risks of climate change, represents a ticking time bomb that, if not addressed, could contribute to worldwide economic devastation.”