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With the East flooded & West burning, Biden opens up 80 million acres for drilling

With parts of the Eastern US flooded and West burning, the Biden Administration has lost a court case, forcing it to open up 80 million acres for drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

Devastating Hurricane Ida “made worse by climate change”

Our warming world is to blame for the sheer, power and size of storms such as Hurricane Ida, say experts.

Tinkering whilst Rome burns: the Dirty Dozen central banks fuelling climate chaos

Central banks could play a critical role in catalyzing the rapid shift of financial flows away from oil, fossil gas, and coal, and toward the zero-carbon solutions required to confront the climate crisis. To date, however, this is still not happening.

Exxon’s offshore drilling in Guyana could release 2 billion tonnes of CO2

A great new investigation by a wonderful old colleague of mine, Antonia Juhasz for Floodlight News and the Guardian, has found that Exxon's operations in Guyana will send more than 2 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

#ClimateCrisis: New study shows Gulf Stream on “verge of collapse”

New research, published in Nature Climate Change, has found “an almost complete loss of stability over the last century” of the ocean currents known as AMOC or more commonly the Gulf Stream. The currents are already at their slowest point for 1,600 years. But scientists worry that AMOC could be reaching a tipping point, leading to a total collapse.

False solutions: To achieve net zero, carbon offsetting would use up all global farmland

In the coming months in the run up to the crucial climate talks, COP26 in Scotland, there will be a slew of false solutions on climate change announced, whether carbon, capture and storage (CCS) or carbon offsetting.

Shell gags British Museum in greenwashing sponsorship deal

Oil giant Shell continues to excel as a climate villain, happy to drive humanity beyond the limits of a liveable future. And now it has been caught "gagging" the British Museum in a major greenwashing sponsorship exhibition on climate change.

API’s GHG Reporting Template Is a Model of Misdirection

The American Petroleum Industry’s greenhouse gas reporting template obscures the U.S. oil & gas industry’s massive responsibility for the climate crisis.

Despite massive fires & floods, Big Oil still in denial over climate change

Despite record floods in Europe and massive wildfires in the Pacific NorthWest, Big Oil remains in denial over climate change.

Killer heat & killer floods, but trillions in COVID-19 relief packages continue to exacerbate climate change

We need to act now to reduce emissions to reduce killer heat and killer floods. And yet only 10 per cent of the $17 trillion spent by governments on post-COVID bailouts has been directed to cutting greenhouse gas emissions and restoring nature.