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"Carbon intensity" is a greenwashing term: It measures pollution per barrel, allowing oil companies to claim climate progress even as rising production drives up total overall emissions.
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the temperatures produced under RCP8.5/SSP5-8.5 are a reasonable upper bound on what the future climate might be.
19 August
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Reducing emissions intensity per unit of production does not by itself lower total emissions if output volume rises.Their words
AI may help an oil company emit less pollution per barrel of oil. But if the company is producing more barrels than it otherwise would have, total emissions can still rise.
12 August
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AI had to help renewable energy four to five times more than fossil fuels just for emissions to break even.
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This should turbocharge our resolve to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
3 August
From one piece Fixing one of climate’s worst plots 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The post-1970s global increase in heatwave frequency is caused by greenhouse gas emissions from human activity.Their words
This differs from the Dust Bowl because it is a global signal, occurring essentially everywhere. This is almost certainly due to greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.
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The 1930s U.S. Dust Bowl heat wave was caused by destructive farming practices rather than fossil-fuel emissions.Their words
The relevant human activity was not fossil-fuel combustion but bad farming practices that contributed to the Dust Bowl.
9 July
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Cutting sulfur air pollution is now unmasking greenhouse-gas warming that aerosols had been offsetting.Their words
As air quality regulations cut sulfur emissions, warming from greenhouse gases is being unmasked.
What drove the early 20th century warming?theclimatebrink.com
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Atmospheric CO2 concentrations will keep rising until global emissions are cut to less than half of current levels.Their words
But broadly speaking we expect atmospheric CO2 to keep growing until we cut emissions pretty substantially (e.g. to <50% of current levels).
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Atmospheric CO2 concentration is a lagging indicator of emissions trends, not a leading one.Their words
Either way, atmospheric CO2 is better seen as a lagging rather than leading indicator of changes in emissions, as it is harder to see the effects of emissions reductions on concentrations over shorter time periods.
27 May
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We are about to see the Great Clean Energy Acceleration 2.0 - a discontinuity in energy markets as profound as the oil shocks of the 1970s, and one that could bring forward the peak in fossil fuel use and emissions to this side of 2030.
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