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'Planet Wreckers': 4 Rich Nations Plotting Nearly 70% of New Oil and Gas Over Next Decade | Common Dreams
This is not just hypocrisy," said one climate campaigner. "It is a death sentence for communities on the frontlines of the #ClimateCrisis."
Brett Wilkins
Jun 16, 2025"Four wealthy nations—the #UnitedStates, #Canada, #Norway, and #Australia—account for the majority of planned oil and gas expansion over the next decade, according to new data published by #OilChangeInternational on Monday, the first day of the #BonnClimateChangeConference in Germany.
"Oil Change's analysis, titled #PlanetWreckers, notes that if those four #GlobalNorth nations stopped their planned new oil and gas extraction, 32 billion tons of carbon pollution would stay in the ground instead of being burned and released into the atmosphere, where they fuel planetary heating. That's the equivalent of three times the annual global emissions created by burning coal.
" 'A handful of the world's richest nations remain intent on leading us into disaster. This is not just hypocrisy. It is a death sentence for communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis,' Oil Change International global policy lead Romain Ioualalen said in a statement Monday.
"It is sickening that countries with the highest incomes and outsized historical responsibility for causing the climate crisis are planning massive oil and gas expansion with no regard for the lives and livelihoods at stake," Ioualalen added."
Read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/oil-change-report-planet-wreckers#Oligarchy #Oiligarchy #BigOilAndGas #DrillBabyDrill #LeaveItInTheGround #CorporateColonialism #FossilFuels #Fracking #Oil #Pollution #Drilling #Ecocide #USPol #CanadaPol #PetroState #ThanksBigOil #ClimateCatastrophe #BPKnew #ExxonKnew #WaterIsLife #AirIsLife #OilUpTheSwamp #ExtractiveIndustries #NoPipelines #RenewablesNow #FossillFuel #NoJobsOnADeadPlanet
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#Klimakrise #BigOil #Lobbyismus
Im Zusammenhang mit den global zunehmenden #Extremwetterereignissen ist interessant, dass die Lobbyausgaben des US-Branchenverbands #AFPM in 2024 den Höchsten Stand aller Zeiten erreichten:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/113328595930386788
#AFPM #KochIndustries #KochBrothers #Shell #OccidentalPetroleum #ConocoPhillips #Chevron #ExxonMobil #AmericanPetroleumInstitute #Phillips66 #BigOilAndGas #ExxonKnew #BigOilKnew
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#Klimakrise #BigOil #Lobbyismus
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*[Ausgaben für] Öl- und Gaslobbyismus erreichen 72 Millionen Dollar in der ersten Hälfte des Jahres 2024*
Von #MollyTaylor (OpenSECRETS.ORG)
15. August 2024"Der amerikanische Verband der Kraftstoff- und #Petrochemiehersteller...
#AFPM #KochIndustries #KochBrothers #Shell #OccidentalPetroleum #ConocoPhillips #Chevron #ExxonMobil #AmericanPetroleumInstitute #Phillips66 #BigOilAndGas #ExxonKnew #BigOilKnew
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OH radicals are born if NOx is hit by UV radiation in sunlight. (And water vapour in the air reduces this OH-birthing process, see posts above.) OH Radicals only have a very short lifetime of less than a few seconds because they bomb anything to bits that comes their way, or rather, they react with anything in their neighborhood. If a #methane molecule is bombed by OH radicals, the result is water vapour and CO2.
NOx is born in cow and pig shit, in artificial fertilizer, and also in high-heat combustion processes like lightening strikes, forest fires, and cars, trucks, planes, and ships.
NOx and the chemicals born when NOx is hit by UV sunlight (eg ozone), are harmful to living beings. So anthropogenic NOx gets reduced technologically after national and regional #CleanAir regulations. And by the international shipping organisation IMO, see eg https://www.ukpandi.com/news-and-resources/articles/2022/imo-tier-iii-nitrogen-oxide-nox-emission-compliance/ It also describes some techy ways for reducing NOx emissions during fuel combustion.
IIUC, #diesel engines burn fuel at higher heat than Otto motors. This makes diesel motors more efficient, leading to less CO2 emissions per km – but to more #NOx. Which must then be scrubbed from the exhaust.
We all recall the two (!) diesel scandals 2004 and 2015 where European car industry was found to cheat deliberately wrt NOx from diesel. (Cheating isn't the right word when you consider that people get sick and die from NOx' ozone pollution. Hence the regulations. And people with the car industry know this – so their cheating is really murder according to German law and recent verdicts [on other cases but with similar circumstances relevant to the legal definition of #murder].
The fact that German state attorneys chose to only prosecute the fraud speaks volumes wrt how car-centred their minds work. IMO, those managers and engineers should spend their lives in a prison cell. #Dieselgate #CleanDiesel Together with the software manufacturers at #Bosch, and the Rex Tillersons of this world. #ExxonKnew
Murderous cheating wrt Otto motors is also known https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abgasskandal#Manipulation_bei_Fahrzeugen_mit_Ottomotoren
Here it is a software for reducing #CO2 emissions on the testing stand. )Anyway. Where was I?
Ah, yes, the NOx-creation process and how these give birth to OH radicals in UV sunlight: OH radicals are born when UV sunlight hits NOx molecules. After only a few seconds, the suicidal radical bombs a suitable molecule like methane. But new radicals are born all day long. Because NOx is replenished constantly, in lightening strikes, forest fires, burning fossil fuels in🏭🏠, and:🚗🚚✈️🚢Together with the new finding that more moisture in the air due to global warming reduces UV sunlight, and hence reduces the births of OH radicals, which in turn increases CH4 lifetime https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adn0415 #Prather et al 2024🔒
I have been also wondering for a few years now whether NOx regulations and technological scrubbing (where it does occur, harr harr), and also a serious electrification in transport, industry and homes already have, and will have later on, a sufficiently large effect on increasing CH4 lifetime.And I am wondering again whether a reduced NOx abundance during the warm=wet and less fire-prone, stronger forested #Miocene caused CH4 to linger for longer because fewer OH radicals were born.
Adding the new finding to this theory, that more water vapour decreases OH concentration, makes my theory even more pertinent:
With high temperatures during the miocene at surprisingly low CO2 values, methane could explain parts of the discrepancy. But we don't have proxies for methane concentration.
Kind of important because today's climate sensitivity for doubling CO2 = 3°C, is in part fed by findings in #paleoclimate such as the Miocene.The Miocene had a different land mass layout, different ocean currents, and also different biomes, hydrological cycle and whatnot.
So it's not a good analog for our experiment today as I often point out, eg in this thread https://climatejustice.social/@anlomedad/112767092856263574
It's also mentioned in passing in Gavin Schmidt's new blog post about the paper that had prompted my thread above, with its spurious claim of climate sensitivity. https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2024/08/oh-my-oh-miocene/#ITEM-25598-4
So these system setting differences explain part of the temperature/CO2 discrepancy.
But not all.
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No surprise...!
Oil and gas lobbying reaches $72 million in first half of 2024
By Molly Taylor
August 15, 2024"The American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers led the oil and gas industry in federal lobbying expenditures in the first half of 2024, marking the first time the trade association outspent the top individual companies in the industry.
"The trade association, which represents 450 fuel refining and petrochemical companies, leads the oil and gas industry with $8.1 million in federal lobbying expenditures over the first half of 2024. This level of spending marks a shift in influence, as individual oil and gas companies have typically outspent the trade association by millions of dollars.
"The oil and gas industry altogether spent $72 million on federal lobbying in the first six months of 2024 as the #EPA introduced some of its strongest-ever regulations to reduce #FossilFuel emissions. The industry is on track to exceed last year’s expenditures, which totaled $137 million after adjustment for inflation, and is the fifth-highest lobbying industry of the year.
"The American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers emerged as the top spender after doubling its federal lobbying expenditures from 2022. Between 2016 and 2022, the trade organization spent, on average, $3.4 million annually without adjusting for inflation. In 2023, spending jumped to $6.9 million in 2023.
"In the first six months of 2024, the American Fuel and #Petrochemical
Manufacturers has already spent more on federal lobbying than any prior year."#AFPM #KochIndustries #KochBrothers #Shell #OccidentalPetroleum #ConocoPhillips #Chevron #ExxonMobil #AmericanPetroleumInstitute #Phillips66 #BigOilAndGas #ExxonKnew #BigOilKnew
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So, with all that's being revealed about what #ExxonKnew in the 1950's, I thought it might be relevant to post what #WalterRussell, artist, visionary and scientist in the 1950's posted about #AtomicEnergy and #ClimateChange...
LOSS OF OXYGEN GLOBALLY
"Walter Russell, a visionary artist and scientist, predicted in his book Atomic Suicide? published in 1957 that due to man-made radioactivity we would experience a loss of oxygen in the air that we breathe. In a similar way to the predictions of Andrei Sakharov in the 1950's, Walter Russell's foresight is now coming true. Our current oxygen resources are low. The percentage of oxygen in the air is down to about 19 percent. (BioTech News 1997) The expected amount is 21 percent oxygen. Some experts say that we may have originally evolved in an atmosphere of 38 percent oxygen. But now, due to the loss of forests and ocean plankton, our two sources of oxygen production, measurements of oxygen as low as 12 percent and 15 percent have been made in heavily industrialized areas. This oxygen-depleted condition is a contributing cause of the generalized lack of well-being that many are experiencing. And it does not look good for the future. We need oxygen to live!
"Trees and green plants provide about half, and plankton provide the other half of our oxygen. Phytoplankton, which are the base of the marine food chain, is declining. Various studies confirm this: plankton in parts of the Antarctic Ocean is declining up to 12 percent. (S. Weiler. Testimony to Senate Commerce Committee, November 15, 1991)
Trees absorb radioactive carbon-14 in place of stable forms of carbon and in this way they are gradually killed. The book, The Petkau Effect, by Ralph Graeub tells how radioactivity has harmed trees and forests: "It is assumed that the decisive physiological damage resulting in current forest death must have begun during the 1950's. This is depicted in a reduction in density and width of tree rings, and in reduced growth, which is true in the Northern Hemisphere and in the Himalayas.... Neither aging, location, nor climate can be considered as the possible sole cause of damage.... The growth ring of a tree shows exactly what effects the tree has experienced, both in terms of time and seriousness.... During the 1950's and 1960's, there must have been a global wave of air pollution which caused the initial damage."
"The author speculates that it could not be just the usual chemicals which are so damaging the trees. And he explains that these trees are mainly within the 30th to 60th parallels of northern latitude.
"This zone contains the most nuclear power plants -- over 300 -- and almost all nuclear reprocessing centers. Also, the vast majority of nuclear weapons tests occurred in this area."
https://ratical.org/radiation/HoLLR.html#p4
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #NoNukes #RethinkNotRestart #NoNewNukes