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<p><font size="+2"><i><b>January 28, 2023</b></i></font></p>
<i>[ Authentic good news progress -- praiseworthy- ]</i><br>
<b>Global climate policy is gaining steam</b><br>
The Beacon <br>
Joseph Winters <br>
<b>It’s Friday, January 27, and global climate commitments gained
significant steam over the past few months.</b><br>
The period between October and January saw the “strongest quarterly
results” in the number and strength of climate-related policy and
technology developments around the world since November 2021,
according to a new assessment released on Wednesday. The analysis
illustrates promising progress toward a pathway to limit global
warming to 1.8 degrees Celsius (3.2 degrees Fahrenheit).<br>
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“The EU and U.S. are now primed for a race to the top on clean
technology as climate objectives take center stage,” said the
analysis from Inevitable Policy Response, or IPR — a research group
commissioned by the U.N.-backed Principles for Responsible
Investment.<br>
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Out of 117 climate-related policy and technology pledges and
announcements made between October and January, 84 were projected to
align with the 1.8-degree goal, while 17 were deemed “evidence of
acceleration” — meaning they could keep global warming even lower.
These include initiatives from the United States to reduce emissions
from its transportation, buildings, power, and industrial sectors,
supported by record funding in President Joe Biden’s climate
spending bill. The U.S., Canada, Australia, and the EU have
continued planning a phaseout of gasoline-powered cars and
addressing methane from agriculture, while Brazilian and EU pledges
to protect forests are making progress to end deforestation by 2030.<br>
<br>
China, which continues to lead the world in clean energy
manufacturing, has also announced new objectives to achieve carbon
neutrality. A separate analysis from IPR says trade competition
among China and the U.S. and EU could lead to more ambitious climate
action. That rivalry could drive major countries to build more clean
energy capacity than ever before, IPR said.<br>
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Recent commitments made under the Just Energy Transition
Partnership, a program in which wealthy countries and investment
banks help finance the phaseout of coal-fired power generation in
the Global South, is expected to ramp down emissions in South
Africa, Indonesia, and Vietnam. An assessment from the London School
of Economics finds that national and international climate policies
are increasingly prioritizing such “just transition” concepts, which
broadly seek to deliver the benefits of clean-energy investment to
underserved communities and to countries that have contributed
little to the planet’s cumulative greenhouse gas emissions...<br>
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<i>[ Yale Climate Connections and Jeff Masters ]</i><br>
<b>Climate change is increasing the risk of a California megaflood</b><br>
A 2022 study says climate change has already doubled the risk of a
California megaflood. And an additional 1°C of global warming would
double the odds again.<br>
by JEFF MASTERS<br>
JANUARY 27, 2023<br>
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The Golden State has a long history of cataclysmic floods, which
have occurred about every 200 to 400 years — most recently in the
Great Flood of 1861-62. And a future warmer climate will likely
significantly increase the risk of even more extreme floods. In
particular, a 2022 study found that, relative to a century ago,
climate change has already doubled the risk of a present-day
megastorm, and more than tripled the risk of a trillion-dollar
megaflood of the type that could swamp the Central Valley. <br>
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Given the increased risk, it is more likely than not that many of
you reading this will see a California megaflood costing tens of
billions in your lifetime...<br>
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The study concluded that every additional degree Celsius of global
warming slightly more than doubles the risk of a megaflood.
ARkHist-level events have a 1% chance per year of occurring
(1-in-100-year recurrence) with Earth’s current global warming level
of 1.2 degree Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures. If global
warming hits 2.2 degrees, an ARkHist-level megastorm would have a
2.2% chance of occurring per year (a 1-in-45-year recurrence
interval) — a dramatic increase in risk, especially given the
catastrophic nature of a megaflood...<br>
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Given California’s megaflood history and the potential increasing
flood risk from climate change, it is essential for the state to
continue to upgrade its flood infrastructure, policies, and
flood-awareness efforts. It’s good to see the state has taken
positive steps in that direction.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/01/climate-change-is-increasing-the-risk-of-a-california-megaflood/">https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/01/climate-change-is-increasing-the-risk-of-a-california-megaflood/</a><br>
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<i>[ Fast Company reports on battles for the hearts and minds ]</i><br>
<b>Climate change misinformation has risen 300% on Twitter</b><br>
New research shows climate misinformation has been flourishing on
Twitter since Elon Musk purchased the platform in 2022.<br>
01-24-23<br>
BY DAVID KLEPPER -- ASSOCIATED PRESS<br>
WASHINGTON (AP) — Search for the word “climate” on Twitter and the
first automatic recommendation isn’t “climate crisis” or “climate
jobs” or even “climate change” but instead “climate scam.”<br>
<br>
Clicking on the recommendation yields dozens of posts denying the
reality of climate change and making misleading claims about efforts
to mitigate it.<br>
<br>
Such misinformation has flourished on Twitter since it was bought by
Elon Musk last year, but the site isn’t the only one promoting
content that scientists and environmental advocates say undercuts
public support for policies intended to respond to a changing
climate.<br>
<br>
“What’s happening in the information ecosystem poses a direct threat
to action,” said Jennie King, head of climate research and response
at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a London-based nonprofit.
“It plants those seeds of doubt and makes people think maybe there
isn’t scientific consensus.”<br>
<br>
The institute is part of a coalition of environmental advocacy
groups that on Thursday released a report tracking climate change
disinformation in the months before, during, and after the UN
climate summit in November.<br>
<br>
The report faulted social media platforms for, among other things,
failing to enforce their own policies prohibiting climate change
misinformation. It is only the latest to highlight the growing
problem of climate misinformation on Twitter.<br>
<br>
Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, allowed nearly 4,000
advertisements on its site—most bought by fossil fuel companies—that
dismissed the scientific consensus behind climate change and
criticized efforts to respond to it, the researchers found.<br>
<br>
In some cases, the ads and the posts cited inflation and economic
fears as reasons to oppose climate policies, while ignoring the
costs of inaction. Researchers also found that a significant number
of the accounts posting false claims about climate change also
spread misinformation about U.S. elections, COVID-19 and vaccines.<br>
<br>
Twitter did not respond to questions from The Associated Press. A
spokesperson for Meta cited the company’s policy prohibiting ads
that have been proven false by its fact-checking partners, a group
that includes the AP. The ads identified in the report had not been
fact-checked.<br>
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Under Musk, Twitter laid off thousands of employees and made changes
to its content moderation that its critics said undercut the effort.
In November, the company announced it would no longer enforce its
policy against COVID-19 misinformation. Musk also reinstated many
formerly banned users, including several who had spread misleading
claims about climate change. Instances of hate speech and attacks on
LGBTQ people soared...<br>
Tweets containing “climate scam” or other terms linked to climate
change denial rose 300% in 2022, according to a report released last
week by the nonprofit Advance Democracy. While Twitter had labeled
some of the content as misinformation, many of the popular posts
were not labeled.<br>
<br>
Musk’s new verification system could be part of the problem,
according to a report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate,
another organization that tracks online misinformation. Previously,
the blue checkmarks were held by people in the public eye, such as
journalists, government officials, or celebrities.<br>
<br>
Now, anyone willing to pay $8 a month can seek a checkmark. Posts
and replies from verified accounts are given an automatic boost on
the platform, making them more visible than content from users who
don’t pay.<br>
<br>
When researchers at the Center for Countering Digital Hate analyzed
accounts verified after Musk took over, they found they spread four
times the amount of climate change misinformation compared with
users verified before Musk’s purchase.<br>
<br>
Verification systems are typically created to assure users that the
accounts they follow are legitimate. Twitter’s new system, however,
makes no distinction between authoritative sources on climate change
and anyone with $8 and an opinion, according to Imran Ahmed, the
center’s chief executive.<br>
<br>
“We found,” Ahmed said, “it has in fact put rocket boosters on the
spread of lies and disinformation.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90839371/climate-change-misinformation-has-risen-300-on-twitter">https://www.fastcompany.com/90839371/climate-change-misinformation-has-risen-300-on-twitter</a><br>
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<i>[ when scouting the information battleground, just </i><i>follow
the money </i><i>] </i><br>
<b>Google let Daily Wire advertise to climate crisis deniers,
research shows</b><br>
Exclusive: Data shared by the Center for Countering Digital Hate
shows that Ben Shapiro’s news site paid for climate crisis denial
search term ads<br>
Geoff Dembicki in New York<br>
Fri 27 Jan 2023 <br>
A media outlet founded by conservative influencer Ben Shapiro paid
Google to advertise on search pages questioning whether the climate
crisis is real, according to new research from a disinformation
watchdog group.<br>
<br>
The Daily Wire bought ads on search terms over the past year such as
“climate change is a hoax” and “why is climate change fake,” meaning
that when people Googled these phrases, stories from Shapiro’s
outlet were some of the first results that appeared, the research
found.<br>
Google sold these ads even after announcing a new policy in October
2021 prohibiting ads that promote climate crisis denial. Its CEO,
Sundar Pichai, publicly stated at the time that “when people come to
Google Search with questions about climate change, we’ll show
authoritative information from sources like the United Nations.”<br>
<br>
“Google’s hypocrisy knows no bounds,” said Imran Ahmed, CEO of the
US and UK-based Center for Countering Digital Hate, which provided
its research exclusively to the Guardian. “They’re actually selling
the right to climate deniers to spread disinformation.”<br>
<br>
A spokesperson for Google didn’t contest the center’s new findings
about The Daily Wire but said that “when we find content that
crosses the line from policy debate or a discussion of green
initiatives to promoting outright climate change denial, we remove
those ads.”<br>
<br>
The Daily Wire didn’t respond to a list of detailed questions about
its Google ad buys.<br>
For its research, Ahmed’s organization relied upon a commercial
analytics tool called Semrush, which is used by many Fortune 500
companies and shows the Google phrases and search terms that brands
advertise on. Semrush also provides estimates of the dollar amounts
companies are spending on digital marketing efforts.<br>
<br>
Based on these estimates, researchers say that The Daily Wire could
have spent almost as much as $60m on more than 150 Google search
term ads over the past two years on various topics. These search
term ads also included such phrases as “argument against
reparations”, “bill gates population control”, and “why does george
soros hate america.” More than a dozen of the search terms were
climate-related, including:<br>
<blockquote>‘climate change is a hoax’<br>
‘climate change is a lie’<br>
‘why is climate change fake’<br>
‘climate change debunk’<br>
‘the real truth about wind turbines’<br>
‘is global warming a scam’<br>
‘the climate change scam’<br>
</blockquote>
The Google spokesperson would not comment on the spending estimate.<br>
<br>
The center focused on The Daily Wire because it is among the most
popular publishers on Facebook, with levels of engagement that at
times have surpassed the combined digital reach of the New York
Times, Washington Post, NBC News and CNN.<br>
<br>
In November 2021, the Center for Countering Digital Hate named The
Daily Wire in a report as one of the top ten spreaders of climate
disinformation on Facebook, along with other far-right outlets such
as Breitbart, Newsmax and the Western Journal. Shapiro’s outlet,
which reported more than $100m in revenue in 2021, was started with
$4.7m in seed funding from Texas fracking billionaire Farris Wilks.<br>
In its latest research, the center said it found multiple instances
of The Daily Wire promoting climate crisis denial through its Google
advertisements. When people Googled the phrase “climate change
debunk” in April 2022, one of the top results they were shown was an
article authored by Shapiro entitled “Debunking Climate Change
Hysteria”.<br>
<br>
“You’ve heard that climate change is going to put an end to all life
on Earth; that it puts civilization in existential peril,” Shapiro
claimed in the article. “These are lies.”<br>
<br>
Another Daily Wire ad from last summer linked the search phrase
“climate change a hoax” – along with deliberately misspelled phrases
like “gobal warming hoax” and “climate change hiax” – to the
outlet’s 2016 article “9 Things You Need To Know About The Climate
Change Hoax”, in which Aaron Bandler falsely claimed that “there is
no evidence that the Earth has been warming in recent years.”<br>
<br>
“In accordance with our policy against climate change denial
content, Google ads aren’t running on this page, nor is this page
being promoted in Google ads,” Google said in relation to this
specific article.<br>
<br>
But Google’s policies allow some wiggle room. “We will also continue
to allow ads and monetization on other climate-related topics,
including public debates on climate policy, the varying impacts of
climate change, new research and more,” its policy says.<br>
<br>
Last July, The Daily Wire paid Google to promote its story “Wind
Turbines Not Only Shred Birds But Are Piling Up In Landfills”
anytime someone searched “the real truth about wind turbines”.<br>
<br>
Shapiro’s outlet has pushed discredited theories on a wide range of
topics, including buying an ad last July on the search term “george
floyd cause of death” which linked to a Daily Wire article stating
that it likely was a fentanyl overdose, not police violence, that
killed George Floyd in 2020. A Reuters fact-check recently found “no
evidence” for this claim.<br>
But on Google you don’t need to be factually correct in order to
shape people’s opinions, the disinformation group pointed out.
“Ninety-nine percent of Google clicks go to results on the first
page,” Ahmed said. “If you can be the first result on a Google
search, you essentially get to set the truth.”<br>
<br>
The Daily Wire’s climate ads are particularly egregious according to
the Center for Countering Digital Hate because Google publicly
presents itself as having one of the most aggressive sustainability
plans of any large tech company.<br>
It promises to achieve the goal of “net-zero” carbon emissions in
its operations by 2030, ten years earlier than Amazon. Last year,
the company teamed up with the United Nations to provide people with
“short and easy-to-understand information panels and visuals on the
causes and effects of climate change” when they search for the topic
on Google.<br>
<br>
Yet in a report last year the Center for Countering Digital Hate
found that major climate polluters like BP, ExxonMobil, Chevron and
Shell were purchasing ads on Google searches such as “net-zero” and
“eco-friendly”, giving the impression that these companies were
helping to fix the climate crisis instead of being the main
contributors to it.<br>
<br>
Ahmed said The Daily Wire ad buys appear to be a direct
contradiction of Google’s own promises to promote reliable
information on the climate crisis: “Google has rules against their
search ads being used to spread disinformation, they should be
enforcing them, even against people who give them lots of money.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/27/daily-wire-google-ads-climate-crisis-deniers">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/27/daily-wire-google-ads-climate-crisis-deniers</a><br>
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<i>[ finding the source of misinformation - clips from report ]</i><br>
<b>GREENWASHING ON GOOGLE</b><br>
How Google Profits by Cleaning Big Oil’s Reputation.<br>
The Center for Countering Digital Hate is a US-headquartered
international nonprofit NGO that disrupts the architecture of online
hate and misinformation.<br>
Digital technology has changed forever the way we communicate, build
relationships,<br>
share knowledge, set social standards, and negotiate and assert our
societies’ values.<br>
Digital spaces have been colonized and their unique dynamics
exploited by<br>
malignant actors that instrumentalize hate and misinformation. These
movements<br>
are opportunistic, agile, and confident in exerting influence and
persuading people.<br>
Over time these malignant actors, advocating diverse causes - from
hatred of<br>
women to racial and religious intolerance to science-denial - have
formed a digital<br>
Counter- Enlightenment. The disinformation they spread to bolster
their causes has<br>
socialized the offline world for the worse.<br>
The Center’s work combines both analysis and active disruption of
these networks.<br>
CCDH’s solutions seek to increase the economic, political, and
social costs of all<br>
parts of the infrastructure - the actors, systems, and culture -
that support and profit<br>
from hate and misinformation<br>
<b>2 Executive Summary</b><br>
Google accepted $23.7m for ads from Big Oil in the last two years<br>
• Analysis of Big Oil ads placed on Google Search by five of the
world’s biggest oil<br>
companies and carbon emitters show they spent $23.7m since September
2020.<br>
• Researchers used the enterprise analytics tool Semrush to analyze
US Google Search<br>
ad spending by British Petroleum (BP), ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell
and Aramco which<br>
are together accountable for 14% of global carbon emissions since
1965.<br>
Big Oil devoted $10.9m of this ad spend to misleading greenwashing
ads viewed 58.6m times<br>
• Greenwashing is when companies use green messaging to appear more
climate friendly<br>
and environmentally sustainable than they really are.<br>
• Big Oil spent $10.9m to target US Google Search users with
greenwashing ads in the last<br>
two years, which were viewed an estimated 58.6m times, including:<br>
<blockquote>• $1.8m to target users searching for information on
greenhouse gasses<br>
• $1.7m to target queries about renewables<br>
• $1.2m to target queries about carbon offsets<br>
• $5.2m to target users searching for information about Big Oil
companies<br>
• All five Big Oil companies targeted users searching for “eco
friendly” companies<br>
• Internal oil company documents published by the US Committee on
Oversight and<br>
Reform show Big Oil is deliberately misleading Google Search
users.<br>
Google accepted a further $421,000 for ads from a climate denial
organization<br>
• Competitive Enterprise Institute ads claimed “climate
campaigners hype the risks of<br>
global warming” and “fossil fuels make the planet safer”.<br>
Google should come clean and stop profiting from greenwashing<br>
• Google must keep its promise not to profit from climate denial
content, which means<br>
halting denial ads from the Competitive Enterprise Institute.<br>
• Google must stop distorting search results with greenwashing
ads, extending its existing<br>
commitments to bar Big Oil from using its technologies to prolong
the climate crisis.<br>
• Google should introduce a transparent ad library, so the public
can examine how<br>
corporations like Big Oil use ads to systematically distort search
results.<br>
• Legislators should adopt CCDH’s STAR Framework for regulation of
Big Tech that<br>
delivers Safety by Design, Transparency, Accountability and
Responsibility.<br>
• The FTC should update its guidance on deceptive ads in light of
Big Oil greenwashing.<br>
</blockquote>
Greenwashing is where a company uses advertising and public
messaging to appear<br>
more climate friendly and environmentally sustainable than it really
is. It’s also a<br>
technique used by certain companies to distract consumers from the
fact that their<br>
business model and activities actually do a lot of environmental
harm and damage.<br>
<b>3 Why greenwashing ads on Google Search matter</b><br>
The vast majority of Americans use Google Search to find information
on topics they care<br>
about, and consider that information to be trustworthy.<br>
Google dominates the search market in the United States, commanding
a market share of<br>
87%.1<br>
Users also have a high degree of trust in search engines: 73%
believe that most or all of<br>
the information they find in search is accurate and trustworthy.2<br>
Users have a particularly high level of trust in the top-ranked
results provided by search<br>
engines, even where they are less relevant or less credible than
lower-ranked results.3<br>
This is important because ads placed on Google Search appear at the
top of the page when<br>
people use Google to search the web, deliberately resembling organic
search results. Studies<br>
have shown that 68% of users are unable to distinguish these ads
from organic search results.4<br>
Accordingly, many of the users who turn to Google Search to find
information will encounter<br>
Google ads at the top of search results and consider the information
they contain to be<br>
credible.<br>
It is for all of these reasons that Big Oil companies are placing
ads on Google Search in a bid to<br>
target and influence users searching for information about climate
change and the role that oil<br>
and gas companies play in the climate crisis...<br>
Examples of greenwashing identified by our research include ads
targeting people using<br>
Google to search for information on “eco friendly companies”, “how
to reduce greenhouse gas<br>
emissions” and “pros and cons of paris climate agreement”. These ads
distort search results,<br>
presenting users with Big Oil’s preferred answers to key questions
about climate change.<br>
This report reveals the full extent to which Google has profited
from Big Oil ad campaigns that<br>
aim to influence users searching for information about their
contributions to climate change...<br>
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<b>4 Google accepted $23.7m from Big Oil over two years</b><br>
Five of the world’s largest oil and gas companies, ExxonMobil, BP,
Chevron, Shell and Aramco,<br>
have spent a combined total of $23.7 million over two years on US
Google Search ads...<br>
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<b>5 Google accepted $10.9m for oil and gas greenwashing ads over
two years</b><br>
Using the data analytics tool Semrush, researchers compiled a
dataset of 32,816 US Google<br>
Search ads placed by the Big Oil companies on 61,216 separate search
queries between 1<br>
September 2020 and 31 August 2022, and the amount they spent on each
one.<br>
In total, the five Big Oil companies studied by this report spent
$10.9 million on US Google<br>
Search ads that constitute greenwashing, nearly half of their total
Google Search ad spend...<br>
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<b>Big Oil prioritizes ads on searches for greenhouse gasses,
renewables and carbon offsets</b><br>
The analysis of ads running under search queries related to
environmental sustainability found<br>
that the type of query with the highest combined expenditure from
the companies was those<br>
about greenhouse gasses, on which the companies spent a combined
total of $1.8 million. This<br>
included ads on searches like “methane” and “what are greenhouse
gasses?”<br>
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<b>Big Oil companies targeted users searching for “eco friendly”
companies</b><br>
All five of the Big Oil companies advertised under searches about
being “eco friendly”<br>
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<b>5A Google accepted over $5.3m from BP for greenwashing ads over
two years</b><br>
BP has the sixth biggest carbon footprint out of the Climate
Accountability Institute’s list<br>
of top global polluters, having produced 34.02 billion tonnes of CO2
since 1965.11 After an<br>
emissions drop of 10% from 2019 to 2020, BP admitted a relapse in
emission levels in 2021,<br>
which they in part blame on the “rebound in economic growth” as a
result of the Covid-19<br>
pandemic<br>
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<b>5B Google accepted $4m for ExxonMobil greenwashing ads over two
years</b><br>
ExxonMobil has the fourth biggest carbon footprint according to the
Climate<br>
Accountability Institute’s list of top global polluters, having<br>
produced 41.9 billion tonnes of carbon emissions since 1965.16<br>
The oil giant was recently called out by investors for lagging
behind its peers on climate change policy...<br>
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ExxonMobil promoted Paris Agreement while planning for its failure<br>
ExxonMobil spent nearly $144,904 on ads targeting search queries
relating to<br>
environmental policies, particularly on searches for “paris climate
agreement” in<br>
attempts to affirm its commitment to the treaty. ..<br>
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<b>5C Google accepted $1.2m from Shell for greenwashing ads over two
years</b><br>
Shell has the seventh biggest carbon footprint out of the Climate<br>
Accountability Institute’s list of top global polluters,
contributing 31.95<br>
billion tonnes of carbon to the 480 billion emitted since 1965.24<br>
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<b>5D Google accepted $317,710 from Aramco for greenwashing ads over
two years</b><br>
State-owned Saudi Aramco has the largest carbon footprint of all
companies on the Climate<br>
Accountability Institute’s list of top global polluters, having
produced 4.38% of the 480 billion<br>
tonnes of CO2 emitted since 1965.29<br>
Despite a collective pledge to reduce carbon emissions by 13% by
2025<br>
as part of the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative, Aramco continues to
operate<br>
over 100 oil and gas fields, the total area of which outweighs the
combined<br>
reserves of ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, BP and Total...<br>
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<b>Aramco ads promote claim it is “one of the lowest carbon emitters
in our industry”</b><br>
Google Search ads placed by Aramco link to a website claiming the
company is “one of<br>
the lowest carbon emitters in our industry” despite expert
assessments that rank it as<br>
one of biggest carbon emitters since 1965.31<br>
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<b>5E Google accepted $112,854 for Chevron greenwashing ads over two
years</b><br>
Chevron has the second largest carbon footprint on the Climate
Accountability<br>
Institute’s list of top global polluters since 1965...<br>
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<b>6 Internal documents expose gap between greenwashing ads and
reality</b><br>
Internal documents from four companies investigated by this report
reveal the extent to which<br>
greenwashing ads misrepresent the reality of Big Oil’s continued
pursuit of fossil fuel profits...<br>
. . <br>
<b>7 Google accepted $421,000 to run ads from a climate denial
organization</b><br>
In addition to the ad revenue it has received from oil and gas
companies, Google accepted an<br>
additional $421,000 from the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI)
to serve ads linked to blog<br>
posts promoting climate denial...<br>
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<b>8 Recommendations: Google should come clean and stop profiting
from </b><b>greenwashing</b><br>
The immediate challenge to Google is clear: stop profiting from Big
Oil ads designed to mislead<br>
the public and keep your promises to stop profiting from climate
denial.<br>
That leads on to a deeper, long-term problem that Google needs to
address. It starts with<br>
acknowledging that Google got away with gaslighting us on its
climate change policies<br>
because it keeps the public in the dark over the ads it runs.<br>
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<b>1 Google must keep its promise not to profit from climate denial
content...</b><br>
<b>2 Google must stop profiting from Big Oil ads that distort
climate change search results</b><br>
Google has already accepted the principle that its technologies
should not be used by Big<br>
Oil companies in ways that could worsen or prolong the climate
crisis. It must now apply that<br>
same principle to the ad services that Big Oil exploits to distort
users’ search results...<br>
<b>3 Google must create a public and transparent ad library</b><br>
Google’s ad transparency tools are currently so limited that
ordinary members of the<br>
public have no means by which to examine how corporations like Big
Oil are using ads to<br>
systematically influence search results...<br>
- -<br>
Greenwashing on Google, Published 3 November 2022<br>
© Center for Countering Digital Hate Inc<br>
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<i>[ Top climate scientist Prof Stefan Rahmsdorf talks about the
inevitable AMOC collapse ]</i><br>
<b>Is the Atlantic Ocean circulation approaching a tipping point?</b><br>
Earth System Analysis - Potsdam Institute<br>
8,502 views Jan 22, 2023<br>
10-minute keynote by Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf at the Exeter 'Tipping
Points' Conference, 12 September 2022<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl-Xd-z2qkw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl-Xd-z2qkw</a><br>
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<i>[The news archive - looking back -- I remember that news event. I
was 20 years old. It was a very big deal. ]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>January 28, 1969</b></i></font> <br>
January 28, 1969: The notorious Santa Barbara, California oil spill
takes place.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/jqd_VTADHzM">http://youtu.be/jqd_VTADHzM</a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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