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Shifting the Burden of Proof: Why It's Now On the Fossil Fuel Industry to Defend Itself

3BL Media

Climate Scientists and Advocates Have Satisfied Their Burden of Proof. For a long time in America, society put the climate change burden of proof on those who have raised concerns about it. Heck, it didn’t even seem to be enough in 2013 when John Cook and other researchers determined that 97.1%

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Russia’s War From a Climate Perspective

Richard Matthews

The consistent growth of clean energy is attributable to solid positioning , that includes its capacity to decarbonizing energy and deleverage tyrants. Both climate change and Putin’s invasion are directly tied to fossil fuels. Russia’s failure to act at home is consistent with its resistance to global climate efforts.

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Zen and the art of saving the planet in the Trump era

Corporate Knights

By the time Figueres took on the role of executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in 2010 , she had been working as a diplomat, renewable-energy advocate and international climate negotiator for three decades. That moral injustice is unacceptable to me.