Big Oil’s Big Lies: How the industry denied global warming

 More than 40 years ago, the world’s largest and most profitable oil companies began to understand the effects their products were having on our climate. Their own scientific research told them so – well before it became common knowledge.

But for the next four decades – time we could have better spent transitioning to greener forms of energy – they sought to discredit and downplay evidence of global warming and the calamities it would lead to; wildfires, rising sea levels, extreme storms and much else besides.

How bitcoin is reviving fossil fuel plants | It's Complicated

Bitcoin requires vast amounts of electricity to facilitate its transactions around the globe. More than twice the energy usage per year of Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Amazon combined. This demand has led cryptocurrency mining companies to seek out the cheapest electricity possible, and it doesn't get much cheaper than coal. New bitcoin server farms are popping up across the US next to old power plants, many which had all but discontinued operations. Josh Toussaint-Strauss explores how these dying fossil fuel plants have been been revived in the name of cryptocurrency

Europe in desperate search of alternatives to replace Russian energy

Russia provides roughly a quarter of the natural gas consumed in the European Union, more in some countries like Germany. The vast bulk of those exports to the EU, some 80-percent, flows through a network of pipelines on Ukrainian soil.

Finland’s Climate Warriors

 Finland is committed to carbon-cutting targets in the battle against climate change but will its dependence on peat as a fossil fuel stand in the way?

Finland has set itself one of the world’s most ambitious greenhouse gas reduction targets, promising to go carbon neutral by 2035. Even the coronavirus pandemic, which has diverted much of the international attention away from global warming over the last 12 months, has done little to deflect this mission, as Prime Minister Sanna Marin made clear when addressing the United Nations in July 2020.

How America can leave fossil fuels behind, in one chart

All of recorded human history has happened during a period in which the average global temperature didn’t change by more than 1 degree Celsius. But the burning of fossil fuels has triggered a temperature rise projected to exceed 3 degrees by the end of the century. It will be catastrophic. But it can be avoided if we massively scale back the burning of fossil fuels.