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Oil firm grilled over carbon emissions, but defeats motion calling for tougher targets
Shell investors have rebelled over the company’s executive pay, as the Anglo-Dutch oil company came under pressure to take stronger action on climate change.
While chief executive Ben van Beurden’s €8.9m (£7.79m) pay package for 2017 was approved, more than a quarter of shareholders voted against the firm’s remuneration report at its annual general meeting on Tuesday.
Related: Shell faces shareholder challenge over climate change approach
Continue reading...Charity says at least 65 people have died in Pakistani city as temperatures exceed 40C
An intense heatwave across south Asia has killed dozens of people with sustained temperatures in excess of 40C (104F) coinciding with power cuts and Ramadan, when many Muslims avoid eating or drinking water.
At least 65 people have died in Karachi in recent days according to the charitable organisation that runs the central morgue in the Pakistani port city, as volunteers handed out water to labourers and others working outside in temperatures as high as 44C.
Continue reading...Development of major new markets in China and reforms in Europe have provided a crucial boost as countries look at tools to cut carbon and meet their Paris climate targets
Global carbon markets have been revived from the brink of collapse as, after years in the doldrums, recent developments have provided a much-needed boost, according to a new report from the World Bank.
China has made strong progress on its new carbon markets, which when complete will be the biggest in the world, while the EU initiated reforms of its carbon trading system which have already had an effect on prices.
Continue reading...Take our quiz and see if you know more about political faux pas than some politicians seem to know about science
This week the GOP reminded us once again just how much they champion science. First Mo Brooks, a congressman from Alabama, pondered whether rocks falling into the ocean could be causing rising sea levels at a hearing of the House science, space and technology committee. Then Bill Gates revealed that president Trump asked him if HIV and HPV were the same same thing.
Brooks and Trump are not the only Republicans to have a creative interpretation of the world. Take our quiz and see if you know more about politicians getting things wrong than some US politicians seem to know about science.
Which group did George W Bush say humans can “coexist peacefully” with?
Martians
Robots
Fish
Foreigners
What fundamental change did Ben Carson say happens to humans when they’re incarcerated?
They go into prison straight and come out gay
They go into prison skinny and come out fat because of all the delicious food
They go into prison skinny and come out with enormous muscles from working out so much
In 2015, how did Senator Jim Inhofe demonstrate that he was right about climate change?
He brought a snowball onto the floor of the US Senate
He interviewed a woman who had almost died of frostbite
He wrote a peer-reviewed survey
In 2012, what did Donald Trump say “environment friendly” light bulbs can cause?
Cancer
Fires
Thomas Edison to come back from the dead
According to Senator Lamar Alexander, why are video games a bigger problem than guns?
Because video games affect people
Because video games are violent
Because people were using Xbox consoles as weapons
Ben Carson again. What is his "personal theory" as to why the pyramids built?
Joseph built them to store grain
The ancient Egyptians built them for pharaohs’ graves
Aliens built them to show off
Why doesn't Michele Bachmann believe we should aim to reduce greenhouse gases?
Because "most Americans don't have greenhouses"
Because "natural gas has been powering the American home for 100 years"
Because "carbon dioxide is not a harmful gas; it is a harmless gas"
Todd Akin, a former Missouri congressman, has said he doesn’t believe a woman can get pregnant if she is raped in a “legitimate” way. What explanation does he give for this theory?
God has ways of stopping it
The body has ways of shutting the whole thing down
I will literally say anything, no matter how ridiculous because I know nothing at all about female biology
In 2013, what did Ted Cruz famously say during a Senate speech opposing Obamacare?
You don't need a doctor to feel like a boss
Always be sexy
Stay woke
Life is a gift
Which important scientific question is rarely asked, according to George W Bush?
Is our children learning?
Is the world flat?
Is nepotism detrimental to democracy?
8 and above.
Congratulations, you must be a very stable genius
5 and above.
Not bad, you're smarter than at least two recent presidents.
0 and above.
The bad news is you didn’t get many right. The good news is you shouldn’t let that stop you from running for political office.
Continue reading...New book by bestselling historian argues global challenges will make nations ever more interdependent
Brexit could prove to be a mere bump on the road toward “human unification”, according to a new book by bestselling historian Yuval Noah Harari, which warns politicians against becoming distracted by the rise of nationalism in the world.
The Israeli academic, whose first book, Sapiens, became a surprise publishing sensation by charting the rise of the human species, turns his attention to current affairs for the first time with a swipe at what he argues is a short-sighted response to global challenges in countries such as the UK, US, Russia and Israel.
Related: Yuval Noah Harari: ‘Homo sapiens as we know them will disappear in a century or so’
Continue reading...Republicans paid by the fossil fuel industry deny these realities
Last week, the House Science, Space and Technology Committee held yet another climate science hearing similar to those from April 2017, February 2017, January 2016, May 2015, June 2014, December 2013, and so on. It seems as though disputing established climate science is House Republicans’ favorite hobby. This time, it was Philip Duffy’s turn to spend two hours playing whack-a-mole with the committee Republicans’ endless supply of long-debunked climate myths.
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) claimed that sea level rise is due to the White Cliffs of Dover tumbling into the ocean (yes, really), and his colleagues argued that scientists in the 1970s were predicting global cooling, that Earth is just returning to its “normal temperature,” that Antarctic ice is growing, and sea levels are hardly rising.
Nice rejoinder to yesterday's silliness about rocks (and not melting ice) raising sea-level. You need an 8 mile diameter, 6 quadrillion pound rock (every year) to reproduce the observed sea-level rise. that's a really big rock! https://t.co/MQgTaYpdlq https://t.co/N8kmIgBDLh
there is also good data showing sea levels are in fact rising at an accelerating rate ... to keep the rate of rise constant, as observed...
The article has been updated from “data showing sea levels are in fact rising at an accelerating rate” to “in fact rising at a constant rate”which doesn’t make it more correct.@WSJopinion @jamestaranto why the quiet update? pic.twitter.com/l9IftFNpSB
the temperature of sea water has no direct effect on sea-level rise … accumulation of ice on the Antarctic continent has been offsetting the steric effect [sea level rise due to warming temperatures] for at least several centuries.
Latest #WallStreetJournal op-ed "The Sea Is Rising, but Not Because of Climate Change".Stay tuned for these great followup @WSJ op-eds:"Objects are falling, but Not Because of Gravity""Continents are moving, but Not Because of Plate Tectonics"..https://t.co/GW7NHaZamT
Continue reading...Biomass-burning unit to use pioneering technology that aims to cut emissions
Drax Group will lead a £400,000 trial to capture and store carbon at its north Yorkshire power station in an attempt to kickstart a technology that has repeatedly failed to get off the ground in the UK.
The company was part of earlier efforts to build a £1bn prototype carbon capture coal plant, but pulled out in 2015 after it missed out on renewable energy subsidies. Now the firm will try again with a pioneering form of the technology, bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), to cut emissions from one of its four biomass-burning units. Experts believe the project is a world first.
Continue reading...Investors back resolution calling on oil giant to set tougher carbon targets in line with Paris climate deal
Royal Dutch Shell faces a shareholder challenge over climate change this week, as investors insist oil and gas firms should offer more transparency and action on carbon emissions.
A growing number of pension funds have backed a resolution at Shell’s AGM on Tuesday that calls on the company to set tougher carbon targets that are in line with the goals of the Paris climate deal.
Continue reading...Insects are the backbone of a healthy global ecosystem – but their numbers are facing catastrophic decline due to climate change. So, what can you do to help?
Already beset by degraded landscapes and a toxic environment, insects are going to suffer a catastrophic decline in numbers unless climate change is controlled, according to new research from the University of East Anglia. This is on top of the alarming collapse reported in Germany, where 75% of the flying insect biomass has vanished from protected areas in less than 30 years.
Insects are the backbone of a healthy ecosystem and the consequences of their absence will be global. Is there anything we can do other than despair? Insects will need stepping stones to move around the country as the climate changes. Here are some ways you can help.
Continue reading...On the ABC, the gender gap, climate change and wage growth, the Liberals pretend to care while making sure nothing changes
Sign up to receive the latest Australian opinion pieces every weekdayIt probably should be no surprise that last night’s royal wedding became part of the political debate this week. But the criticism by government members highlighted yet again the Liberal party’s policy of pretending to care about something while simultaneously doing everything to work against it.
Peter Dutton and Tasmanian senator Eric Abetz bought into the issue of the ABC’s coverage of the royal wedding off the back of erroneous reporting in News Corp papers suggesting the ABC had flown hosts Annabel Crabb and Jeremy Fernandez to London in business class. Abetz, who is never one to miss an opportunity to slight the ABC, echoed Dutton’s thoughts when he suggested he would “would like to see the justification for flying those two over when there is a crew permanently in London”.
Related: 'Lack of interest' from Liberal candidates could be gift to Labor in Longman
We get a policy that barely looks like they’re trying to achieve something and which is designed not to achieve its aim
Related: Royal outrage as conservative chorus rounds on ABC | The Weekly Beast
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