Tag: Fossil Fuels
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Human activity pushed 2025 to become the third-hottest year on record, experts say
Overview: A warming trend continues The year 2025 has been confirmed as the third-hottest on record, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and climate scientists. The near-term warming aligns with a longer trend of rising average temperatures driven by human activity, with fossil fuel combustion playing a central role in the atmosphere’s heat balance.…
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Human activity helped make 2025 the third-hottest year on record, experts say
2025 joins a alarming trend: the third-hottest year on record Scientists confirm that 2025 ranks as the third-hottest year on record, continuing a troubling three-year streak of extreme heat. The collective impact of greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels, deforestation, and industrial activity has pushed average global temperatures to levels that climate researchers have warned…
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Human activity pushed 2025 to become the third-hottest year on record, scientists say
2025 joins a troubling temperature trend According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), 2025 marked the third-hottest year on record, extending a troubling three-year streak of exceptionally high global temperatures. The period has underscored how human activities—particularly fossil fuel combustion—are shaping the planet’s climate system in lasting ways. While natural variability plays a role, scientists…
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Trump Administration Forces Craig Coal Plant to Stay Online Amid Emergency Electricity Needs
Background In a move that drew both approval from some utility planners and concern from environmental advocates, the Trump administration invoked emergency authority to require the Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association to keep the coal-fired Craig Unit 1 online. The unit, located near Craig, Colorado, had been scheduled for closure after years of operating amid…
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Oil Rebounds: Peak Demand Shifts to the 2030s as India Drives Growth
Oil Rebounds and the New Peak Timeline After years of warnings that global oil demand was nearing a ceiling, the energy landscape is showing renewed vigor for fossil fuels. Recent market dynamics indicate that demand may crest in the 2030s rather than the immediate future, a shift that surprises some observers but aligns with a…
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Fossil Fuels Regain Ground: Oil Rebound and India as Growth Engine
Oil Rebound Challenges the Peak-Demand Narrative The global energy landscape is witnessing a notable shift as forecasts of a long-awaited peak in oil demand grow more distant. After years of sliding expectations that the world would steadily decouple growth from fossil fuels, 2025 data and the subsequent market dynamics point toward a renewed confidence in…
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Fossil fuels regain ground: Peak demand pushed to 2030s as oil rebounds; India emerges as growth engine
Introduction: A new chapter for global oil demand For years, policymakers, investors, and energy researchers warned that global oil demand would soon peak as the world accelerated its shift to renewables. Yet the year 2025 marked a surprising pivot: fossil fuels, especially oil and gas, regained strength, and the projected peak moved further into the…
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Fossil Fuel Giants Drawn Into Focus as COP30 Edges Toward a Last-Minute Accord
Introduction: a fragile breakthrough at COP30 As dawn broke over Belém, the city’s riverbanks hummed with the usual bustle of daily life. Inside a windowless conference room, a different energy filled the air: exhausted negotiators, ministers from 17 groups of countries, and a room that had already stretched beyond 12 hours of intense talks. What…
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Fossil fuel giants finally in the crosshairs: Cop30 avoids total failure with last-ditch deal
Belém’s dawn and the pressure on COP30 As dawn broke over Belém, the Amazon city transformed into a pressure cooker of negotiations. Inside a windowless conference room, dozens of ministers from 17 groups of countries worked through the night, racing against time and exhaustion to salvage a summit that had teetered on the brink of…
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COP30 Climbers of Progress: Real Gains, but Fossil Fuel Hurdles Persist
Overview: A Delicate Step Forward in Belém The United Nations COP30 climate talks, held on the edge of the Amazon in Belém, Brazil, delivered tangible progress in some areas while underscoring stubborn bottlenecks around fossil fuels. Thousands of delegates gathered to translate global urgency into policy and funding commitments, and while the atmosphere was not…