David Vetter
Senior Contributor at Forbes
Climate Journalist at Freelance
Owner and Writer at The Climate Laundry
Climate writer @ Forbes & The Climate Laundry. No longer using this site. Find me @ davidrvetter on Bluesky. Leads to vitruvius.09 on Signal.
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1 week ago |
forbes.com | David Vetter
A new, independent report has claimed that more conservatives are worried about climate change than liberals. But the important question is: what should be done with that information? In a Savanta survey of more than 8,000 people in the U.S., U.K., Germany and Poland, British NGO Zero Ideas reports that among people who consider themselves to be on the political right, significant majorities categorize themselves as either "very worried" or "somewhat worried" about climate change.
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3 weeks ago |
fortune.com | David Vetter
The blade is being tested to destruction at the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult (ORE Catapult) in Blyth. It tells one small part of the story of the energy transition. This is the facility that tested General Electric’s massive Haliade-X wind turbine—part of a new generation of supersized turbines that are transforming the economics of clean energy. Right now, almost 200 of these behemoths are being deployed at Dogger Bank, 100 miles out to sea.
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3 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | David Vetter
Senate Republicans put House on notice: We won't accept your Trump agenda bill without changesGOP senators have raised concerns about the deficit impact of the emerging package, as well as the cuts to Medicaid and clean energy funding. WASHINGTON — As House Republicans scramble to corral the votes to pass a massive bill for President Donald Trump's agenda, their Senate counterparts are …
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3 weeks ago |
forbes.com | David Vetter
Spain’s largest bank, Banco Santander, has provided $1.3 billion in backing to a firm that has carried out extensive deforestation in South America, a report by environmental NGO Global Witness has alleged. According to the report, Santander began co-arranging financing for agricultural services company Cresud in 2011, despite the firm being known to have destroyed 170,000 hectares of rainforest since 2000.
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1 month ago |
forbes.com | David Vetter
European steel giant ArcelorMittal, which has a carbon footprint of a similar size to Belgium, is falling behind in the race to decarbonize and is jeopardizing its position as an industry leader, an environmental watchdog has claimed.
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📢NEW from The Climate Laundry: in which I show that, in trying to become a science, economics took on the status of a religion. First posted on Bsky. https://t.co/pkcudz5qC0
RT @ClimateCrisisAG: "As the current U.S. administration fails to even acknowledge the existence of human-cased climate change, Europe must…
📢NEW from me: Europe ‘Frankly Insane’ To Keep Importing Fossil Fuels, says @FrediOtto, in wake of new report confirming Europe as the world's fastest-warming continent. This story was posted first on Bsky. https://t.co/9CaKFl6pE3
