Andy Rowell
Andy Rowell is a staff blogger for Oil Change International in addition to working as a freelance writer and investigative journalist who specializes in environmental, health and lobbying issues. Follow him on Twitter: @andy_rowell
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Views Thursday, July 11, 2019 Humanity Sleep-Walking Toward 'Mass Extinction' Next year, the British Government will host the UN Climate talks in London, known as COP26, which are the most important climate talks since Paris in 2015. So for the next year, the UK will be a critical leader in the global fight against climate change. For the UK to ask other nations to act, it... Read more |
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Views Monday, July 08, 2019 OPEC Warns Climate Campaigners Are "Greatest Threat to Our Industry Going Forward." OPEC—which remains the largest oil cartel in the world—has a problem. It is sitting on vast reserves of oil, which are currently worth trillions and trillions of dollars. But every day the more people that join the fight against the industry, forcing the UN, national and state governments,... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, June 18, 2019 Arctic Warming & Climate Change 'Should Be the Number One Urgent Conversation Right Now' The news coming out of the Arctic over the last few days is further evidence of our rapidly evolving climate emergency, which has ramifications for all of us. Arctic scientists are speaking out with increasing alarm at what they are seeing, and as they keep repeating “what happens in the Arctic... Read more |
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Views Thursday, May 30, 2019 Climate Denying Trump Administration Rebrands Fossil Fuels as "Freedom Gas" The sheer scale of the challenge that all of us face in fighting climate change is once again laid bare by the news that the top ten energy companies are planning to invest even more in fossils fuels and the Trump Administration is redoubling its assault against the climate. This assault by Trump’s... Read more |
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Views Thursday, May 16, 2019 415 ppm: We Are all Part of Exxon’s Unchartered Climate Experiment Now Earlier this mon th, we collectively walked into the unknown. We are all now a living experiment. Never before in human history have carbon dioxide levels reached 415 parts per million. These levels were last seen maybe some 2.5-5 million years ago, during the Pliocene, but then the earth was much... Read more |
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Views Thursday, April 25, 2019 The Climate Rebellion May Be Growing, But Big Oil Keeps on Drilling For many of us who have been working on oil and climate for years, the recent days, weeks and months have been inspiring, as we witness a surge in activism and awareness on climate change. Whether it be the Sunrise Movement, the youth climate strikes inspired by Greta Thunberg, the recent protests... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, March 19, 2019 Climate Crisis: Now Will the Older Generation Step Up? On Friday, the youth spoke. And they spoke loudly. In excess of a million young people skipped school and colleges and marched around the globe demanding urgent action on climate change. They did so in over a hundred countries. Read more |
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Views Sunday, March 03, 2019 As Evidence of Man-Made Global Warming Hits 'Gold Standard,' Robert Mercer Continues Funding Denialists One of the world's most secretive billionaires is still pouring millions into climate denial, despite scientists concluding we have reached the "gold standard" linking human activity to climate change. Read more |
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Views Wednesday, January 30, 2019 “Tell Me Donald. Exactly How Much Is a Human Life Being Sold For?” Two years into his Presidency, the fullblown cost of Donald Trump’s assault on human health, the environment and on science is becoming brutally and painfully clear. The cost in lives lost and pollution emitted from his rollback of regulations has been calculated too. The numbers do not lie: Trump... Read more |
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Views Friday, January 11, 2019 “Shameful” Trudeau Accused of Violating First Nations Rights Over Gas Pipeline There are moments that define a politician. There are legacies that they leave. But the reality of high office is often so different from the easy promises of opposition. As a poster boy politician, who entered office promising a new type of politics, Justin Trudeau, the Canadian Prime Minister,... Read more |