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 Tuesday, September 10, 2019 Climate Deniers' Response to Climate Crisis: "There Is No Climate Emergency" For many of us who have been writing and campaigning on climate change and against the oil industry for years, it is easy to forget what a momentous year it has been for raising awareness about our climate crisis. The impact of Greta Thunberg, the global school strike movement, the Sunrise Movement... Read more |
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Views Friday, July 26, 2019 Meet Boris, the UK’s Climate-Denying New Prime Minister & "Donald Trump of Britain" As I write, Boris Johnson has just been confirmed as Britain’s new Prime Minister. A highly controversial and devisive figure, there are millions who are shocked at his offensive sexist, racist, Islamophobic, and homophobic views , amongst others. It is hardly surprising that Donald Trump is an... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, July 23, 2019 A Letter to the Future From a Glacier That Is No More So is this how it ends? As our climate emergency deepens, as the once great Arctic icescapes melt before our eyes, and once majestic glaciers break up and melt and disappear, we are left to put plaques in their place to lament our lost world. Our children and their children will inherit places full... Read more |
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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 |