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Coastal flooding projections have been ignoring the wobbly moon problem

Grist

As glaciers and ice sheets continue to melt and more heat is trapped in the ocean, causing it to expand, sea-level rise will exacerbate a more mundane problem for those who live in coastal areas: so-called “sunny-day” flooding. Every local and state official with a coastline should be deeply concerned about this.”.

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Coastal flooding projections have been ignoring the wobbly moon problem

Grist

As glaciers and ice sheets continue to melt and more heat is trapped in the ocean, causing it to expand, sea-level rise will exacerbate a more mundane problem for those who live in coastal areas: so-called “sunny-day” flooding. Every local and state official with a coastline should be deeply concerned about this.” .

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Study: People are moving to flood-prone areas, not away from them

Grist

According to a new flood mapping tool called the Global Flood Database , between 2000 and 2015, the population exposed to flooding in Malawi and Mozambique increased by 150 to 250 percent. Then, by pulling global population data for 2000 and 2015, they calculated how much populations changed in affected areas during that period.

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Study: People are moving to flood-prone areas, not away from them

Grist

According to a new flood mapping tool called the Global Flood Database , between 2000 and 2015, the population exposed to flooding in Malawi and Mozambique increased by 150 to 250 percent. Then, by pulling global population data for 2000 and 2015, they calculated how much populations changed in affected areas during that period.

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In Their Own Words: The Dirty Dozen Documents of Big Oil’s Secret Climate Knowledge

DeSmogBlog

At a Columbia University symposium, physicist Edward Teller warns oil executives about rising levels of carbon dioxide and the likelihood of global warming and sea level rise by the end of the century. Document 1: 1959. View on DocumentCloud. How did you trip over this first?

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A decidedly impartial review of Mark Jacobson’s 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything

Renewable Energy World

In 2000, he began using models to unlock renewable energy solutions. External costs include everything from pre-mature deaths due to air pollution to the sky-rocketing insurance costs for properties vulnerable to sea level rise.

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Understanding the Anthropocene, Resilience Thinking, and the Future of Industry

Green Business Bureau

The word Anthropocene was coined by biologist Eugene Stormer and chemist Paul Crutzen in 2000 and has since gained popularity and acclaim. . Today we find ourselves in the Anthropocene , an unofficial unit of geologic time where human activity has started to have a notable and significant impact on the Earth’s climate and ecosystems.