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IPCC report: The 10 key conclusions

Business Green

Its 2007 report stated that the warming of the climate was "unequivocal". Perhaps most worrying of all, impacts such as sea level rise, ocean acidification, and permafrost melt are now inevitable and near-irreversible within timespans stretching from hundreds to potentially thousands of years, leaving only their extent open to question.

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Review of Climate Policy Options

Low Carbon Prosperity

Emitting carbon pollution causes local air pollution and health costs plus the economic damages from storms, crop-loss, forest fires, rising sea-levels, ocean acidification, spread of disease and other issues. In 2007 Washington State passed Initiative-937. Carbon taxes can be beneficial to an economy.

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Inside the University of Chicago’s controversial solar geoengineering initiative

Grist

Solar geoengineering, for example, does nothing to ameliorate ocean acidification, which occurs when the ocean absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Local entities, national governments or state governments, can regulate soil health, more or less, on their own,” Keith explained. “So

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Every region of the country is taking climate action. Here’s how.

Grist

Climate pressures like ocean acidification have made it harder for the mollusks to build and maintain shells. It also oversees weekly testing for toxic algae blooms, which infect shellfish and have become a growing public health hazard fueled by marine heat waves. Greensburg, Kansas, chose a different path.