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

Renewable Energy World

Their 2009 report concluded that but for the social and political impediments, the economic and technological wheels were in place to transition the world’s all-purpose energy demand to 100% WWS. He agreed and recruited research scientist Mark Delucchi of UC Davis to help (Delucchi has been a regular co-author of many of Jacobson’s studies).

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1.5 and 2°C: A Journey Through the Temperature Target That Haunts the World

DeSmogBlog

For the first time, it proposed encompassing all the gases that cause global warming in a single indicator. “It was the most controversial and heated debate in the workshop,” recalls Rijsberman, now director of the Global Green Growth Institute. It is 2009 and the 35th G8 Summit. Another time jump.

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Why We Need Carbon Capture and Sequestration

Green Market Oracle

Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) suggests that carbon sequestering can reduce human generated CO2 up to 80 percent of 1990 levels by 2050 (Fairley, 2009). Fifty years ago, climate models accurately predicted that greenhouse gases cause global warming (Hausfather et al, 2020). Fairley, P.

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Does talking about climate ‘tipping points’ inspire action — or defeat?

Grist

The framing is intended to draw attention to the radical changes that global warming might bring. Bob Kopp, a co-author of the paper who researches climate change and sea level rise at Rutgers University, said that talking about tipping points, as scary as they are, might not inspire people to do something about climate change.

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A North-Pole, How Much Longer?

Mr. Sustainability

In fact, physics tells us that for every 1 degree Celsius of warming, our atmosphere can hold about seven percent more moisture. As water vapor itself is a potent greenhouse gas, more water vapor in the atmosphere means accelerated global warming. Sea level rising (not because of melting).

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Lost Decade: How Shell Downplayed Early Warnings Over Climate Change

DeSmogBlog

National Academy of Sciences that explicitly warned of the risks human-induced global warming could pose to earth’s weather and “ecological balances,” the U.S.-based In 1962, Shell’s chief geologist, Houston-based Marion King Hubbert, produced a book-length report on energy for the U.S.

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How Climate-Friendly is Liz Truss’s Cabinet?

DeSmogBlog

Rees-Mogg was also the first cabinet minister to endorse the campaign to reverse the UK’s ban on fracking, spearheaded by the backbench Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG), the parliamentary wing of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).