Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 13, 2021

Mountains in the Arctic in 2012: The region can expect an ice-free summer “at least once before 2050”, under even the most optimistic scenarios described in the latest IPCC report (image credit: duncan c , CC BY-NC 2.0 The IPCC 6th Assessment Report (AR6) combined the bad news, that a global temperature rise of 1.5°C

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Grist

DECEMBER 10, 2024

East Coast could be submerged by rising seas. A new paper in the journal Nature Climate Change makes the case that all these alarming events should be called something other than tipping points. The framing is intended to draw attention to the radical changes that global warming might bring.

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Grist

AUGUST 10, 2019

“While we cannot directly compare one particular extreme year to climate change, the long-term trends are obvious — sea ice is declining and temperatures are rising,” said Zack Labe, a climate scientist at the University of California, Irvine.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 21, 2021

The tide is turning against Louisiana’s proposed $2 billion Mississippi River sediment diversion project, that supporters say is needed to save the coast from rapid land loss due to subsidence, damage done by the oil and gas industry, extreme weather events, and sea level rise quickened by climate change.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

As emissions keep rising and global carbon budgets decline, it is becoming increasingly apparent that if we are to stave off the worst of climate change we must deploy and scale these desperate remedies as quickly as possible. Carbon capture and sequestration have often been considered technologies of last resort.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

In just ten years, Jacobson has harnessed passion, determination and science to re-frame the way renewable energy is seen and, ultimately, accepted as a viable solution to climate change and air pollution. Climate Change Conference in Paris. This was the first time we “met,” albeit via a cross-country phone call.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 4, 2021

A 2012 study by the University of Plymouth in the U.K. predicted that a sea-level rise of three to nine feet “will have a catastrophic effect on the human activities” in Lagos and other Nigerian coastal settlements. More than 24 million people live in this city on the Atlantic coast.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Arctic sea ice extent averaged for September 2020 was 3.92 million square kilometers, the second lowest in the 42-year satellite record, behind only September 2012. Following the minimum seasonal extent, which occurred on September 15, ice growth quickly began along in the northern Beaufort, Chukchi, and East Siberian Seas.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Former Attorney General Suella Braverman was probably the most vocal in her opposition to climate action during the Tory leadership race, vowing to “suspend the all-consuming desire to achieve Net Zero by 2050”. Badenoch has insisted she does “believe in climate change”, but said “there is a better way of going about these things.”.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

That echoed a video interview Peterson had done with the climate change denier Patrick Moore , published on YouTube and The Daily Wire four days before his show at Dickies, during which Moore accused climate scientists “of playing with the numbers” and “lying.” Part of that growth has come from promoting climate change denial.

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CleanTechnica

MAY 20, 2021

Human-caused climate change was responsible for $8 billion of the damage inflicted by Superstorm Sandy in 2012, new research published Tuesday in Nature found.

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