Grist

OCTOBER 31, 2023

In coastal areas, sea-level rise can send salty ocean waters into the groundwater, making it undrinkable. In the United States, aquifers near the coastline — many of which are below sea level — supply 95 million people with drinking water. The biggest contributor to the issue in the U.S.?

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

The report today - the IPCC's first of its kind since 2013 - may not make for joyful reading on the state of the only habitable home humans have, but coming just weeks before the crucial COP26 Climate Summit its core conclusions could not be more essential to every business on the planet. And today the IPCC concluded the 1.5C

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 7, 2021

The last big IPCC assessment was released in 2013. Instead, you can read their shorter chapters on the scientific consensus on topics like extreme weather or regional changes in sea-level rise. Four RCPs were the focus of the future-looking climate modeling studies incorporated into the 2013 report. Look around.

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Grist

MARCH 16, 2024

All that rain is significant because the melting of the Greenland ice sheet — like the melting of other glaciers around the world — is one of the most important drivers of sea level rise. Caribou walk in the foreground of a glacier on July 12, 2013 in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

That research demonstrates that the carbon majors contributed to more than 40 percent of global temperature rise, more than 25 percent of sea level rise, and over 50 percent of ocean acidification between 1880 and the 2010s. The Alder fire in the Druid Complex in Yellowstone National Park, August 19, 2013.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

The host, Marco Krapels, a clean energy investor, introduced him to Mark Ruffalo and Josh Fox, whose 2010 documentary film, GASLAND , exposed the dire human health and environmental risks for communities living on the frontlines of America’s fracking boom. On the evening of July 10, 2011, Jacobson attended a swanky event in San Francisco.

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 3, 2020

s National Oceanographic Centre, the costs of sea level rise alone could exceed $14 trillion a year by 2100. In 2013 the stock of manageable assets was $143 trillion as estimated by the Financial Stability Board, updated based on EIU data in 2015 suggests that number is $207 trillion. According to the U.K.’s

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