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IPCC report: The 10 key conclusions

Business Green

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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Earth is getting extra salty, an ‘existential threat’ to freshwater supplies

Grist

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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House hunters are fleeing climate change, causing a new kind of gentrification

Grist

This story is already playing out in a number of coastal communities in South Florida, where sea-level rise is an imminent threat. The number of home sales in the region has steadily dropped since 2013, dragging down the once-high waterfront property prices.

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A sunken river valley could hold the key to protecting the Texas coast

Grist

Ultimately, the researchers will be able to compare and verify what they see in the acoustic imaging data with what they find in the cores to understand how the ancient coast evolved in response to sea-level rise. The past is the key to the future,” said Goff.

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Scientists Have Now Linked Worsening Western Wildfires to Top Polluters

DeSmogBlog

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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Why We Need Carbon Capture and Sequestration

Green Market Oracle

In 2013 the IPCC warned us to reduce emissions (IPCC AR5, 2013). Another IPCC report (2019) warned that we are seeing accelerated ice melt and sea level rise and more than 10,000 scientists from 153 countries declared a "climate emergency" (Ripple et al, 2019). Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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It’s code red for Earth, says new UN study

AGreenLiving

In this first major review of climate change science since 2013, the results are clear. “It Then there’s the melting sea ice, retreating glaciers and rising oceans. In the last 50 years, the sea level rise has sped up nearly three times as fast as it increased between 1901 and 1971.