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Jordan Peterson’s New Online School Will Be Rife with Climate Crisis Deniers

DeSmogBlog

According to DeSmog’s investigation, they include icon carver and YouTuber Jonathan Pageau, who has characterized fears about climate change as “secular apocalypticism,” as well as podcaster and author Michael Malice, who has said that projections of sea-level rise are “literally a religious belief.”

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Why We Need Carbon Capture and Sequestration

Green Market Oracle

Carbon capture and sequestration have often been considered technologies of last resort. 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. Welch, 2019).

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Can the world overshoot its climate targets — and then fix it later?

Grist

Scientists are documenting changes that are “much more widespread” and “much more negative,” she said, than anticipated for the 1.09 It will gain increasing importance as the herculean difficulty of reducing emissions to net zero and removing vast stores of carbon from the atmosphere become clearer.”. Climeworks.

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Study: Global warming will stay below 2 degrees C — if countries actually keep their promises

Grist

In the early 2010s, climate scientists were painting a grim picture of the future: If humans didn’t curb carbon dioxide emissions, the world was headed toward 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 Scientists now estimate that current emissions trajectories make a 4-degree scenario highly implausible, even as total carbon emissions continue to rise.

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Understanding the Anthropocene, Resilience Thinking, and the Future of Industry

Green Business Bureau

Eras in the Earth’s history are defined by major climactic events and distinguished through the fossil record, carbon dating, and other methods. In 2016, the Anthropocene Working Group confirmed that the Anthropocene is different from the Holocene, and it began in the year 1950 with the Great Acceleration. The Holocene.

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A North-Pole, How Much Longer?

Mr. Sustainability

None of them were ever to be seen or heard from again until the wreck was found at the bottom of an Arctic bay in 2016, aptly named Terror Bay. Sea Ice extent is going down. Unfortunately, all kinds of positive (or negative?) Why ice age and multi-year ice is important Every year, Arctic sea ice has its “birthday”.

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28 Posts Commemorating the Seminal Efforts of Female Environmentalists

Green Market Oracle

As explained by Nina Munteanu in a Vancouver Sun article , the reason that conservative men are so negatively disposed towards female environmentalists is because these women threaten their gender identity. Compared to men, women litter less, recycle more, and leave a smaller carbon footprint." kilograms of carbon per day.