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Global warming is coming for polar bears

Inhabitat - Innovation

Global warming and receding ice sheets threaten the lives of polar bears. A new study published in Ecosphere established that the foraging range for polar bears in the Beaufort Sea area has increased by 64% between 1999 and 2016 compared to the period 1986-1998. But that's not where the issues end.

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Risk, doubt, and the burden of proof in the climate debate

GreenBiz

At one such event in 2014, speaker Christopher Monckton surveyed the room and declared that everyone there agreed that humanity’s "emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases have contributed to the measured global warming since 1950." His point was to make it clear that "we are not climate change deniers."

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

Grist

Based on the pledges that countries had made prior to the conference, those studies found that there was a less than 50 percent chance of keeping warming to below 2 degrees C, the goal set by the world’s countries in the 2016 Paris Agreement.

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Sponsored content: Green chiller is cool choice

Envirotec Magazine

Mackie’s green initiative involves replacing the gases used in its refrigeration plants from HCFC – which have a very high global warming potential – to ammonia, an environmentally-friendly refrigerant that has no impact on global warming or ozone depletion. www.gea.com.

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As New York Takes Exxon to Court, Big Oil’s Strategy Against Climate Lawsuits Is Slowly Unveiled

DeSmogBlog

Last week, in a historic first, the former CEO of a major oil company took the witness stand in a New York City courtroom and spent four hours defending his company against charges that it misled investors about the potential impact of global warming on its viability as a business. .

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Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Took £135,000 from Climate Science Deniers and Fossil Fuel Interests

DeSmogBlog

Mordunat is a director at the Global Warming Policy Foundation and served as its chair from April 2017 to November 2019. In 2016, Mordaunt’s Bristol Port Company donated £100,000 to the official Brexit campaign, Vote Leave. billion invested in fossil fuels. Mordaunt has also donated to the Conservative party.

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Big Banks Have Funded Climate Crisis With Nearly $7 Trillion Since Paris Agreement

DeSmogBlog

.” United States financial giants JPMorgan Chase , Citigroup , and Bank of America topped the “dirty dozen” list of the banks that gave the most to fossil fuels since 2016, at $430.9 “The science shows that over half of fossil fuels in existing fields and mines must stay underground to limit global warming to 1.5°C,