Business Green

JUNE 18, 2021

While much of the climate community considers global warming beyond 2C to be highly dangerous, William Nordhaus in his 2018 Nobel in Economics acceptance lecture called 4C "optimal". Many coastal areas will find it impossible (or extremely costly) to adapt to continued sea-level rise.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2022

The movie is an allegory for climate change , showing how those with the power to do something about global warming willfully avoid taking action and how those with vested interests can mislead the public. But it also reflects science denial more broadly, including what the world has been seeing with COVID-19. In the U.S.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 1, 2020

The heat records keep adding to the mountain of data points that demonstrate that we are suffering from ever worsening global warming. It is know to be related to wildfires , drought, extreme weather, sea level rise and crop failures. The months of June, September , October also broke records.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

degrees Celsius above preindustrial norms (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC], 2018), however, we are rapidly running out of time as we are already more than two thirds of the way there. An IPCC report (2018) indicates that all remaining gas and coal fired power plants need CCS technology.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

Motivated by New York Governor Cuomo’s willingness to consider banning hydrofracking, Jacobson worked through the night to layer New York’s pollution, human health, morbidity and global warming data into a cohesive model. Photo of Mark Jacobson and Stacy Clark, August 1, 2018. to 4 million deaths that occur worldwide, each year.”

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 16, 2019

According to a 2018 Gallup poll , there is a global warming age gap. They are aware that we are not doing what we must to address biodiversity loss, sea-level rise, and extreme weather including devastating heat waves. Studies show that kids can influence adults in ways that very few others can.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

That year, the American economist and 2018 Nobel laureate William D. In it, he argues that “ if there were global temperatures more than 2° or 3° above the current average temperature, this would take the climate outside of the range of observations which have been made over the last several hundred thousand years. And they won.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. This is a companion piece to the the 25 books in The Green Market Oracle's well informed readers list. Climate impacts 2.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The situation, too, is only set to worsen as the planet warms, underscoring the urgent need to simultaneously drive down greenhouse gas emissions while also boosting preparedness for droughts, wildfires, storms, floods, coastal erosion, sea level rise, resource shortages and much, much more.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Hüzeir’s findings build on earlier Shell material obtained by Dutch journalist Jelmer Mommers of De Correspondent and published by Climate Files and DeSmog in 2018. National Academy of Sciences that explicitly warned of the risks human-induced global warming could pose to earth’s weather and “ecological balances,” the U.S.-based

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

In fact, physics tells us that for every 1 degree Celsius of warming, our atmosphere can hold about seven percent more moisture. As water vapor itself is a potent greenhouse gas, more water vapor in the atmosphere means accelerated global warming. Sea level rising (not because of melting).

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The IEA has received funding from British American Tobacco (BAT) – the firm behind the likes of Dunhill and Lucky Strike – since 1963, receiving £40,000 from BAT in 2018. In 2018, Greenpeace’s investigative journalism unit Unearthed revealed that the IEA had received funding from oil major BP every year since 1967.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 15, 2025

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage , who has called for climate policies to be scrapped, is building a new property in an area threatened by flooding due to global warming. The Met Office has echoed these findings, warning in 2018 that Romney Marsh which is an agricultural area will face an almost constant state of flooding by 2100.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 12, 2020

The fossil fuel industry is driving feedback loops that include both melting permafrost and sea level rise. The Arctic is warming faster than the rate of global average warming. billion in 2018 for its Canadian assets. Here are few examples of oil spills that illustrate the dangers of fossil fuels.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Champions of the Paris Agreement, as it was called, included both the world’s mega-emitters like the United States and China and the small island nations most vulnerable to sea level rise. Despite experts flagging a number of errors with this logic, Nordhaus won a Nobel Prize for his life’s work in 2018.)

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Rees-Mogg was also the first cabinet minister to endorse the campaign to reverse the UK’s ban on fracking, spearheaded by the backbench Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG), the parliamentary wing of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). Graham Stuart – Climate Minister.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This report, a collaboration between more than a dozen federal agencies and a wide array of academic researchers, takes stock of just how severe global warming has become and meticulously breaks down its effects by geography — 10 distinct regions in total, encompassing all of the country’s states and territories.

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 6, 2020

Nowhere is this more evident than in the blue wave that solidly rebuked the GOP's leadership in the US midterm elections of 2018. Five years later she oversaw the signing of the historic accord at COP21 in which 195 countries agreed to limit global warming. Environmental insults are compounding the climate crisis.

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