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New fossils reveal an ice-free Greenland. It’s bad news for sea level rise.

Grist

As global temperatures surpass levels not seen for 125,000 years , that melt is already well underway. Less than a foot of sea level rise since the beginning of the century has already wrought flooding upon coastal communities around the world. It’s bad news for sea level rise. on Aug 7, 2024.

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Earth911 Podcast: Oceanographer John Englander on Adapting to Sea Level Rise

AGreenLiving

Earth911 talks with oceanographer John Englander, author of the new book Moving to Higher Ground:… The post Earth911 Podcast: Oceanographer John Englander on Adapting to Sea Level Rise appeared first on Earth911.

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I thought most of us were going to die from the climate crisis. I was wrong

The Guardian: Energy

Many cities will have disappeared due to sea-level rise. Many people would be malnourished. Forests would be stripped back into savannahs. Island nations would be completely submerged. Climate refugees will be on the move. Normal” temperatures in many parts of the world would be unbearable.

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50 Books on Climate Change and Sustainbility

Green Market Oracle

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. This is a companion piece to the the 25 books in The Green Market Oracle's well informed readers list. These books are organized in the following six categories: 1. Climate impacts 2. Sustainability and business 3.

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Seven ways to inform better decisions with TCFD reporting

GreenBiz

A global energy company wanted to undertake a physical risk assessment to understand the firm’s potential exposure to climate hazards, such as heatwaves, wildfires, droughts and sea-level rise that could lead to supply chain disruptions and increased operating costs for the business.

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Glaciers are more than ‘frozen, sterile wastelands’

Grist

The University of Bristol professor decided to break that unspoken rule in her first book, Ice Rivers: A Story of Glaciers, Wilderness, and Humanity. “I In the book, which comes out in the United States this week, Wadham recounts three decades of her research expeditions all around the world.

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A conservative think tank just sent 8,000 teachers a new climate denial ‘textbook

Grist

This week, the organization sent copies of its book “ Climate at a Glance ” to 8,000 middle and high school teachers across the country, in order to provide them, it says, with “the data to show the earth is not experiencing a climate crisis.” But science education advocates aren’t too worried about the impact of the materials.