Grist

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

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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Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

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.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

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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Grist

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Bob Kopp, a co-author of the paper who researches climate change and sea level rise at Rutgers University, said that talking about tipping points, as scary as they are, might not inspire people to do something about climate change. Thats because fear is an unreliable motivator. It’s a choice to use that framing.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2022

This week the World Meteorological Organisation published a report detailing how four key climate change indicators - greenhouse gas concentrations, sea level rise, ocean heat, and ocean acidification - all set new records in 2021. What happens to the planet in year seven is actually irrelevant to our loan book.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 3, 2019

Three panelists will talk about new examples of cities approaching the challenge of climate change in creative and innovative ways including transportation, to greening city buildings, to protecting against sea-level rise, to vulnerability assessments that help each community to identify their greatest risks and opportunities.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2022

Rising global temperatures , worsening storms and sea level rise will affect everyone in harm’s way, regardless of the person’s social group. In the U.S. Viruses are oblivious to political affiliation, and so is the changing climate. How to combat science denial – and climate change.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

When you’ve followed the evolving research of a leading clean energy expert and become a supporter of his vision for a global clean energy transition, it should come as no surprise that I was eager to crack open Mark Jacobson’s 2021 book release, 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

” Citizens’ For A New Louisiana , a group that purports to offer “sound public policy insights” that reflect conservative values and promote transparency in local government, is spearheading the controversy by calling for a growing number of books, mostly related to the LGBTQ community, to be banned from public libraries across the state. .

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 16, 2020

As a wake up call to the possible effects of global warming, London-based multidisciplinary design studio Superflux has created “Mitigation of Shock, Singapore,” an immersive exhibition that explores the possible consequences of sea level rise for city dwellers in coastal areas.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Taking immediate action to slash emissions towards net zero by 2050 could make a monumental difference to the level, frequency, and breadth of growing climate impacts, the scientists emphasise. C we are still facing half a metre of sea level rise. C, we can avoid a long term three metres of sea level rise.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

At a Columbia University symposium, physicist Edward Teller warns oil executives about rising levels of carbon dioxide and the likelihood of global warming and sea level rise by the end of the century. Found in the book “ Energy and Man: A Symposium ” Provenance: Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The Atlas of Disappearing Places, a new book by Christina Conklin and Marina Psaros, is… The post Earth911 Podcast: Discover The Atlas of Disappearing Places With Christina Conklin appeared first on Earth911. Read more here: Earth911 Podcast: Discover The Atlas of Disappearing Places With Christina Conklin.

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Andrew Winston

AUGUST 7, 2019

Many highly populated coastal areas will be in consistent trouble, as sea levels rise. Laying out strategies for companies to navigate this likely future world is a book-length conversation. Andrew’s book, The Big Pivot, was named a Best Business Book of the Year by Strategy+Business Magazine!

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Andrew Winston

AUGUST 7, 2019

Many highly populated coastal areas will be in consistent trouble, as sea levels rise. Laying out strategies for companies to navigate this likely future world is a book-length conversation. Andrew's book, The Big Pivot, was named a Best Business Book of the Year by Strategy+Business Magazine!

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Earth Gratitude

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

The map below, which has been assembled by the Union of Concerned Scientists , shows the cities along the Gulf of Mexico and the Eastern Seaboard that are most at risk from sea level rise. cities most vulnerable to sea level rise. Map of U.S. © The Union of Concerned Scientists. Used with permission.

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Christopher Kemper

JUNE 20, 2020

Most of the referenced colleagues (At the UN) worked within the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which has published research indicating the global temperatures could rise by 1.4 degrees celsius, which could increase sea-level rise from 20cm to 88cm by the year 2100. degrees celsius and 5.8

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

These included Shell-produced content such as the Time For Energy film, and a book called Energy published the same year. In 1962, Shell’s chief geologist, Houston-based Marion King Hubbert, produced a book-length report on energy for the U.S. A parallel world of Shell-backed publications brushed such warnings aside.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Risk officer: Assessing exposure to climate-linked credit risk A large commercial bank wanted to estimate the impact of a carbon tax on the credit risk of companies in their loan book. The Risk Officer felt this would add an important dimension to the assessment of creditworthiness.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Fossil fuel companies have recognized the threat of climate change and extreme weather enough to raise their platforms because of sea level rise, build seawalls and floating gates, and publish climate resiliency reports — but not enough to stop fossil fuel expansion and start decarbonization.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Risk officer: Assessing exposure to climate-linked credit risk A large commercial bank wanted to estimate the impact of a carbon tax on the credit risk of companies in their loan book. The Risk Officer felt this would add an important dimension to the assessment of creditworthiness.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This makes it ripe for disaster capitalism, a phrase Naomi Klein coined in her book “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.” Credit: Julie Dermansky The diversion project lies at the intersection of two crises: the state’s alarming coastal land-loss rate and the essential threat of climate change.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 29, 2020

Adaptation plans and investments for those being physically displaced by the sea level rise, with a focus on a just and smooth transitions. In my book The Big Pivot , published in 2014, I laid out 10 strategies to shift business fundamentally toward sustainability. One was about setting science-based goals.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

But four hurricanes since 2005 and sea level rise — it really decimated this coastline.” He estimates that 70 metres of his property has been swallowed up by sea level rise since he moved there in 1998, with trees and wetlands washed away as the ocean advanced bit by bit with each passing year.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 23, 2021

It’s also a clear example of how climate change is an infrastructure problem – my specialty as a historian of climate science at Stanford University and editor of the book series “ Infrastructures.”. This uneven, limited charging infrastructure is one major roadblock to rapid electrification of the U.S. The Conversation , CC BY-ND.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2023

One of the products of that research is a new book of essays , edited by Hamouchene and Katie Sandwell, also of the Translational Institute, titled Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate Justice in the Arab Region. Underlying the book is the unequivocal urgency of moving away from fossil fuels in this part of the world.

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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. And if we follow through on the commitments that this agreement embodies, history may well judge it as a turning point for our planet.”

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Previously an avowed free marketeer, having written the controversial “Britannia Unchained” book with Liz Truss and others, colleagues say he “underwent a conversion at BEIS, becoming convinced of the need for intervention and the potential for clean energy”, according to the Guardian.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In 19 articles that became a widely read book, History of the Standard Oil Company , published in 1904, she exposed its unsavory practices. That didn’t come until the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring. Ida Tarbell is one of the most celebrated investigative journalists in American history.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 11, 2019

Other studies tell us that sea level rise is going to be worse than we thought, Antarctica is melting three times faster than a decade ago, and Greenland is losing ice quickly as well. And in a quieter move, a major real estate investor in Miami began pulling money out of coastal assets to avoid risk of sea level rise.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 12, 2024

While evidence mounts of the threats we face from climate change, fossil fuelled billionaires are using every trick in the book to deny the truth and delay the transition to clean energy.” As reported by DeSmog, Farage’s coastal Clacton constituency is at risk of flooding and sea level rises as a result of climate change.

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 6, 2020

after releasing the famed book Silent Spring, which celebrated its 50th anniversary last year. Read more » Visionary Women: The Profiles of Two Important Environmentalists Angella Nazarian's new book, Pioneers of the Possible: Celebrating Visionary Women , includes profiles of two important environmentalists.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 14, 2024

Heritage president Kevin Roberts’s new book, Dawn’s Early Light , features a foreword by Trump’s vice presidential candidate, JD Vance. The article also cast doubt on climate science – suggesting “some research shows little change” in extreme weather, while downplaying sea-level rises.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Thousands of people had bought tickets starting at $95 to hear the Canadian psychologist and star talent of conservative media outlet The Daily Wire promote his latest book, We Who Wrestle With God. Another professor, the podcaster and author Michael Malice, claims that projections of sea-level rise are “literally a religious belief.”

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