Grist
MARCH 16, 2021
At least it did, before the ocean swallowed the carbon emissions belched out by industrializing nations and began to swell. Now, the boot is losing a football field of land every hour to the rising tide. But the benefits of the project outweigh the negatives. that looks like a giant boot.
Grist
JUNE 15, 2021
Nichols oversees Coastkeeper’s living shorelines program, a project in partnership with California State University, Long Beach, and California State University, Fullerton, that restores ecosystem structures like oyster beds and eelgrass meadows, which protect shorelines from waves, erosion, and sea-level rise.
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Grist
MARCH 30, 2022
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.
Business Green
AUGUST 9, 2021
Perhaps most worrying of all, impacts such as sea level rise, ocean acidification, and permafrost melt are now inevitable and near-irreversible within timespans stretching from hundreds to potentially thousands of years, leaving only their extent open to question. Natural carbon sinks become less effective as emissions rise.
Grist
APRIL 14, 2022
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.
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.”
Grist
SEPTEMBER 2, 2024
Opponents of the plans, including many glaciologists, say such outlandish proposals are a dangerous diversion from the real task of mitigating climate change by curbing carbon emissions. We could explore them at a meaningfully large scale in sites with low negative consequences if things don’t go well.” We need other tools.”
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