Grist

MARCH 3, 2025

Beyond these artifacts, the industries that created them have left their own scars upon the planet: Atmospheric signatures in carbon isotopes, fly ash from burning fossil fuels, and radioactive waste will be among the clues left for geochemists studying what Zalasiewicz calls our carbon extravaganza” and energy binge.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 9, 2021

” One central finding of the new analysis is that the Paris accord’s goal of limiting global temperature rise to no more than 1.5°C C above pre-industrial levels is in serious danger as policymakers fail to take the necessary steps to curb greenhouse gas emissions. ” “Global warming of 1.5°C

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2022

But hidden on page 25 of the “Summary for Policymakers” was an even grimmer note: That even in the IPCC’s most optimistic models, the chances of holding global warming to less than 1.5 When nations gathered in France in 2015, they initially were aiming to keep global temperatures “well below 2 degrees Celsius.” Why does 1.5

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Grist

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The long-frozen soil beneath the Arctic could rapidly thaw and release vast amounts of carbon dioxide and methane stored within it, heating up the atmosphere even more in a feedback loop. The framing is intended to draw attention to the radical changes that global warming might bring. tipping point.

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Grist

MARCH 20, 2023

The newest publication is an attempt to distill everything the panel has said since August 2021, when it began releasing its sixth assessment of global warming. There’s no new research in this latest report, but it injects new urgency into scientists’ and activists’ calls for rapid, systemic action from global decision-makers.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Canadian conservative newspaper columnist Rex Murphy, who has referred to global warming as an “anti-Western ideology,” is also on board, with a course “on poetry and Paradise Lost.” A definitive body of research has documented the negative effects of rising CO2 on crops. Rex Murphy speaking at the 2014 UBCM conference.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

s investigative journalism arm, and the British Channel 4 News this summer exposing how the oil giant and lobby groups such as the American Petroleum Institute seed doubt about climate change and undermine legislation to stop global warming. This document shows that the oil industry was informed of the science of global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 27, 2024

The website – which lists Lowe as an investor – says that Kona Energy is backed “by several highly supportive investors” and that it is seeking new partners “who share the company’s mission to deliver the zero carbon future.” The party’s former leader Richard Tice , who is now its chairman, is also a prominent climate science denier.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 30, 2021

.” The report’s authors support this position with a wealth of grim landmarks, including: The global surface temperature of the planet was 1.09C higher in the decade between 2011-2020 than between 1850-1900. The recent rate of sea level rise has nearly tripled compared to 1901-1971. What can be done?

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Grist

JULY 26, 2023

That collapse could eventually spell catastrophe for the people who live in countries that border the Atlantic Ocean, leading to increased sea-level rise in the United States, decreased temperatures and altered storm patterns over western Europe, rejiggered climate and agricultural zones, and hotter ocean temperatures in the Caribbean.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Climate change is accelerating and intensifying across every region of the planet, bringing with it increases in rainfall, flooding, drought, heatwaves, and sea levels that are already having significant implications for economies around the world.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

New research for the first time links wildfire risks and impacts in western North America to carbon emissions traceable to the world’s largest fossil fuel and cement companies. This research builds on over a decade of science tracing heat-trapping emissions and impacts on a global scale to particular fossil fuel operations.”

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Carbon capture and sequestration have often been considered technologies of last resort. As emissions keep rising and global carbon budgets decline, it is becoming increasingly apparent that if we are to stave off the worst of climate change we must deploy and scale these desperate remedies as quickly as possible.

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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.

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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. Without deep carbon pollution cuts now, the 1.5-degree We need immediate action on energy. degree goal will fall quickly out of reach.

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

We now have less than seven years to cut emissions in half in order to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees C, the limit scientists say is necessary for averting some of the most dangerous climate impacts. 2022 saw flooding, drought and severe.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The findings highlight how human-induced climate change, alongside deforestation, pollution and land use change, is hampering nature's ability to provide services essential to human life, such as coastal protection, food supply or climate regulation through the capture and storage of carbon from the atmosphere.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In all likelihood it will get worse as we experience more extreme weather events and sea levels rise from melting ice sheets. Fortunately, with current solar, battery and heat pump technology every building with a sunny roof under two stories can be a net generator of energy — essentially carbon negative.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

As industry is one of the biggest drivers of global climate change and is entirely dependent on the earth’s resources for production, it is important for business leaders and employees to understand the Anthropocene, its implications, and what it means for the future of sustainability and industry. . The Holocene. The Anthropocene.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

In island n ations that are losing their homes to sea-level rise, and in other highly vulnerable countries, there were bitter pills to swallow after global commitments to cut emissions fell far short of the goal to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7°F).

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Nordhaus published an article in the American Economic Review entitled Can We Control Carbon Dioxide? For the first time, it proposed encompassing all the gases that cause global warming in a single indicator. Studies on the dangers of exceeding 2°C warming and political attempts to set it as a target have had a long history.

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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. He then added in the energy outputs from New York’s existing and potential WWS supplies.

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Christopher Kemper

JUNE 20, 2020

Extensive research by the UN as well as hundreds of other organizations has indicated that humans are responsible for generating excessive levels of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) such as carbon dioxide. For most people, global warming has been an issue that is difficult to grasp?—?oftentimes, degrees celsius and 5.8

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

The author of the article is, as director of the climate science website Carbon Brief, Leo Hickman, noted , a consultant for “companies operating in the energy sector.”. Many companies were aware of the potential effects of increasing greenhouse gas emissions and global temperatures on climate.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

“Harmful Wastes” Shell’s knowledge of the risks posed by the build-up of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) from burning fossil fuels can be traced to at least the early 1960s. 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.

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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. A significant proportion of global carbon emissions come from farming meat. Climate impacts 2. Climate action 4.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

But the solutions are there On the other hand, the report stresses there is still time to deliver a low-carbon, sustainable economy where climate-resilient development becomes the norm. of warming is just about still feasible, and keeping temperature increases below 2C is definitely achievable if rapid action is taken.

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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. The facts are undeniable.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The Bank of England governor Mark Carney recently told the Guardian that companies that do not reign in their carbon emissions will drive investors away. Risks A report from Zurich reviewed the risks to infrastructure and the need for businesses to prepare for rising sea levels associated with global warming.

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

The IPCC's alarming findings have implications for every business around the world, who should be surveying the report closely to understand how they can work with their supply chains, regulators, investors, and governments to build a sustainable, low-carbon economy, while reducing their exposure to escalating climate impacts.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

Although Labor has refused to back a phase out of coal use or block the opening of new coal mines in Australia - which remains one of the world's biggest exporters of the carbon-intensive fossil fuel - the party has promised to adopt more ambitious emissions targets and turn the nation into a global renewable energy 'superpower'.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2023

Efforts to prevent global warming from worsening, known in the jargon as climate mitigation, have long dominated governments' response to the climate crisis. At the local level, overheating or flash flood risks can vary from street to street and building to building.

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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). Lot’s of Methane.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The survey results reflect a level of skepticism that governments will get their act together and crack down on emissions. climate summit in Paris in 2015, officials agreed to limit global warming to 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees C — a goal that island nations imperiled by sea-level rise said was essential to their survival.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Between 2019 and 2023, the ASI accepted £40,000 from Nigel Vinson – one of the few known donors to the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s leading climate science denial group – and £40,000 from Tory peer Lord Jon Moynihan. As DeSmog has revealed , Farage’s party received £2.3 to “drill baby drill” for more fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The constituency held by Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice , who campaigns against policies to tackle climate change, has been ranked as the second most at risk from the impacts of global warming. In fact, human activity has raised the atmosphere’s carbon dioxide content by 50 percent in less than 200 years, according to NASA.

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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. Given the overwhelming evidence of human-induced climate change, there is an urgent need for people at all levels of society to respond accordingly.

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