Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Climate impacts are accelerating and this is expediting the timelines for the melting of the cryosphere and sea level rise. The report states increasing rates of melting ice sheets in Greenland and the Antarctic are contributing to accelerating sea level rise. The climate ocean nexus is increasingly clear.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

And, according to a new study out Tuesday in Nature Communications, 13 percent of its costs can be attributed to human-caused sea-level rise. In other words, without warming temperatures and rising seas, tens of thousands of homes would have gone untouched, and $8.1 billion in damages.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

I live in South Louisiana on the front lines of the climate crisis and cover the fossil fuel industry and impacts related to the warming planet, so facing gaslighting is a regular occurrence for me. So it resonated with me that Merriam-Webster dictionary chose “gaslighting” as the word of the year.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

A lawsuit filed by the city and county of Honolulu against nearly a dozen fossil fuel companies is moving towards trial in Hawaii after the Hawaii Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the companies’ arguments for dismissing the case on appeal. by cities, counties, and states, and one fishermen’s trade association, over the past six years.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 6, 2024

The international journal Oceans and Coastal Management also produced a study in 2022 suggesting that the Tendring area, which encompasses Clacton, is exposed to sea level rises – potentially affecting hundreds of homes. million) was given by fossil fuel interests, polluting industries, or climate science deniers.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

A report released Wednesday gives that distinction to fossil fuel runoff from highways, parking lots, and other land-based infrastructure, mostly transportation related. The report was co-sponsored by the American Petroleum Institute, a fossil fuel industry trade group, in addition to federal agencies from the U.S.

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Grist

MARCH 16, 2021

Now, the boot is losing a football field of land every hour to the rising tide. In order to save the state from sea-level rise, the Louisiana state government is embarking on a series of years-long, multi-billion dollar projects to slow the rate of land loss. This month, the U.S. It is time we held them accountable.”

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2022

But a group of nations led by the Republic of the Marshall Islands — a low-lying island nation at risk of being swallowed up by sea-level rise if the world warms by 2 degrees — formed a “High Ambition Coalition” which sought to enshrine a lower, more ambitious temperature target. degrees. “It All this doesn’t mean that the 1.5-degree

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GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

The consequences of that imbalance are felt in water cycle disruptions, sea-level rises, far stronger storms and the spread of tropical diseases northward, he noted. We now know that the burning of fossil fuels is a precondition for higher mortality rates under COVID-19.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 27, 2024

Heat pumps use electricity rather than fossil fuels, and are up to five times more efficient than gas boilers according to the International Energy Agency. It added: “After all, moving away from fossil fuel heating systems is crucial for achieving energy independence and net zero targets.”

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Grist

AUGUST 30, 2022

Greenland’s melting ice sheet will raise global sea levels by at least 10.6 That’s even if everyone stopped burning fossil fuels today. The new research suggests that extreme temperatures could eventually trigger as much as 30 inches of sea-level rise. degrees Celsius (2.2

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2021

For example, recent research found that human-caused sea-level rise increased the damages suffered when Hurricane Sandy hit the US East Coast in 2012 by $8.1 Another study found that climate change was responsible for $67 billion of damage caused by Hurricane Harvey, which hit Texas in 2017.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This shift has forced fossil fuel companies — and the organizations they fund — to alter their tactics to avoid regulation. A page on sea-level rise says “levels have been rising at a fairly steady pace since at least the mid-1800s,” but the rate has actually more than doubled in the 2000s when compared to most of the 20th century. “It’s

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 7, 2021

Instead, you can read their shorter chapters on the scientific consensus on topics like extreme weather or regional changes in sea-level rise. With these models, scientists can ask: If the globe heats up by a specific amount, what might happen in terms of sea-level rise, droughts and the ice sheets?

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 26, 2020

It will sit 55 feet above sea level, near an engineered harbor that provides physical barriers in the event of tsunamis or sea level rise. But since it had to import fossil fuels to burn, renewables and batteries became cost-competitive there earlier than many places on the mainland.

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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. .”

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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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Grist

JANUARY 19, 2022

For four decades, scientists from across the globe have tried to warn humanity about the unmitigated burning of fossil fuels. They’ve predicted debilitating heat waves, crushing droughts, and rising seas. Their demand is somewhat understandable.

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Grist

MARCH 20, 2023

degrees Celsius (2 degrees Fahrenheit) since preindustrial times, and that this warming has “ unequivocally ” been caused by human activities , primarily burning fossil fuels. report from October found that countries’ climate policies and planned fossil fuel projects would cause nearly 3 degrees C (5.4 degrees C (2.7

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Seven years ago the IEA and the WRI warned that we need to stop burning fossil fuels. In fact, in the 1960s the fossil fuel industry's own science revealed that they are causing global warming. A 2019 IPCC report warned that we are seeing accelerated ice melt and sea level rise.

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Planet Pulse

DECEMBER 11, 2023

NASA led an evaluation on the potential impacts of sea level rise on the Maldives with Planet imagery, highlighting the use of remote sensing for predicting shoreline change. Researchers from WattTime estimated fossil fuel power plant CO2 emissions using proxy signals, like water vapor plumes, identified in PlanetScope data.

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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

OCTOBER 29, 2021

These revelations quickly spurred calls for Congress to investigate Exxon’s and other fossil fuel companies’ efforts to obstruct climate action. For years, academics, journalists, and activists have been unearthing documents proving that the fossil fuel industry knew about the dangers of climate change since the late 1950s.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 13, 2021

The report said we are already observing climatic changes without precedent over hundreds of thousands of years, with some of these irreversible over reasonable timescales, such as ocean acidification and sea level rises.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Isle de Jean Charles sits about 80 miles southwest of New Orleans, where sea-level rise and coastal erosion are intensified by oil and gas canals and climate change, and it took a major hit from Hurricane Ida. Isle de Jean Charles on Aug. 22, 2021, before Ida arrived.

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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

APRIL 14, 2022

and 2 degrees of warming is the difference between life and death for many of the world’s most vulnerable people — and the difference between survival and extinction for some entire countries subject to sea level rise. C, whereas weak action will see temperature continue to rise to 1.7, The difference between 1.5

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Arctic ice levels are both a primary indicator of rising global temperatures and a key determinant of how bad climate change might get. Serious ice loss means sea levels rise, more heat is absorbed by the ocean and planet, and weather and ocean currents could change. Stopping Arctic melt is key,” Field says.

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Grist

MARCH 30, 2022

Sea-level rise is also irreversible — the heat collecting in ice sheets and the ocean will continue to drive sea-level rise long after the temperature is stabilized or even lowered. Scientists say sea level rise is one of the irreversible impacts of an overshoot scenario.

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Eco-Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Scientists are urgently calling for global action, including reducing fossil fuel use, as the Pacific Ocean's sea levels rise faster than the global average and the warming Indian Ocean drives storms, erratic rainfall, and droughts.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Editor’s Note: This is part of a regular column, Gaslit , which navigates society’s dysfunctional relationship with fossil fuel disinformation. Davies noted that fossil fuel interests were conducting operations of their own. At the same time, fossil fuel companies have worked to insulate themselves from extreme weather.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2022

The evidence is overwhelming that Earth’s climate is changing in dangerous ways because of human activities, particularly the burning of fossil fuels, and it has been overwhelming for many years. Rising global temperatures , worsening storms and sea level rise will affect everyone in harm’s way, regardless of the person’s social group.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Compiled by Dutch climate activist Vatan Hüzeir , and reviewed by DeSmog and Dutch investigative journalism platform Follow The Money , the documents show how Shell was actively supporting research that clearly underscored the dangers posed by burning its fossil fuel products from the mid-1970s — years earlier than previously thought.

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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. This report must sound a death knell for coal and fossil fuels, before they destroy our planet.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 29, 2020

The tower will also be built 5 feet above the city for Boston’s suggested level for sea level rise. New BU academic tower will be 100% free from fossil fuels. Energy loss will be minimized with external sun shading devices, triple-glazed windows, enhanced heating and ventilation systems and LED lighting.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Secretary General António Guterres asked nations to arrive at the session with concrete commitments for phasing out fossil fuels, observing in his opening remarks that “humanity has opened the gates of hell.” A two-week hearing on the case before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg, Germany concluded on Monday.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2022

The first page of Menlo Park, California’s 2030 Climate Action Plan shows a map predicting which parts of the city will be underwater by the end of the century, flooded by the rising waters of San Francisco Bay. Sea level rise is just one imminent threat for Silicon Valley.

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