Grist

MARCH 26, 2021

To avoid the most disastrous sea-level rise, storms, heat waves, and drought, the best available science says that greenhouse gas emissions must be cut in half in the next decade or so and brought to net-zero by the middle of the century. government to spend at least $100 million on a new solar geoengineering research program.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

All three of these groups are part of the Tufton Street network – a cluster of “free market” think tanks and lobbyists based in Westminster, London, that are opposed to government spending and regulation, including on climate action. We are asking where these coercions have come from and how we can limit them,” the event page states.

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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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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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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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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. This shouldn’t be an afterthought.”.

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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. The public and private sector must work together to ensure a just and rapid transformation to a net zero global economy. "If window shutting.".

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2021

While much of the climate community considers global warming beyond 2C to be highly dangerous, William Nordhaus in his 2018 Nobel in Economics acceptance lecture called 4C "optimal". National GDP numbers integrate a huge range of influences: government policy, technological innovation, recession and booms.

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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. Government scientist Teddy Oglethorpe (Rob Morgan) replies, “Scientists never like to say 100%.”. In the U.S.

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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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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). But with the U.N.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 1, 2020

The heat records keep adding to the mountain of data points that demonstrate that we are suffering from ever worsening global warming. It is know to be related to wildfires , drought, extreme weather, sea level rise and crop failures. The months of June, September , October also broke records.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The world faces unavoidable and worsening climate hazards over the next two decades as global temperatures are driven up by human activity, with "irreversible impacts" on humans and ecosystems expected even if the global economy achieves the unprecedented feat of only marginally overshooting the 1.5C

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2020

Specifically, it calls for governments to adopt a range of adaptation and mitigation measures, including natural, technical, and technological measures to curb enhance water security, limit greenhouse gas emissions, and protect the environment. "The The report shows that water does not need to be a problem - it can be part of the solution.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

For the first time, it proposed encompassing all the gases that cause global warming in a single indicator. “It was the most controversial and heated debate in the workshop,” recalls Rijsberman, now director of the Global Green Growth Institute. ” It also noted that “limiting global warming to below 1.5°C

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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. A better course of action for governments would be to coordinate electric service upgrades to groups of nearby homes. Some people say this is the new normal.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

If this permafrost thaws, it will release CO2 and methane which can even further accelerate global warming. Coral reef die-off – Coral reefs are often described by scientists as one of the ecological systems that are most sensitive to global warming. Resilience Thinking and Sustainability.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Around the same time, the group published an article refuting the idea that weather variations were becoming more extreme, and stated on its website that “those who would like to see massive cuts in energy use associate bad weather with global warming in an effort to promote their cause.” . Credit: BLMIdaho ( CC BY 2.0 ).

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

Australia looks set to ditch its climate-laggard global status after voters strongly backed more ambitious green policies – but can the change in government help reignite global climate action, as geopolitical challenges escalate?

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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. 2/2) [link].

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2022

To limit global warming to a peak of 1.5C, which the impacts we are experiencing at 1.35°C °C warming (based on an average of the last 10 years) make clear is a higher than desirable goal. The challenge. gigatons of CO2 annually (GtCO2/year).

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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. It is the first book in a series on Climate Risk Management, Policy and Governance. Climate impacts 2. Climate action 4.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 2, 2021

As reported by the Danish government, the ice sheet lost 8.5 It’s a very high level of melting and it will probably change the face of Greenland, because it will be a very strong driver for an acceleration of future melting, and therefore sea-level rise.” billion tons of surface mass on Tuesday alone.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Fifty years ago, climate models accurately predicted that greenhouse gases cause global warming (Hausfather et al, 2020). The warnings continued in 2018 including another IPCC study (2018) that urged governments to take urgent action stating we are teetering on the cusp of a man-made climate calamity.

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

The central message from the latest review of climate science is remarkably bleak: The world is running out of time to stabilise global temperatures at relatively safe levels, with current policies and levels of investment nowhere near sufficient to secure a liveable future for all.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

But it is also a handbook for how businesses, governments, and investors can work together to avert the worst case scenarios faced by civilisation, setting out the levers that need to be pulled to secure a more liveable and prosperous future for humanity. or the more dangerous 2C, the IPCC warned. But this blindspot could soon be addressed.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 23, 2019

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. As explained by Zurich, "businesses that don't build resilience to rising sea levels will get soaked". According to the U.K.’s

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

It has been widely discussed and debated, in public view, among scientists, media, governments, business and society as a whole.” 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.-based

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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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Energy Innovation

JULY 2, 2024

Nearly every country in the world has committed to the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius, but global greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) continue to rise. Varying messages and modes of communication can either increase or decrease the likelihood that people will act.

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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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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2021

A threat that was still in the future, with consequences happening somewhere else, with melting poles, small island communities affected by sea level rise or drought in the global south, far away from our robust, modern societies. It's not just a government issue. This will require increased efforts from all of us.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The Heritage Foundation panel event on December 8, called “ Lessons for America from Europe’s Green Energy Disaster ”, featured Benny Peiser, director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate science denial group. The GWPF published two reports this year rejecting climate science on the greenhouse effect.

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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. The post Climate Denier Richard Tice’s Seat is Second Most Exposed to Global Warming, Says Insurance Giant appeared first on DeSmog.

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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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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Later that month, she told me that she sees the continued destruction of coastal communities as a reminder that leaders have done little to protect us from the catastrophic impacts of global warming despite decades of warnings from climate scientists. Chief Shirell Parfait-Dardar with her children Aralyn and Dale Jr.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 12, 2020

The fossil fuel industry is driving feedback loops that include both melting permafrost and sea level rise. The Arctic is warming faster than the rate of global average warming. The pipeline was acquired by the Canadian federal government after it agreed to pay Texas energy giant Kinder Morgan $4.5

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