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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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Last year Hicks rhetorically asked on his blog whether climate researchers were “over-hyping because they have a political agenda,” terming them “those chronic-doomster semi-scientists.” As for politics, I am liberal, while Dr. Peterson is conservative,” he said. As it should be, I think, for a good educational institution.”

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Business Green

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Identified risks range from the direct fiscal impacts of climate-related natural disasters and adaptation and mitigation programmes to the more indirect impacts climate change can have on trade, capital flows, and a region's political stability.

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Grist

JANUARY 19, 2022

Scientific information is always viewed through a vortex of ideology, politics, and power. But in most cases there isn’t a direct line between science and policy action — and there never has been. Science can tell us that we need to stop burning fossil fuels, but it can’t tell us exactly how we should transition our economy to clean energy.

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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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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 27, 2024

Reform UK’s Anti-Climate Platform Lowe’s views on climate science and net zero correspond with the policies of his political party. Reform UK campaigns for net zero to be scrapped, claiming that “we must not impoverish ourselves in pursuit of unaffordable, unachievable global CO2 targets.”

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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.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

However, with Reform challenging the Conservatives in the polls – following the party’s worst ever election result in July – it appears as though Tory think tanks may be cultivating relationships with Farage’s party as a new route to political influence. The IEA, TPA, and ASI don’t publicly declare the names of their donors. “It

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Grist

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Clair — to teach students the science behind the greenhouse effect, sea-level rise, and intensified weather events. Recently, a group of scientists listed “strengthening climate education and engagement” as a potential social intervention to slow the rise of global temperatures.

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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). Yet they had little to offer in terms of the U.S.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 16, 2019

They are aware that we are not doing what we must to address biodiversity loss, sea-level rise, and extreme weather including devastating heat waves. According to the researchers at North Carolina State University this may have to do with the fact that parents care about their kids and the political innocence of children.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 4, 2022

Regan said in a statement: “At this moment, when the impacts of the climate crisis are becoming ever more disruptive, costing billions of dollars every year from floods, wildfires, droughts and sea level rise, and jeopardising the safety of millions of Americans, the Court’s ruling is disheartening.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

The remit of the IPCC is rightly restricted to scientific questions, but the consequences that will flow from rising sea levels and spiralling temperatures are economic and political, and as such they are defined by considerable risks and uncertainties. Five metres is possible by 2150.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 29, 2020

Business needs to, in the words of Environmental Defense Fund president Fred Krupp , “unleash the most powerful tool they have to fight climate change: their political influence.”. Adaptation plans and investments for those being physically displaced by the sea level rise, with a focus on a just and smooth transitions.

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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. Document 1: 1959. View on DocumentCloud. How did you trip over this first? But Exxon knew it back in ‘79.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Using the courts has become especially critical, say climate experts and lawyers, given the insufficient political responses to the climate emergency. “In 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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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

A combination of climate change and a billion-dollar project derailed by political scandal are factors contributing to the damage. Related: Study estimates sea level rise two times worse than worst-case scenario Climate change is exacerbating the situation as melting ice, snow and glaciers around the world are raising sea levels.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2022

Tackling climate change will require economic and social transformation, but this level of change can only be achieved with political pressure from a critical mass of individuals and communities spanning demographics, socio-economic status, and geographies.

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2022

The UN Secretary General has once again called on political leaders to meet their international climate finance promises, as he this morning addressed the launch of a two-day climate conference co-hosted by G7 host Germany and the Egyptian COP27 Presidency. We must rebuild trust and come together - to keep 1.5 Mitigation. Adaptation.

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Unsustainable

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Jeanne Yacoubou has broken down the numbers concerning climate change in 2019 , and we’ve seen how Miami is fighting against sea-level rise.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

The terrifying information and dire warnings it contains are a lot to take in, but crucially the report also sets out potential political, financial, and practical solutions for enabling climate resilient development, which it argues are both cost effective and urgently needed. Coastal communities face habitat destruction and sea level rise.

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Business Green

JULY 28, 2022

Today, however, the Institute for Fiscal Studies warned that if scrapped even temporarily, VAT would then be politically difficult to reinstate later, and that should the policy become permanent it could serve to make it harder for the UK to meet its net zero targets. "If

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2022

Sea level rises and climate change-driven coastal erosion - and the resulting breaches of flood defences - mean that relying on higher flood walls alone will not see communities winning the war against water. And in some cases, they can also create a false sense of security.

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Sustainability Consulting

MARCH 11, 2021

companies and 80% of major global companies will face moderate physical risk due to wildfires, water shortages, and sea level rises by 2050. . · Major global companies face $284 billion carbon pricing costs in 2025, representing 13% of earnings. Nearly 95% of major U.S. And now, with a new U.S.

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Andrew Winston

AUGUST 7, 2019

Many highly populated coastal areas will be in consistent trouble, as sea levels rise. Predicting politics is nearly impossible, and it’s hard to imagine how global policy action on climate and other megatrends will play out. By 2030, we are very likely to already be at or approaching the 1.5

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Andrew Winston

AUGUST 7, 2019

Many highly populated coastal areas will be in consistent trouble, as sea levels rise. Predicting politics is nearly impossible, and it’s hard to imagine how global policy action on climate and other megatrends will play out. By 2030, we are very likely to already be at or approaching the 1.5

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Sea-level rise and storm surges alone could cost coastal cities USD 1 trillion each year by 2050, affecting more than 800 million people, the report estimated.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 20, 2020

We’re fighting to minimize the impacts of sea-level rise and intensifying hurricanes, where NOAA just put out a report that hurricane intensity increased 8 percent a decade over the last 40 years. . “It’s triage at this point,” Helvarg explained. ” Given U.S.

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

A fair and fast phaseout of oil, gas and coal needs to happen in this decade, and it can, with the right political will. Rebecca Newsom, head of politics at Greenpeace UK, said: "Forget distant tropical islands and future generations - we have already seen what 40C summers and flash flooding look like here in the UK.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

political will. Extreme heat and storms, sea level rise, intense wildfires — climate change may threaten everyone, but many BIPOC communities are more vulnerable to climate impacts. This year’s COVID-19 crisis and racial justice movement have highlighted the systemic inequities in the U.S.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 3, 2020

In 2018, Barford and two colleagues published a study highlighting the vulnerability of America’s fiber cables to sea level rise, and he’s investigating how wildfires threaten mobile networks. Policy & Politics. Climate Change. Social Justice. Technology. Sponsored Article. Worker on the site of an ecological disaster.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Like a chicken and egg dilemma, who came up with these goals first, politics or science? Political Origins of 2°C. The next key moment in the 2°C story is no longer scientific, but political. For a long time, the debate focused more on CO2 concentrations than on warming levels. But why are both numbers so important?

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 30, 2024

According to the report, other possible climatic effects of increased CO2 included the melting of the Antarctic ice-cap, sea-level rises, and warming of the oceans. It also emphasized that this increase in CO2 would likely affect the Earth’s climate, causing a parallel increase in average temperatures near the Earth’s surface.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The project’s supporters, including major environmental nonprofits like the Environmental Defense Fund, the National Wildlife Federation, and the Audubon Society, say large river diversions are the most effective way to send land-building sediment streaming into the bayou from the Mississippi River to fight land subsidence and sea-level rise.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 23, 2021

It will warn of a rise in heatwaves, destruction of 90 percent of global reefs, accelerated sea level rise and stronger hurricanes and typhoons. Greenpeace UK’s Executive Director, John Sauven, said: “These pivotal climate talks require bold policies, tough targets and political will from all governments.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

A few years later, I interviewed someone who attended the event and he said, ‘We all knew it was real, but it was too political to talk about on TV.’”. He was basically demanding that they start to talk about climate change on TV,” Davies said. The backlash [from deniers] was intense. Al Gore at the World Economic Forum in 2008.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 24, 2023

NextEra has not shied away from shady political dealings in the past. Hart is a former teacher who has taught lessons on Louisiana’s coastal land loss and vulnerability to sea level rise. NextEra did not respond to a request for comment for this story.

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