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When Extreme Weather Reigns, Disinformation Pours

DeSmogBlog

Recent extreme weather across the globe is showing us how rapidly the climate is changing in an increasingly warming world. 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.”. Have a tip or idea?

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The problem with COP26

Low Impact

I could end this article here, but I won’t, because that’s not the main problem. The main problem is that the solutions generated will assume that no fundamental changes to the economy are required. I wouldn’t be as impolite, of course, as to call what’s coming at COP26 an ‘ avalanche of climate b t ’, but here’s how I would put it.

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How Riverford is balancing, risk, resilience, and regenerative farming in drought-hit Devon

Business Green

BusinessGreen takes a tour around Riverford Organic Farms to explore how the veg box firm is contending with worsening climate impacts. But ripples of change are starting to emerge, amid growing awareness that farming does not have to be unsustainable, nor unprofitable.

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First stop: Climate commitments. Next stop: Climate action?

GreenBiz

First stop: Climate commitments. Next stop: Climate action? It’s Climate Week: the time of year that climate leaders and professionals usually descend upon New York City in a cloud of transportation emissions to talk climate ambitions and targets. . Sarah Golden. Fri, 09/25/2020 - 01:00.

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Michael Mann Wins $1 Million Verdict In Defamation Trial

DeSmogBlog

In a victory for climate scientists, jurors in Michael Mann’s defamation case against Rand Simberg and Mark Steyn awarded Mann $1 million in punitive damages for defamatory comments made in 2012. The trial, however, has proven to be about much more than defamation — the entire field and validity of climate science has been on trial.

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Logging is destroying southern forests — and dividing US environmentalists

Grist

In the fight against climate change, the $300-billion U.S. logging and woods products industry has positioned itself as a purveyor of “natural climate solutions.” In 2020, the CEOs of dozens of forestry businesses announced “an agreement of principles” stipulating that logged forests are beneficial for the climate.

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A North-Pole, How Much Longer?

Mr. Sustainability

Climate science makes it clear that ice-free summers in the near future are inevitable. The disappearing of the North Pole, the melting of the Arctic (ice), a “blue ocean event”… These all come down to the same thing: a pivotal change in Earth’s climate with many possible disastrous side effects.