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A decidedly impartial review of Mark Jacobson’s 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything

Renewable Energy World

In 2000, he began using models to unlock renewable energy solutions. External costs include everything from pre-mature deaths due to air pollution to the sky-rocketing insurance costs for properties vulnerable to sea level rise. The dual papers now made it easier for policy makers to push the 100% WWS model forward.

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Lost Decade: How Shell Downplayed Early Warnings Over Climate Change

DeSmogBlog

Lovelock’s main concern was not warming caused by the greenhouse effect, however, but the prospect of a precipitous drop in temperatures caused by the localised cooling influence of atmospheric pollution. But the authors theorised that localised cooling caused by air pollution might counteract the greenhouse effect.

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How does climate change threaten where you live? A region-by-region guide.

Grist

The last report, which the Trump administration tried to bury when it came out in 2018, was the most dire since the first assessment was published in 2000. The slow creep of sea-level rise has also led to more frequent tidal flooding in coastal cities like Miami.