TIME Ecocentric

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Small volcanic eruptions might be part of the reason why the pace of global warming hasn’t kept up with previous predictions, a new study published in Nature Nature Geoscience suggests. This so-called ‘hiatus’ puzzled researchers around the globe have been working to understand this phenomenon.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

for Global Warming Potential (commonly known as carbon footprint); 21.2% The study was led by Professor Ilias Kyriazakis from IGFS in collaboration with other UK institutions, interrogating publicly available Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) data from Great Britain from 2000-2020. for Agricultural Land Use.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 30, 2021

.” Over the past fifty years, the temperature of our planet has risen faster than throughout any period over the past 2000 years. We are already perilously close to irreversible damage but scientists claim that we can stall global warming if we take immediate action. What can be done?

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

Secretary, given the increased use of [fossil fuels], has increased over the last century by an average of 10 percent worldwide; around the year 2000 this increase could reach 25 percent, with ‘catastrophic’ consequences on climate.” “ [C]arbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to a recent report by the U.N. ‘Friend Methane!

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Energy and Cleantech Council

AUGUST 9, 2021

Global surface temperature has increased faster since 1970 than in any other 50-year period over at least the last 2000 years. Global surface temperature will continue to increase until at least the mid-century under all emissions scenarios considered. Global warming of 1.5°C

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Leaders at Imperial Oil and Exxon should argue publicly that it “makes little sense to act unilaterally to respond to a global issue” and that responding to global warming “doesn’t warrant drastic steps at this time,” according to Imperial Oil’s communication plan.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 18, 2021

Wildfires have claimed nearly twice the forest area on average since the year 2000 as compared to the previous 2,000 years, according to the study. They determined that recent fires are more intense and cause more extensive damage than at any point in history. Some forests may never grow back.” More here:Â .

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AGreenLiving

MAY 26, 2021

In their quest to learn more about summers in Yellowstone, the researchers found that the park has been through its fair share of periods of considerable cooling and warming over the last millennium. But the period between the years 2000 and 2021 was found to be the most intense in terms of warming.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

The word Anthropocene was coined by biologist Eugene Stormer and chemist Paul Crutzen in 2000 and has since gained popularity and acclaim. . If this permafrost thaws, it will release CO2 and methane which can even further accelerate global warming. As global warming increases, so will wildfires and vulnerability to diseases.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 21, 2020

” Researchers say the 19-year drought the region has experienced since 2000 is as bad as any in the past 1,200 years. But studying the current drought, scientists put almost half the blame, or 47%, on global warming. “We’re no longer looking at projections, but at where we are now.”

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Global warming has led to both temperature extremes and unpredictable precipitation. In Europe, bumblebee populations decreased by an average of 17% between 1975 and 2000. A lot of crops like squash, berries, tomatoes need bumblebees to pollinate them, and honeybees or other pollinators just can’t do that.”

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Front And Centered

JULY 21, 2020

began extracting and burning natural resources at a prodigious rate since 1750, making our country responsible for contributing to about a quarter of global warming. Alongside these evils, the U.S. Racism has prevented the U.S. from addressing these grave challenges and their catastrophic impacts on our society.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

In a statement, the lawyers called out the “contradiction” between the measures Italy should be taking to reach its target for limiting global warming and their “inadequate implemented actions.” This is compared to around 380 in 2010 and approximately 40 in 2000. .

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Unsustainable

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Figure 1: Since the time scientists began loudly sounding the alarm about greenhouse gas emissions driving global warming, we haven’t reduced our emissions, but increased them from less than 25 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year to more than 40. Figure courtesy of Le Quéré et al (2018) The global carbon budget 2018.

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2021

In 1988, when the changing climate was referred to as global warming , it seemed obvious that the main issue with a changing climate was that the planet was getting hotter. Companies outspent environmental interest groups 10:1 on lobbying between 2000-2016. and Canada alone.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

Based on his work there, he created the world’s first global air quality model in which air pollution affected the weather and the weather affected air pollution, thus forging his hybrid science career. In 2000, he began using models to unlock renewable energy solutions. to 4 million deaths that occur worldwide, each year.”

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Nuclear physicist Edward Teller warned the oil industry at an API event in 1959 that global warming might melt the polar ice caps and submerge coastal cities. In the late 1960s, as the complaint details, the Stanford Research Institute issued reports that accurately predicted the atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration in 2000.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 9, 2019

As part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Paris Agreement , first enacted in 2016, countries across the globe — and their respective cities, some of which are members of the C40 — have agreed to decrease global warming by keeping the collective planet-wide temperature rise to no more than 1.5

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2021

More broadly, the climate crisis threatens to dangerously exacerbate this already precarious situation, with projections indicating that if global warming exceeds 1.5C And for Cate Lamb, global director of water security at CDP, businesses are central to both the causes and the solutions to the crisis. "To

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Grist

JANUARY 12, 2023

The chart below shows how global warming projections modeled by Exxon scientists compared to the actual temperature that ensued. Grist / Jessie Blaeser. The study comes at a time when oil giants are under pressure to curb carbon pollution and prepare for a future powered by renewables like wind and solar. Spencer Platt / Getty Images.

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TIME Ecocentric

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

” When heavy rain in 2000 devastated parts of Britain, a later study found the climate change had doubled the chances of the. “But all the evidence suggests there is a link to climate change,” said Dame Julia Slingo, the Met Office’s chief scientists.

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Grist

AUGUST 9, 2022

Depending on how you look at it, California — and most of the American West — has either entered its third catastrophic drought of the past 10 years, or has been in a constant, unyielding “megadrought” since 2000. The American West has been in a constant, unyielding megadrought since 2000.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Concerning the meat industry’s argument that some pastures cannot be used for other forms of agriculture, University of Oxford researcher Marco Springmann argues that “if everybody were to make the argument that ‘our pastures are the best and should be used for grazing’, then there would be no way to limit global warming.”

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Citing California’s extreme wildfire season as an example, Chris Beaufait, CEO of Sharper Shape, says that as global warming continues to threaten society, better decisions need to made. Have you read? Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The new production line occupies some 2000 m2. By fostering a global ecosystem for electrolysis and hydrogen technology, the joint venture is engineering access to industrial volumes of cost-competitive renewable hydrogen. The challenge is global warming, part of the solution is a gigawatt-scale factory. 

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Grist

JANUARY 30, 2021

The year 2000 was going to cause large-scale electricity blackouts and computer failures in a Y2K apocalypse — and then it didn’t, thanks to the hard work of many computer programmers behind the scenes. The problem is that there are a lot of these apocalyptic countdowns, and after a while, they all start to feel like background noise.

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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 15, 2022

C) for outdoor workers: (a) historical period (1971–2000); (b) mid-century (2036–2065) for Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP)4.5; (c) late century (2070–2099) for RCP4.5; (d) mid-century for RCP8.5; Extreme heat is perhaps the most obvious impact to expect from global warming. and (e) late century for RCP8.5. Conclusion.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

"Decreasing the carbon-intensity may have made sense at a time when we had a lot more time," Pomerantz said, referring to scientific assessments of what's needed to hold global warming below 2 degrees Celsius. It does, however, expect to reduce emissions intensity 50 percent below 2000 levels by 2030.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Claudia Wentworth – CEO, Quick Mount PV Claudia Wentworth started working in the solar industry in 2000 after 20 years in the green building and construction industries. She is also an alumni representative for the International School of Beijing (ISB) in Beijing, China and holds an MBA.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

UNEP is among the group of official bodies that fear these impacts could create feedback loops, whereby a warming climate puts more pressure on terrestrial ecosystems, leading to more emissions, and in turn more warming. Land is already under growing human pressure and climate change is adding to these pressures," the agency states. "At

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

CapturePoint specialises in carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS), a favoured technology of the fossil fuel industry that it claims will help to limit global warming. World leaders next week gather in Dubai, UAE, to negotiate how to reduce emissions and limit global warming. It had an online audience of 13.5

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

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 President Jimmy Carter to triple coal production by the G7 countries until the year 2000. based Center for International Environmental Law has reported.

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Grist

MARCH 4, 2022

Since 2000, the world has lost about 10 percent of its tree cover , becoming a major driver of global heating. We must reduce deforestation to slow global warming,” said Yu Feng. When trees are cut down, they release the carbon they store into the atmosphere. Tropical forests are huge stores of carbon.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 17, 2021

Drought severity is relative to non-drought years for the time period of the analysis (2000–2016). Source: Kane et al. Climate projections include increasingly frequent and severe droughts. The Kane et al.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Moreover, after a year which has seen few fresh national climate pledges of note, Mexico on Saturday boosted its 2030 targets in support of the Paris Agreement to a 35 per cent reduction in emissions by the end of the decade from a 2000 baseline, up from 22 per cent previously. has dwindled.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Peterson is now planting doubt via his podcast and social media posts about the severity and urgency of global warming in the minds of younger generations. Traditionally, people who are “doubtful” or “dismissive” of climate change have tended to skew older. That interview has since been viewed more than 1.1 million times.

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Michael Grossman

AUGUST 9, 2019

Welcome to the world of the communicating climate change action as seen by Americans of every stripe since Al Gore raised the profile of the issue in his 2000 campaign for the Presidency. Great strides on critical climate change issues like reduced consumption from energy efficiency and higher gas mileage standards are welcome news.

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