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The 101 on Climate Change

Christopher Kemper

2004 Tsunami This changed my life. The theory of climate change is boiled down into a few sentences: Human activity is leading to increasing levels of GHG emissions from a wide variety of sources (e.g. degrees celsius, which could increase sea-level rise from 20cm to 88cm by the year 2100. my brand?—?is

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Want to prevent California’s looming flood disaster? Grow a marsh.

Grist

When Jones Tract, a delta island, flooded in 2004, the damage cost $90 million to fix. Fossil fuels, you might say, are an aged form of blue carbon. The event would likely incur tens of billions of dollars’ worth of damage and could take a year and a half to repair. Nor is the flooding of delta islands unprecedented.

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