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Net Zero Secretary Claire Coutinho Took Donation From Climate Science Denial Funder

DeSmogBlog

Hintze, a Conservative peer and hedge fund manager, was one of the early funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , founded by the late Conservative chancellor Nigel Lawson.

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Graphene-based packaging presented as first truly biodegradeable and compostable alternative to plastic

Envirotec Magazine

.” The biopolymers are combined with graphene, a variant of carbon (or allotrope , to be precise) whose modern rediscovery and isolation at the University of Manchester in 2004 led to a Nobel Prize. In addition, some bioplastics produce methane gas when they decompose, a compound with a global warming potential 25 times that of CO2.

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Rising from the ashes, Alaska’s forests come back stronger

Grist

Back in 2004, when wildfires in Alaska burned an area the size of Massachusetts , Michelle Mack wondered just how much carbon had permanently moved from the landscape into the atmosphere. Mack, an ecologist at Northern Arizona University, knew that the carbon dioxide released by these burning trees could further accelerate global warming.

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A vital Atlantic Ocean system could collapse sooner than previously thought

Grist

The group’s latest assessment, released last year , found the collapse of the group of Atlantic Ocean currents to be unlikely given the group only acknowledges weakening of the AMOC starting in 2004. But that was during an ice age, and modern global warming is a vastly different situation. That is a huge problem.”

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Good news: The media is getting the facts right on climate change

Grist

A study out this week found that 90 percent of media coverage accurately represented the scientific consensus that human activity is driving global warming, looking at thousands of articles from 2005 to 2019. A study last year found major U.S.

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Mosquitos are moving to higher elevations — and so is malaria

Grist

An outbreak of chikungunya, another mosquito-borne disease, between 2004 and 2005 was linked to drought in coastal Kenya for these reasons. Researchers found malaria cases in the highlands of Ethiopia fell in the early 2000s in tandem with a decline in temperatures as global warming temporarily stalled.

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Climate change threatens Maine blueberries

AGreenLiving

Related: Global warming is making crop storage costly for farmers “What we are expecting is the temperature is going to increase a lot and we will not get as much rainfall in the summertime especially,” said Rafa Tasnim, as reported by Associated Press. million pounds of wild blueberries, the smallest amount since 2004.