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You Can't Say You Haven't Been Warned

Green Market Oracle

We ignored these warnings and we keep pumping climate change causing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere at record breaking rates. Everyone from Stephen Hawkings to President Obama have warned us of the urgent need to act on climate change. It warned humanity about the dangers of climate change.

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Cities need to act on climate adaptation now

Unsustainable

The impacts of climate change are already being felt in South Asia in the form of erratic rainfall patterns predicted by climatologists. In 2006, flooding in Surat left more than 75 percent of the city underwater, causing major economic and other losses. trillion in net benefits between 2020 and 2030.

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These scientists are trying to save melting Arctic ice

Grist

This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Tiny glass beads might seem an unlikely hero in the fight against climate change, but they may end up playing an outsize role in tackling one of the natural world’s most dire predicaments.

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Students find obscure law that could make university fossil fuel investments illegal

Grist

“Our hope is that attorney general Maura Healey, if she chooses to take action on this, will hold Harvard accountable for its dangerous fossil fuel investments,” said Sofia Andrade, a sophomore at Harvard and one of the organizers of Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard. except for Pennsylvania, has adopted. “An

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Corporate Action on Climate Change Has to Include Lobbying

Andrew Winston

This article is what led to my larger piece about climate leadership which went up on HBR last week. The business world has recently started acting on climate change in earnest. In 2006, some of these same NGOs formed the U.S. First, climate change is real and affecting businesses today.