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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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When Extreme Weather Reigns, Disinformation Pours

DeSmogBlog

Accusing people of alarmism has long been a favorite tactic of climate deniers and those who oppose climate action. In Italy, daily newspaper Il Mattino published multiple interviews with climate deniers saying the record heat is “influenced by the sun’s cycles” and “isn’t news.” Changing Extremes.

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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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California Water Challenges Remain Despite Significant Precipitation in 2023

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

Despite heavy precipitation over the past year, California’s drought resilience remains in question, as critical infrastructure projects face staunch opposition and climate change increases the likelihood of extreme and prolonged droughts. The Delta Conveyance Project is a proposal for a new 44.6

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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

They also write that Harvard’s fossil fuel investments threaten its own physical property by exacerbating flooding and sea-level rise.

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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.