Green Market Oracle
DECEMBER 9, 2019
In 2006 the Stern Review warned us that we had to urgently reduce our emissions to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Seven years ago the IEA and the WRI warned that we need to stop burning fossil fuels. In fact, in the 1960s the fossil fuel industry's own science revealed that they are causing global warming.
DeSmogBlog
JULY 29, 2022
Editor’s Note: This is part of a regular column, Gaslit , which navigates society’s dysfunctional relationship with fossil fuel disinformation. Davies noted that fossil fuel interests were conducting operations of their own. At the same time, fossil fuel companies have worked to insulate themselves from extreme weather.
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Grist
MARCH 22, 2021
College students fighting to get their schools to stop investing in fossil fuels have stumbled on a new idea that could bring fresh attention to their cause: Those investments might be illegal. They also write that Harvard’s fossil fuel investments threaten its own physical property by exacerbating flooding and sea-level rise.
Grist
OCTOBER 9, 2019
But as sea levels rise and the islands continue to subside, the costs of fortifying and maintaining the structures may exceed the value of the land and agricultural production behind them, says Alf Brandt, counsel to the State Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon. Fossil fuels, you might say, are an aged form of blue carbon.
Grist
SEPTEMBER 29, 2019
Arctic ice levels are both a primary indicator of rising global temperatures and a key determinant of how bad climate change might get. Serious ice loss means sea levels rise, more heat is absorbed by the ocean and planet, and weather and ocean currents could change. Stopping Arctic melt is key,” Field says.
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