DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
The project’s supporters, including major environmental nonprofits like the Environmental Defense Fund, the National Wildlife Federation, and the Audubon Society, say large river diversions are the most effective way to send land-building sediment streaming into the bayou from the Mississippi River to fight land subsidence and sea-level rise.
Renewable Energy World
APRIL 22, 2021
I’ve long viewed Jacobson’s life — and his collaboration with researchers, cultural icons, business leaders and political leaders — as a well-written movie script. I was fortunate to interview Jacobson for an Energy Boom story in 2010 about the real cost comparison between coal and wind power. Jacobson’s Early Story.
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DeSmogBlog
JULY 29, 2022
A few years later, I interviewed someone who attended the event and he said, ‘We all knew it was real, but it was too political to talk about on TV.’”. East Coast around 2010, and acknowledged the risks of climate change, but lobbied behind the scenes to obstruct regulation. The backlash [from deniers] was intense.
Unsustainable
OCTOBER 21, 2019
Around 2010, authorities in Surat began a process that strengthened understanding of how more intensive periods of projected rainfall due to climate change would magnify the risk of floods. The flooding was caused by an emergency release from the upstream Ukai reservoir.
DeSmogBlog
DECEMBER 11, 2022
Like a chicken and egg dilemma, who came up with these goals first, politics or science? Political Origins of 2°C. The next key moment in the 2°C story is no longer scientific, but political. For a long time, the debate focused more on CO2 concentrations than on warming levels. But why are both numbers so important?
Green Market Oracle
OCTOBER 23, 2019
They point to a two-fold increase in sea levels between 1993 and 2010 compared to last century. They also single out a study which suggests sea levels could rise more than two meters by the end of this century. The relocation of billions of people will result in major economic and political ramifications.
Mr. Sustainability
DECEMBER 25, 2020
An ice-free Arctic might be a boon for the shipping industry in the short term, but comes at potential catastrophic cost to our economy in the form of environmental disaster and political upheaval. Arctic sea ice extent averaged for September 2020 was 3.92 million square kilometers below the 1981 to 2010 average.
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