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Maps enhance flood risk modelling

Envirotec Magazine

Malmsbury, Wiltshire, during the 2012 flooding: The Climate Suite products are intended to provide insight into future flood hazards. Terrain data from aerial mapping company Bluesky is being used to upgrade the first national climate change flood model for the UK.

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Climate change fueled the Australia fires. Now those fires are fueling climate change.

Grist

Australia is in the midst of a devastating wildfire season that is being exacerbated by climate change. But the fires, which have been burning for months and could rage on for months to come, are also impacting the earth’s climate in several ways. It’s a great example of a positive feedback of climate change,” Hughes said.

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In D.C. Defamation Trial, Climatologist Michael Mann Confronts the Climate Deniers Who Maligned His Work

DeSmogBlog

In 2012, Rand Simberg and Mark Steyn publicly accused Mann, then a professor at Penn State University, of scientific misconduct and fraud. Michele Bachmann, who once claimed that global warming is “all voodoo” and “a hoax,” was in court to support Steyn as he testified.

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Heartland Institute’s Survey Actually Supports the 97% Climate Science Consensus It’s Trying to Attack

DeSmogBlog

This time, Heartland is frantically spinning the results of a survey it commissioned in its latest attempt to dispute the robust scientific consensus on climate change. To be clear, climate experts overwhelmingly agree that climate change is happening and that humans are primarily responsible.

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‘Lukewarmist’ Peer Set for Role Scrutinising Government Climate Policy

DeSmogBlog

Lord Peter Lilley, who has disputed mainstream climate science and was one of just five MPs to oppose the UK’s climate change act in 2008, is listed alongside 12 other peers proposed as members of the new environment and climate change committee (ECCC), due to be formally appointed next week.

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Media Repeats Kremlin Anti-Fracking Claims – While Ignoring Russia’s Promotion of Climate Denial

DeSmogBlog

But there are numerous examples still available online of the outlet promoting climate science denial. These include articles plugging the work of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), which is currently working with the Net Zero Scrutiny Group to use Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to demand more fossil fuel extraction.

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Fossil Fuels are Increasing Emissions and Driving Climate Change

Green Market Oracle

anthropogenic GHG emissions (based on global warming potential) and about 93% of total U.S. billion metric tons of greenhouse gas pollution (MIT, 2012). According to the EIA , in 2017, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from burning fossil fuels for energy were equal to about 76% of total U.S. anthropogenic CO2 emissions.