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1.5 and 2°C: A Journey Through the Temperature Target That Haunts the World

DeSmogBlog

For the first time, it proposed encompassing all the gases that cause global warming in a single indicator. “It was the most controversial and heated debate in the workshop,” recalls Rijsberman, now director of the Global Green Growth Institute. ” It also noted that “limiting global warming to below 1.5°C

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50 Books on Climate Change and Sustainbility

Green Market Oracle

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. Since the first edition was published in 2013, new strategies, measurements, and certifications have been developed.

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How Climate-Friendly is Liz Truss’s Cabinet?

DeSmogBlog

Rees-Mogg was also the first cabinet minister to endorse the campaign to reverse the UK’s ban on fracking, spearheaded by the backbench Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG), the parliamentary wing of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).

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How does climate change threaten where you live? A region-by-region guide.

Grist

This report, a collaboration between more than a dozen federal agencies and a wide array of academic researchers, takes stock of just how severe global warming has become and meticulously breaks down its effects by geography — 10 distinct regions in total, encompassing all of the country’s states and territories.