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Risk, doubt, and the burden of proof in the climate debate

GreenBiz

At one such event in 2014, speaker Christopher Monckton surveyed the room and declared that everyone there agreed that humanity’s "emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases have contributed to the measured global warming since 1950." node:field-gbz-pull-quote:1].

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Why is the idea of the Anthropocene so contentious?

Grist

The atmospheric chemist had won a Nobel Prize in 1995 for demonstrating how humanity was destroying the ozone layer, just one of the many ways people had radically altered the planet, from urbanization to releasing greenhouse gases. By 2014, it had landed in the Oxford English Dictionary.

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Risk, doubt, and the burden of proof in the climate debate

AGreenLiving

At one such event in 2014, speaker Christopher Monckton surveyed the room and declared that everyone there agreed that humanity’s “emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases have contributed to the measured global warming since 1950.” ” His point was to make it clear that “we are not climate change deniers.”

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We need to talk about the environmental impact of marijuana

AGreenLiving

To understand more about emissions from cannabis growth, let’s look at what happened in Colorado after the state began allowing the sale of recreational cannabis in 2014. In Vizuete’s own words, “if plants produce VOCs, there is a high possibility that under certain conditions, cannabis cultivation could impact the ozone.”

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The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice

GreenBiz

Such plans were enabled by a local 2014 decision that rezoned Formosa’s property to "residential/industrial.". EPA historically has identified "critical population sub-groups" in setting ozone, particulate and other ambient air quality standards. Protecting at-risk populations.

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Geoengineering’s gender problem could put the planet at risk

Grist

At the Climate Engineering Conference in 2014 , the first large international conference of its kind, participants noted in a survey that 90 percent of plenary speakers were male, and that not a single panel had more than one woman on it. It has gotten a bit better since then,” she says, “but it’s not great.”. But even that is problematic. “We

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The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice

AGreenLiving

Such plans were enabled by a local 2014 decision that rezoned Formosa’s property to “residential/industrial.” EPA historically has identified “critical population sub-groups” in setting ozone, particulate and other ambient air quality standards. Protecting at-risk populations.

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