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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." On the contrary, he says, "The climate system is an angry beast and we are poking it with sticks.".

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We need to talk about the environmental impact of marijuana

AGreenLiving

From water usage to pollution , growing cannabis may have a larger footprint than you’d think. ” Pollution and emissions According to data from Grist , many “indoor growers plug into the grid, and about two-thirds of the electricity on the grid is generated by fossil fuels.”

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The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice

GreenBiz

The facts have emerged through decades of publications that document the disproportionate risk of Black, Latino, Asian and Native American populations from pollution sources (proximity to manufacturing, storage, processing and waste management facilities, highways, landfills, contaminated water bodies and other dispersed sources).

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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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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

The facts have emerged through decades of publications that document the disproportionate risk of Black, Latino, Asian and Native American populations from pollution sources (proximity to manufacturing, storage, processing and waste management facilities, highways, landfills, contaminated water bodies and other dispersed sources).

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The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice

AGreenLiving

The facts have emerged through decades of publications that document the disproportionate risk of Black, Latino, Asian and Native American populations from pollution sources (proximity to manufacturing, storage, processing and waste management facilities, highways, landfills, contaminated water bodies and other dispersed sources).

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