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Sea Level Rise: The Past As An Indicator Of The Future

Energy Innovation

New research focused on the mechanisms and rates of how snow and ice is lost to the ocean from the land, along with studies of past climates offer new insights into how much sea level may change in the coming years. Both approaches utilize computer models to further explore the relationship between sea level and climate.

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Jordan Peterson’s New Online School Will Be Rife with Climate Crisis Deniers

DeSmogBlog

Rex Murphy speaking at the 2014 UBCM conference. In a survey of teenage boys commissioned by CCDH, 45 percent agreed with the statement that “politicians are exaggerating the urgency of climate policies.” Credit: Province of BC / Flickr CC Peterson Academy did not respond to DeSmog’s request for comment.

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How the Climate Conversation Changed in 2021

Planet Pulse

We can see wildfires burning greater areas, heatwaves becoming more frequent and more deadly, hurricanes stronger and more damaging, the sea level rising, floods increasing, droughts getting stronger. They want us to ensure the policies we are putting in place leave a cleaner, greener future for them.”.

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Why We Need Carbon Capture and Sequestration

Green Market Oracle

As explained by Julio Friedmann, senior research scholar at Columbia University’s Center for Global Energy Policy, "We have to create an industry the size of the oil and gas industry that runs in reverse. Deploying carbon capture is a massive endeavor and we have limited time. And we’re on the clock.

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As climate change threatens cultural treasures, museums get creative to conserve both energy and artifacts

Grist

“And a quarter are in zones that are highly vulnerable to sea level rise and severe storms,” she added. The organization first launched in 2014; it currently has a pop-up space in Manhattan’s Soho neighborhood, while the team continues to look for a permanent home. dedicated to the climate crisis.

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A decidedly impartial review of Mark Jacobson’s 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything

Renewable Energy World

Congress; and policy pros serving President Obama. By February 2014, Jacobson, with the help of students and colleagues, finished a draft of the roadmaps for all 50 U.S. The dual papers now made it easier for policy makers to push the 100% WWS model forward. Jacobson didn’t stop there. WWS Roadmaps for 50 States.

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Corporate Action on Climate Change Has to Include Lobbying

Andrew Winston

Using a full-page ad in The New York Times , the group is calling for business to advocate for policies, at all levels of government, that are consistent with what climate science is telling us we need to do — what they’re calling a “science-based climate policy agenda.” This isn’t the first attempt.