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The Role Of Managed Retreat In Adapting To Sea Level Rise

Energy Innovation

Mach and Miyuki Hino of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, and a full list of AGCI’s quarterly research updates covering recent climate change research on clean energy pathways is available online at [link]. The scope of people and properties exposed to potential damage from sea level rise is immense.

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

Energy Innovation

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. Earth’s rapid warming since the 19 th century offers a unique challenge to the research community in projecting the extent of sea level rise (SLR) by 2100 and beyond.

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Study: Global warming will stay below 2 degrees C — if countries actually keep their promises

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Scientists now estimate that current emissions trajectories make a 4-degree scenario highly implausible, even as total carbon emissions continue to rise. The new study also adds to the growing consensus that limiting warming to 1.5 The prime minister of Barbados, for instance, called 2 degrees of warming a “death sentence.”.

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The world may have already crossed 5 climate tipping points

Grist

The research projects that four of these tipping points will move from possible to likely as global temperatures reach 1.5 degrees C of warming, the goal set by nations in the Paris Agreement in 2015. Several other critical tipping points will become likely if global temperatures surpass the 1.5 degree threshold.

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In Their Own Words: The Dirty Dozen Documents of Big Oil’s Secret Climate Knowledge

DeSmogBlog

s investigative journalism arm, and the British Channel 4 News this summer exposing how the oil giant and lobby groups such as the American Petroleum Institute seed doubt about climate change and undermine legislation to stop global warming. Document 1: 1959. View on DocumentCloud. View on DocumentCloud.

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Immediate action is needed to ensure ‘a livable future for all,’ UN report says

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Current and future risks from climate change are far worse than previously estimated, but urgent action is still possible to “secure a liveable future for all.” The release is from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, a United Nations body of leading climate experts from around the world.

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Can the world overshoot its climate targets — and then fix it later?

Grist

In February, on the eve of the release of a major new report on the effects of climate change by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, several of its authors met with reporters virtually to present their findings. degrees Celsius of global warming that has occurred to date.