Energy Innovation
DECEMBER 17, 2018
As societies around the world continue emitting heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, they face the consequence of sea level rise. Since 1900, sea levels have increased 8 inches on average globally, and by 2100, sea levels will likely rise between 1 and 4 feet (Sweet et al.
DeSmogBlog
JUNE 9, 2021
ExxonMobil says it’s made 18 oil discoveries in Guyana since 2015 — the same year the Paris Agreement was adopted — and the company started production in earnest in December 2019. Sea level rise isn’t the only reason oil development may leave Guyana more exposed to floods and storms. Double the Risks”.
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Grist
APRIL 8, 2022
When nations gathered in France in 2015, they initially were aiming to keep global temperatures “well below 2 degrees Celsius.” It doesn’t contradict the laws of chemistry and physics to get to 1.5 degree goal was added into the Paris Agreement as a kind of afterthought. As of 2020, the planet had already warmed by 1.2 degrees.). “It
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
In 2015, the Hague District Court in the Netherlands issued a landmark ruling — subsequently upheld on appeal — in a climate lawsuit brought by Urgenda and Dutch citizens against the national government. A two-week hearing on the case before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg, Germany concluded on Monday.
Grist
MARCH 30, 2022
Sea-level rise is also irreversible — the heat collecting in ice sheets and the ocean will continue to drive sea-level rise long after the temperature is stabilized or even lowered. Scientists say sea level rise is one of the irreversible impacts of an overshoot scenario.
DeSmogBlog
OCTOBER 29, 2021
At a Columbia University symposium, physicist Edward Teller warns oil executives about rising levels of carbon dioxide and the likelihood of global warming and sea level rise by the end of the century. Available at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL). Document 1: 1959. Document 5: 1980.
DeSmogBlog
DECEMBER 11, 2022
In 2015, nearly 200 countries agreed to “Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C C above pre-industrial levels , recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change”.
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