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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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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. A sort of climate boomerang. Here’s how: After blowing past 1.5

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Des Moines, Iowa commits to 24/7 clean electricity

Renewable Energy World

Though it’s insulated from sea level rise, the state of Iowa faces many dangerous climate change impacts — which in turn threaten the nation’s food supply. Part of responsible land use, says Carney, is considering its impact on the climate. Originally published on ILSR.org .

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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.

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2022 Was a Big Year for Climate Action in the Courts

DeSmogBlog

For the first time ever, a climate liability lawsuit that makes tort claims to hold Big Oil accountable for the costs of climate change has reached and survived motions to dismiss. — Center for Climate Integrity (@climatecosts) March 3, 2022. percent over 2016 levels. coal plants.

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How 5 communities across the US are seeking environmental justice

GreenBiz

And a good thing that is, with climate scientists predicting sea level rise of at least a foot by 2050, which will make the Rockaways more prone to climate change-fueled flooding and storm surges than they already are. . There has been little change in her neighborhood since she was a child.

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Climate Change: Where Are We Now?

Unsustainable

words by Henry Lewis Introduction As the clock continues ticking toward the collective future of the human species on planet Earth, there are still some among us who are either skeptics or out-right deniers of climate change. The year 2016 ranks as the warmest on record. coal first and then later oil and natural gas?