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Understanding the Anthropocene, Resilience Thinking, and the Future of Industry

Green Business Bureau

In 2016, the Anthropocene Working Group confirmed that the Anthropocene is different from the Holocene, and it began in the year 1950 with the Great Acceleration. Permafrost and methane hydrates – Permafrost is ground soil or rock that contains ice or frozen organic material that has remained at or below 0C for at least two years.

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A North-Pole, How Much Longer?

Mr. Sustainability

None of them were ever to be seen or heard from again until the wreck was found at the bottom of an Arctic bay in 2016, aptly named Terror Bay. Sea level rising (not because of melting). Naturally the ice which is ‘floating’ in the Arctic will not directly impact sea levels when it melts. Lot’s of Methane.

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The Uncertain Future of Gas Exports on Louisiana’s Vanishing Coastline

DeSmogBlog

But four hurricanes since 2005 and sea level rise — it really decimated this coastline.” He estimates that 70 metres of his property has been swallowed up by sea level rise since he moved there in 1998, with trees and wetlands washed away as the ocean advanced bit by bit with each passing year.

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How Climate-Friendly is Liz Truss’s Cabinet?

DeSmogBlog

In June 2022, Clarke delivered a speech during a House of Commons debate saying that a recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report was “really devastating”, noting the threats of sea level rise and biodiversity loss if global temperatures aren’t limited. Penny Mordaunt – Leader of the Commons.

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Climate Change: Where Are We Now?

Unsustainable

The year 2016 ranks as the warmest on record. The UCSUSA points out that “Consequences of global warming include drought, sea level rise, flooding, extreme weather, and species loss. Note: This graph illustrates the change in global surface temperature relative to 1951-1980 average temperatures.

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Climate Deniers Are Using These Four Major Scare Tactics to Stop Climate Action

DeSmogBlog

As catastrophic fires spread across the world and large swathes of land are flooded by extreme weather events or threatened by sea-level rise, outright denial is no longer the most effective strategy, or these days, the most common. A Threat to Hamburgers.