Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

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. On Earth Day of 2016, 1000 Friends of Iowa and others began lobbying for the creation of the Citizens Task Force on Sustainability. Originally published on ILSR.org

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 1, 2020

Nine of the ten warmest years have all occurred in the last decade and the five warmest years have all occurred in the past five years (NOAA's current global average yearly heat rankings: 1st: 2016, 2nd: 2015, 3rd: 2017, 4th: 2018, and 5th: 2014). In 2019 we saw heatwaves break records all around the world.

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Grist

MARCH 16, 2024

All that rain is significant because the melting of the Greenland ice sheet — like the melting of other glaciers around the world — is one of the most important drivers of sea level rise. Surface crevassing, which allows water to enter into the interior of the icecap, is accelerating , thanks to rapid melting.

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 3, 2020

s National Oceanographic Centre, the costs of sea level rise alone could exceed $14 trillion a year by 2100. This includes $160 trillion dollars worth of savings associated with climate action and massive risks associated with inaction. According to the U.K.’s The costs are already being felt.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Another IPCC report (2019) warned that we are seeing accelerated ice melt and sea level rise and more than 10,000 scientists from 153 countries declared a "climate emergency" (Ripple et al, 2019). Science, 14 Oct 2016: Vol. We have not heeded these warning and we are rapidly exhausting our carbon budgets. Anderson, K.,

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

These documents show how companies worked to erode public acceptance of climate science over the years — including Exxon corporate reports from the late 1970s, revealed by DeSmog in 2016, which stated “There is no doubt” that CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels was a growing “problem.”. Document 1: 1959. View on DocumentCloud.

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Sustainability Consulting

MARCH 11, 2021

companies and 80% of major global companies will face moderate physical risk due to wildfires, water shortages, and sea level rises by 2050. In 2016, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a U.N. . · Major global companies face $284 billion carbon pricing costs in 2025, representing 13% of earnings.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

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. The Great Acceleration – Beyond Natural Variation.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 2, 2024

But Isle de Jean Charles is rapidly eroding into the Gulf of Mexico, battered by hurricanes and rising sea levels. In 2016, the U.S. government provided federal funding to relocate residents because of sea level rise, which made it the first case of organized climate migration.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. Cohen, forward by Bill McKibben, 2016 Coming of Age at the End of Nature explores a new kind of environmental writing. Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt by Sarah Jaffe, 2016 This book explores movement-building in America.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

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.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 12, 2020

The fossil fuel industry is driving feedback loops that include both melting permafrost and sea level rise. One of the most tragic recent oil spills took place in Mauritius which is one of the island countries that are at risk from sea level rise due to climate change.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

in 2016, set a target of keeping global warming to no more than 2 degrees C above pre-industrial levels, with an ambitious goal of keeping it below 1.5 To achieve this stricter goal, global greenhouse gas emissions would have to be slashed in half from current levels by 2030. Sea levels are doing pretty much the same thing.”.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The article also cast doubt on climate science, suggesting “some research shows little change” in extreme weather, downplayed sea-level rises, adding: “Climate change is going on, as it has for millennia.”. Ebell was tapped by Donald Trump’s team to lead its transition for the Environmental Protection Agency in 2016.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 29, 2022

percent over 2016 levels. There, the court heard firsthand how climate change and sea level rise are impacting the islands’ First Nations inhabitants and how the proposed mine would worsen those effects. Formosa’s proposed petrochemical complex would have emitted an estimated 13.6 coal plants.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

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. .

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

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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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

She described the environmental injustices in her community in a 2016 thesis : “The health of these communities need to be prioritized and protected from any more pollution from Exide and other environmental injustices,” she wrote. ” Pull Quote You’ve got to have ownership.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

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.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 10, 2022

Farage has likened his net zero campaign to his push for Brexit and clearly hopes to repeat the populist tactics used ahead of the 2016 EU referendum. If you were worried about sea level rises, you’d be better investing the money in defences.”

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Earth Gratitude

MAY 25, 2016

Fish and Sea Water Flood Miami Streets. Miami, Florida is already experiencing Sunny Day Flooding during high tides, when sea water and fish flood the city streets. Sea level rise is here and now, and Miami, Florida is the most vulnerable city in the world by assets. This is not a some-day problem.

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 6, 2020

Read more » Remembering Berta on International Women's Day On International Women's Day 2016 we mourn the loss of Berta Cáceres, a truly heroic environmental organizer. On January 18, 2016, Dr. Brundtland received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Zayed Future Energy Prize 2016 for her global leadership on sustainability.

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