AGreenLiving

JANUARY 16, 2020

As a wake up call to the possible effects of global warming, London-based multidisciplinary design studio Superflux has created “Mitigation of Shock, Singapore,” an immersive exhibition that explores the possible consequences of sea level rise for city dwellers in coastal areas. Superflux Images via Superflux.

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Business Green

JUNE 15, 2021

Government's failure to prioritise climate resilience risks undermining UK's ability to meet net zero and biodiversity goals, CCC warns. The UK is already experiencing widespread changes to its climate, with average land temperatures having risen by around 1.2C The pandemic is a new context for that," Stark argued.

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Grist

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The findings suggest that estimates for global sea-level rise need to be reworked and that we’re even closer to the day that fish start chasing each other through New York City’s subway tunnels. This new paper didn’t lay out any new estimates for future sea level rise. on Oct 24, 2019.

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Grist

MARCH 16, 2021

Now, the boot is losing a football field of land every hour to the rising tide. In order to save the state from sea-level rise, the Louisiana state government is embarking on a series of years-long, multi-billion dollar projects to slow the rate of land loss. But there are efforts underway to change that.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 9, 2019

We ignored these warnings and we keep pumping climate change causing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere at record breaking rates. Everyone from Stephen Hawkings to President Obama have warned us of the urgent need to act on climate change. It warned humanity about the dangers of climate change.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Here’s a sampler of some of their work around sea-level rise, art, and agriculture. It’s not easy to visualize environmental problems like lead-poisoned water or climate change. Last year, he installed an exhibit that envisioned Times Square drowned in 26 feet of water as a result of sea-level rise.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Photos I shot on a flight on September 4, 2021 illustrate what United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres meant last month when he described the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report as a “code red” for human-driven global heating. Isle de Jean Charles on Aug. 22, 2021, before Ida arrived.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 1, 2020

This year (2019) is likely to be the second warmest year in the hottest decade on record. Except for January of this year, each month in 2019 has been in the top three hottest on record. In 2019 we saw heatwaves break records all around the world. The months of June, September , October also broke records.

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Elemental Excelerator

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Striking both for their beauty — and for the grave and imminent threat posed by sea-level rise and coastal erosion. It’s why climate change has always felt personal to him. “At At a fundamental level, it is a crisis and it’s happening right now and affecting millions of people,” he said.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

As emissions keep rising and global carbon budgets decline, it is becoming increasingly apparent that if we are to stave off the worst of climate change we must deploy and scale these desperate remedies as quickly as possible. Lindsey, 2019). Welch, 2019).

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Accusing people of alarmism has long been a favorite tactic of climate deniers and those who oppose climate action. In Italy, daily newspaper Il Mattino published multiple interviews with climate deniers saying the record heat is “influenced by the sun’s cycles” and “isn’t news.” Changing Extremes.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 3, 2019

Climate Action Planning Creating Low Carbon Resilient Communities, an adaptation blueprint for communities, will take place on August 7, 2019 1:15 to 2:45 PM EDT. It should be a first stop for any local government interested in addressing climate change. This is an Island Press Webinar Series.

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Grist

MARCH 20, 2023

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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Grist

DECEMBER 2, 2019

For issues as broad as climate change, the thinking goes, these creative folks could take academic findings and translate them for people who don’t speak the language of facts and numbers fluently. So how would working with artists help climate scientists communicate? O’Connell: I think it would help incredibly.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

July 2019 was hottest month ever recorded and this year's high ocean temperatures have proven fatal to marine wildlife. High sea surface temperatures, drive stronger winds, more evaporation, more atmospheric moisture and more heavy precipitation. Hurricane Dorian is hardly the only extreme weather event we have seen in 2019.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 4, 2022

Vano , and a full list of AGCI’s quarterly research updates covering recent climate change research on clean energy pathways is available online at [link]. Climate scientists often use global climate models (or Earth system models) to understand climate change impacts. Extreme weather events.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Health CLIMATE IMPACTS Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe by Mario Alejandro Ariza, 2020 A deeply reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist examines the present and future effects of climate change in the Magic City -- a watery harbinger for coastal cities worldwide.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 21, 2021

The tide is turning against Louisiana’s proposed $2 billion Mississippi River sediment diversion project, that supporters say is needed to save the coast from rapid land loss due to subsidence, damage done by the oil and gas industry, extreme weather events, and sea level rise quickened by climate change.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2022

With respect to the warnings of the severity of climate change, this is presently far from the case. With regard to addressing climate change, the transition to a new renewable energy-based paradigm is the greatest economic opportunity of all time. gigatons of CO2 annually (GtCO2/year). Nature is no longer on our side.

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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. With so much heavy lifting needed by the corporate sector to alter the current climate trajectory, here are the 10 ten trends to watch for in 2021. Nearly 95% of major U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The project’s supporters, including major environmental nonprofits like the Environmental Defense Fund, the National Wildlife Federation, and the Audubon Society, say large river diversions are the most effective way to send land-building sediment streaming into the bayou from the Mississippi River to fight land subsidence and sea-level rise.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 24, 2023

Scientist Ivor van Heerden stands next to the Bayou Bridge pipeline on the west side of the Atchafalaya Basin in 2019. Another LNG export project proposed in a predominantly white community in Louisiana, Commonwealth LNG, submitted an application to LDNR for a Coastal Use Permit in 2019. The opposite has proven to be true.

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The impacts of climate change are already being felt in South Asia in the form of erratic rainfall patterns predicted by climatologists. Around 2010, authorities in Surat began a process that strengthened understanding of how more intensive periods of projected rainfall due to climate change would magnify the risk of floods.

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Unsustainable

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Jeanne Yacoubou has broken down the numbers concerning climate change in 2019 , and we’ve seen how Miami is fighting against sea-level rise.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

It provides a steer on the solutions and services that policymakers have - nominally at least - pledged to support as part of their response to the climate crisis, and it provides a helpful summary of the various ways climate change will impact the ecosystems, infrastructure, and workers all businesses rely on.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Life as an outdoor educator might seem like it’s all fun and games — romping around outside, playing games, looking at bugs — until it comes to talking to 9-year-olds about climate change. They want to talk about it, but it can be hard sometimes,” Ian Schooley said with a laugh.

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Andrew Winston

AUGUST 7, 2019

That said, the other megatrends, especially climate change, could slow or change the outcomes here. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has made clear how critical it is to radically alter the path of carbon emissions to hold the world to 1.5 The results of climate change will be unrelenting.

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Andrew Winston

AUGUST 7, 2019

That said, the other megatrends, especially climate change, could slow or change the outcomes here. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has made clear how critical it is to radically alter the path of carbon emissions to hold the world to 1.5 The results of climate change will be unrelenting.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

In just ten years, Jacobson has harnessed passion, determination and science to re-frame the way renewable energy is seen and, ultimately, accepted as a viable solution to climate change and air pollution. Climate Change Conference in Paris. Congress between 2015 and 2019. In December, Jacobson attended the U.N.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2023

Most often, climate change is associated with a decrease in groundwater, fueled by worsening drought and evaporative demand. But in some areas, this water is actually creeping higher, thanks to rising sea levels and more intense rainfall , bringing a surge of problems for which few communities are prepared.

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Grist

JULY 31, 2019

A recent NASA study found that, if warming continues at its current rate, Greenland alone could contribute 63 inches (over 5 feet) to global sea-level rise in the next 200 years — enough to swamp Miami Beach, Atlantic City, New Orleans, and parts of Boston and New York City, to name a few. This has not happened before.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Tiny glass beads might seem an unlikely hero in the fight against climate change, but they may end up playing an outsize role in tackling one of the natural world’s most dire predicaments.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Thousands of the world's leading climate scientists, after over three years of work, today delivered yet another landmark report on the state of the climate and ecological emergency the world now faces. Today's IPCC report is an atlas of human suffering and a damning indictment of failed climate leadership.

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Grist

AUGUST 10, 2019

Alaska ’s avg temperature for #July 2019 (58.1°F) — NOAA (@NOAA) August 7, 2019. The unusually hasty retreat of ice in 2019 has been prompted by persistent southerly winds, storms, and high temperatures roiling both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. Across the Arctic, July set a new record low for sea ice extent , at 2.93

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Nor does it refer to a topic that was of unequivocal scientific concern at the time: The “greenhouse effect,” or what is now known as climate change. He dubbed his project “ Dirty Pearls: exposing Shell’s hidden legacy of climate change accountability, 1970-1990.”

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2021

In the words of Ban Ki-moon, former Secretary General of the United Nations, "Climate change is the single greatest threat to a sustainable future but, addressing the climate challenge presents an opportunity to promote prosperity, security and a brighter future for all.".

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

LSU Center for River Studies on April 22, 2019, where the CPRA showed guests how it uses its a 3D scale model of the lower Mississippi River to make projections about the MBSD. This makes it ripe for disaster capitalism, a phrase Naomi Klein coined in her book “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.”

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