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Are the climate and coronavirus crises really so alike?

Business Green

Over the past fortnight the coronavirus pandemic has triggered a surge in hot takes highlighting the unnerving similarities between the global public health emergency and the worsening climate emergency that runs alongside it. What happens if sea levels rise and five mega-storms make US landfall in the same year?

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A North-Pole, How Much Longer?

Mr. Sustainability

In this blog I aim to figure out how much longer will we still have Arctic sea ice. With the minimum reached, the remaining sea ice that survives the year has had its birthday, aging one year. In September 2020 the extent of the oldest ice (4+ years old) was 230,000 square kilometers, slightly more than 5% of total sea ice.

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Lost Decade: How Shell Downplayed Early Warnings Over Climate Change

DeSmogBlog

Nevertheless, lawyers are building cases on the oil industry’s own documents , seeking to echo the success of a previous generation of lawsuits against tobacco companies for covering up the health risks of smoking. This fast-evolving legal strategy has placed a premium on new archival research. There was no suggestion of a link with Shell.

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The Story of Sustainability in 2018: “We Have About 12 Years Left”

Andrew Winston

(Hi to my blog readers. Other studies tell us that sea level rise is going to be worse than we thought, Antarctica is melting three times faster than a decade ago, and Greenland is losing ice quickly as well. Happy new year. Part of the reason may be the title, which attracted some heated exchanges. Watch this space.