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Lost Decade: How Shell Downplayed Early Warnings Over Climate Change

DeSmogBlog

Climate change was starting to become a commonplace scientific concern, as evidenced by the January 1973 edition of the UNESCO Courier, a monthly magazine published by the Paris-based UN scientific and cultural organization UNESCO.

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A North-Pole, How Much Longer?

Mr. Sustainability

This effect is explained clearly in this article by Discover Magazine. In September 2020, sea surface temperatures in the Laptev Sea off Siberia climbed higher than 5 degrees Celsius. Sea level rising (not because of melting). Once all the ice is gone, the water gets much warmer very quickly.

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50 Books on Climate Change and Sustainbility

Green Market Oracle

Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. Climate changes triggered the first human migrations out of Africa. Falling sea levels allowed our passage across the Bering Sea. Miami, Florida, is likely to be entirely underwater by the end of this century.

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

Andrew Winston

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. And in a quieter move, a major real estate investor in Miami began pulling money out of coastal assets to avoid risk of sea level rise.