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Risk, doubt, and the burden of proof in the climate debate

GreenBiz

At one such event in 2014, speaker Christopher Monckton surveyed the room and declared that everyone there agreed that humanity’s "emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases have contributed to the measured global warming since 1950." His point was to make it clear that "we are not climate change deniers." Risk & Resilience.

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6 Foods that have as much protein as beef with much less of an environmental impact

The Environmental Blog

That’s because they are solving a huge problem related to global warming and human health. Global warming was something that I had never previously understood growing up. Greenhouse gases (methane, carbon dioxide, ozone, etc.) What is the problem and why is it a big deal to solve?

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Risk, doubt, and the burden of proof in the climate debate

AGreenLiving

At one such event in 2014, speaker Christopher Monckton surveyed the room and declared that everyone there agreed that humanity’s “emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases have contributed to the measured global warming since 1950.” ” His point was to make it clear that “we are not climate change deniers.”

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The Overview Effect

Grist

In interviews afterward, Shatner made a plea for the planet as TV hosts tried to steer him toward topics lighter than death and global warming. In the 1969 book Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, R. In the 1980s, NASA’s satellite data and computer modeling helped scientists track ozone depletion and global warming.

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Geoengineering’s gender problem could put the planet at risk

Grist

When women do engage on geoengineering issues, they do so largely through a governance and ethics lens, says Tina Sikka, a critical race and gender theorist at Newcastle University who published a book on solar geoengineering last year. But in terms of actually working on the science, “there are almost no women.”.

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