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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." Risk & Resilience. His point was to make it clear that "we are not climate change deniers."

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Did climate change cause societies to collapse? New research upends the old story.

Grist

Painting a more complex picture of the past — one that includes stories of resilience in the face of abrupt shifts in the climate — might avoid the fatalism and despair that sets in when many people grasp the scale of the climate crisis. While 77 percent of the studies emphasized catastrophe, only 10 percent focused on resilience.

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50 Books on Climate Change and Sustainbility

Green Market Oracle

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. This is a companion piece to the the 25 books in The Green Market Oracle's well informed readers list. These books are organized in the following six categories: 1. Climate impacts 2. Climate action 4.

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Trends in Food, Agriculture, and Nature-Based Solutions with Mitch Rubin

Elemental Excelerator

If I had to chalk it up to concrete moments of inspiration, I would say there are three books that really shaped my path toward working in climate change. Reading this book was kind of like the moment in The Matrix when Neo is given the choice of the red and blue pill. What inspired you to work fighting climate change?

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Oceans. The Threats to our Sea and What Can Be Done to turn the Tide

Green Living Guy

Thank you so much to National Geographic for sending me the book called: Oceans. The Threats to our Sea and What Can Be Done to turn the Tide. oceans #protectouroceans This unique tie-in to the major motion picture Oceans—coming this April from Disney & National Geographic—explores the health of our. The post Oceans.

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Immersive, dystopian exhibit shows what life could be like post-climate change

AGreenLiving

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.

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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.”