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

GreenBiz

What continues to define these people as "deniers" in my book is their unshaken belief that climate change is simply no big deal and there is no reason to go out of our way to prevent more of it. More often, it is implicitly built into the conversation, as it was in so many other public debates, like those over leaded gas, ozone and tobacco.

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'A role model in leadership': Tributes paid to pioneering climate diplomat Sir Crispin Tickell

Business Green

Her speech to the United Nations General Assembly in 1989, which Sir Crispin had a central role in conceiving, elevated climate change, ozone depletion and other environmental issues in the international arena and helped usher in the UN climate convention in 1992.

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The Overview Effect

Grist

There’s an irony here: In order to gain this more-than-sky-high perspective, astronauts and space tourists have had to take an incredibly polluting journey. In the 1969 book Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, R. Could today’s space mania help drive momentum for acting on climate change? Others argue that it was a coincidence.

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Top 10 Economic Benefits of Converting to Solar Energy

Sunrun

Going solar can affect the climate, the economy and our own pocket books. But ground-level ozone and other pollutants from cars, power plants, industrial boilers, refineries and chemical plants can kill. Pollution is so bad in some parts of the world that people are instructed to stay indoors. million people per year.11

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Fenceline Community Groups in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Celebrate Mounting Victories

DeSmogBlog

It also walked back restrictive rules on its books related to marches. John the Baptist Parish have a lifetime risk of cancer from air pollution that is 800 times higher than the national average. Every stage of natural gas production and distribution releases methane pollution, a powerful greenhouse gas.

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

AGreenLiving

”) What continues to define these people as “deniers” in my book is their unshaken belief that climate change is simply no big deal and there is no reason to go out of our way to prevent more of it. On the contrary, he says, “The climate system is an angry beast and we are poking it with sticks.”

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How the recycling symbol lost its meaning

Grist

It’s very, very, very bad,” she says in ABC’s prime-time Earth Day special , letting out heavy sighs and listing jumbled statistics about deforestation and the hole in the ozone layer. Pollution had pushed its way into the national conversation. Elmore recounts in the book Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism.

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