DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

For years, academics, journalists, and activists have been unearthing documents proving that the fossil fuel industry knew about the dangers of climate change since the late 1950s. The fossil fuel industry was first warned about climate change back in 1959 by famed physicist Edward Teller, known as “the father of the hydrogen bomb.”

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 17, 2020

More than 30 million people across northern Java suffer from coastal flooding and erosion related to more severe storms and sea level rise. In some places, entire villages and more than a mile of coastline have been lost to the sea. Countries around the world can harness the power of nature to adapt to climate impacts.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2023

West Oakland, California Grist / Getty Images Oceans do not stop where the sea meets the shore. Many Americans are familiar with sea-level rise. They think that building a levee is going to protect them from rising seawater. They can also enter directly through cracks in building foundations.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

The US Clean Investment Monitor published its annual report for 2023, which saw clean investment total $239bn, up 38% from 2022. Energy & industry. Happy Monday!    Lots of spice for clean investment this week. 14% of total investment came from the feds, with $33.7B of dollars put to work.   Manufacturing.

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The system included more rainfall monitoring in the upper catchment and advances in hydrologic and hydraulic modeling to better evaluate rainfall on the streams feeding the reservoirs, water released from dams, and impacts on downstream communities.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

As explained by Julio Friedmann, senior research scholar at Columbia University’s Center for Global Energy Policy, "We have to create an industry the size of the oil and gas industry that runs in reverse. An IPCC report (2018) indicates that all remaining gas and coal fired power plants need CCS technology.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Private PR companies seeking to control access to information and public debate on behalf of the government about projects as consequential as the MBSD is dangerous — and is part of a larger concerning trend. Ironically, had I been invited, I wouldn’t have been driven to write this report.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2021

The planet's extreme situation demands a much more aggressive approach, argue Imagine's Paul Polman, Agder Energi's Steffen Syvertsen, and Bjørn K Haugland from Skift Business Climate Leaders. The Paris Agreement is the framework for a future world in which global warming remains below a level we can tolerate. We need to reach higher.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

In 2015, nearly 200 countries agreed to “Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C C above pre-industrial levels , recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change”.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2022

African green hydrogen plans, new coal-to-clean energy deals, and worsening climate impacts. A group of Six African countries this week formally launched the Africa Green Hydrogen Alliance , with a view to accelerating to new energy technologies that open up access to clean, affordable energy supplies to all.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

In the first quarter of 2023, most of the state received rainfall exceeding historic averages, with some areas experiencing 200%, or even 300% of average levels. According to the US Drought Monitor , the state is currently drought-free, although some regions are still considered abnormally dry.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Risks A report from Zurich reviewed the risks to infrastructure and the need for businesses to prepare for rising sea levels associated with global warming. As explained by Zurich, "businesses that don't build resilience to rising sea levels will get soaked". meters by 2050.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

Queen attributes the issues that north Minneapolis faces today — the vacant homes, the poor access to medicine and food, the proximity to industrial pollution — to a lack of Black ownership and the political power that accompanies wealth. By the time he was a young man, the petrochemical industry was moving in.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Despite countless investigations , lawsuits , social shaming , and regulations dating back decades, the oil and gas industry remains formidable. government had set a monopoly-busting standard for future generations. It taught the industry how to sell a dangerous and unnecessary product as if it were something useful and even fun.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

But four hurricanes since 2005 and sea level rise — it really decimated this coastline.” He estimates that 70 metres of his property has been swallowed up by sea level rise since he moved there in 1998, with trees and wetlands washed away as the ocean advanced bit by bit with each passing year. “I

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

Queen attributes the issues that north Minneapolis faces today — the vacant homes, the poor access to medicine and food, the proximity to industrial pollution — to a lack of Black ownership and the political power that accompanies wealth. ” By the time he was a young man, the petrochemical industry was moving in.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2023

As a backdrop to the United Nations climate conference in Dubai, it’s a fitting venue for a planet-wide shift that scientists say needs to happen: The region has extensive deposits of oil and gas, but also immense, untapped potential for renewable energy. Our conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution we have been steadily increasing climate warming GHGs. Fossil fuels are the primary cause of the crises we face, not only because of the pollution they generate or the impact on our climate, but due to the industry's pervasive campaigns of deceit and disinformation. million people in 2015.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution we have been steadily increasing climate warming GHGs. Fossil fuels are the primary cause of the crises we face, not only because of the pollution they generate or the impact on our climate, but due to the industry's pervasive campaigns of deceit and disinformation. million people in 2015.

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