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Jordan Peterson’s New Online School Will Be Rife with Climate Crisis Deniers

DeSmogBlog

Canadian conservative newspaper columnist Rex Murphy, who has referred to global warming as an “anti-Western ideology,” is also on board, with a course “on poetry and Paradise Lost.” Last year, he referred in his newsletter to the “supposed emergency of climate change that critics have lambasted as unfounded alarmism.”

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Why We Need Carbon Capture and Sequestration

Green Market Oracle

Carbon capture and sequestration have often been considered technologies of last resort. As emissions keep rising and global carbon budgets decline, it is becoming increasingly apparent that if we are to stave off the worst of climate change we must deploy and scale these desperate remedies as quickly as possible. Welch, 2019).

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How oysters and seagrass could help the California coast adapt to rising seas

Grist

As the earth’s temperature warms, coastal populations around the world are wrestling with how to adapt to rising seas. Coastal armoring refers to the construction of hard structures like seawalls along coasts, and nearly 14 percent of American coastline is already armored. It’s a very interesting feedback loop.”.

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A Push to Expedite Permits Fueled by Disaster Capitalism Threatens to Fastrack the Climate Crisis

DeSmogBlog

Despite the region’s shrinking wetlands, the government continues to permit new LNG export facilities on the Gulf Coast , and is encouraging hydrogen and carbon capture sequestration developments , though they too will lead to further land loss. Jurisich and Copper see this as bad form.

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Climate change is creating security threats around the world - and militaries are responding

Business Green

In reference to the 'Polar Silk Road', China has started to refer to itself as a 'near Arctic state ', something that, in absolute terms, is geographically false. Carbon bootprints. Many coastal naval bases are, for example, at risk from sea level rises. Climate change also amplifies national security risks.

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A North-Pole, How Much Longer?

Mr. Sustainability

When there is no sea ice and no continental glaciers whatsoever on the planet, it is commonly referred to as greenhouse Earth. This actually is the standard scenario for Earth: it is estimated that for 85% of Earth’s geological history there has been no Arctic (sea) ice whatsoever! Sea Ice extent is going down.

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Lost Decade: How Shell Downplayed Early Warnings Over Climate Change

DeSmogBlog

Nor does it refer to a topic that was of unequivocal scientific concern at the time: The “greenhouse effect,” or what is now known as climate change. Harmful Wastes” Shell’s knowledge of the risks posed by the build-up of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) from burning fossil fuels can be traced to at least the early 1960s.