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A Green Christmas Carol

Green Market Oracle

They use their tremendous wealth to buy politicians and political outcomes. The ghost of the present Both Donald Trump and the Republican party pander to the fossil fuel industry and the president's fossil fuel powered politics have pushed us to the precipice of a climate catastrophe. million people in 2015.

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A Green Christmas Carol

Green Market Oracle

They use their tremendous wealth to buy politicians and political outcomes. The ghost of the present Both US President Donald Trump and the Republican party pander to the fossil fuel industry and the president's fossil fuel powered politics have pushed us to the precipice of a climate catastrophe. million people in 2015.

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Not so moral money?

Business Green

Leaving aside whether or not pretty much the entire scientific, political, and financial establishment is populated by "nutjobs", Kirk is guilty of a long-standing error about the nature of risk. Financiers reckon they can unwind their position before they are left holding carbon intensive assets that are not worth what they paid for them.

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'Climate breakdown has already begun': Green figures react to IPCC's landmark climate warning

Business Green

Taking immediate action to slash emissions towards net zero by 2050 could make a monumental difference to the level, frequency, and breadth of growing climate impacts, the scientists emphasise. Without deep carbon pollution cuts now, the 1.5-degree We need immediate action on energy. degree goal will fall quickly out of reach.

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

Business Green

In summer 2021, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change raised the threat level posed by climate change to a ' code red for humanity'. Anthropogenic climate change is at once evident and escalating, transforming natural, economic and socio-political environments. Carbon bootprints. There are physical risks.

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90% Of Earth’s Warming In 1971–2010 Happened In The Ocean

CleanTechnica

For years (and we mean many years), the ocean helped us mitigate the early effects of human emissions by absorbing greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide and heat, from the atmosphere. As a result, more than 90 percent of the warming that happened on Earth between 1971 and 2010 occurred in the ocean.