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As climate change threatens cultural treasures, museums get creative to conserve both energy and artifacts

Grist

But climate control represents a particularly bedeviling problem, since more energy use contributes to climate change, which in turn causes greater temperature extremes that necessitate even more energy use to maintain a controlled indoor environment (sometimes known as the “doom loop” of AC ). Southwick agrees.

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The COVID Covenant: Going big is the price of admission

GreenBiz

This year’s Climate Week commitments notwithstanding, we haven’t shown the same guts and drive on climate as on COVID. Take climate change — in the grand scheme, a far greater and decidedly more existential emergency than the current pandemic. We need to shift the whole game, raise the level of ambition, move that needle.

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A record warm streak in the oceans has scientists worried

Grist

Average sea surface temperatures this spring are roughly 1.5 Average sea surface temperatures, by month and year. Climate Change Institute / University of Maine “The oceans are enormous, so they don’t warm very quickly ordinarily,” Robert Rohde, a physicist at the environmental data science nonprofit Berkeley Earth, told Grist.

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How the Climate Conversation Changed in 2021

Planet Pulse

Meaningful progress on climate change in this decade will require significant changes to almost every sector of the global economy, including energy, transport, industry, agriculture, cities, finance, and land use. The impacts are already here. The impacts are already here. So if that’s the case, why aren’t we acting?”.

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A vital Atlantic Ocean system could collapse sooner than previously thought

Grist

Climate change has altered those conditions though, by warming oceans to record high temperatures and introducing more freshwater through sea-ice and glacier melt. We’re talking huge, huge climate changes in a very short time,” said Ditlevsen. “We degree Celsius (1.9 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming. “We’re

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How Improved Housing in Under-Served Communities Can Strengthen Climate Resilience

The City Fix

In the crowded slums of Zambia, Africa, members of the Zambia Youth Federation, a social movement of the urban poor, conducted climate change research and presented it in an emotional spoken word poem. Their message let policymakers know how climate.

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Tory members back stronger green energy policies, as Sunak cools on heat pumps

Business Green

A flurry of energy and fossil fuel companies announced their half year profits this week, with Shell raking in $11.5bn, Total $9.8bn, Equinor $27.6bn, Exxon $16bn, and British Gas owner Centrica announcing a huge fivefold profit rise to 1.34bn since January.

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