The Environmental Blog

JULY 17, 2019

As we all know that climate change is one of the most significant challenges that we are facing in this century. Vietnam, known for its beaches, rivers, and bustling cities, is considered as one of the countries which are significantly impacted by global climate change. Current Status of Climate Change in Vietnam.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 2, 2024

Scientists said the deluge and its aftermath — not the county’s first “100-year flood” in recent years — are a harbinger of the intense and dangerous rainstorms that a warming climate is making more likely. Nicky Sundt, a climate expert and former communications director for the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The UK’s new climate minister has pulled out of an event hosting two of the world’s most prominent climate science deniers, DeSmog can reveal. climate science denial activist. Climate Science Deniers. in a call and response chant of “Global warming is?” climate science denial activist.

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Grist

AUGUST 20, 2021

It might sound like a low bar, but for those who care about facts, it’s been a long wait: News coverage of climate is finally getting the science right. That’s a sharp change from the last comparable study in 2004, when researchers discovered that more than half of articles treated dissenting opinions as equally valid.

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Grist

JULY 11, 2023

The Pacific Northwest heat wave of 2021 was one of the most extreme ever recorded globally , a “ historic, dangerous, prolonged, and unprecedented ” event that took a hefty toll on people and infrastructure. The blistering weather had many people wondering: Is this climate change? Already, the U.S.

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Grist

JULY 23, 2021

Climate scientists have long warned that global warming would lead to extreme heat in many parts of the world. He was one of two dozen extreme weather and climate researchers who conducted an analysis in the days following the heatwave that found it would not have occurred in the absence of anthropogenic climate change. “We

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Last month, Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary Clare Coutinho met with and praised fuel pricing lobbyist Howard Cox , a Reform UK candidate who wants to “scrap net zero” and claims that “man is not responsible for global warming”. million in donations from fossil fuel interests and climate science deniers in 2022.

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GreenBiz

MAY 16, 2020

Risk, doubt, and the burden of proof in the climate debate. Excerpted from " Industrial-Strength Denial: Eight Stories of Corporations Defending the Indefensible, from the Slave Trade to Climate Change " by Barbara Freese, published by the University of California Press. Barbara Freese. Sat, 05/16/2020 - 14:20.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2021

There’s no longer any need to ask if heat waves are influenced by climate change. Now, if we have an extreme heat wave, the null hypothesis is, ‘Climate change is making that worse,’” said Andrew Dessler, a professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University. “Now, Yes — and it’s time to stop asking.

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Grist

JULY 27, 2019

This story was as originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Commenting on the study, other scientists said it was an important breakthrough in the “fingerprinting” task of proving how human responsibility has changed the climate in ways not seen in the past.

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Business Green

JANUARY 9, 2023

The detrimental effect of global warming on worker productivity is already having a tangible impact on global labour markets and economic growth, according to a major new report from the London School of Economics' Grantham Research Institute. Changes to labour rights are usually written in blood," Dasgupta said.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The UK organisers of the upcoming COP26 climate summit have come under fire for approving just two events that refer to fossil fuels, the primary driver of climate change, in a programme of public events happening alongside the main conference. Corporate-Friendly Sideshows’.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

It sounds like just the kind of unfathomable disaster that wouldn’t have happened without climate change. Scientists from the World Weather Attribution group found that climate change likely intensified the overall rain by 50 percent this summer. Studying the disaster is one thing; dealing with its fallout is another.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 23, 2023

. | Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi / Bloomberg via Getty Images More than 130 companies, including Volvo Cars, Ikea, Unilever, Nestlé, and AstraZeneca, signed a letter calling on governments to adopt a global plan to phase out fossil fuels without carbon capture during upcoming international climate negotiations.

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 4, 2019

While these events are indeed linked to climate change, direct attribution is often approached by media with hesitation. Extreme weather attribution is a growing field of climate science, with an increasing number of studies dedicated to establishing the role that climate change plays in our changing weather patterns.

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Grist

OCTOBER 2, 2019

This year has already included a slew of record-setting weather events in the Northern Hemisphere, all courtesy of climate change. If you’re reading this, you probably know that weather and climate are not the same thing, and extreme winter weather doesn’t refute the existence of climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2024

Hintze, a Conservative peer and hedge fund manager, was one of the early funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , founded by the late Conservative chancellor Nigel Lawson. Hintze has said that he believes “there is climate change” caused “in part due to human activity over the past century”.

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Business Green

AUGUST 23, 2021

Floods akin to those that took hundreds of lives Belgium and Germany this summer likely to become more common occurrence due to climate change, research shows. The attribution study, conducted by dozens of researchers in the World Weather Attribution group, concluded that extreme rainfall events are now between 1.2

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The self-styled PopCons included politicians critical of climate policies and science, including Lord Frost, who is a director of the climate science denial Global Warming Policy Foundation , as well as Conservative MP Lee Anderson and Reform party president Nigel Farage.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Attribution science is making it increasingly possible to directly link storms and hurricanes to climate change. "We Rood, a professor of meteorology at the University of Michigan’s College of Engineering, told Inside Climate News. Global Change Research Program. Also in general there is increased risk of flooding."

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

However, this year these events are being compounded by a global pandemic. It is becoming increasingly clear that climate change is exacerbating both extreme weather and wildfires it is also making diseases like the coronavirus worse. We have seen decades of data that conclusively demonstrate the world is warming.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Emma Howard Boyd's speech to the Committee on Climate Change's Adapting to 3C+ of global warming conference. Before I start my speech, I'd like to add my condolences to the Committee on Climate Change and everyone who knew Professor Dame Georgina Mace. billion today, to more than 5 billion by 2050.

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Christopher Kemper

JUNE 20, 2020

CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION I have a deep love for the environment at all levels?—?not climate change is among the largest issue that our generation faces. About Climate Change In this world, all things are connected; as such, each and every thing has an impact on each and every thing else. my brand?—?is

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Attribution science is making it increasingly possible to directly link storms and hurricanes to climate change. "We Rood, a professor of meteorology at the University of Michigan’s College of Engineering, told Inside Climate News. Global Change Research Program. Also in general there is increased risk of flooding."

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

What is climate change and why should we be concerned about it. Climate change refers to a broad array of environmental degradation that is predicted to result from increasing levels of atmospheric CO2, including global warming , alterations in precipitation, sea level changes, and more extreme weather events.

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Green Living Guy

AUGUST 15, 2022

Global warming has driven an influx of extreme weather events and prompted city governments worldwide to seek sustainable solutions for greater climate resilience and public safety measures.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Companies have a part to play in ambitious climate action — not least because it increasingly makes strong economic sense, writes UN Global Compact CEO Sanda Ojiambo. Today, all business leaders must become climate leaders in their own spheres of influence and raise their voices with ours.

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Grist

JANUARY 10, 2020

Australia is in the midst of a devastating wildfire season that is being exacerbated by climate change. But the fires, which have been burning for months and could rage on for months to come, are also impacting the earth’s climate in several ways. It’s a great example of a positive feedback of climate change,” Hughes said. “It

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Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The research synopsis below comes from AGCI Program Director Emily Jack-Scott and a full list of AGCI’s updates covering recent climate change and clean energy pathways research is available online at [link]. Among the projections: climate impacts worsen nearly 60 percent of infectious diseases. Source: Mora et al.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

A “sustainable development” conference taking place in London gave a platform to two prominent climate science deniers, who used the event to claim that coal-fired power is “clean” and call global warming a “religion”. Climate Change ‘Debate’ U.S.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

From Paris to 2030 is a free live virtual event that is taking place December 9, 2020. While the economics of clean, renewable energy have become increasingly favorable, there has been a glaring lack of leadership, particularly at the global level.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Coca-Cola appropriately is the longtime ally of the poster child for climate change, the polar bear. At just 11, I thought I could stop global warming, so I created a blog with articles urging people, "Save the polar bears." Want to know how well our society is tackling climate change? Look to polar bears.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

California is becoming a poster child for the risks utilities face from climate change, from power lines starting wildfires to heat waves forcing increasingly renewable-powered grids to the brink of system collapse.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

Last year was one of the worst on record for climate change-related disasters, yet Canada’s federal government spent $18.6 It is 10 times what the government has invested in climate change adaptation since 2015. The pipeline has been called a ‘global warming machine.’

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2021

Calls for action to address economic risks from worrying climate scenarios have come from natural scientists for decades - now economists are lending their voices, writes the University of Delaware's Dr James Rising. Does unmitigated climate change carry the risk of economic collapse? Natural scientists like James Hansen and E.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

To avoid the worst consequences of global warming, report after report has stressed the importance of cutting emissions. Early warning systems are technologies that can accurately forecast when a storm, heatwave, or other adverse weather event is incoming. trillion from 2020 to 2030 could generate $7.1 Early warning systems.

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Grist

AUGUST 12, 2021

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s sixth assessment report , released on Monday, contained some of the group’s strongest language yet affirming the link between human activity and global warming. The plaintiffs said the erosion had been exacerbated by climate change. But the U.S.

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