DeSmogBlog

MARCH 24, 2023

Fossil fuel firms have justified their rushed construction plans by pointing to Europe’s scramble to replace Russian natural gas in the wake of the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine last February. Ozane began pushing back against the fossil fuel industry after Hurricane Laura wrecked her home in southwest Louisiana in 2020. “Me

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Whether we say climate justice, climate equity, the intersection of climate change and people or the social impacts of climate change, one thing is clear: Business has a role to play in addressing the structural inequity that causes low-income populations and communities of color to bear the brunt of the climate crisis. .

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Christopher Kemper

JUNE 20, 2020

CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION I have a deep love for the environment at all levels?—?not At a conceptual level, I believe that the ecosystem must be balanced and that among the largest issues facing the world?—?poverty climate change is among the largest issue that our generation faces. outdoors and wildlife.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

After decades of intense public debate and misinformation campaigns, nearly three-quarters of Americans now accept that climate change is happening ; not only that, more than half understand it is caused by human activity. But science education advocates aren’t too worried about the impact of the materials. It’s like ‘The 1990s called.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2021

Attempts to sue polluting companies and governments over their responsibility for climate change would have a greater chance of success if they made better use of the latest science, according to a study by Oxford University researchers. The study reviewed 73 climate litigation cases against polluters across 14 jurisdictions.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

.” “Time will tell, but I fear Jordan Peterson’s academy will become misinformation packaged as educational enlightenment and sold to unwitting students by a conservative media company that’s not a real university,” said Mirrlees, who studies rightwing movements and climate change. Additional reporting by Taylor C.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 7, 2021

IPCC stands for Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It’s the United Nations’ climate-science-focused organization. The purpose of these reports is to provide everyone, particularly governing bodies, with the information they need to make important decisions regarding climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

New research for the first time links wildfire risks and impacts in western North America to carbon emissions traceable to the world’s largest fossil fuel and cement companies. This research builds on over a decade of science tracing heat-trapping emissions and impacts on a global scale to particular fossil fuel operations.”

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Grist

AUGUST 30, 2022

Greenland’s melting ice sheet will raise global sea levels by at least 10.6 inches, twice as much as previous estimates, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change. That’s even if everyone stopped burning fossil fuels today. A report last year from the U.N.

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Grist

MARCH 16, 2021

Now, the boot is losing a football field of land every hour to the rising tide. In order to save the state from sea-level rise, the Louisiana state government is embarking on a series of years-long, multi-billion dollar projects to slow the rate of land loss. But there are efforts underway to change that.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

s investigative journalism arm, and the British Channel 4 News this summer exposing how the oil giant and lobby groups such as the American Petroleum Institute seed doubt about climate change and undermine legislation to stop global warming. This conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity. Document 1: 1959.

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Grist

MARCH 20, 2023

Current and future risks from climate change are far worse than previously estimated, but urgent action is still possible to “secure a liveable future for all.” The release is from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, a United Nations body of leading climate experts from around the world.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 13, 2021

Greater clarity about the trajectory of climate change – and the need for decisive action – appeared to be forthcoming from the latest summary from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published on 9 August. Policy response.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Editor’s Note: This is part of a regular column, Gaslit , which navigates society’s dysfunctional relationship with fossil fuel disinformation. Recent extreme weather across the globe is showing us how rapidly the climate is changing in an increasingly warming world. Changing Extremes. Changing Extremes.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 9, 2021

A panel of leading scientists convened by the United Nations issued a comprehensive report Monday that contains a stark warning for humanity: The climate crisis is here, some of its most destructive consequences are now inevitable, and only massive and speedy reductions in greenhouse gas emissions can limit the coming disaster.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 9, 2019

We ignored these warnings and we keep pumping climate change causing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere at record breaking rates. Everyone from Stephen Hawkings to President Obama have warned us of the urgent need to act on climate change. It warned humanity about the dangers of climate change.

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Grist

JANUARY 19, 2022

In an article published in the academic news outlet The Conversation last week (and in the academic journal Climate and Development last month ), three scientists from New Zealand, including a former lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, argued that the world’s climate experts should take action — by not taking action.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Photos I shot on a flight on September 4, 2021 illustrate what United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres meant last month when he described the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report as a “code red” for human-driven global heating. Isle de Jean Charles on Aug. 22, 2021, before Ida arrived.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2022

When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — the consortium of scientists responsible for summarizing the world’s climate knowledge and releasing it in roughly decadal, 3,000-plus-page installments — published its latest report on Monday, the findings were just as grim as usual. degrees. “It Far from it.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Despite its name, ambition was largely lacking at mid-September’s Climate Ambition Summit at the United Nations in New York. Secretary General António Guterres asked nations to arrive at the session with concrete commitments for phasing out fossil fuels, observing in his opening remarks that “humanity has opened the gates of hell.”

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The US economist William Nordhaus claimed as early as the 1970s , when scientific understanding of climate change was still taking shape, that warming of more than 2C would "push global conditions past any point that any human civilisation had experienced". became the acceptable limit to rising temperatures? So why did 1.5C

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Grist

MARCH 30, 2022

In February, on the eve of the release of a major new report on the effects of climate change by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, several of its authors met with reporters virtually to present their findings. A sort of climate boomerang. Here’s how: After blowing past 1.5

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GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

The consequences of that imbalance are felt in water cycle disruptions, sea-level rises, far stronger storms and the spread of tropical diseases northward, he noted. We now know that the burning of fossil fuels is a precondition for higher mortality rates under COVID-19. Climate Change. Innovation.

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 3, 2020

This includes $160 trillion dollars worth of savings associated with climate action and massive risks associated with inaction. s National Oceanographic Centre, the costs of sea level rise alone could exceed $14 trillion a year by 2100. Reducing fossil fuel dependence in the U.S. According to the U.K.’s

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Climate change is accelerating and intensifying across every region of the planet, bringing with it increases in rainfall, flooding, drought, heatwaves, and sea levels that are already having significant implications for economies around the world.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2022

The first page of Menlo Park, California’s 2030 Climate Action Plan shows a map predicting which parts of the city will be underwater by the end of the century, flooded by the rising waters of San Francisco Bay. Sea level rise is just one imminent threat for Silicon Valley. The science is clear and unambiguous.”.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 16, 2019

This is critical because people who deny the veracity of climate change are almost impossible to reach with science and reason. The poll found that 70 percent of Americans age 18 to 34 say they worry about climate change, compared to 56 percent of people 55 and older. This is called strategic framing.

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2022

Scientists now estimate that current emissions trajectories make a 4-degree scenario highly implausible, even as total carbon emissions continue to rise. C, whereas weak action will see temperature continue to rise to 1.7, degrees Fahrenheit) by 2100. The difference between 1.5 While the 1.5-degree C or higher,” they noted.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The findings, which follow analyses of satellite imagery, indicate that a natural buffer that prevents the glaciers from breaking away is deteriorating at a rapid rate and could lead to destructive sea level rise. Currently, the two glaciers already contribute to about 5% of global sea level rise.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

He has long defended the scientific consensus on climate change, and having been a fervent critic of the outgoing Liberal-National coalition government's weak green policies over the past three years, he touted this weekend's election results as "an opportunity to end the climate wars in Australia".

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Grist

MARCH 22, 2021

College students fighting to get their schools to stop investing in fossil fuels have stumbled on a new idea that could bring fresh attention to their cause: Those investments might be illegal. They also write that Harvard’s fossil fuel investments threaten its own physical property by exacerbating flooding and sea-level rise.

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Business Green

JULY 28, 2022

That is despite sky high global gas prices being overwhelmingly responsible for the looming crisis, driven by lingering pandemic disruption and Russia's war in Ukraine, all of which has underscored the huge risk and volatility associated with fossil fuels, and the benefits of cheaper, green energy sources.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2022

With respect to the warnings of the severity of climate change, this is presently far from the case. With regard to addressing climate change, the transition to a new renewable energy-based paradigm is the greatest economic opportunity of all time.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

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. Carbon capture and sequestration have often been considered technologies of last resort.

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Grist

AUGUST 9, 2021

Accelerating melting of ice has poured trillions of tonnes of water into the oceans, where oxygen levels are falling – suffocating the seas – and acidity is rising. Sea level has already risen by nearly 8 inches, with more now irreversibly baked in. Sea level rising so fast? Oceans so acidic?

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

It provides a steer on the solutions and services that policymakers have - nominally at least - pledged to support as part of their response to the climate crisis, and it provides a helpful summary of the various ways climate change will impact the ecosystems, infrastructure, and workers all businesses rely on.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 30, 2024

This newly discovered document pinpoints the earliest-known moment that carbon-dioxide-induced climate change was brought to the attention of the highest levels of U.S. leaders almost a quarter of a century before oil and gas companies launched decades-long campaigns of climate science denial beginning in the late 1980s.

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