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A decidedly impartial review of Mark Jacobson’s 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything

Renewable Energy World

When you’ve followed the evolving research of a leading clean energy expert and become a supporter of his vision for a global clean energy transition, it should come as no surprise that I was eager to crack open Mark Jacobson’s 2021 book release, 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything. Jacobson’s Early Story.

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Nobody is listening to climate scientists. What if they went on strike?

Grist

Earlier this week, a European climate monitoring service announced that the last seven years were the hottest ever recorded. The most successful strikes and protests manage to withhold something necessary from those in power: labor, goods, smoothly operating infrastructure. Since 1990, when the U.N.’s

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Addressing Inequities In The Mental Health Burden Of Climate Change

Energy Innovation

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. Achieving and sustaining that level of action requires that people are not incapacitated by climate anxiety or despair.

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In Their Own Words: The Dirty Dozen Documents of Big Oil’s Secret Climate Knowledge

DeSmogBlog

At a Columbia University symposium, physicist Edward Teller warns oil executives about rising levels of carbon dioxide and the likelihood of global warming and sea level rise by the end of the century. Found in the book “ Energy and Man: A Symposium ” Provenance: Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware.

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Cities need to act on climate adaptation now

Unsustainable

The system included more rainfall monitoring in the upper catchment and advances in hydrologic and hydraulic modeling to better evaluate rainfall on the streams feeding the reservoirs, water released from dams, and impacts on downstream communities.

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1.5 and 2°C: A Journey Through the Temperature Target That Haunts the World

DeSmogBlog

Like a chicken and egg dilemma, who came up with these goals first, politics or science? Political Origins of 2°C. The next key moment in the 2°C story is no longer scientific, but political. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. And we reached the political tipping point around the two-degree mark.

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A North-Pole, How Much Longer?

Mr. Sustainability

An ice-free Arctic might be a boon for the shipping industry in the short term, but comes at potential catastrophic cost to our economy in the form of environmental disaster and political upheaval. As long as there is ice in a body of water, any surrounding heat energy is carried towards the ice to make it melt.