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I thought most of us were going to die from the climate crisis. I was wrong

The Guardian: Energy

Many cities will have disappeared due to sea-level rise. Many people would be malnourished. Forests would be stripped back into savannahs. Island nations would be completely submerged. Climate refugees will be on the move. Normal” temperatures in many parts of the world would be unbearable.

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The South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce and Green Business Bureau Join Forces

Green Business Bureau

Our chamber has a long history of taking actions to fight climate change driven by carbon emissions in order to protect small businesses from sea level rise and severe weather, which are costly to individual businesses and the economy in general. Increase Employee Satisfaction. Attract Customers.

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Report: It’s time for the U.S. to research solar geoengineering

Grist

To avoid the most disastrous sea-level rise, storms, heat waves, and drought, the best available science says that greenhouse gas emissions must be cut in half in the next decade or so and brought to net-zero by the middle of the century. government to spend at least $100 million on a new solar geoengineering research program.

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Scientists Have Now Linked Worsening Western Wildfires to Top Polluters

DeSmogBlog

Previous studies have quantified the share of increasing average temperatures, rising sea levels , and ocean acidification attributable to major industrial emitters. This latest study extends that analysis to the realm of wildfires. The Alder fire in the Druid Complex in Yellowstone National Park, August 19, 2013.

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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. Document 1: 1959. View on DocumentCloud. How did you trip over this first?

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From the Editor, February 2020

Unsustainable

Jeanne Yacoubou has broken down the numbers concerning climate change in 2019 , and we’ve seen how Miami is fighting against sea-level rise.

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The State of Green Business report 2021

Sustainability Consulting

companies and 80% of major global companies will face moderate physical risk due to wildfires, water shortages, and sea level rises by 2050. . · Major global companies face $284 billion carbon pricing costs in 2025, representing 13% of earnings. Nearly 95% of major U.S. In a survey of 2,511 registered U.S.