Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The institute’s last big mailout was in 2017 when it sent out 350,000 copies of its “Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming.” “In previous campaigns, the bulk of teachers and students who received the materials threw them out or put them in the recycling bin.”

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2021

While much of the climate community considers global warming beyond 2C to be highly dangerous, William Nordhaus in his 2018 Nobel in Economics acceptance lecture called 4C "optimal". Many coastal areas will find it impossible (or extremely costly) to adapt to continued sea-level rise.

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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. It is clear that keeping global warming to 1.5C

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Despite advances in attribution science we need to be cautious when linking this or any individual storm to global warming, however, we cannot discount the basic physics at play. They are also about storm surges that exacerbate sea level rise and cause widespread flooding.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

The findings offer new insight into corporate actors’ responsibility for the climate impact of worsening wildfires and strengthen the rapidly growing scientific field known as attribution science , which quantifies the influence of climate change on extreme weather events and connects pollution sources to observed climate impacts.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Although more media outlets are increasingly covering more frequent and intense extreme weather events as symptoms of climate change, many experts are still tackling disinformation and efforts to downplay the link between the two. Water and forest management, and other human factors, contribute to the severity and likelihood of these events.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2020

This potential of water must be explored, given that our actions to reduce global warming are currently lagging behind our ambitions, despite wide adherence to the Paris Agreement. The report shows that water does not need to be a problem - it can be part of the solution.

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Christopher Kemper

JUNE 20, 2020

In theory, excessive amounts of GHGs will alter the Earth’s ecosystems leading to events such as the extinction of various plant and animal species and the rise in sea levels. For most people, global warming has been an issue that is difficult to grasp?—?oftentimes, degrees celsius and 5.8

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2022

A specific example of an event occurring after material was submitted for AR6, and its probable catastrophic consequences, is discussed in this short video, Arctic Rain. To limit global warming to a peak of 1.5C, which the impacts we are experiencing at 1.35°C The challenge. gigatons of CO2 annually (GtCO2/year).

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

As industry is one of the biggest drivers of global climate change and is entirely dependent on the earth’s resources for production, it is important for business leaders and employees to understand the Anthropocene, its implications, and what it means for the future of sustainability and industry. . The Holocene.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Regardless of whether governments heed Guterres' advice, business leaders would be foolish to assume climate targets established in the early 2020s will age well as temperatures rise, extreme weather events intensify, and climate predictions become even more frightening. or the more dangerous 2C, the IPCC warned.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

On the evening of July 10, 2011, Jacobson attended a swanky event in San Francisco. Motivated by New York Governor Cuomo’s willingness to consider banning hydrofracking, Jacobson worked through the night to layer New York’s pollution, human health, morbidity and global warming data into a cohesive model. The Solutions Project.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2023

Efforts to prevent global warming from worsening, known in the jargon as climate mitigation, have long dominated governments' response to the climate crisis. At the local level, overheating or flash flood risks can vary from street to street and building to building.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

"Australian businesses know that good action on climate change is good for jobs and good for our economy, and I want to join the global effort," Albanese told the BBC shortly after Prime Minister Scott Morrison formally conceded defeat on Saturday.

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Grist

AUGUST 24, 2021

Kerry Emanuel, a climate scientist at MIT, said it was difficult to pin any of the specific events on climate change. But, he said, there’s reliable evidence that global warming is driving an increase in the frequency of highly destructive tropical storms and heavy rainfall.

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Everything in the news about global warming, pollution, and sea level rise, that’s one side of the story. The planet has witnessed five extinction events and we humans are creating number six. Were there particular “big ideas” or concepts that you found could hit home time and time again?

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

For the first time, it proposed encompassing all the gases that cause global warming in a single indicator. “It was the most controversial and heated debate in the workshop,” recalls Rijsberman, now director of the Global Green Growth Institute. ” It also noted that “limiting global warming to below 1.5°C

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Taking immediate action to slash emissions towards net zero by 2050 could make a monumental difference to the level, frequency, and breadth of growing climate impacts, the scientists emphasise. But it depends on solutions moving exponentially faster than impacts, and getting on track to halving global emissions by 2030.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The report confirms global temperatures are currently 1.1C above pre-industrial levels, with temperature rise currently projected to overshoot the 1.5C If global warming transiently exceeds 1.5C If global warming transiently exceeds 1.5C

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 2, 2021

“It’s a very high level of melting and it will probably change the face of Greenland, because it will be a very strong driver for an acceleration of future melting, and therefore sea-level rise.” Tedesco adds that the current atmospheric events, while normal, are becoming longer and frequent.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In all likelihood it will get worse as we experience more extreme weather events and sea levels rise from melting ice sheets. By accelerating California’s electrification transition we have the potential to avoid the worst impacts of global warming, while at the same time improving the environment and economy.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The situation, too, is only set to worsen as the planet warms, underscoring the urgent need to simultaneously drive down greenhouse gas emissions while also boosting preparedness for droughts, wildfires, storms, floods, coastal erosion, sea level rise, resource shortages and much, much more.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Coastal communities face habitat destruction and sea level rise. As a direct result of climate change a growing global population is increasingly facing illness, injuries, malnutrition, threats to physical and mental health, inequality, and poverty.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Risks A report from Zurich reviewed the risks to infrastructure and the need for businesses to prepare for rising sea levels associated with global warming. As explained by Zurich, "businesses that don't build resilience to rising sea levels will get soaked". According to the U.K.’s

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. This is a companion piece to the the 25 books in The Green Market Oracle's well informed readers list. Climate impacts 2.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

An influential US think tank has hosted a well-known UK climate science denier at an event attacking what one speaker called Europe’s “socialist” net zero policies. The event is the latest example of UK and US groups working together to oppose climate action. Fossil Fuel Links.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

The disappearing of the North Pole, the melting of the Arctic (ice), a “blue ocean event”… These all come down to the same thing: a pivotal change in Earth’s climate with many possible disastrous side effects. In fact, physics tells us that for every 1 degree Celsius of warming, our atmosphere can hold about seven percent more moisture.

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Grist

DECEMBER 11, 2019

“This warming is transforming Arctic ecosystems and presenting unique challenges for the region’s Indigenous peoples who rely on the stability of the environment for cultural and economic well-being, as well as for subsistence foods taken from their local lands and waters,” three of the report’s authors wrote in a summary of their findings.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Rees-Mogg was also the first cabinet minister to endorse the campaign to reverse the UK’s ban on fracking, spearheaded by the backbench Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG), the parliamentary wing of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

trillion Build Back Better Act filled with social and climate program expansions — purports to take on climate change, but Thunberg dismissed the legislation in her comments during the opening session of the Youth4Climate event in Milan, Italy, on September 28. She added, “This is all we hear from our so-called leaders: Net zero by 2025.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 10, 2022

CAR26 and the ‘Net Zero Referendum’ Last month, “Vote Power, Not Poverty” co-founder Richard Tice spoke at an event organised by CAR26 , a climate science denial group that first floated the idea of a net zero referendum in an October poll. Event host Lois Perry agreed: “No.” Let’s stop playing lip service to this nonsense.”

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This report, a collaboration between more than a dozen federal agencies and a wide array of academic researchers, takes stock of just how severe global warming has become and meticulously breaks down its effects by geography — 10 distinct regions in total, encompassing all of the country’s states and territories.

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 6, 2020

One study shows that women have a greater stake in managing climate change as they are "more likely to lose their lives and otherwise fare worse than men in extreme events from heat waves to hurricanes and tsunamis." Five years later she oversaw the signing of the historic accord at COP21 in which 195 countries agreed to limit global warming.

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