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. Have a tip or idea? Get in touch.

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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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Sea level rise Ocean acidification Climate change Global warming 82

Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

Australia looks set to ditch its climate-laggard global status after voters strongly backed more ambitious green policies – but can the change in government help reignite global climate action, as geopolitical challenges escalate?

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Fossil fuels Climate change Policy Government 49

Business Green

JUNE 14, 2022

To limit global warming to a peak of 1.5C, which the impacts we are experiencing at 1.35°C °C warming (based on an average of the last 10 years) make clear is a higher than desirable goal. The challenge. gigatons of CO2 annually (GtCO2/year).

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

But it is also a handbook for how businesses, governments, and investors can work together to avert the worst case scenarios faced by civilisation, setting out the levers that need to be pulled to secure a more liveable and prosperous future for humanity. or the more dangerous 2C, the IPCC warned. But this blindspot could soon be addressed.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Fifty years ago, climate models accurately predicted that greenhouse gases cause global warming (Hausfather et al, 2020). The WRI warned that we need to stop burning coal (Yang & Cui, 2012) and the IPCC synthesis report (2014) said that we must stop using fossil fuels. Special Report - Global Warming of 1.5°C

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Carbon Carbon-negative Climate change Building Energy Monitoring 52

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. Global heating is affecting every region on Earth, with many of the changes becoming irreversible.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2021

A threat that was still in the future, with consequences happening somewhere else, with melting poles, small island communities affected by sea level rise or drought in the global south, far away from our robust, modern societies. It's not just a government issue. This will require increased efforts from all of us.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2022

The movie is an allegory for climate change , showing how those with the power to do something about global warming willfully avoid taking action and how those with vested interests can mislead the public. Government scientist Teddy Oglethorpe (Rob Morgan) replies, “Scientists never like to say 100%.”. In the U.S.

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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. 2/2) [link].

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

The central message from the latest review of climate science is remarkably bleak: The world is running out of time to stabilise global temperatures at relatively safe levels, with current policies and levels of investment nowhere near sufficient to secure a liveable future for all.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The world faces unavoidable and worsening climate hazards over the next two decades as global temperatures are driven up by human activity, with "irreversible impacts" on humans and ecosystems expected even if the global economy achieves the unprecedented feat of only marginally overshooting the 1.5C

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Arctic ice levels are both a primary indicator of rising global temperatures and a key determinant of how bad climate change might get. Serious ice loss means sea levels rise, more heat is absorbed by the ocean and planet, and weather and ocean currents could change. This shouldn’t be an afterthought.”.

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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. Overcoming our addiction to fossil fuels is the challenge since buildings consume 28 percent of total energy use in California. No more fossil fuels.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 12, 2020

Here are few examples of oil spills that illustrate the dangers of fossil fuels. The fossil fuel industry is driving feedback loops that include both melting permafrost and sea level rise. Melting permafrost is but one of the Arctic fedback loops caused by emissions from the fossil fuel industry.

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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. It is the first book in a series on Climate Risk Management, Policy and Governance. Climate impacts 2. Climate action 4.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Compiled by Dutch climate activist Vatan Hüzeir , and reviewed by DeSmog and Dutch investigative journalism platform Follow The Money , the documents show how Shell was actively supporting research that clearly underscored the dangers posed by burning its fossil fuel products from the mid-1970s — years earlier than previously thought.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The Heritage Foundation panel event on December 8, called “ Lessons for America from Europe’s Green Energy Disaster ”, featured Benny Peiser, director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate science denial group. Fossil Fuel Links.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The dust has barely settled on the Conservative Party leadership race and the new UK government has already begun confirming many climate campaigners’ worst fears about the direction Liz Truss intends to take the country in. The government will now simply be covering them through general taxation – a fairer approach, many would argue.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Later that month, she told me that she sees the continued destruction of coastal communities as a reminder that leaders have done little to protect us from the catastrophic impacts of global warming despite decades of warnings from climate scientists. Chief Shirell Parfait-Dardar with her children Aralyn and Dale Jr.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

Photo Credit: REUTERS While some politicians and citizens continue to deny the existence of man-made global warming, the evidence supporting it continues to grow. A Few Relevant Data Points With the advent of the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th century, humans began their dependence on the burning of fossil fuels?coal

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Every four years, the federal government is required to gather up the leading research on how climate change is affecting Americans, boil it all down, and then publish a National Climate Assessment. The report outlines steps every level of government can take to combat the climate crisis.

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