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New IPCC Report Reveals Accelerating Ice Melt and Sea Level Rise

Green Market Oracle

Climate impacts are accelerating and this is expediting the timelines for the melting of the cryosphere and sea level rise. The report indicates that ocean surface temperatures have been steadily warming since 1970 and in the last quarter century they have been warming twice as fast.

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Big Oil Foresaw Extreme Flooding Now Predicted to Hit US Coasts Almost Daily

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Read time: 6 mins Oil companies have long been aware that their products cause global warming and the impacts, including from rising seas, could be catastrophic. One such study published April 16 in the journal Scientific Reports projects an exponential increase in the frequency of coastal flooding from rising seas.

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Study: Global warming will stay below 2 degrees C — if countries actually keep their promises

Grist

and 2 degrees of warming is the difference between life and death for many of the world’s most vulnerable people — and the difference between survival and extinction for some entire countries subject to sea level rise. The prime minister of Barbados, for instance, called 2 degrees of warming a “death sentence.”.

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Immediate action is needed to ensure ‘a livable future for all,’ UN report says

Grist

The newest publication is an attempt to distill everything the panel has said since August 2021, when it began releasing its sixth assessment of global warming. There’s no new research in this latest report, but it injects new urgency into scientists’ and activists’ calls for rapid, systemic action from global decision-makers.

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

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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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‘Code Red for Humanity’: IPCC Report Warns Window for Climate Action Is Closing Fast

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” One central finding of the new analysis is that the Paris accord’s goal of limiting global temperature rise to no more than 1.5°C C above pre-industrial levels is in serious danger as policymakers fail to take the necessary steps to curb greenhouse gas emissions. ” “Global warming of 1.5°C

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Scientists Have Now Linked Worsening Western Wildfires to Top Polluters

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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.”