Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 9, 2019

The world's leading scientific organizations have also repeatedly warned us about climate change. Seven years ago the IEA and the WRI warned that we need to stop burning fossil fuels. In fact, in the 1960s the fossil fuel industry's own science revealed that they are causing global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

According to DeSmog’s investigation, they include icon carver and YouTuber Jonathan Pageau, who has characterized fears about climate change as “secular apocalypticism,” as well as podcaster and author Michael Malice, who has said that projections of sea-level rise are “literally a religious belief.”

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Secretary General António Guterres asked nations to arrive at the session with concrete commitments for phasing out fossil fuels, observing in his opening remarks that “humanity has opened the gates of hell.” A two-week hearing on the case before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg, Germany concluded on Monday.

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Grist

MARCH 22, 2021

College students fighting to get their schools to stop investing in fossil fuels have stumbled on a new idea that could bring fresh attention to their cause: Those investments might be illegal. They also write that Harvard’s fossil fuel investments threaten its own physical property by exacerbating flooding and sea-level rise.

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Christopher Kemper

JUNE 20, 2020

International organizations, such as the United Nations (UN), have attempted to address the complex issue of climate change. Extensive research by the UN as well as hundreds of other organizations has indicated that humans are responsible for generating excessive levels of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) such as carbon dioxide.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 21, 2021

The tide is turning against Louisiana’s proposed $2 billion Mississippi River sediment diversion project, that supporters say is needed to save the coast from rapid land loss due to subsidence, damage done by the oil and gas industry, extreme weather events, and sea level rise quickened by climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 30, 2024

This newly discovered document pinpoints the earliest-known moment that carbon-dioxide-induced climate change was brought to the attention of the highest levels of U.S. government — the President. is continuing, as a Panel to consider a series of questions related to Environmental Pollution. Credit: Lyndon B.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 30, 2023

🔋 CMBlu , a Alzenau, Germany-based organic solid flow batteries developer, raised $107M in Corporate funding from Strabag.  The report simultaneously warns that investment in fossil fuels must be cut in half, and includes criticism of governments that have rolled back climate policies in recent months.

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Andrew Winston

AUGUST 7, 2019

The amount of information collected on every person, product, and organization will grow exponentially, and the pressure to share that information — with customers and consumers in particular — will expand. Many highly populated coastal areas will be in consistent trouble, as sea levels rise.

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Andrew Winston

AUGUST 7, 2019

The amount of information collected on every person, product, and organization will grow exponentially, and the pressure to share that information — with customers and consumers in particular — will expand. Many highly populated coastal areas will be in consistent trouble, as sea levels rise.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

degree C above preindustrial norms (World Meteorological Organization [WMO], 2017). 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. World Meteorological Organization (WMO). billion tons. C above pre-industrial era.

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

No one foresaw that this very bounty — soil rich with organic material — would, over time, become a curse of sorts. River and marsh bottoms typically have low oxygen levels, which slows the decomposition of organic material that collects there. That organic material contains copious amounts of carbon.

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The Environmental Blog

JUNE 4, 2021

The level of government least able to mitigate and adapt is the level of government most affected. For coastal municipalities, it is a slow-moving wave that imperils land values with sea level rise inch by inch submerging and devaluing a main source of municipal revenue—property (and its accompanying tax revenue).

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

He served on the California State Board of Education’s Curriculum Commission and then founded Ten Strands as a nonprofit organization to support California’s efforts to achieve statewide penetration of high-quality environment-based education into schools. What made you decide to move from the private sector to teaching?

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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. Even international organizations like the U.N.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

After the Army Corps of Engineers awarded key permits for the MBSD project on December 19, 2022 , two nonprofit organizations entrusted with funds meant to reverse environmental damage caused by the 2010 BP oil spill made funding available for the project. Federal and state trustees approved $2.26

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

These books are organized in the following six categories: 1. Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. This revised edition is filled with proven strategies and tools for organizations to integrate sustainability into their business models. 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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GreenBiz

JUNE 2, 2021

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change — the folks who organize the annual COP events — defines “climate-related risks” as those: …created by a range of hazards. Fossil-fuel companies are likely seeing flashing red lights about now. degrees Celsius. Flashing red lights. The implications?

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 2, 2021

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change — the folks who organize the annual COP events — defines “climate-related risks” as those: …created by a range of hazards. Fossil-fuel companies are likely seeing flashing red lights about now. degrees Celsius. Flashing red lights The implications?

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

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 The UCSUSA points out that “Consequences of global warming include drought, sea level rise, flooding, extreme weather, and species loss.

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