Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 16, 2019

They are aware that we are not doing what we must to address biodiversity loss, sea-level rise, and extreme weather including devastating heat waves. According to the researchers at North Carolina State University this may have to do with the fact that parents care about their kids and the political innocence of children.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2022

The first page of Menlo Park, California’s 2030 Climate Action Plan shows a map predicting which parts of the city will be underwater by the end of the century, flooded by the rising waters of San Francisco Bay. Sea level rise is just one imminent threat for Silicon Valley.

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 3, 2020

s National Oceanographic Centre, the costs of sea level rise alone could exceed $14 trillion a year by 2100. Reducing fossil fuel dependence in the U.S. The economic merits of renewable energy already provide far more jobs than the fossil fuel industry. According to the U.K.’s Because it's coming."

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Business Green

JULY 28, 2022

That is despite sky high global gas prices being overwhelmingly responsible for the looming crisis, driven by lingering pandemic disruption and Russia's war in Ukraine, all of which has underscored the huge risk and volatility associated with fossil fuels, and the benefits of cheaper, green energy sources.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

Although Labor has refused to back a phase out of coal use or block the opening of new coal mines in Australia - which remains one of the world's biggest exporters of the carbon-intensive fossil fuel - the party has promised to adopt more ambitious emissions targets and turn the nation into a global renewable energy 'superpower'.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

I’ve long viewed Jacobson’s life — and his collaboration with researchers, cultural icons, business leaders and political leaders — as a well-written movie script. The fossil fuel divestment movement led by Bill McKibben’s 350.org Jacobson’s Early Story. Though none of the bills have been voted on, President Biden’s proposed $2.3

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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. Want to know more about early fossil fuel industry sponsorship of climate science and how the Conservation Foundation’s report came to be?

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Andrew Winston

AUGUST 7, 2019

Many highly populated coastal areas will be in consistent trouble, as sea levels rise. Here’s some good news: Due to continuing drops in the cost of clean technologies, renewable energy is dramatically on the rise , making up more than half the global new power capacity every year since 2015.

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Andrew Winston

AUGUST 7, 2019

Many highly populated coastal areas will be in consistent trouble, as sea levels rise. Here’s some good news: Due to continuing drops in the cost of clean technologies, renewable energy is dramatically on the rise , making up more than half the global new power capacity every year since 2015.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Economic losses and damages are inevitable Loss and damage has been a hot topic for years in international climate negotiations, with last year's COP27 Conference seeing richer counties capitulate to calls from developing nations for a dedicated fund to help them cope with the impacts of climate-related floods, droughts, and sea level rise.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

political will. Extreme heat and storms, sea level rise, intense wildfires — climate change may threaten everyone, but many BIPOC communities are more vulnerable to climate impacts. This year’s COVID-19 crisis and racial justice movement have highlighted the systemic inequities in the U.S.

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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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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. This report must sound a death knell for coal and fossil fuels, before they destroy our planet.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2022

The evidence is overwhelming that Earth’s climate is changing in dangerous ways because of human activities, particularly the burning of fossil fuels, and it has been overwhelming for many years. In a politically polarized society, individuals may feel pressured to make decisions based on what their social group believes.

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

But significant barriers remain and more investment is still going into fossil fuels than into climate solutions despite three decades of climate warnings from scientists and civil society. A fair and fast phaseout of oil, gas and coal needs to happen in this decade, and it can, with the right political will.

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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 28, 2022

"By restoring degraded ecosystems and effectively and equitably conserving 30 to 50 per cent of Earth's land, freshwater and ocean habitats, society can benefit from nature's capacity to absorb and store carbon, and we can accelerate progress towards sustainable development, but adequate finance and political support are essential.".

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

In summer 2021, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change raised the threat level posed by climate change to a ' code red for humanity'. Anthropogenic climate change is at once evident and escalating, transforming natural, economic and socio-political environments. Arctic militarisation. Carbon bootprints.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. By focusing on how these institutions are sites of coproduction of knowledge and policy, this work brings to light the politics of science advice and details how these committees are contributing to an emerging global environmental constitutionalism.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 2, 2021

At minimum, it serves as a five-alarm warning to companies both inside and outside the fossil-fuel industry that their net-zero-by-mid-century decarbonization commitments simply may not be enough. Fossil-fuel companies are likely seeing flashing red lights about now. Policy & Politics. degrees Celsius.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

It has confused the public about climate science, bought the eternal gratitude of one of America’s two main political parties, and repeatedly out-maneuvered regulatory efforts. Exxon, for example, designed oil platforms to accommodate more rapid sea level rise, even as the company publicly denied that climate change was occurring.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 2, 2021

At minimum, it serves as a five-alarm warning to companies both inside and outside the fossil-fuel industry that their net-zero-by-mid-century decarbonization commitments simply may not be enough. Fossil-fuel companies are likely seeing flashing red lights about now. degrees Celsius. Flashing red lights The implications?

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Add to that a huge round of new licences for North Sea oil and gas extraction – and no further windfall taxes on energy companies making bumper profits – and it’s clear the former Shell manager has few qualms about going all-out for fossil fuels. Zahawi earned £1.3

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

When fossil fuel companies found out about the link between their product and climate change decades ago , they did everything they could to hide it. But that doesn’t mean climate deniers — fossil fuel companies, lobbyists, and their allies opposed to climate action — have moved past the lies. household income. .

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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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2023

The oil-rich states of the Persian Gulf, which constitute the region’s financial and geopolitical powerhouses, are also developing green hydrogen plants and wind and solar farms, with the aim of using renewable energy domestically in order to free up more of their fuel reserves for export. HH: Right, that’s the thing.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 23, 2021

has built systems of transportation, heating, cooling, manufacturing and agriculture that rely primarily on fossil fuels. The greenhouse gas emissions those fossil fuels release when burned have raised global temperature by about 1.1°C Nuclear is also low-carbon, but expensive and politically problematic.)

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 10, 2022

He repeats familiar talking points from public figures blocking climate action, including the Net Zero Scrutiny Group of MPs, who argue that the war in Ukraine means the UK should extract more fossil fuels and overturn its moratorium on fracking. Farage went further – arguing for coal extraction at the proposed mine in Cumbria.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 24, 2023

Louisiana Democratic Party leaders are accused of funneling thousands of dollars from utility companies to the campaign of a fossil fuel–friendly candidate who ran for reelection on the state’s utility regulatory committee. NextEra has not shied away from shady political dealings in the past.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

My work documents the ongoing trend of science denial becoming increasingly woven into right-wing rhetoric by steadfast Trump supporters , the impacts of extreme weather fueled by climate change, and the actions taken by climate advocates fighting for environmental justice and against pollution from the fossil fuel industry.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 24, 2020

The wanton burning of fossil fuels, new agricultural methods, chemical manufacturing and production processes have all contributed to unprecedented pollution that are poisoning our air and our water. The disinformation efforts of fossil fuel companies include denying children access to a science based education.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 24, 2020

The wanton burning of fossil fuels, new agricultural methods, chemical manufacturing and production processes have all contributed to unprecedented pollution that is poisoning our air and our water. The disinformation efforts of fossil fuel companies include denying children access to a science based education.

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