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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Fossil fuels Climate change Pollution Carbon 96

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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Grist

MARCH 30, 2022

Sea-level rise is also irreversible — the heat collecting in ice sheets and the ocean will continue to drive sea-level rise long after the temperature is stabilized or even lowered. Arctic permafrost — frozen, carbon-rich soil — is thawing and beginning to release the carbon stored within.

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Global warming Carbon-negative Sea level rise Climate change 112

Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

above pre-industrial levels, and is likely to be reach 1.5C - the optimal target set out in the Paris Agreement - within the next 20 years regardless of potential actions taken to slash greenhouse gas emissions in the meantime. The report concludes that the world's average surface land temperature currently stands at around 1.1C

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

As they walled off rivers and created dry islands from what was previously soggy marsh, they discovered incredibly rich soil. No one foresaw that this very bounty — soil rich with organic material — would, over time, become a curse of sorts. Fossil fuels, you might say, are an aged form of blue carbon.

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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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Seafood Sea level rise Pollution Law 98

Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

That’s the nature of human-caused climate change: The consequences of a century and a half of burning fossil fuels are arriving now. Rising temperatures have also dried the soil, raising wildfire risks. The slow creep of sea-level rise has also led to more frequent tidal flooding in coastal cities like Miami.

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