AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Related: Climate change is a public health issue amounting to billions in medical costs According to his developer blog , “I’ve self-funded the project because I want to make people care about the climate issue,” Volk explained.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

Previous studies have quantified the share of increasing average temperatures, rising sea levels , and ocean acidification attributable to major industrial emitters. Low-income communities and communities of color disproportionately face public health risks from wildfires and smoke exposure.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2020

With hand washing one of the top tips for trying to slow the spread of the coronavirus, the report will further fuel fears that the pandemic could spread even more rapidly once it reaches developing nations with limited water and health systems. The report shows that water does not need to be a problem - it can be part of the solution.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

The host, Marco Krapels, a clean energy investor, introduced him to Mark Ruffalo and Josh Fox, whose 2010 documentary film, GASLAND , exposed the dire human health and environmental risks for communities living on the frontlines of America’s fracking boom. On the evening of July 10, 2011, Jacobson attended a swanky event in San Francisco.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2023

Efforts to prevent global warming from worsening, known in the jargon as climate mitigation, have long dominated governments' response to the climate crisis. At the local level, overheating or flash flood risks can vary from street to street and building to building. And indeed, the productivity agenda.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Near-term emissions reduction is key Emissions reduction this decade is set to "largely determine" whether global warming can be limited to 1.5C Yesterday's report was unequivocal in its warning that losses and damages are happening now to nature and people, as well as major sectors of the global economy.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Around the same time, the group published an article refuting the idea that weather variations were becoming more extreme, and stated on its website that “those who would like to see massive cuts in energy use associate bad weather with global warming in an effort to promote their cause.” . Deny, Distract, Doubt.

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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. The stark fact is that if we keep warming to 1.5?C C we are still facing half a metre of sea level rise.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The window for action is narrowing, it warns, with every fraction of a degree of warming set to make adaptation efforts more difficult and expensive, it notes. The scientific evidence is unequivocal: climate change is a threat to human wellbeing and the health of the planet," said Pörtner.

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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. But it also reflects science denial more broadly, including what the world has been seeing with COVID-19. In the U.S.

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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. This is a companion piece to the the 25 books in The Green Market Oracle's well informed readers list. Climate impacts 2.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Such impacts "are causing severe and widespread disruption in nature and in society; reducing our ability to grow nutritious food or provide enough clean drinking water, thus affecting people's health and well-being and damaging livelihoods" it adds. "In Coastal communities face habitat destruction and sea level rise.

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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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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

With the minimum reached, the remaining sea ice that survives the year has had its birthday, aging one year. Ice that survives for at least one year is called multi-year ice, sometimes perennial ice, which gives an indication of the health of the ice at the end of the melt season. Sea level rising (not because of melting).

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 12, 2020

The fossil fuel industry is driving feedback loops that include both melting permafrost and sea level rise. The Arctic is warming faster than the rate of global average warming. Here are few examples of oil spills that illustrate the dangers of fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Nevertheless, lawyers are building cases on the oil industry’s own documents , seeking to echo the success of a previous generation of lawsuits against tobacco companies for covering up the health risks of smoking. This fast-evolving legal strategy has placed a premium on new archival research.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Rees-Mogg was also the first cabinet minister to endorse the campaign to reverse the UK’s ban on fracking, spearheaded by the backbench Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG), the parliamentary wing of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This report, a collaboration between more than a dozen federal agencies and a wide array of academic researchers, takes stock of just how severe global warming has become and meticulously breaks down its effects by geography — 10 distinct regions in total, encompassing all of the country’s states and territories.

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 6, 2020

Here is a brief introduction to 50 young, mostly female activists that are fighting for the health of our planet and our communities. Five years later she oversaw the signing of the historic accord at COP21 in which 195 countries agreed to limit global warming. Environmental insults are compounding the climate crisis.

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