Grist
APRIL 8, 2022
But a group of nations led by the Republic of the Marshall Islands — a low-lying island nation at risk of being swallowed up by sea-level rise if the world warms by 2 degrees — formed a “High Ambition Coalition” which sought to enshrine a lower, more ambitious temperature target. As of 2020, the planet had already warmed by 1.2
DeSmogBlog
OCTOBER 29, 2021
At a Columbia University symposium, physicist Edward Teller warns oil executives about rising levels of carbon dioxide and the likelihood of global warming and sea level rise by the end of the century. Available at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL). Document 1: 1959.
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DeSmogBlog
DECEMBER 21, 2022
.” Heerden was hired by three Louisiana-based environmental groups — The Deep South Center for Environmental Justice (DSCEJ), Sierra Club, and Healthy Gulf — that are suing the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources for exempting Venture Global LNG from needing a coastal use permit to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal.
DeSmogBlog
DECEMBER 10, 2021
Exxon, for example, designed oil platforms to accommodate more rapid sea level rise, even as the company publicly denied that climate change was occurring. Don’t Call It Methane, It’s ‘Natural’ Gas. Except that methane gas isn’t clean. A Spider’s Web of Pipelines.
Unsustainable
MAY 1, 2019
coal first and then later oil and natural gas?to The UCSUSA points out that “Consequences of global warming include drought, sea level rise, flooding, extreme weather, and species loss. But even in the USA’s current dark environmental climate, positive changes are being made on the state and local level.
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