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. Without deep carbon pollution cuts now, the 1.5-degree C we are still facing half a metre of sea level rise.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This is because the polluted fresh water entering the salt water environment will kill off most of the brown shrimp and oysters, as well as most of the Bottlenose dolphin that live there. Where the river’s polluted water enters the Gulf there is rapid land loss and a growing dead zone. Lennox Yearwood Jr.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Climate Lawsuits Historical evidence of what oil majors knew about climate change is taking on new significance in the courtroom as lawyers seek to hold big polluters to account for the accelerating devastation caused by the climate crisis.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

But four hurricanes since 2005 and sea level rise — it really decimated this coastline.” He estimates that 70 metres of his property has been swallowed up by sea level rise since he moved there in 1998, with trees and wetlands washed away as the ocean advanced bit by bit with each passing year.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

She has also spoken favourably about electric vehicles and said in May that recent months had “highlighted the need to accelerate our journey as a global community away from hydrocarbons” and “decisively turn our backs on the era of dependence on polluting fuels”.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

The UCSUSA points out that “Consequences of global warming include drought, sea level rise, flooding, extreme weather, and species loss. Which countries and sectors are the largest polluters? are now asking developing countries to abandon highly polluting technology.”

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

As catastrophic fires spread across the world and large swathes of land are flooded by extreme weather events or threatened by sea-level rise, outright denial is no longer the most effective strategy, or these days, the most common. A Threat to Hamburgers. There was no mention of banning burgers.

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