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. degrees. “It All this doesn’t mean that the 1.5-degree

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Sea level rise Fossil fuels Policy Global warming 139

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. Document 1: 1959. View on DocumentCloud. How did you trip over this first? But Exxon knew it back in ‘79.

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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. Jacob justification is a cost benefit analysis whereby the external costs of coal, natural gas and oil far exceed the investment costs for WWS.

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Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 101

Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

An ice-free Arctic might be a boon for the shipping industry in the short term, but comes at potential catastrophic cost to our economy in the form of environmental disaster and political upheaval. Sea level rising (not because of melting). Global conflict and geo-political upheaval. Lot’s of Methane.

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Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Methane Building Energy Monitoring 78

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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Building Energy Monitoring Fossil fuels Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor 94

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. This argument is often used to radicalize the denier front and further polarize political debate.

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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. to power factories, heat homes and light city streets at night. The year 2016 ranks as the warmest on record.

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