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Speeding sea level rise threatens nuclear plants

Eco-Business

With sea level rise accelerating faster than thought, the risk is growing for coastal cities ? and for nuclear power stations.

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Are the climate and coronavirus crises really so alike?

Business Green

What happens if sea levels rise and five mega-storms make US landfall in the same year? What happens if the monsoons fail and Himalayan water supplies shared by three nuclear powers become unreliable? Would the insurance industry collapse? Could the global financial system operate under such duress?

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? US clean investment cleans up with $239bn #187

Climate Tech VC

  The mounting environmental cost of generative AI Scientists are feeling the heat as ocean temperatures boil over The melting ‘Doomsday Glacier’ , holding back a 10 foot sea level rise How to build a zero AC schools that stays cool in 40C heat China leaves Europe’s solar industry in the shade.

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Lost Decade: How Shell Downplayed Early Warnings Over Climate Change

DeSmogBlog

From 1974-1977, Shell was among the multinational companies that funded and loaned staff to a study known as the Workshop on Alternative Energy Strategies — or WAES — coordinated by Carroll Wilson, a professor at MIT who had begun to champion coal after becoming disenchanted with nuclear power.