Grist

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Salt is even getting kicked up into the air: In arid regions, “lakes are drying up and sending plumes of saline dust into the atmosphere,” such as the Aral Sea in Central Asia, the study says. Salt pollution presents an “existential threat to our freshwater supplies,” according to the study.

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Eco-Business

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Most islands in the Pacific are subsiding, presenting a challenge to infrastructure due to low adaptative capacity to climate change.

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Planet Pulse

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We are thrilled to share that there are over 120 abstracts, talks, and presentations on the AGU schedule that leverage Planet data or tools. NASA led an evaluation on the potential impacts of sea level rise on the Maldives with Planet imagery, highlighting the use of remote sensing for predicting shoreline change.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

The IPCC tends to present its latest dossier of evidence roughly every seven to eight years. The optimal target set out in the Paris Agreement and agreed to by almost 200 countries around the world is to limit average temperature rises to 1.5C At present, the climate is around 1.1C And today the IPCC concluded the 1.5C

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 13, 2021

The IPCC 6th Assessment Report (AR6) combined the bad news, that a global temperature rise of 1.5°C C is now more or less inevitable by 2040, with what many present as the relative good news, that a widespread commitment to net zero is “extremely likely” to keep temperatures below 2°C. Sliding scale. by the end of the century.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 17, 2019

The number of cold fronts has decreased over the span of the last 20 years but at the same time, anomalous events have occurred more frequently.High-intensity Typhoons tend to occur more frequently as the mean sea level rose at a rate of 3 mm per year.Above is an overall image of climate change in Vietnam. Sea-Level Rise.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 16, 2021

In the Mississippi river, for example,” said Thorslund, “we saw that almost all of these drivers are present: it’s a large region with a lot of people, and therefore a lot of irrigation and road salt use. Climate change can also be an important salinity driver when river deltas meet the sea, like in the Netherlands.

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The City Fix

APRIL 4, 2024

In the crowded slums of Zambia, Africa, members of the Zambia Youth Federation, a social movement of the urban poor, conducted climate change research and presented it in an emotional spoken word poem. Their message let policymakers know how climate.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 9, 2021

“We now have a much clearer picture of the past, present, and future climate, which is essential for understanding where we are headed, what can be done, and how we can prepare.” ” One central finding of the new analysis is that the Paris accord’s goal of limiting global temperature rise to no more than 1.5°C

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Planet Pulse

MAY 6, 2021

The country’s location also makes it vulnerable to other natural disasters including frequent earthquakes, volcanic eruptions as well as tsunamis, sea-level rise, storm surges, landslides, flooding, and drought. Paler, Senior Science Research Specialist at DOST-ASTI.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

According to DeSmog’s investigation, they include icon carver and YouTuber Jonathan Pageau, who has characterized fears about climate change as “secular apocalypticism,” as well as podcaster and author Michael Malice, who has said that projections of sea-level rise are “literally a religious belief.”

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

The process was more complicated than simply drawing the ancient coastlines around the present-day 100-metre contour line because as sea levels rose, there was all kinds of small-scale faulting. The coastlines dropped in many places as sea levels rose,” said Jack, who is studying Palaeontology and Evolution.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The research projects future labour productivity losses from warming across every country worldwide under different climate scenarios ranging from just 1C up to 4C warming relative to present temperatures. At present, it is estimated the world already loses around $280-311bn each year due to workers struggling in hot, humid conditions.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The new 80-page document, presented in the style of a slick and authoritative textbook, covers 30 climate topics often discussed in science classes. Branch also thinks the fact that this year’s campaign is so scaled back from the 2017 mailout means even Heartland itself recognizes this as a failing strategy.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 23, 2021

It will warn of a rise in heatwaves, destruction of 90 percent of global reefs, accelerated sea level rise and stronger hurricanes and typhoons. target alive is closing. They point to a lack of progress seen so far, particularly at the G7 meeting in the UK last month.

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Grist

MARCH 30, 2022

In February, on the eve of the release of a major new report on the effects of climate change by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, several of its authors met with reporters virtually to present their findings. Scientists say sea level rise is one of the irreversible impacts of an overshoot scenario.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

As a result, climate change is already affecting every inhabited region on Earth, and impacts such as sea level rise, ocean acidification, and permafrost melt are inevitable and near-irreversible, leaving only their extent open to question.

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Grist

AUGUST 14, 2019

But experts say these 2-degree C hotspots are like little pieces of the future here in the present, showing us what’s coming. Cold, heat, flood, drought, and sea-level rise all pose significant risks to U.S. Of course, climate catastrophes aren’t just about higher average regional temperatures.

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Unsustainable

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Tides are a major concern in flood contribution, especially the King Tides, seasonal tide surges traditionally occurring September and November, resulting in above average water levels and “sunny day flooding”, flooding without rain.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2022

With respect to the warnings of the severity of climate change, this is presently far from the case. At present, the construction of an industrial plant large enough reduce the atmospheric CO 2 concentration by one ppm per year (7.81 Currently, international emissions reductions are falling well short of even the 1.9 Gt challenge.

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Unsustainable

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Choose the Dark Side to Discover Light: The Effects of Light Pollution and How to Reduce It It has been a great pleasure this year for me to able to present more stories than ever before. Jeanne Yacoubou has broken down the numbers concerning climate change in 2019 , and we’ve seen how Miami is fighting against sea-level rise.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 21, 2021

The tide is turning against Louisiana’s proposed $2 billion Mississippi River sediment diversion project, that supporters say is needed to save the coast from rapid land loss due to subsidence, damage done by the oil and gas industry, extreme weather events, and sea level rise quickened by climate change.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

For example, the report predicts that under a net zero emission decarbonisation scenario sea levels could still rise by over half a metre this century. Under higher emissions scenarios, two metres of sea level rise cannot be ruled out. Five metres is possible by 2150.

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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. Business as usual would lead to: 2005: 1°C rise in temperatures that would be barely noticeable.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2020

What happens if sea levels rise and five mega-storms make US landfall in the same year? There are lots of useful lessons to be learnt from the coronavirus crisis as the world shapes its response to the longer term threat presented by climate change. Would the insurance industry collapse?

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2021

A threat that was still in the future, with consequences happening somewhere else, with melting poles, small island communities affected by sea level rise or drought in the global south, far away from our robust, modern societies. We cannot afford to be passive, it's time to step up and strive to be net positive.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

The International Geoshpere-Biosphere Programme and Stockholm Resilience Center published a dashboard of 24 indicators that each depict a synchronous acceleration of upward trends from the 1950s to present day.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2022

Those forced to permanently migrate as sea levels rise, for example, correlate with long-term, indirect psychological impacts such as higher rates of anxiety, depression, PTSD, aggression, and substance abuse, among others.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2023

West Oakland, California Grist / Getty Images Oceans do not stop where the sea meets the shore. Many Americans are familiar with sea-level rise. The California Department of Toxic Substances Control conducted testing and found that TCE was not present in the air inside McClymonds High School.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

One of his presentations was slotted between talks by U.N. External costs include everything from pre-mature deaths due to air pollution to the sky-rocketing insurance costs for properties vulnerable to sea level rise. In 2015, Jacobson began work on WWS maps for individual countries, with Ukraine being the first.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

It’s the extreme weather events that really connect the dots for the public, and that’s why, for a number of years, we’ve seen weather presenters and meteorologists targeted,” said world-renowned climate scientist and author Michael E. ” – Michael E. Keith Berry looks down into flooded streets searching for survivors.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2022

But if you cannot see how such substantial and interlocking impacts could present a financial risk that is worth considering you should arguably not be left to handle scissors unsupervised, let alone manage millions of pounds of other people's money. Now it is true that humanity might find ways to mitigate and adapt to these impacts.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 30, 2024

The topics presently under consideration include: The effects of carbon-dioxide on climate.” According to the report, other possible climatic effects of increased CO2 included the melting of the Antarctic ice-cap, sea-level rises, and warming of the oceans. The memorandum Hornig sent to President Johnson in January 1965.

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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. C we are still facing half a metre of sea level rise. C, we can avoid a long term three metres of sea level rise.

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

But as sea levels rise and the islands continue to subside, the costs of fortifying and maintaining the structures may exceed the value of the land and agricultural production behind them, says Alf Brandt, counsel to the State Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon. Windham-Myers studies the Suisun marshes, not far from Sherman Island.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Throughout 2009, small island and coastal nations, as well as other vulnerable countries, took advantage of any space where they were present to call for greater climate ambition, with the 1.5 C than at present, but lower than at 2°C, ” the dozens of scientists involved concluded with high confidence. degree limit as the main demand.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

In concert, this posturing informs Russia's various competitors that it is present and, if required, will use force to defend its strategic interests. Nato has been similarly present in the contest. Many coastal naval bases are, for example, at risk from sea level rises. Carbon bootprints. There are physical risks.

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