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The Chilling Question About This Week’s Record Heat Wave

DeSmogBlog

This story was originally published by The Energy Mix Weekender , and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate crisis. Tuesday and Wednesday, July 4 and 5, set another new record at 17.18°C. On Monday, July 3, the U.S.

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The search for the source of plastic pollution

Grist

This story was published in partnership with InvestigateWest. With 5-gallon buckets in hand, they slowly fan out and search a roughly rectangular zone marked by cones, passing over the same spots several times from the grass to the waterline as they look for even the tiniest things that don’t belong there. Is it a household item?

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We saved the puffins. Now a warming planet is unraveling that work.

Grist

Our inaction makes us the executioners. One day in the camp library, he came upon a 1949 book that said puffins had resided on the rock. The gulf, cupped between Cape Cod and Nova Scotia, is heating up faster than nearly every other ocean system on Earth. I was on islands managed by National Audubon’s Project Puffin.

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How can the world kick its oil habit?

Mr. Sustainability

Either way - whether kicking and screaming or willingly - we will get rid of fossil fuels. In 2019, global demand reached a record 100 million barrels a day, driven in part by the needs of rapidly industrialising emerging markets. 5) (5) We can function on exactly the same material, made simply from sustainable sources.

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GAMING THE SYSTEM HOW SOCIAL MEDIA TRANSFORMS THE PUBLIC SPHERE, UNDERMINES CLIMATE ACTION AND THREATENS DEMOCRACY

Green Market Oracle

MEDIA ANALYSIS a) Transnational public spheres b) Social media misinformation and deception c) Conspiracy theories muddy the discourse d) Fossil fuels and climate confusion e) Fossil fuel industry at war with truth 5. Consensus The divisions created by multiple publics make it difficult to achieve consensus in the public sphere.