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Debunked Australian Bushfire Conspiracy Theories Were Pushed by Alex Jones, Murdoch Media

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 3 mins As unusually intense and widespread bushfires have ravaged a drought-ridden Australia, bots and trolls have begun pushing climate science denial across the internet in the form of conspiracy theories about the fires. Tags: climate science denial conspiracy theories alex jones

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Polling Shows Growing Climate Concern Among Americans. But Outsized Influence of Deniers Remains a Roadblock

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 9 mins More Americans than ever before — 54 percent, recent polling data shows — are alarmed or concerned about climate change, which scientists warn is a planetary emergency unfolding in the form of searing heat, prolonged drought, massive wildfires, monstrous storms, and other extremes.

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After a Decade of Fracking, Billions of Dollars Lost and a Climate in Crisis

DeSmogBlog

The new year started amid devastating wildfires, tied to the worst droughts Australia has experienced in hundreds of years , which encircled much of the continent. Tags: fracking extreme weather fracking finances climate impacts natural gas drilling So far, 29 people have been reported dead.

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El Niño could cost the global economy $3 trillion

Grist

Those impacts come with a surprisingly steep price tag, according to the study, which was published in Science on Thursday. Drought in Indonesia and Southeast Asia during and directly after an El Niño event leads to wildfires, which also damage homes and other infrastructure and lead to economic losses.

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Study: Climate change to blame for $8 billion of Hurricane Sandy damages

Grist

Linking climate change to disastrous weather events like droughts, hurricanes, or floods is always tricky: Terrible storms happened before people started mucking with the global thermostat, and they’ll continue even if countries start to get their emissions under control. Similar research could be used in court against oil companies.

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Coffee prices spike, thanks to climate change

AGreenLiving

But in this case, it’s a cold snap in Brazil , piling on top of droughts, mixed with COVID-19 supply chain issues — and before you know it, the price of coffee could hit $4.44 The country has been plagued by a series of droughts and hasn’t had a typical rainy season for more than a decade now. Coffee bean prices are about to spike.

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Chicago Takes Big Oil to Court, Adding Another Heavyweight to the Fight

DeSmogBlog

Chicago’s complaint cites more frequent and intense storms, flooding, droughts, shoreline erosion, toxic algae blooms in Lake Michigan, and extreme heat events like a four-day heat wave in 1995 that killed more than 700 Chicagoans.