DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

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.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2020

Tags: fracking extreme weather fracking finances climate impacts natural gas drilling

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

With extreme weather wreaking havoc around the world, there is a need for resilient shelters more than ever before. Delta is a bamboo shelter that retracts into itself when challenged by stormy weather and expands during non-severe weather. Each bamboo shelter starts at $8,500 and can be constructed within 28 days.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 19, 2022

And this is a bit of the fallacy that tags along when we talk about the ubiquitous smart grid. The increasing number of environmental challenges – ice storms, wind storms, hurricanes, extremely hot weather, extremely cold weather – all seem to be accelerating. The grid is only smart in places.

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Business Green

JULY 5, 2020

Iggy Bassi, founder and chief executive of Cervest, said: "Our findings show that businesses are unclear of the risks that climate presents to them, and the potential price tag that goes with that. Bearing the brunt of this current pandemic will be an immediate focus for many companies.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

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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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In July, a bout of cold weather in a major arabica coffee-producing part of Brazil ruined a third of the coffee crop. Climate change seems to be driving the extreme weather in Brazil — and around the world. But he’s more worried about climate change than about the price tag. per kilogram. A very unlucky number, indeed.

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Business Green

MARCH 13, 2023

As such, farmers are starting to address sustainability issues "almost as a tag-along", according to Dierenfeld. The survey gathered information about how the livestock and poultry industry is already innovating to reduce its environmental impacts, primarily by chasing higher productivity and lower costs in an increasingly challenging market.

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Business Green

MARCH 13, 2023

As such, farmers are starting to address sustainability issues "almost as a tag-along", according to Dierenfield. The report also warned there were significant obstacles to the adoption of more sustainable practices.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

At the launch event for the new initiative today, COP27 President Sameh Shoukry said the Adaptation Agenda was a "critical step" for the "implementation COP", referring to the Egyptian presidency's tag line for the event.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

“Our research shows that health-related costs added at least another 26 percent to the national price tag for 2012 severe weather-related damages.” NRDC also advises that taking steps now to counteract extreme climate change events would cost up to five times less than paying for event-related health consequences.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

An AI-driven platform can automatically upload, tag, organise and analyse multiple data types and sources. Improvements to make the grid resistant to extreme weather. This creates a wealth of data: visual, thermal and geospatial. Depending on the length of a T&D line, this can mean millions of images.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2022

For example, the weaking of the Gulf Stream in the North Atlantic risks devastating the UK agriculture sector, potentially resulting in a 0.25 per cent loss in GDP under current policies. Again, the report predicted that achieving net zero would deliver net economic gains.

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

High price tags are sometimes necessary for innovative green technologies, but with biomass, there's a real risk that the UK doesn't get what it's paying for," Ember's COO and lead UK analyst Phil MacDonald warned.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2021

Here, the OBR is crystal clear, estimating that unmitigated warming could see public debt spiralling up to a terrifying 290 per cent of GDP, thanks to "an ever hotter climate and more frequent and costly economic shocks", such as the fallout from increased conflict, mass migration, and extreme weather events.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

As ever, the CCC's assessment of the potential costs of net zero offers a powerful tonic to the loud minority of political and media commentators who have taken to bemoaning the price tags attached to the projects that can help avoid catastrophic climate impacts. They'll be very predictable.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Whether intentional or serendipitous, the government's £1.2bn investment towards building a new climate 'supercomputer' to provide faster and more accurate forecasting of extreme weather events was, upon its announcement yesterday , somewhat drowned out by the devastating impacts of Storm Dennis over the weekend.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

It’s a target climate scientists have found could save millions of lives from worsening climate-related disasters like floods and extreme heat. Heatwaves are becoming more extreme, killing more people in the US than any other weather-related disaster. Air conditioning has been a challenge for the city.

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Grist

JUNE 21, 2021

Continued reliance on fossil fuels is causing 7 million additional deaths worldwide from air pollution, and extreme heat is killing more people than ever before. In 2018, about 280,000 people died from extreme heat worldwide, a nearly 55 percent increase from 20 years ago. HOLLIE ADAMS / AFP via Getty Images. It’s $820 billion.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2022

The resulting impact - coming after what have been two extremely challenging years - means difficult times ahead for all businesses in all sectors.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MARCH 15, 2024

Recent global conflicts, characterised by high and fluctuating oil and gas prices, have exposed the limitations of the current renewable energy market, where weather-dependent green energy sources must coexist with fossil fuels for heating and for stabilisation of the electricity grid.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Tags: Hurricane Delta Hurricane Laura extreme weather Louisiana John Bel Edwards Trump Administration This selection of photos shows the devastating impact hurricanes have had primarily in Louisiana but also in Alabama and Florida, in an already difficult year beset by a pandemic and subsequent economic downturn. .

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Tags: Donald Trump Hurricane Laura Louisiana COVID-19 extreme weather COVID Denial The phrase carried echoes of his remarks on COVID -19 — made at a time when the coronavirus had killed over 156,000 and infected over 4.7 million in the U.S. that the virus’s death toll “is what it is.”.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

Tags: Nationalism climate science denial extreme weather climate change Donald Trump The other trend has been the surge of right-wing nationalist politics across Western nations , which includes Donald Trump’s election in the U.S., and the rise of nationalist political parties around the world.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

under President Donald Trump still trust government-issued weather reports? Tags: Donald Trump NOAA National Weather Service hurricanes extreme weather Can the U.S.

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Grist

JANUARY 10, 2024

You’ve got a wild system, with free-ranging animals, and weather, and other factors that are constantly changing,” says Tom Paragi, a wildlife biologist for the state Department of Fish and Game. In most parts of Alaska, Miller says, “the liberalization of bear hunting regulations has just been so extreme.”

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 17, 2020

We’re talking about extreme weather disturbances which hit Houston Texas, Venice Italy, just a few months ago. The price tag for your climate plan is about $1.7 We’re talking about cities in America, from Miami to New Orleans to Charleston, South Carolina being underwater. They said that’s the single biggest problem.

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