DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2020

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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

In the five months since, climate-fueled wildfires have torched the Western U.S., Tags: climate hustle marc morano CFACT

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Grist

MAY 18, 2023

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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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Those groups are still most at risk from extreme heat and air pollution in Chicago, which can coincide to produce “profound public health consequences,” said Horton, like they did when wildfire smoke from Canada gave the city the worst air quality in the world in June.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Lately, a steady march of searing heat, ruinous floods, horrific wildfires, unbreathable air, devastating hurricanes and other climate-related calamities has been traversing our screens and wreaking havoc to national and local budgets. It placed the price tag at up to 10.5 And we’re only at 1°C of increased global temperature rise.

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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.” The research team exhorts that unchecked climate-related events will economically burden communities, especially unprepared ones.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 2, 2020

As more intense wildfires blaze across every continent except Antarctica, the sound of the planet burning will only get louder. Tags: arctic climate science tipping points fossil fuel lobby wildfires Read time: 8 mins By Martin Bush. Reposted with permission from ClimateZone.org. . The next decade will be noisy as hell.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Eco Central , a UK-based campaign group that runs ads that claim California wildfires were caused by green policies, that question the green credentials of electric vehicles and wind turbines, and call for climate change education to be banned from schools, has run nearly £3,500 of ads through Facebook's ad platform since 2018.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Lately, a steady march of searing heat, ruinous floods, horrific wildfires, unbreathable air, devastating hurricanes and other climate-related calamities has been traversing our screens and wreaking havoc to national and local budgets. It placed the price tag at up to 10.5 And we’re only at 1°C of increased global temperature rise.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Lately, a steady march of searing heat, ruinous floods, horrific wildfires, unbreathable air, devastating hurricanes and other climate-related calamities has been traversing our screens and wreaking havoc to national and local budgets. It placed the price tag at up to 10.5 And we’re only at 1°C of increased global temperature rise.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2023

New projects with big price tags are looking for long-duration energy storage solutions In the summer of 2021, a flurry of R&D money was flying into new long-duration energy storage technologies. The project is being considered for approval from the California Public Utilities Commission.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 30, 2021

We see its effects in the horrific heat and wildfires unfolding this summer in the American west; in the mega-storms that were so numerous in 2020 that scientists ran out of names for them; in the global projections that sea levels are set to rise by at least 20ft. Shouldn’t those lies be central to the public narrative? By Mark Hertsgaard.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Tuesday’s requests for proposals from East Bay Community Energy (EBCE), Peninsula Clean Energy, Silicon Valley Clean Energy and municipal utility Silicon Valley Power are the latest step taken by state and local authorities to bolster solar-storage systems as a solution to the wildfire and power outage conundrum.

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Grist

JUNE 21, 2021

The fellowship has annually funded the salary and training of one emergency medical doctor who does rotations in the ER, treating patients with an eye to the climate-related issues they face, like the state’s historic wildfires. Doctors put a price tag on the annual health impacts of climate change. It’s $820 billion. Zoya Teirstein.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 17, 2023

The majority of Denbury’s revenue comes from EOR, which involves injecting CO2 into the ground in order to extend the life of oil fields, and ~60% of the price tag likely covered the value of Denbury’s oil production rather than the CCS infrastructure.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 28, 2020

Read time: 8 mins As blistering wildfires and a monstrous hurricane fueled by rising temperatures ravage the U.S., Tags: Senate Democrats climate lawsuits climate accountability Senator Sheldon Whitehouse American Petroleum Institute us chamber of commerce

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 27, 2020

when Secretary Ryan Zinke and others wrongly blamed environmentalists for California's wildfires and Trump wrongly blamed a lack of raking. Tags: Ryan Zinke Trump Administration wildfires climate change That is, of course, wrong. It throws us back to 2018 in the U.S.,

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Projects range from new transmission lines and batteries in Georgia, to wildfire assessment and resiliency across Western US.  Canada announced a new initiative called Radarsat + for a $740M investment over the next 15 years in satellite technology to boost earth observation data used to track wildfires and other environmental crises.

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Grist

JANUARY 10, 2024

But the caribou, which provide essential food and cultural resources for many Alaska Native communities, are facing multiple threats: A slew of climate-related impacts have hampered their grazing, wildfires have burned the forage they rely on, warmer winters may have increased disease , and thawing permafrost has disrupted their migrations.

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