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This article discusses how sea-level rise is already hitting the real-estate market, making that beach house not worth as much as you think.
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The Renewables Threat to Natural Gas
These 2 articles (here and here) show how renewable energy will continue its inexorable march to replace natural gas.
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Report: U.S. utility solar contracts ‘exploded’ in 2018 despite tariffs
This article discusses how solar energy is increasingly the power source of choice, despite Trump’s efforts to focus on fossil fuels.
Procurement of solar energy by U.S. utilities “exploded” in the first half of 2018, prompting a prominent research group to boost its five-year installation forecast on Thursday despite the […]
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Top green group to spend an unprecedented $60 million on 2018 races
This article discusses how 2018 politics are being affected by climate change.
The League of Conservation Voters and other groups are investing in Democrats they believe will counter Trump’s environmental policies.
For the 2018 election, green groups are planning to drop more green than ever.
The League of […]
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Beyond Evacuations: Climate Change May Mean Abandoning Our Coasts Forever
This article discusses the future of beaches in the US =- it is not good. A climate scientist thinks that we aren’t taking major storms like Florence seriously enough.
Get out, and stay out. Or at least, don’t come back and build a high-rise. […]
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Fossil fuel divestment funds rise to $6 trillion
This article discusses how investment firms are divesting themselves from fossil fuel companies. Insurance companies lead the sell-off of coal, oil and gas stocks over climate change and financial fears – oil majors now cite divestment as a risk to them.
The funds committed to fossil fuel divestment now total […]
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Report: Fighting climate change could boost the global economy by $26 trillion
This article discusses how fighting climate change could boost the global economy by $26 trillion. Concerted efforts to stop climate change by 2030 would also create 65 million new jobs and–this part is important–stop 700,000 premature deaths.
Over the next 10 to 15 years, the world will invest $90 trillion […]
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Submerged Risks Haunt Low-Level Airports
This article discusses how some airports are being affected by sea level rise caused by climate change.
The sight of a flooded Kansai International Airport and 3,000 stranded people after Typhoon Jebi slammed into […]
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The Next Financial Crisis Lurks Underground
This article discusses the fracking industry’s future, and it is not financially sound. The Next Financial Crisis Lurks Underground. Fueled by debt and years of easy credit, America’s energy boom is on shaky footing.
About 20 years ago, an entrepreneur named George Mitchell proved that it was possible to get lots […]
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Rising CO2 will leave crops—and millions of humans—less healthy
This article discusses how rising CO2 levels will affect food production. Scientists say certain staple foods such as rice and wheat will deliver less nutrition in 2050. Women, children and poor people will suffer most.
Increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will render some major crops […]
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