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Report: What Can I Actually Do About Climate Change? Your Choices Really Do Add Up
This article discusses what you can do about climate change? Your choices really do add up.
The latest report from the United Nations’ scientific panel on climate change said the world will reach an environmental crisis by 2040 if immediate action isn’t taken to slow global warming. While the report […]
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Report: Climate disasters cause global economic losses to soar – UN
This article discusses how climate disasters are causing global economic losses to soar – UN. In the past 20 years, 77 percent of disaster losses were caused by extreme weather – and climate change is making things worse.
Economic losses caused by climate-related disasters have soared by about two and a half […]
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Report: Here’s what it would take to stop climate change sooner – IPCC
This article discusses what it would take to stop climate change sooner. New IPCC report explains value and difficulty of limiting warming to 1.5°C.
One of the biggest surprises leading up to the 2015 international Paris Agreement on climate-changing emissions was an argument about a new goal. Nations settled on a target […]
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Capturing and reusing urban storm water could be a boon for water-stressed cities—if we can find a way to clean it up
This article discusses the problems many cities are facing regarding drinking water. Capturing and reusing urban storm water could be a boon for water-stressed cities—if we can find a way to clean it up. 3 promising new technologies could help send storm water to taps in thirsty cities.
In March, […]
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Another DeSmogBlog posting
This posting discuses the following:
Storm damage caused in SC by hurricane Florence
Five Climate Science Deniers to Know in Trump’s Administration
A legal challenge that Could Stall the LNG Canada Fracked Gas Project
How Colorado Voters Will Weigh in on Drilling Distances From Homes and Schools
Why Californians […]
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Study: The US and India face incredibly high carbon pollution costs
This article discusses a study that finds incredibly high carbon pollution costs – especially for the US and India. As a wealthy, warm country, the US would benefit from implementing a carbon tax to slow global warming.
The social cost of carbon is a measure of the economic damages caused […]
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Climate change panel vets landmark global warming report
This article discusses the latest version of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) global warming report.
Scientists fear potential Trump administration obstruction as top climate change body finalizes a major report of future global warming scenarios and ways to mitigate impacts.
The 48th meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate […]
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Study: This place on Russia’s Arctic coast has most dramatic climate change
This article discusses how, Russia’s Arctic coast has been changing due to climate change. The town of Dikson and the surrounding Taymyr Peninsula has the most rapid temperature increase in Russia, as well as an aggravating melting of permafrost and nearby sea ice.
The new climate report from Roshydromet, Russia’s state […]
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Report: World ‘nowhere near on track’ to avoid warming beyond 1.5C target
This article discusses how the planet is heading towards missing the goals set in Paris. Author of key UN climate report says limiting temperature rise would require enormous, immediate transformation in human activity.
The world’s governments are “nowhere near on track” to meet their commitment to avoid global warming of […]
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Report: Abandoning nuclear power plans ‘would push up carbon emissions’
This article discusses how abandoning nuclear power plans ‘would push up carbon emissions’. Report due to be published on Thursday warns of ‘folly of technological tribalism’.
Nuclear power has a downside, though, its waste. Since we currently cannot make the waste safe, what should we do?
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