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'So they knew': Ocasio-Cortez questions Exxon scientist on climate crisis denial – video
Martin Hoffert testified that in 1982, Exxon scientists predicted how carbon dioxide levels would rise and heat the planet as humans burned more fossil fuels.
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What if we measured the thing that matters most: "carbon productivity"
Labor productivity doesn't matter as much as emissions productivity. Workers aren't a particularly finite resource.
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These U.N. Climate Scientists Think They Can Halt Global Warming for $300 Billion
The solution would stabilize CO2 emissions for 15-20 years, they say
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Climate Change Will Cost Us Even More Than We Think
Economists greatly underestimate the price tag on harsher weather and higher seas. Why is that?
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Climate change: Who do we blame for the climate crisis? Expert says blame 'big companies'
CLIMATE change is in part the direct result of big industry players who have denied and lied about climate science for years, a leading climate expert has told Express.co.uk.
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Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change
Recently, the U.K. Met Office announced a revision to the Hadley Center historical analysis of sea surface temperatures (SST), suggesting that the oceans have warmed about 0.1 degree Celsius more than previously thought.
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The Greening of Paris Makes Its Mayor More Than a Few Enemies
As Anne Hidalgo declares war on the car, drivers rage at the disruptions, but supporters credit her with preparing Paris for a hotter future.
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Why people still think climate change is a hoax: The psychological reason why
Denial happens when climate science rubs us the wrong way.
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Greta Thunberg calls for climate action in Canada's oil heartland
Thunberg's speech to thousands of protesters was punctuated by a counterrally organized by a pro-oil group. Thunberg's visit comes days before an election in which climate change promises to be a contentious issue.
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Resisting drought's day zero: the NSW towns close to running dry
After water restrictions and emergency infrastructure, the final drought strategy is sheer perseverance
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Qatar Is Air-Conditioning the Outdoors Because of Climate Change
The nation is trying to engineer its way out of global warming.
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Feelings of ‘despair’: Climate change activists testify against EPA plans to roll back methane emissions standards
Myrelis “Mara” Diaz never expected to move to the U.S. mainland. That wasn’t in her plans. But on Sept. 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria raged through Puerto Rico and tore up her San Juan apartment complex, leaving residents without running water. An AmeriCorps worker, Diaz spent the following days lugging heavy jugs of water up the stairs for her neighbors. She’d come home without food for herself. One day on a water delivery, when she tripped on the stairs and bruised a chunk of her leg, she decided she’d had enough.
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Qatar so unbearably hot it has started air-conditioning the outdoors
Temperatures in Qatar – one of the hottest places on Earth – have risen so much that authorities have installed air conditioning in the open air including in streets and outdoor markets. The country, where summer temperatures now reach up to 46C, has already started air-conditioning its football stadiums in preparation for November’s World Cup – itself delayed because of the extreme heat.
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Hawaii’s Push To Plant Millions Of Trees
Camilo Mora spends his evenings and weekends tinkering with PVC pipes, duct tape and zip ties, working like a modern-day MacGyver to create odd-looking inventions for his greenhouse.
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Some corals ‘killed’ by climate change are now returning to life
Reef-building corals can make unexpected recoveries from climate change-induced destruction. It turns out that some corals only look dead when exposed to unusually warm water. Instead, the coral’s polyps shrink and retreat into their hard skeleton, making the reef appear dead, before recolonising the skeleton when conditions are better. It is a survival strategy never seen before in today’s corals – but it may not help the corals as the climate continues to change.
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British police issue a city-wide ban on climate change protests in London
British police have ordered Extinction Rebellion activists to stop their demonstrations immediately or face arrest, issuing a London-wide ban on the group’s climate change protests. In a statement issued on Monday evening, the Metropolitan Police said that anyone who ignores the ban would be detained and face prosecution.
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Climate explained: why some people still think climate change isn't real
People are more likely to deny climate change if they're inclined toward hierarchy, have lower levels of education or are more religious. But the strongest predictor of denial is a person's politics.
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Google continues to make donations to anti-science groups despite their public environmental advocacy
A new report from The Guardian outlines Google's "substantial contributions to some of the most notorious climate deniers in Washington despite its insistence that it supports political action on the climate crisis." The full list of groups that receive substantial contributions from Google is available on their website.
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Google continues to funnel vast sums to notorious climate deniers
Google funds these lobbyists and astroturf operations because they also lobby for lax tax enforcement, lax labor laws, lax privacy laws, and so on. Google doesn't fund these lobbyists because they're climate deniers, nor because they're indifferent to climate change and its human costs.
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'If they don't do it, we will': Greta Thunberg rallies climate strikers for long haul
Young people must be prepared to strike for a long time for action on climate change and not back down, the Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has told a rally in Denver. Thunberg said she and fellow youth activists would not beg those in power to act because she expected leaders to keep ignoring them.
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