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'How high above sea level am I?' If you've googled this, you're likely asking the wrong question — an expert explains
The IPCC report is a massive alert that the time for climate action is nearly gone, but crucially not gone yet | Greg Jericho
Australia cannot afford another election campaign that views the science of climate change as something we can ignore
The latest IPCC report released on Monday essentially lets the world know just how big a hole it has gotten itself into. The good thing is it also lets us all know how we can get out. The problem of course is that when you are in a hole, the first thing you have to do is stop digging.
Lest there still be any misunderstanding – whether it be through ignorance or due to listening to those in the media and politics who seek to mislead – the climate right now is warmer than it has been in modern human history.
Continue reading...Fossil fuel misinformation may sideline IPCC’s most important climate reports
Climate misinformation campaigns are often backed by corporate interests which stand to lose in a clean energy transition.
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Communicating climate change has never been so important, and this IPCC report pulls no punches
Climate: WWF warns UK spending is lagging behind targets
CP Daily: Wednesday August 11, 2021
California offset issuances slide from recent highs ahead of November compliance deadline
Fossil fuel misinformation may sideline one of the most important climate change reports ever released
No one left behind: EU climate policy raises stakes in fairness fight
Climate Check: Why a warmer world will also be wetter
Uniper reports jump in H1 emissions, though carbon costs squeeze margins
“Solar tax” optional as networks told to make grid solar and battery friendly
New rules mean solar homes will need to pay to access the best feed-in-tariffs and avoid curtailment.
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Climate change: Curbing methane emissions will 'buy us time'
WCI floor price expectations narrow for 2021 as US inflation stagnates
Climate delayers are to blame for Britain’s lack of urgency in creating a green plan | Carys Roberts
People are urging the government to take further and faster action but those who think it’s too costly must first be defeated
It’s easy to feel despair reading the stark warnings in the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: the window in which warming can be limited to 1.5C is rapidly closing. The forest fires and flooding on our TV screens, and closer to home, are a wake-up call to the realities of a rapidly warming climate.
The IPCC, the UN body responsible for climate science, described the report as a “code red for humanity”, but 30 years of warnings have not brought about action on a meaningful scale.
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‘Abolish these companies, get rid of them’: what would it take to break up big oil?
Communities on the frontline of the climate crisis say radical solutions must be on the table – before it’s too late
Ayisha Siddiqa doesn’t want fossil fuel companies to determine her future anymore. The industry has promoted climate denial for longer than the 22-year-old has been alive. Rather than watch companies pad their profits as the world burns, Siddiqa has a radical solution in mind.
“Abolish these oil companies, finish them, get rid of them, no more,” she said.
Continue reading...‘They rake in profits – everyone else suffers’: US workers lose out as big chicken gets bigger
Revealed: investigation shows how Tyson’s near monopoly in its home state of Arkansas gives it huge power, at a cost to farmers and the environment
The lockhold that America’s largest meat processing company has on the chicken industry has generated dire consequences for its workers, farmers and the environment in one of the US’s leading poultry-producing states, an investigation has found.
Tyson Foods is ranked 73rd on the Fortune 500 list, with a revenue of $43bn in the last fiscal year.
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