Tag: climate change
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As Sea Levels Rise, Coastal Cities Face Flood Damage Exceeding $1 Trillion
By 2050, flood damage in the world’s coastal cities is expected to reach $1 trillion a year as sea levels rise and global warming triggers new extremes of heat …
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Harnessing the Power of the People to Reshape the Future of an Overheated Planet
It’s true, too, in the battle where I’ve spent most of my life: the fight to slow climate change and hence give the planet some margin for survival …
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Warren Buffett Buys More Than $500 Million in Dirty Tar Sands Stock
Though he receives far less negative press than the Koch Brothers, Buffett’s no deep green ecologist. Not in the slightest.
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Keystone XL and Canada’s Empty Promises on Climate Action
“It will be very difficult for the Canadian government to achieve its own emissions reduction target for 2020 even without tar sands expansion, and more so if it continues to pursue tar sands expansion.”
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Expect More Crippling Heatwaves By 2020
Even if governments abandon fossil fuels everywhere, immediately and invest only in green energy, there will be new record temperatures.