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Adapting to climate change will only get more expensive

A Greener Life

Over time, as the climate warms, the costs of rebuilding from the impacts of climate change will soar. As the climate warms, the price of adapting homes and infrastructure to cope with increasing temperatures, heavier rainfalls, stronger storms, and rising seas will be staggering. By Michael Allen.

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Confronting the Climate Crisis with Scientist Activism: the Essential Role of Rule Breakers

Union of Concerned Scientists

they tend to face far-lower personal stakes than their civil rights predecessors, though this cannot be said for less-privileged activists, especially Black, Indigenous, and other activists of color, and in the global South, people have been targeted and killed for their activism. In the U.S., We proved the house is on fire.

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Sustainable Finance 101: The Impact of Climate Change on Your Money

Enviromental Defense

The global financial system operates under the assumption that fossil fuel assets will continue to be valuable for decades to come – it’s why so many pension funds, loans and investments are put into fossil fuels. Financial assets often rely on physical infrastructure.

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Two potential solutions to cool down the Arctic

Edouard Stenger

Desch and his team have put forward the scheme in a paper that has just been published in Earth’s Future , the journal of the American Geophysical Union, and have worked out a price tag for the project: $500bn (£400bn). Half a trillion over a decade to help slow down global warming doesn’t look like a lot of money after all.

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The limits of adaptation

Science Blogs

This embryonic sector is less interested in mitigating global warming, a certain degree of which is now baked into our ecosystem over the next few decades regardless of what we do about our carbon emissions, than in helping communities and corporations anticipate the effects of that warming and minimize the consequences.

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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb. 10 to 16 - 31 More Conventional Abandoned Well NOVs - 103 For Year; Pipeline Land Slips; Water Supply, Stray Gas Complaints

PA Environment Daily

Million In Tax Credits To Subsidize Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County; Total Expected To Be $1.17 Million In Tax Credits To Subsidize Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County; Total Expected To Be $1.17

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Environmental groups enter legal fight over regulation of plastics pollution

Enviromental Defense

Ashley Wallis, Plastic Campaigner, Oceana Canada said: “According to the United Nations, plastic pollution is the second most ominous threat to the global environment after climate change. We won’t end the growing global plastic disaster by relying on voluntary industry-led initiatives or fragmented local bans.