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Climate Change and the Hard-Headed Realist

Legal Planet

Kissinger spoke at length about climate change in a 2009 speech. It will require us to fundamentally alter the profile of our energy use and derive growth from fuels and technologies that emit less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and to adapt to the climatic changes that our actions are too late to prevent.”

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Why Energy Bills Will Be Even Higher This Winter

Union of Concerned Scientists

The US Energy Information Administration is forecasting the wholesale price of gas to reach its highest level since the winter of 2009-2010 in inflation-adjusted terms. Methane is more than 80 times as powerful at warming the planet over a 20-year time frame than carbon dioxide. .

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Degradation of coastal regions in the Pacific Islands

Our Environment

Greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide are great absorbers of heat radiation coming from the Earth’s surface. The addition of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere and their effect on global temperature also strengthens existing climatic patterns, such as cyclones, floods, droughts and heatwaves. should be. [4]

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Susannah Pierce: A Climate Villain Painting Big Oil Green

Enviromental Defense

2009 – 2010 TC Energy Corporation: 2002 – 2008 Villain Career Profile Climate Villain Susannah Pierce works hard to raise global temperatures on behalf of the oil and gas industry, with two decades of experience marketing, developing, and lobbying the government for further expansion of fossil fuels. 2010 – 2013 Shell Oil Company Inc.:

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New California Legislation Would Be a Major Step Forward for Climate Disclosure

Law Columbia

It would require standardized reporting of GHG emissions (primarily carbon dioxide and methane) by firms doing business in California with total annual revenues more than $1 billion. [19] Lazarus, “Super Wicked Problems and Climate Change: Restraining the Present to Liberate the Future,” 94 Cornell Law Review 1153 (2009). [36]

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Explainer: China launches first national soil survey in 40 years

A Greener Life

By 2009, a study by Chinese scientists found that cadmium was going into China’s topsoil at around 0.004mg/kg per year. In China, cadmium in soil mainly comes from atmospheric deposition of the metal after it has been emitted from coal-burning, metallurgical facilities and animal-source fertilisers. each year.

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Four cheap solutions to climate change

Edouard Stenger

At a time where scientists are trying to figure out how to suck the excess carbon out of our atmosphere, Mother Nature has known how to do it for millions of years. Trees are very efficient at absorbing carbon dioxide. Solar photovoltaic has seen its installed prices drop by over 60 percent, from $8.82