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Bad science and bad ethics in Peter Gleick’s Review of “Apocalypse Never” at Yale Climate Connections

Environmental Progress

We know we must now work to both cut greenhouse gas emissions to reduce the severity of climate change and at the same time work to adapt to the impacts we can no longer avoid. This was the seed of what the UN would christen “sustainable development.” But the atmospheric equivalent of garbage dumps.”

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June 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

After concluding in 2011 that listing of the Pacific walrus was warranted due to threats that included sea-ice loss through 2100, the FWS issued a final decision in October 2017 that the Pacific walrus no longer qualified as a threatened species. Sierra Club v.

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Testimony by Michael Shellenberger before the House Agriculture Committee on “Climate Change and the U.S. Agriculture and Forestry Sectors”

Environmental Progress

Vegetarianism is not important for protecting the environment or reducing greenhouse gas emissions. should directly and through the World Bank and other institutions help poor and developing nations to modernize agriculture for economic development, environmental, and public health reasons. and around the world. 26] The U.S.