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What Do Climate Scientists Tell Their Kids about the Future?

Scientific American

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

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As its Lone Climate Scientist Board Member Departs, ExxonMobil Still Heads in the Wrong Direction

Union of Concerned Scientists

There has been comparatively less attention to the decision by climate scientist Dr. Susan Avery not to seek re-election to the ExxonMobil board of directors. Yet this shift in corporate leadership is significant, marking the end of a chapter in ExxonMobil’s long and ongoing history of climate deception and disinformation.

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Countries failed to agree first steps on solar geoengineering at the UN. What went wrong?

Legal Planet

They wanted to ensure that establishing an assessment process, or even a repository, did not legitimate unfettered research, experimentation and development of the technologies. Major powers do not seem to want to deploy, or even develop SRM, but acted in ways that would allow them freedom on action on the technology now and in the future.

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Penn State EarthTalks: April 22 Sustainable & Climate-Resilient Urban Solutions Online Program

PA Environment Daily

It also contributes to developing technologically-engineered-ecological solutions to complex environmental challenges for sustainable and climate-resilient urban development.

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Stroud Water Research Center Honors Dr. Michael E. Mann, Climate Scientist & Author, With 2022 Stroud Award For Freshwater Excellence

PA Environment Daily

He has received numerous honors and awards including the Public Engagement With Science Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Climate Communication Prize from the American Geophysical Union, NOAA’s outstanding publication award, and the Hans Oeschger Medal of the European Geosciences Union.

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Saudi Arabia echoes “Business as usual” as a key COP28 argument

A Greener Life

But to be able to cut emissions on a meaningful scale using this technology you would need thousands and thousands of projects established. The CCS technology is in its infancy, and not able to capture the full output of emissions from an industrial activity such as a power plant.

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Opinion: The planet is coded red – now what?

A Greener Life

One thing is that this report, which is the best available climate science data pulled together by the world’s best climate scientists, concluded that it is now very unlikely that the pledged 1.5 And people bought huge quantities of meat that the climate cannot afford, to feed their summer barbeques.