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The nuclear option

Corporate Knights

One of the leaders on the other side of the debate is climate scientist James Hansen, who is famous for raising awareness of the climate threat at U.S. congressional hearings in the 1980s.

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Shifting the Burden of Proof: Why It's Now On the Fossil Fuel Industry to Defend Itself

3BL Media

Climate Scientists and Advocates Have Satisfied Their Burden of Proof. For a long time in America, society put the climate change burden of proof on those who have raised concerns about it. Heck, it didn’t even seem to be enough in 2013 when John Cook and other researchers determined that 97.1%

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How 5 communities across the US are seeking environmental justice

GreenBiz

And a good thing that is, with climate scientists predicting sea level rise of at least a foot by 2050, which will make the Rockaways more prone to climate change-fueled flooding and storm surges than they already are. .

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Advancing Climate Justice Priorities Over Profit-Led Research

Stanford Social Innovation

For example, California’s cap-and-trade program that began in 2013 has the objective of reducing emissions by 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030. Some may remember January 2016 when climate scientists spent Inauguration Day uploading precious climate information to DataRefuge.org.

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Russia’s War From a Climate Perspective

Richard Matthews

Both climate change and Putin’s invasion are directly tied to fossil fuels. This point was made in a Guardian article by Svitlana Krakovska, Ukraine’s leading climate scientist, and the head of a delegation of 11 Ukrainian scientists that contributed to the latest IPCC report. “I Russia is Funded by Oil Exports.

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Zen and the art of saving the planet in the Trump era

Corporate Knights

By the time Figueres took on the role of executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in 2010 , she had been working as a diplomat, renewable-energy advocate and international climate negotiator for three decades. That moral injustice is unacceptable to me.