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Book review : The New Climate War by Michael E Mann

Edouard Stenger

Michael E Mann is a climate scientist who is famous for the hockey stick theory. He has been for a long time a target of attacks from conservatives and climate deniers. I liked that book. I admit I quick read that book. This is not useful at all for our energy transition.

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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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Sustainability & Transition

Sustainable Round Table

It does not reflect the aspirations of environmentalists or even climate scientists. But it remains a field inspired by the work of Paul Hawken’s groundbreaking 1993 “The Ecology of Commerce” and even more so the magisterial critique of unsustainable capitalism, “Natural Capital” which Hawken wrote with Amory and Hunter Lovins.

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Global Experts to Convene at VERGE 2024 on the Urgency of Tackling Climate Super Pollutants

3BL Media

October 22, 2024 /3BL/ - The Global Heat Reduction Initiative (GHR) will host a panel of top climate scientists and entrepreneurs speaking out on the growing importance of reducing aggressive climate super pollutants including methane, black carbon, tropospheric ozone, and HFCs that are responsible for nearly half of all global warming.

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Creating an Energy-to-Food Future

B the Change

As one example, we have already had the incredible opportunity to feature Dr. William Li and his New York Times bestselling book, Eat To Beat Disease, The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself.

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Collaboration Across Social Boundaries: A Practical Guide

Stanford Social Innovation

In the early 2000s, a number of leaders within the American conservative evangelical community embraced climate change as a priority issue. This shift was initiated when a British climate scientist, who is also a devout Christian, attended a retreat where he met a prominent leader from the American Christian evangelical movement.

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A Dignity First Corporate Demand for Climate Action

Sustainable Round Table

Even though thousands of the world’s most relevant, respected, and peer-reviewed climate scientists have warned for decades that deep, broad, and urgent action is needed to reduce the burning of fossil fuels, which is the primary cause of our climate and ecological breakdown.1 Because carbon emissions continue up, always.