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Books from the Earth Policy Institute
Brown, President of the newly established Earth Policy Institute, a ... climate as rising temperatures lead to more destructive storms, melting glaciers, and rising sea levels. In the new economy, which Brown calls an eco-economy, renewable energy will replace climate-disrupting fossil fuels ...
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EcoIQ Magazine Reviews Spring 2002
Brown, President of the newly established Earth Policy Institute, a ... climate as rising temperatures lead to more destructive storms, melting glaciers, and rising sea levels. In the new economy, which Brown calls an eco-economy, renewable energy will replace climate-disrupting fossil fuels ...
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Global Warming Crisis Council
U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated in 1995 that the world’s fossil-fuels emissions reduction must be 60-80%. In Kyoto, Fossil Fuels Policy Action was advised that transport ... Thermal Maximum (PETM), when methane burps caused rapid warming and massive die-offs, disrupting the climate for more than 100,000 years. The granddaddy of these catastrophes occurred 251 million ...
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Climate Change and U.S. Security
In California the delta island levees in the Sacramento River area are breached, disrupting the aqueduct system transporting water from north to south. Megadroughts afflict the U.S., ...
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WWF - Problems: Climate change
(CO2) and other greenhouse gases into the Earth's atmosphere. This is causing global warming and climate change - which in turn are profoundly altering our planet. The oceans are not exempt. The current increase in global temperature of 0.7°C since pre-industrial times is already disrupting ...
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RNP: In The News: Washington Initiative Jan '06
Jan '06 2006 Press Release from Washingtonians for Energy Security * NW Energy Coalition * Climate Solutions * Renewable Northwest Project * Sierra Club Cascade Chapter * NW Energy Efficiency Council * * Audubon ... are met with energy efficiency and clean power, rather than economically risky and climate-disrupting fossil fuels such as coal. It requires the state’s largest utilities (those with ...
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Forest and climate change campaigner Jutta Kill explains why planting trees is no substitute for reducing pollution. | July 2006 | New Internationalist
That is why campaigners argue that genuine solutions to climate change require us to keep fossil ... fossil carbon in contrast is permanent and, over relevant time scales, will accelerate climate change by increasing the overall amount of carbon in the atmosphere -- the very cause of today's climate change. Fossil fuels ...
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Climate Change Blog: June 2007 Monthly Archives
They recorded a clear shift in the time of year plants ... catastrophic damages from climate change than in the worst-case scenario forecast by international experts". The research found that between 2000 and 2004 global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels increased by ...
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Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth. Chapter 5 INTRODUCTION solar hydrogen economy climate-benign fuels CFL compact fluorescent Toyota Prius sustainable development carbon emissions clearcutting fossil fuels alternative energy renewable energy
Sun is setting on the fossil fuel era. The last several decades have shown a steady shift from coal, the most polluting and climate-disrupting fossil fuel, to oil, which is somewhat less environmentally disruptive, and then to natural gas, the cleanest and least climate-disrupting of the three. It is this desire for clean, climate-benign fuels ...
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2007 SECOND WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD
In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Nobel prize–winning body of more than 1,250 scientists, released ... Our future now depends on what we do to limit warming by moving away from climate-disrupting fossil fuels and toward renewable energy and energy-efficient technologies. Written by: Frances C. Moore, Earth ...
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