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Deniers and Insurance Premiums Both Surge

Climate change deniers are experiencing a renaissance, especially on social media. In concert with this upswing in denialism, home insurance premiums...

24.01.2025 10

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Risks of Ecosystem Crash-Landings

Biomes as well as individual ecosystems throughout the globe are experiencing considerable stress. As a researcher/writer since 2010 of more than 400...

17.01.2025 10

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Net Zero/2050 Fantasy or Reality?

Net Zero/2050 Fantasy or Reality may be the most significant issue of the 21st century. Net Zero refers to the balance between the amount of...

10.01.2025 20

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The Leading Edge of Global Heat – Arabian Peninsula

Major portions of the Arabian Peninsula are already exceeding 2°C above pre-industrial and likely headed for a staggering temperature rise over...

27.12.2024 20

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Dismantling the ‘Climate Alarm Industry’ Per Project 2025

The definition of alarm: “A warning of danger” (Merriam-Webster) according to The State of the Climate Report 2024, 25 of 35 vital signs are at...

20.12.2024 5

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Climate Change Trial at The Hague

The stakes are extremely high as the impact of fossil fuels on climate change goes to The Hague for hearings December 2-13, 2024 to determine...

13.12.2024 20

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Mysterious Global Hotspots

A worrisome trend in the global climate system has popped up. Specific regions of the world are experiencing repetitive severe heat waves so...

09.12.2024 3

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Emergency Summit Regarding Antarctic Meltdown

“Runaway ice loss causing rapid and catastrophic sea level rise is possible within our lifetimes.” (Source: Our Science, Your Future: Next...

29.11.2024 6

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What’s On Deck for Climate Change?

Dr. Peter Carter, an Expert Reviewer of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has new information about the status of climate...

22.11.2024 4

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The Planet Under Threat of Breakdown

There’s a new trend in the world that’s working against the planet, you know, the one you’re standing on. This new trend, over the past year or so,...

15.11.2024 3

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Billionaires Own US Climate Policy

Billions of dollars will buy almost anything anybody wants, and on November 5th billions of dollars bought the world’s leading anti-climate-change...

08.11.2024 5

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America’s Irreplaceable Immigrants

Every day when breakfast is served, Americans come face to face with the impact of immigrant workers without whom breakfast items would be too...

25.10.2024 2

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Can You Afford Climate Change?

Consumer pocketbooks are taking the heat. Climate change is no longer a theoretical issue that will happen at some distant point in the future,...

04.10.2024 3

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Climate Week/NYC – Oh, Well!

Climate Week/NYC September 22-29, 2024, is underway and expects 100,000 attendees for cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and expensive rooms in NYC’s...

27.09.2024 10

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Amazon Death Rattle

The Amazon rainforest is in deep trouble. Labeling it a “crisis” however seems too hackneyed and not descriptive enough because the devastation is...

20.09.2024 8

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Humans Rescue Doomsday Glacier?

It was only 3 years ago when a group of distinguished climate scientists led by Erin C. Pettit (Oregon State University) said Thwaites Eastern Ice...

06.09.2024 5

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