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Flawed Economic Models will Lead to Global Crash
Earth and Leaf Editorial – Flawed Economic Models will Lead to Global Crash About time someone else realised that we use flawed economic models. Our current Economic teaching includes externalities. These are costs for someone else to bear. The theory only needs a tweak, the consequences of that tweak are unimaginably serious. Economists have always recognised these climate costs, but until now they haven’t been able to include them in their thinking. So they were called Externalities. They are now measurable costs. So the polluter must pay. Climate models assume the future will behave like the past, despite the burning of fossil fuels pushing the Earth into uncharted territory.…
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How do we know that the climate crisis is to blame for extreme weather?
{Earth and Leaf Editorial – climate crisis is to blame for extreme weather} {extract below} How do we know that the climate crisis is to blame for extreme weather? It is a crucial question: is the climate crisis to blame for the extreme weather disasters taking lives and destroying homes around the world. But it has not been an easy one to answer. How much is due to global heating, how much is just the severe weather that has always happened? The good news is that the scientific techniques used to untangle that question – called climate attribution – are now well established. The bad news is what they reveal:…
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Top Climate Scientists are Terrified but Determined to Keep Fighting
{Top Climate Scientists – All the evidence does now point to 3 degrees plus of warming – Earth and Leaf Editorial} {extract below} Top climate scientists are terrified but determined to keep fighting “Sometimes it is almost impossible not to feel hopeless and broken,” says the climate scientist Ruth Cerezo-Mota. “After all the flooding, fires, and droughts of the last three years worldwide, all related to climate change, and after the fury of Hurricane Otis in Mexico, my country, I really thought governments were ready to listen to the science, to act in the people’s best interest.” Instead, Cerezo-Mota expects the world to heat by a catastrophic 3C this century,…
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Worlds top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target
World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target
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Vegan Diet Cuts Environmental Damage Massively
Vegan Diet Cuts Environmental Damage
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Glyphosate Weedkiller Damages Wild Bee Colonies, Study Reveals
Glyphosate weedkiller damages wild bee colonies, study reveals
