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Carbon Offsets: Planting Trees is Greenwashing
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Corsi-Rosenthal Box: The Best Air Purifier
What is a Corsi-Rosenthal Box and how do you build one? The Corsi-Rosenthal Box is a simple DIY air filter and purifier that outperforms and can be more effective than expensive HEPA purifiers. Corsi-Rosenthal Boxes are made from cardboard, tape, furnace air filters, and a box fan. The Corsi-Rosenthal Box was invented by Richard Corsi, […]
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Tagged air filters, air pollutin, air purifiers, air quality, climate change, free, pollution
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Climate Change: Stranded on an Island
by Daniel Brouse Climate change brings with it the inevitability of rising sea levels. Even if green house gas emissions were stopped completely, the sea will continue to rise for hundreds or thousands of years. Not only will the submerged properties be affected by the rising tides, so will all the new island properties. Initially, […]
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Antarctic Ice Sheet Is Melting at Accelerated Rate
The Word Economic Forum published the report The Antarctic ice sheet is melting. And this is bad news for humanity. * The Antarctic ice sheet has been strongly decreasing since 2016. * If left unchecked, the complete melting of the West Antarctic ice sheet would cause a global sea level increase of 3.3 metres in […]
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Real Estate Underwater: Displacement and Climate Refugees
by Daniel Brouse February 22, 2023 For years climate scientists have been trying to develop models for the real estate market impacted by rising sea levels. Florida is proving to be a microcosm of coastal real estate. “Everybody thinks this is a God-given sea level,” Harold Wanless, who heads the University of Miami’s geology department […]
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Economic Update: Inflation, Interest Rates, AI, Consumer Spending, Climate Change, and Fiscal Policy
by Daniel Brouse February 3, 2023 This article is about the economic conditions up to 2023 and a forecast for the foreseeable future. It helps to understand fiscal and monetary polices prior to reading the following. In 2022 and 2023, the Federal Reserve raised their interest rates charged to other banks 4.75 percent in an […]
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Climate Change and Cigarette Litigation
by Daniel Brouse 2016 and 2023 In 2016, I had said: What will create the change needed? The oil industry is going to be like the tobacco industry. The consumers are going to claim they were misled about the dangers of burning fossil fuels and will file lawsuits against the oil companies. You will not […]
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Tagged Business, climate change, ExxonMobil, fossil fuels, lawsuits, litigation
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Green Energy Technology Stocks
WARNING: an investor should become familiar with their rights and responsibilities as an owner PRIOR to investing. This is a beginner-intermediate level climate and investor activist portfolio. Stocks are not listed in any particular order. Some of the best performing stocks are not listed because of their questionable environmental impact, business ethics, and country of […]
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Managed Retreat: Relocating Due to Climate Change Extreme Weather Events
The Politico article Dream homes and disasters: Is the government ready to confront climate risk? explains the need for “Managed Retreat”. “The fact that official Washington is finally addressing the concept of some areas being too vulnerable to insure is noteworthy….” “For decades, lawmakers and federal agencies in Washington, D.C., have resisted taking harsh action […]
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Global Carbon Budget 2022
The Global Carbon Budget 2022 was published by Earth System Science Data. The report says if emissions aren’t brought down, the world will use up its 1.5-degree-Celsius carbon budget — the amount of CO2 we can emit and stay within 1.5C — within nine years. After go beyond 1.5C the amount of tipping points crossed […]
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