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    Climate Crisis Making Millions Too Poor to Escape... the Climate Crisis

    "Ongoing climate change is keeping many people in the Global South in poverty, making it more difficult for them to migrate," said the co-author of a new study. "Thus climate change deprives people of an important way to adapt to its impacts and increases the gap between rich and poor."

    Brett Wilkins
    Jan 24, 2023

    As the worsening climate emergency creates an increasing number of migrants around the world, the economic effects of the planetary crisis are paradoxically making millions of people throughout the Global South too poor to escape its ravages.

    That's according to a study published recently in the journal Environmental Research Letters by researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Germany.

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    'Nail in the Coffin': Study Shows Exxon Accurately Predicted Warming Decades Ago

    "Our analysis shows that ExxonMobil's own data contradicted its public statements, which included exaggerating uncertainties, criticizing climate models, mythologizing global cooling, and feigning ignorance," said lead author Geoffrey Supran.

    Jessica Corbett
    Jan 12, 2023

    "This is the nail in the coffin of ExxonMobil's claims that it has been falsely accused of climate malfeasance."

    That's what University of Miami associate professor Geoffrey Supran said about a peer-reviewed study on the fossil fuel giant's global warming projections published Thursday in the journal Science, which he began work on as a Harvard University research fellow.

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