HumanNature

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Land-Use and Climate Change Growing urban populations are accelerating land-use change (LUC) around the globe, as witnessed in the Front Range of Colorado 1–3. In recent history, we have witnessed LUC exacerbating climate change due to disturbed soils, development of greenhouse gas (GHG) producing land uses, and more 4.

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HumanNature

MARCH 24, 2022

When forests burn, that carbon is released into the atmosphere and contributes to greenhouse gases (mostly as carbon dioxide). Science 2006 , 313 (5789), 940–943. Climate Change Presents Increased Potential for Very Large Fires in the Contiguous United States. Swetnam, T. Warming and Earlier Spring Increase Western U.S.

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Real Climate

MAY 12, 2021

Meanwhile, note that the factors listed above involve the whole Earth system: the oceans, the cryosphere, the atmosphere, the solid earth and lithosphere, and a full range of scales, from the city block and shoreline, to ice dynamics that change over kilometers, to GRD footprints, to the whole global ocean. 2020) or Sadai et al.

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Edouard Stenger

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

For my first article since hurricanes Harvey and Katrina, I could have written another article on how not solving climate change would cost us trillions of dollars. Local air pollution (and global climate change) ; 4. To conclude: Solving climate change has to be done if Mankind is to survive.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. and non-U.S. The California Supreme Court denied three petitions for review.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

They would require that firms doing business in the state (with some exceptions) make climate disclosures similar to those under the expected SEC regulation and in some important ways would go further. [3] 4] The new corporate climate disclosure bills may well continue that tradition. Times , July 18, 2023. [7] 8] Zachary M.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Most of these pieces were about the company’s support for a seemingly independent network of anti-regulation, “free-market” nonprofits that spread falsehoods about the reality and seriousness of climate change. Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobil CEO from 2006 to 2016. We do not support climate denial,” he replied. “We

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

Outside of bird protection acts of the early 20 th century, protections for water, air and the atmosphere are a late 20 th -century development, created in the wake of Rachel Carson’s 1962 treatise on pesticides, Silent Spring. Climate Change on the Docket. The Court is expected soon to render its judgment in West Virginia v.

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Environmental Progress

AUGUST 3, 2020

We know we must now work to both cut greenhouse gas emissions to reduce the severity of climate change and at the same time work to adapt to the impacts we can no longer avoid. Gleick disagrees and defends the Malthusian notion that future food surpluses are highly uncertain due to climate change, and argues that I ignore such risks.

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Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Testimony before the House Agriculture Committee for a Hearing on “Climate Change and the U.S. Technological change and agricultural modernization will significantly outweigh climate change in the U.S. Technological change and agricultural modernization will significantly outweigh climate change in the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 14, 2023

In January 2007, for example, we released a survey documenting that the Bush White House told federal scientists to avoid using the terms “global warming” and “climate change,” ostensibly to tamp down public awareness of the issue. Congressional reports and hearings have spotlighted our survey results for years.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 3, 2024

Wetlands even help fight climate change by acting as “ carbon sinks ,” absorbing climate-altering carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere. The turbulent history of federal wetland protection We thrive when wetlands survive.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

Do my colleagues who oppose RGGI have a plan, a new plan to address climate change, rising energy costs, the decline of coal fired power plants, and impact to their workers and communities? Let us remember, we're not here to debate the issue of climate change. And climate change is going to continue to occur.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Legislators provide $200 million to NOAA for weather, coasts, oceans and climate research, $100 million for NOAA competitive climate research grants and provides $100 million to NOAA for development and dissemination of climate science information products and services. degrees Celsius. Biden EPA move to repeal Trump WOTUS rule.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

Nobel Prize recipients urge G7 leaders to take transformative action to address climate change. Part two , scheduled for a November proposal, will make “broader changes,” according to the agenda. Julia Brownley (D-CA) reintroduced the Marine Mammal Climate Change Protection Act ( H.R. International. 1816 & H.R.

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ESA

MARCH 28, 2022

White-nose syndrome is a deadly fungal infection that was first discovered in New York in 2006. UN: The International Panel on Climate Change plans to release the next and final installment of the Sixth Assessment report on April 4. The final installment will focus on climate mitigation.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Forest Service to pause all fossil fuel leasing and permitting on federal lands until the agencies can prove that permitting these projects are consistent with the Biden administration’s climate change targets. Clash over climate change funding emerging in farm bill debate – States Newsroom. Executive Branch.

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ESA

JULY 12, 2021

Amid competing House and Senate proposals to increase funding levels for the National Science Foundation, the House Appropriations Committee released its fiscal year (FY) 2022 spending bill covering NSF, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA. EU countries approve landmark climate change law – Reuters.

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ESA

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The US Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Interior and the heads of the US Forest Service, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the US Agency for International Development would serve as ex-oficio members of the foundation’s board. The Senate bill has six co-sponsors, including three Democrats and three Republicans.

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ESA

JUNE 28, 2021

The full Committee also approved amendments adding solar radiation management and wildfire science to the list of climate change research topics funded by the bill. Senators confirmed Richard Spinrad to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration by a voice vote. An amendment from Rep. Executive Branch.

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