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My Kind of Town

Legal Planet

In 2020, the lake level hit a record high, after having hit a record low in 2013. That seems like a plausible scenario under climate change but seemingly hasn’t been established yet. As climate scientists predict, more rain is hitting Chicago in the form of intense storms. inches of rain fell.

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ExxonMobil Accurately Projected Rising Temperatures While Publicly Disparaging Climate Science

Union of Concerned Scientists

Regardless, the company publicly cast doubt on the reality of global warming, attempted to discredit climate scientists and climate models, and tried to block climate action. The new paper in Science summarizes key statements by ExxonMobil executives between 2000 and 2013 that cast doubt on the science.

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UNICEF warns 27 million children at risk from climate fuelled floods

A Greener Life

Millions of children worldwide are at risk from the devastating floods which have impacted almost every corner of the Earth this year, and which climate scientists say have intensified and are happening much more frequently due to climate change. Photo credit: UNICEF / UN0580114 / Ramasomanana. By Anders Lorenzen.

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Deciphering the ‘SPM AR6 WG1’ code

Real Climate

The problems with the SPM are similar those from the previous fifth assessment report which prompted me to write a post in 2013. I think in hindsight that my concerns from 2013 to some extent were supported by the fact that the IPCC organised an Expert Meeting on Communication, Oslo, Norway, 9–10 February 2016.

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10 Air Quality Influencers You Should Know

Breezometer

CarbonBrief specializes in creating clear, data-driven articles and visualizations that help improve the climate change understanding from the scientific and policy perspectives and help individuals increase their air pollution awareness. Dr. Gabriela Adler - Climate Scientist. Owner of a master’s degree and a Ph.D.

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The Stream, August 12, 2021: Major Rivers in India Are Rising To Dangerous Levels

Circle of Blue

Climate Change Is Intensifying the Water Cycle, New IPCC Report Finds – The climate crisis will jeopardize key sources of fresh water and make extreme weather events more severe. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of the world’s leading climate scientists, released its sixth climate assessment on Monday.

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The unconventional scientist who predicted that rising carbon dioxide levels would change the climate

Physics World

Other researchers further explored climate change with new measurements of temperature, infrared absorption by CO 2 (where Callendar’s own work contributed), and the carbon cycle. As scientists began recognizing the role of anthropogenic CO 2 , it became clear that Callendar’s 1938 paper had first established the connection.