Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 31, 2022

It’s also causing marine heatwaves, storms, sea ice loss and sea level rise. Northern shrimp, found in the northeast, are highly vulnerable to climate change, according to a climate vulnerability assessment done by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

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Vermont Law

APRIL 20, 2014

At the end of March 2014, Working Group II (WGII) unleashed upon the global community their contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). The scientific information presented in WGI highlights regions that may be affected by certain atmospheric phenomena. Kristin Campbell.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

Sea level rise is a big deal Use, abuse and misuse of the CMIP6 ensemble The radiative forcing bar chart has gone full circle Droughts and floods are complicated Don’t mention the hiatus. Sea Level Rise: The previous IPCC reports, notably AR4 and AR5 (to a lesser extent) , have had a hard time dealing with SLR.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 16, 2023

Since that 2014 study, which laid the foundation of what is called climate source attribution science , UCS scientists have collaborated with Heede on two other studies that pinpointed the major carbon producers’ culpability for specific climate change-related trends. percent of total emissions. Licker et al.

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HumanNature

JANUARY 26, 2024

They are the processes that allow our food to grow, clean the air we breathe, and attempt to keep atmospheric temperatures in check. While our knowledge is growing, so are the threats to the overwhelmingly diverse soil ecosystem. It may be difficult to notice what worms’ responses to increasing drought frequency has to do with you.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

levels continue to increase faster than at any know. sea level rise. atmospheric CO2 levels. Since my 2012 “Fiddling as the World Floods and Burns” warnings, . cean acidity. n time in Earth’s past; . has accelerated with. a 233% increase in tidal flooding in the U.S.; . nuary 1, 56,586+ . life cycle im.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

A magistrate judge in the federal district court for the District of Oregon granted motions by three trade groups to withdraw from the lawsuit seeking to hold the United States liable for its actions and inaction leading to the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Precipitation, flooding, and sea levels are rising in Maryland. The move comes amid criticism of state and local officials’ handling of the years-long water crisis in Benton Harbor, where lead levels were found to be higher than those during the crisis in the Michigan city of Flint in 2014. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) erred in its analyses of climate change’s impact on the Rio Grande cutthroat trout when it determined in 2014 that the species no longer warranted listing under the Endangered Species Act. Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) and the Town of Saugus had appealed the MassDEP’s decision. California v. filed Sept.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The way to do this that now looks most promising would be to spray a fine mist of reflective aerosols in the upper atmosphere. And serious anticipatory adaptation measures, even for risks as well known as coastal inundation from sea-level rise, remain few, weak, and highly contentious. to 1%) of incoming sunlight.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The court stated: “Plaintiffs’ claims for public nuisance, though pled as state-law claims, depend on a global complex of geophysical cause and effect involving all nations of the planet (and the oceans and atmosphere). It necessarily involves the relationships between the United States and all other nations. BP p.l.c. , 18-cv-182 (S.D.N.Y.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2023

The 2021 New Hampshire Climate Assessment states unequivocally: “Without significant reduction in atmospheric greenhouse gases (GHG), extreme precipitation events are projected to increase a minimum of 20%, leading to an increase in freshwater flooding regionally.”

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

The federal district court for the Northern District of Texas dismissed for lack of standing a lawsuit against the EPA in which an individual pro se plaintiff asserted that EPA restrictions since 1990 on aerosols in the atmosphere had caused global warming. Delta Stewardship Council Cases , Nos.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to issue a decision on Exxon’s application to renew the NPDES permit, which had expired in 2014. The district court had granted Exxon’s motion to stay the case under the doctrine of primary jurisdiction to allow the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

Mississippi: Lynn Fitch The sea level off the coast of Mississippi—the fifth hottest state—is rising more rapidly than in most other coastal areas, largely because the land is sinking. Between 1990 and 2016, the sea level off its 2,876-mile coast rose 6 inches , at least partly because the land is sinking.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The plaintiffs alleged that Peabody (and a number of other fossil fuel companies) caused greenhouse gas emissions that resulted in sea level rise and damage to their property. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , No. Center for Biological Diversity v. 1:17 -cv-02031 (D.D.C., filed Oct.

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ESA

JUNE 28, 2021

Senators confirmed Richard Spinrad to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration by a voice vote. He served as NOAA’s chief scientist from 2014 and 2016 and has also led both NOAA’s Office of Atmospheric Research and the National Ocean Service. Spinrad is a professor of oceanography at Oregon State University.

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