Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 24, 2024

Arbaje notes that wildfire damage over six years (2000 to 2016) caused more than $700 million in damages to California’s transmission and distribution systems. Miami’s Forever Bond provides support for sea level rise and flood prevention, roadways, parks and cultural facilities, public safety, and affordable housing.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 25, 2023

This was shown by Halldór Björnsson of the Icelandic weather service and presented at the Arctic Circle conference 2016. I discussed this here in 2016 and also in my 2018 RealClimate article “ If you doubt that the AMOC has weakened, read this ”, together with possible other alternative explanations of the ‘cold blob’.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

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. The global mean sea level has increased by 20 cm from 1901 to 2018, and the rate of increase has accelerated and is now about 3.7

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

In 2022 floods, driven by rising sea- levels, tidal surges, and extreme and prolonged rainfall have contributed to the increased spread of major killers of children, such as malnutrition, malaria, cholera and diarrhoea. .

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A Greener Life

MARCH 7, 2024

The consequences of the climate crisis are already visible and devastating, such as rising temperatures, melting ice caps, sea level rise, extreme weather events, droughts, floods, wildfires, biodiversity loss, food insecurity, water scarcity, displacement, conflict, disease, and death. C by 2030.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

These factors were followed by other hazards associated with climate change, including fires, storms, sea level rise , ocean climate change, heat waves, drought, and changes to land cover. Warming temperatures, changes in precipitation, and floods worsened the highest numbers of diseases. Climate’s Contagion.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

C, stated at the 2009 COP in Copenhagen and adopted one year later – which was also a non-binding goal – would leave many of them inundated by sea level rise. C hotter than the second-hottest year to date, 2016. In fact, the 1.5 C of heating, this report focused on comparing climate impacts at 1.5 C to those at 2.0

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

More positively, the share of renewables in the power generation mix increased in all G20 countries between 2016 and 2020. In addition, finance for loss and damage caused by irreversible impacts, such as sea-level rise and salination of groundwater, is going to be a big theme going forward. Renewables rising.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 11, 2021

Climate change is causing more frequent extreme events, such as the droughts of 2016 and 2020,” says Nguyen Huu Thien, an independent expert on the Mekong Delta based in the city of Can Tho. “On The entire delta is sinking at a rate faster than sea levels are rising, meaning that further saltwater intrusion is inevitable.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 31, 2022

It’s also causing marine heatwaves, storms, sea ice loss and sea level rise. Fishing communities and the infrastructure they need for fishing—from boats to ramps and marinas—are also vulnerable from storms and sea level rise. Marine fish and invertebrates are influenced by the conditions in their environment.

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The North Carolina profile in the EIP report notes that the reductions occurred against a backdrop of ongoing problems associated with large animal operations; the need to address pollution at coal ash disposal sites; repeated flood events; and vulnerability to sea level rise.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

APRIL 26, 2021

and India (2014), Brazil and Bangladesh (2015) and France (2016 and 2018). Haiti (2008), Pakistan (2010), Australia and Thailand (2011), Nigeria (2012), Germany and The Philippines (2013),?England?and He photographed flooding in the U.S.

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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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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

2016 Report. This event grounded the discussion in the noneconomic loss felt by many communities who voluntarily migrate or who are forced to leave their home behind in the face of repeated natural disasters or rising sea levels. At the end of COP21, decision.

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Columbia Climate Law

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

This provision may prove very important for the conservation of species imperiled by climate change, insofar as their key habitat will likely shift due to changes in temperature, precipitation, sea level rise, and other climate-related phenomena.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Global warming is leading to sea-level rise on an unprecedented scale, according to IPCC scientists. Between 2006 and 2016 sea levels globally rose 2.5 At the same time, the seas are warmer than they used to be, which can lead to more tropical storms and a higher risk of coastal flooding. metres by 2100. (In

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 20, 2023

I moved to South Carolina only two months before Hurricane Matthew made headlines in October 2016 as the first Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in almost a decade. Coastal flooding : Sea levels are rising as the ocean heats up and polar ice melts. The nearby interstate highway reversed to bring evacuees inland from the coast.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

The district court ruled that EPA was required to conduct such evaluations in October 2016 and set an expedited schedule for EPA’s compliance. 451962/2016 (N.Y. The standards and guidelines were published on August 29, 2016. The court indicated that the attorney general had broad power to propound the interrogatories.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Virginia Beach is located in a region that is experiencing the highest relative sea-level rise on the U.S. But widespread floods during Hurricane Matthew, in 2016, lifted the issue to new prominence. “It feet of sea-level rise. feet of sea-level rise by 2100. Atlantic coast. Atlantic coast.

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Acoel

OCTOBER 18, 2022

And even a slight rise in sea level makes the threat of a storm surge that more terrifying. The Times goes on to point out that scientists say that climate change has made hurricanes more powerful, as warmer waters strengthen and sustain them.

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Legal Planet

JULY 28, 2022

There’s people living in Livingston Parish, for example, flooded in 2016, whose lives — everything in their life was destroyed,” he said. billion to help communities deal with risks from heat waves, sea-level rise, and flooding. Bill Cassidy helped write the resilience provisions of the bill. The bill includes $1.5

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Physics World

JULY 17, 2021

The Cray-1, designed by Seymour Roger Cray, was tested at Los Alamos (perhaps a mistake given that its high altitude, 2300 m above sea level, makes it even more vulnerable to cosmic rays).

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Environmental Science

JUNE 15, 2018

Some geologists work with astronomers and astrophysicists to understand the geology of terrestrial bodies such as our Moon and our near rocky planetary neighbors - Mercury, Venus, Mars, asteroids, comets and since 2016, the planetoid Pluto. This follows global mean sea level for accurate readings for a variety of functions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobil CEO from 2006 to 2016. There is, in fact, substantial scientific evidence that there’s a strong link between global warming and heat waves and coastal flooding from sea-level rise,” I said. And Rose did, at times, ask follow-up questions.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

CLF’s allegations included that the landfill’s coastal location “makes it extremely vulnerable to climate change impacts, including sea level rise and damaging storm surge, creating a significant risk of erosion and of pollution from the Landfill washing into the surrounding rivers and coastal wetlands.” California v. Bernhardt , No.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

NOAA updates sea-level rise projections for U.S. Sea-Level Rise Update. Coastal areas in the United States should prepare for seas that are about a foot higher than today by 2050, according to NOAA’s updated seal-level rise projections. The CDC analyzes trends in the rising number of Legionnaires’ disease.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2023

However, detection and attribution methods can also be used to quantify the relationship between a specific GHG contribution and specific consequences of climate change, such as temperature and sea level rise. square meters of September sea-ice. 2016) ; Derocher et al. See, e.g., IPCC AR6 WGI Ch.3 3 ; Laidre et al.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The court stated that the issue arose “because a necessary and critical element of the hydrological damage caused by defendants’ alleged conduct is the rising sea level along the Pacific coast and in the San Francisco Bay, both of which are navigable waters of the United States.” Foster , 34-2016-CR-00187 (N.D. BP p.l.c. ,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2023

The costs of increased risks from natural hazards—wildfires, floods and sea level rise— are driving insurers away. An even bleaker picture exists in Florida , where a dozen insurance companies have abandoned homeowners.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

The Obama Administration set the first vehicle GHG emissions standards in 2010 for vehicles manufactured in model years 2012 through 2016, and set revised standards in 2012 for model years 2017 through 2025. Heat waves can also cause costly infrastructure damage in cities and exacerbate air pollution.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

1, 2016) ("When considering GHG emissions and their significance, agencies should use appropriate tools and methodologies for quantifying GHG emissions and comparing GHG quantities across alternative scenarios. ocean acidification, sea-level rise, or storm events). efficiency metrics (e.g., for Biological Diversity v.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Circuit in 2016 signaled that the legal framework for the Clean Power Plan “hinges on important issues of federal that EPA then—and the court below now—got so wrong this Court was likely to grant review.” Circuit majority opinion’s interpretation was foreclosed by the statute and violated separation of powers.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

The Washington Supreme Court ruled that a climate activist should be permitted to present a necessity defense to charges of criminal trespass and unlawful obstruction of a train in connection with a 2016 protest on railroad tracks used by trains carrying coal and oil products. The cases were filed in 2016 , 2020 , and 2021.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 5, 2023

Research from Redfin shows that between 2016 and 2020, the southeastern coast, Texas, Arizona, the interior of California, and the Mountain West all saw big population increases and skyrocketing home values. Just about all of them are in regions with significant climate vulnerability. Those trends increased during the pandemic.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

Nevertheless, Jeff Landry—Louisiana’s AG since January 2016—seems more interested in defending the fossil fuel industry than his constituents. 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.

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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. Peabody, a coal company, filed for bankruptcy in April 2016 and emerged from bankruptcy under a plan that became effective on April 3, 2017. Foster , No.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Lawsuit Sought Critical Habitat Designation for Green Sea Turtles Whose Habitat Is Threatened by Sea Level Rise and Other Factors. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service to designate critical habitat for distinct population segments of the green sea turtle. WildEarth Guardians v. Bernhardt , No.

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