Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2023

Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Superstorm Sandy in 2012, Hurricanes Harvey and Irma in 2017, and Hurricane Irma in 2021 were all accompanied by the same question. believe that “most” scientists agree on global warming and only 20 percent know that more than 90 percent of climate scientists agree that human-caused climate change is happening.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 10, 2022

Climate scientists at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) have dubbed the six-month stretch from May through October the “ Danger Season.” Not only has much of what climate scientists have been warning about come to pass, many of the extreme weather events the planet is now experiencing are worse than they expected. “To

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

California seeks to create a fund to pay for recovery from extreme events and for mitigation and adaptation efforts (without supplanting the climate damage lawsuits filed by eight California communities against the fossil fuel industry since 2017). Climate scientists, that’s who. degrees C) as “something magical.”

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A Greener Life

JUNE 30, 2021

During his presidency, Donald Trump had approved a permit for the line in 2017, but it continued to face legal challenges that hampered construction. Would have been game-over for the climate. Opponents of the line fought it for years, saying it was unnecessary and would hamper the US transition to clean energy. .”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2022

To get an assessment of the progress thus far, as well as an idea if what has to happen next, I turned to two of my colleagues in the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) Climate & Energy Program: Principal Climate Scientist Rachel Licker and Transmission Policy Manager Sam Gomberg. Our work is having a major impact.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2022

I remember that federal relief funds went disproportionately to white victims of Hurricane Harvey’s massive flooding in Houston in 2017 while Black and Hispanic communities were largely excluded.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Someone that did connect the dots was US president Joe Biden who said: “The past few days of Hurricane Ida and the wildfires in the West and the unprecedented flash floods in New York and New Jersey is yet another reminder that these extreme storms and the climate crisis are here. We need to be much better prepared. We need to act”.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 7, 2023

Image: Shutterstock.com Human impact on Antarctica not a new phenomenon So it is sadly not surprising, but alarming nonetheless, that this year’s winter sea-ice growth is the lowest on record, continuing a noticeable trend since 2017. Prof Martin Siegert is an award-winning Antarctic glaciologist and climate scientist.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2023

East, Gulf Coasts -- The Guardian: ‘Tornado Alley’ Is Shifting Farther Into Eastern U.S.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

He emphasized that “The harms associated with climate change are serious and well recognized.”. Justice Alito was a dissenting vote in that 5-4 decision and later explained his decision in a 2017 speech to the right-wing Claremont Institute. “A Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. There is now a 99.9 After the Massachusetts v.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

By the end of the century, Montana could see several months a year with temperatures staying above 90 degrees, said Cathy Whitlock, a retired paleoclimate scientist at Montana State University who was the lead author of the 2017 Montana Climate Assessment.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

In addition, Koch Industries spent more than $38 million on its Washington lobbying operation during the last two full election cycles, from 2017 through 2020. Climate scientists, he added, “have these models that show it, but the models don’t work….”. In the 2018 and 2020 election cycles, Koch Industries’ total outlay of $26.7

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 12, 2021

In this, he is in violent agreement with Isaac Held, his colleague at GFDL, and indeed most climate scientists. The proof of the pudding in climate model terms though are the quality and skill of the predictions. A recent paper Stouffer and Manabe (2017) , assessed how good the Manabe and Stouffer (1989) predictions were.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

The note can also be interpreted as an insult because it suggests that we climate scientists do not know our subject. They apparently have not realised that both the UN climate panel and the professional communities in the USA and Europe have written a number of reports to do exactly that ( IPCC AR6 2021 , NCA 2017 , ESOTC2022 ).

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OCTOBER 4, 2023

Elsewhere , I documented how these and subsequent US public policy actions set the stage for Puerto Rico’s contemporary social vulnerabilities that have come full circle in disastrous social, economic, and climatic consequences for the archipelago after Hurricane María in 2017. The risk of landslides is also high.

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Science Blogs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

This post covers from approximately mid-June, 2017 up to August 31, 2017. A few general resources: Sidelining Science Since Day One: How the Trump administration has harmed public health and safety in its first six months by The Union of Concerned Scientists I Heart Climate Scientists. . July 2017. .

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Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2023

This approach has been used to assess the responsibility of specific entities, such as national governments and carbon emitting companies, to climate change-related harms. Climate scientists have also compiled a substantial body of research on the relationship between anthropogenic climate change and ecological impacts.

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HumanNature

APRIL 10, 2023

Altering cloud properties influences Earth’s climate On sunny days, it’s clear that clouds leave shadows on the landscape. Climate scientists are interested in clouds for exactly this reason- clouds reflect sunlight, which has a cooling effect on surface temperatures. Cirrus clouds formed this way have many, small ice crystals.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

One of the strongest names is that of Maisa Rojas, a renowned climate scientist who will take over as the new Minister for the Environment. “My For Marcelo Mena, himself a former Minister for the Environment (2017–2018), “water scarcity must be tackled through inter-sectoral coordination.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

A few days after the California court issued its order, North Dakota and Texas asked the Wyoming federal court to lift a stay that the court had imposed in December 2017. Arizona Court Ordered Production of Climate Scientists’ Emails Under Arizona’s Public Records Law. 2017 CA 006685 B (D.C. 34-2015-80002005 (Cal.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

A 2017 study led by geographer Camilo Mora from the University of Hawaii found that around 30% of people around the world are already exposed to climatic conditions above this deadly threshold for at least 20 days a year ( Nature Climate Change 7 501 ). “One Spend too long in a wet-bulb temperature above 35?°C

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ESA

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

She previously worked as the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks director from 2017–2020 and was an assistant professor of law at the University of Montana. More News: ‘A step to nowhere’: Russian scientist organizes protest of Ukraine war – ScienceInsider. 6617 ) Feb.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

2017); [link].]] These goals further match commitments under the UNFCCC Paris Climate Agreement, which the Administration has reentered, and all together correspond to an imperative to share responsibility to avoid a global temperature rise above 1.5-2.0º 2019); Birckhead v. FERC , 925 F.3d 3d 510 (D.C. 2019); Sierra Club v.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The appellate court therefore ruled that state courts were without jurisdiction to consider claims that a California Environmental Quality Act review should have considered the impacts of climate change on continued operation of the dam. Court Dismissed Counterclaims in Climate Scientist’s Defamation Lawsuit. Ireland , 2017 No.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

climate change and biodiversity conservation policies, including the 2050 net-zero emissions goal and the “30 by 30” conservation goal. Gonzalez is a forest ecologist who is adjunct faculty at the University of California, Berkeley and the leading climate scientist for the National Park Service.

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ESA

JUNE 1, 2021

Even when Republicans controlled both the House and Senate in 2017 and 2018, Congress largely rejected these steep cuts. Climate Change Forces Brutal Choices at National Parks – The New York Times. Top Climate Scientist Blasts Government Lab After Denier Invited to Speak – Gizmodo. What to Save?

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Sentencing was scheduled for February 3, 2017. The petitioners said they wished to obtain a ruling on the merits prior to the scheduled May 2017 completion date for the pipeline in the event that the D.C. Arizona Board of Regents Filed Notice of Appeal in Climate Scientist Public Records Case. United States v.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

Citing Shortcomings in NEPA Analysis of Cumulative Climate and Groundwater Impacts, Montana Federal Court Vacated Oil and Gas Leases. The proceedings have been held in abeyance since August 2017 while EPA considers whether and how to amend the regulations.

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