Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

And just like summertime in the US, this period (December, January, and February) has transformed into a “ danger season ” as a result of climate change, replete with deadly heatwaves, drought, and wildfires. Sixty times more likely is a remarkable figure to me. And there would be some justice.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 11, 2021

According to the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report published Monday, Southeast Asia coastal zones are among the world’s most climate vulnerable regions. Graphic courtesy of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

The US House Oversight and Reform Committee kicked off its investigation of the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long climate change disinformation campaign last fall by inviting top executives from BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell to testify about their role and subpoenaing their companies for internal documents.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 7, 2022

UCS climate scientist reviews "Don't Look Up," an allegory for climate inaction.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 7, 2024

Off the scale The climate scientist remarked: “2023 was off the end of the scale.” The climate stripes are all about starting conversations about climate change, and 2024 has to be the year we turn conversations into faster action,” Prof Hawkins concluded.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 23, 2021

Climate science is having its moment. With the recent administration changes, climate change is getting attention at the national level through much-needed bold and ambitious federal policy developments. “We

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Inside Climate News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Former NASA climate scientist James Hansen urged Congress decades ago to act on climate change. Now he says he expects reduced aerosol pollution to lead to a steep temperature rise.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 9, 2023

Scientists have determined how the Earth responds as it heats up due to climate change. Plants that currently take up a quarter to a third of humanity’s carbon emissions might not be … Continue reading Climate scientist finds new way to measure the Earth’s ability to offset carbon emissions

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 21, 2021

The first climate change presentation I saw was back in the 1970s when I was working for the National Weather Service. Murray Mitchell, was the top climate scientist for NWS. While that got the bulk of the publicity, Dr. Mitchell assured us that the warming of the climate would be the biggest problem in the future.

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Breezometer

JULY 12, 2021

A significant body of research suggests that the likelihood and impact of wildfires today may be greater as a result of climate change. Fire seasons vary in duration based on location - and lengthening fire seasons may be due in large part to climate change as winter snowpacks melt earlier and forests’ dry periods are stretched longer.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

by Mark Maslin, UCL A new comedy project pairing leading comedians with climate scientists presents a novel way to communicate the climate crisis. “If I’m certain that comedy can connect people to climate change Because she has … Continue reading Jo Brand translated my science.

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Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In summer and fall, monthly global temperature anomalies spiked beyond most projections, helping to drive those extremes, and they may not level off anytime soon, said James Hansen, lead author of a study published today in the journal Oxford Open Climate Change that projects a big jump in the rate of warming in the next few decades.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Climate change threatens sweltering global temperatures, rising seas, catastrophic storms and disappearing wildlife. Many of us worry about the data climate scientists generate—about the future we are leaving to our children. Read the full story in Scientific American. Yet many of these experts are parents themselves.

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Greenbuilding Law

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

But, Michael Mann is a well known climate scientist whose research in studying the “paleoclimate,” or ancient climate, has featured prominently in the politically charged debate about climate change. This is not the way modern science should be done by scientists.

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Scientific American

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Michael Mann secured a win in his legal battle against conservative bloggers who said the climatologist “molested and tortured data” and compared him to a convicted child abuser

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Real Climate

APRIL 4, 2024

There has been a lot of commentary about perceived disagreements among climate scientists about whether climate change is, or will soon, accelerate. Li, "Global warming in the pipeline", Oxford Open Climate Change , vol. As with most punditry, there is less here than it might seem. von Schuckmann, N.G.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

As it was clear from the onset that climate change contributed to the severity of Hurricane Ida it ironically became yet another hurricane showing how vulnerable the US fossil fuel industry is to climate change and how the infrastructure in the country struggles to deal with the impacts of climate change. .

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Earth 911

AUGUST 10, 2021

Listen to “Earth911 Interview: Coastal Flooding In 2050 With Climate Scientist James Renwick” on Spreaker. The post Earth911 Podcast: Coastal Flooding in 2050 With Climate Scientist James Renwick appeared first on Earth911.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 18, 2023

A first ever trial on constitutional protections from climate change is underway in Montana. Of note, there are state constitution based climate change lawsuits against state governments pending in early stages of pleading in Hawaii , Utah , and Virginia. Supreme decisions?), Will it be effective?

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Scientific American

DECEMBER 9, 2021

A collaborative center will help climate scientists build better models for prevention and mitigation. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 7, 2024

Read out of context, that description fits climate change too, of course. Millions of us hopped planes, booked expensive AirBnBs, and made all sorts of detailed plans to be in exactly the place that scientists told them to be months ago. “ So why do so many ignore scientists’ predictions about climate change?!!”

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Scientific American

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2022

Reflections on the film, "Don't Look Up.".

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New Scientist

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Climate scientist and author Michael Mann explains why it’s not too late to prevent the worst impacts of climate change

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Scientific American

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Four Egyptian researchers spoke about how they’re contributing to the fight against climate change as their country hosts the COP27 global climate summit.

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Inside Climate News

MAY 26, 2023

The famed researcher publicly released a preliminary version of a paper-in-progress with grim predictions of short- and long-term warming, but not all climate scientists agree with its conclusions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The graph above shows spikes when the Inflation Reduction Act was moving towards passage in July and August, and in the run-up to the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, last November. What can we do?

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HumanNature

APRIL 10, 2023

But this simplified pathway misses a key step in cloud formation–and one that could help us combat climate change. Altering cloud properties influences Earth’s climate On sunny days, it’s clear that clouds leave shadows on the landscape. C above pre-industrial levels by 2100 to avoid the most severe impacts of climate change.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 21, 2021

So we urgently need more research on the consequences, says climate scientist Kate Ricke. Read the full story in Wired. Someone’s bound to hack the atmosphere to cool the planet. Read more →

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Mann, climate change scientist, author and Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State, and Director of the Earth System Science Center, is the 2022 recipient of the Stroud Award for Freshwater Excellence. Speaking Truth and Science About Climate Change Michael E. Mann, Ph.D.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Below is a look at what tools are currently being used to facilitate justice for climate change on an international scale and where those mechanisms are falling short in ensuring transitional justice and a clean future. Unfortunately, when it comes to climate change, the truth is often obscured.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 19, 2023

Ricardo Salvador, UCS Food and Environment Program Director, arrested with Jane Fonda protesting climate change on Nov. Ricardo Salvador Why break the rules: The moral dilemma of the “ well-behaved ” scientist Science must be objective. But what of scientists? And we’re not alone in asking. It’s understandable.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 20, 2023

Two seasons in one The presidential primary season coincides with “ Danger Season ”—the period between May and October when the Northern Hemisphere experiences back-to-back extreme weather augmented by climate change. Candidates are crisscrossing New Hampshire amid climate-related and climate-boosted catastrophes.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2023

The onslaught has led to another round of media headlines and press releases from environmental and public health groups asking whether the nation is at a tipping point of urgency to fight climate change. A Vox headline on the orange skies from Canadian wildfires said, “Wildfire smoke reminded people about climate change.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

A state court judge in the ‘Last Best Place’ just gave the youth climate movement a shot in the arm with the first decision of its kind that directly connects specific state actions to global climate change and then to injuries suffered by young people. courts have not yet engaged in this kind of fact-finding on climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 18, 2022

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released its sixth assessment of climate change, comprised of three separate reports presenting the latest science on climate change, related impacts, adaptation, vulnerability , and mitigation at a time when more and more people are pressing for climate action.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2022

Chicago is also, as it turns out, ground zero for climate change. Climate change is making old solutions obsolete. Chicago has been confronting an unusual problem that may be linked with climate change. That seems like a plausible scenario under climate change but seemingly hasn’t been established yet.

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