Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 26, 2022

While there is enormous potential for UN climate negotiations to transform climate action, meaningful progress has been delayed in part by the fossil fuel industry’s deceptive tactics. Last year’s COP was notable as the first to explicitly mention “fossil fuels” in the final decision document.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 6, 2023

degrees C target that world leaders agreed upon in the Paris Agreement of 2015. The organisation labelled it as a ‘deafening cacophony’ of broken climate records. WMO Secretary-General Peterri Taalas laid the facts bare, stating: “Greenhouse gas levels are record high. Sea level rise is record high.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

Fossil fuels are the root cause of climate change, of long-standing environmental injustices, and are also frequently connected to geopolitical strife and violent conflicts. Other countries are dependent upon these fossil fuels, they don’t make themselves free of them. This is a fossil fuel war.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

While temperatures provide a measure of the Earth’s climate, it is even better to use the global sea level , which provides a far more reliable measure. The global sea level acts like the mercury in a thermometer because warmer water expands. C above pre-industrial times in August, according to Copernicus.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 5, 2023

It makes them ripe for disproportional impacts from climate change, relative to the nation in general. degree Fahrenheit limits set by the Paris Agreement to avoid catastrophic climate impacts—more than double the 22 percent of the US as a whole that would exceed that temperature.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 126. Fourth Circuit Declined to Stay Remand Order in Baltimore’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies; Companies Sought Stay from Supreme Court. Court Dismissed Counterclaims in Climate Scientist’s Defamation Lawsuit. FEATURED CASE.

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2019 Endangered Species Act Climate Change Greenhouse 40

Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The federal district court for the Northern District of California denied Oakland’s and San Francisco’s motions to remand their climate change public nuisance lawsuits against five major fossil fuel producers to state court. Arizona Court Ordered Production of Climate Scientists’ Emails Under Arizona’s Public Records Law.

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2018 Clean Air Act Climate Change Endangered Species Act 40