climate impacts articles 
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
It seems clear that in some form, carbon removal is going to be an important component of climate policy, especially later in the century to deal with carbon levels that overshoot the targets in the Paris Climate Agreement. A trio of recent articles in the leading research journal Science highlights that risk.
Real Climate
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
The paper results from a major computational effort, based on running a state-of-the-art climate model (the CESM model with horizontal resolution 1° for the ocean/sea ice and 2° for the atmosphere/land component) for 4,400 model years. In addition they show major shifts in tropical rainfall belts.
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Law Columbia
APRIL 9, 2024
In a transformative moment for European and global climate litigation, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled today that the state has a positive duty to adopt, and effectively implement in practice, regulations and measures capable of mitigating the existing and potentially irreversible future effects of climate change.
Real Climate
JANUARY 28, 2024
Comparing climate models to observations is usually a great idea, but there are some obvious pitfalls to avoid if you want to be taken seriously. The most obvious one is to neglect the impacts of internal variability – which is not synchronized across the models or with the observations. Let’s play spot the fallacy.
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
Scientists have unequivocally confirmed that human activities, primarily the burning of fossil fuels, are driving unprecedented changes to the Earth’s climate, raising fundamental questions about our responsibility to safeguard the environment for future generations. What is a stable climate? And is it a right worth fighting for?
Law and Environment
AUGUST 15, 2023
Yesterday, the plaintiffs prevailed in the Montana climate litigation. It found unconstitutional and permanently enjoyed enforcement of a provision in the Montana Environmental Policy Act that forbids consideration the impacts of climate change in environmental impact reviews.
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 15, 2022
We are in the thick of “ danger season ” (aka summer), that time of year when climate-related disasters such as droughts, heat waves, wildfires, floods and hurricanes are more likely to happen. Not only that, but climate change has made many of these disasters more severe and more likely to occur. Compound risks, compound impacts.
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