Legal Planet

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Carbon intensity takes into account emissions occurring production and transportation of fuel or the fact that plants grown for biofuels actually suck CO2 out of the atmosphere. My quick research revealed some key questions. I used a December 2022 report from the California Air Resources Board as my primary resource. as a whole.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 25, 2024

My comments, to be presented on March 27, are copied below. My name is Julie McNamara, and I’m testifying in my role as deputy policy director, Climate & Energy, at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). Presented via telephone during the March 27, 2024, public hearing for Docket ID No. REG-117631-23.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 13, 2024

Community-partnered science helps tackle the problem To address inequities in heat-related risk, my colleagues and I have taken a community-partnered approach to better understanding the challenge of shade (in)equity and exploring solutions that cities can implement to cool neighborhoods and save lives.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 3, 2021

As a PhD candidate in biostatistics who works on problems of data quality, my concerns related to under-counting in the 2020 Census are significant, particularly in regards to political representation and accountability.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JULY 16, 2021

As I discuss in my 2010 Climatopolis book, Singapore in recent decades has been highly productive despite the nation's heat and humidity. But, do not forget the Sen and Stiglitz report on expanding GNP accounts t o reflect non-market factors.They argue that GNP is an incomplete measuring rod of a society's progress.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The Union of Concerned Scientists’ (UCS) attribution research shows the role that industry has played in the climate crisis and this needs to be a clear part of the decisionmaking and climate accountability at COPs. Climate accountability is now in the headlines in the United States. at UMass Amherst.

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New Scientist

AUGUST 16, 2023

Attributing extreme weather events to climate change, as I do through my work as a climatologist, means we can hold countries and companies to account for their inaction, says Friederike Otto

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Last week, I joined my colleagues at COP28 in Dubai , as negotiators and civil society push for a fossil fuel phaseout to meet climate goals. My colleague Rachel Cleetus has clearly laid out the imperative for fossil fuel phaseout. According to the International Monetary Fund, globally , fossil fuel subsidies were $5.9

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2022

UCS has worked on several amicus briefs, including one to help inform thinking around climate litigation in my hometown of Baltimore. The aim of climate litigation is to hold companies and governments accountable for their role in either causing or failing to address climate change. Working in Climate Litigation.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

That’s something I contend with daily in my own life too since California entered a drought so many years ago now and the threat of wildfires has surged. A summer of learning and writing,” is how I described it to my partner over dinner one night. Like many other Americans, I watched remotely on my computer.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 15, 2023

1 – People and places are struggling with wildfire As a climate scientist living in California and witnessing the consequences of decades of unchecked climate change, my personal and professional lives often overlap. Last summer, my family and I went on a long, winding road trip through California and Oregon.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

My bank keeps going behind my back with the fossil fuel sector The financial sector has somewhat of an sordid affair with the fossil fuel industry. For every dollar that you put in your bank account, or toward insurance, or into saving for the future, the financial industry gives some of that to the fossil fuel industry.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Accounting gimmicks disguise a poorly run offset scheme as a magic carbon negative climate solution. Vehicles powered by biomethane consume about one percent of California’s transportation fuel, but in the first three quarters of 2023, biomethane used to fuel these vehicles accounted for 17 percent of LCFS credit generation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 28, 2023

These side effects are what economists call “externalities,” and they are consequences of business activities that are not accounted for by the price of the product sold. The first step to be able to make polluters pay for their pollution is to account for the cost of the harm they produce.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The former policy and political director for the California Environmental Justice Alliance, Katie Valenzuela, critiques the lack of accountability from air districts that prevent communities from creating strong plans. My experience with AB 617 shows the potential for community engagement in amplifying and supporting community visions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 18, 2023

In recent years, there has been a growing movement to hold corporations accountable for the harm caused by the climate change that has resulted from their products. I’ll talk more about this in my next blog. The emergence of climate litigation in the Global South indicates a shift toward a more inclusive and diverse movement.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 18, 2022

That’s why this week, my colleague Juan Declet-Barreto and I were pleased to accept an invitation from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Office of the Assistant Secretary to attend a special event highlighting the administration’s efforts on labor and extreme heat. Here’s my expanded, four-point answer.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This need is particularly evident in the Cuyama Valley of northeastern Santa Barbara County in California, where my family’s small vineyard and olive grove is located. I feature dry farming in a chapter of my textbook of Agroecology that I used in my teaching at the University of California at Santa Cruz, for over 30 years.

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Cleannovate

JULY 4, 2022

Even literature didn’t prepare me for the pleasant surprise earthworms had in store for my frontyard garden. My spinach seedlings remained stunted for nearly 2 weeks. Worse still, my tomato seedlings started developing a purplish tinge on the under side of the leaves (an indication of severe phosphorus deficiency in the soil).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 20, 2023

This research, which immediately sparked conversations and renewed calls for corporate accountability, is particularly fascinating because it combines climate modeling, interdisciplinary archival research, and corporate accountability —some of my favorite topics! and SSP1-2.6).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

They accounted for most of the failed generating capacity in a number of recent extreme weather events, including Winter Storm Uri in 2021 and Winter Storm Elliott in 2022, according to Gas Malfunction , a new Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) issue brief. EN: I mentioned in my introduction the threat gas emissions pose to the climate.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Conflating denial and hate “Climate denial has emerged as a new hybridized threat, merging those with vested interests in the carbon economy and those profiting from the outrage economy,” according to my CAAD colleague Jennie King of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.

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Real Climate

JANUARY 5, 2024

As described in my original post on 538 , I take a loess smooth for the GISTEMP long term trend (using roughly 20 year smoothing) and add a term based on the linear regression of the beginning of the year Multivariate ENSO Index (MEI2) (similar to Nino34) to the detrended anomalies (not including some big volcanic years). Until 2023.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

My colleagues Mary Nichols, Ted Parson, and Alex Wang are each tracking different, and fascinating, aspects of the upcoming talks. (Ted, Mary Nichols tells me that she’s paying particular attention to accountability questions, including requirements that third parties verify claimed emission reductions.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

My personal assessment of the likely range would be more closely based on Sherwood et al (2020) and so is a little narrower (as discussed here ) – but it will need a deeper dive into the main report to see why the ranges differ and that isn’t the main point here. With CMIP5, the coincidence of the model range of sensitivity (2.1°C

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 4, 2023

It was also interesting to compare my impressions from this conference with my blog posts here on RealClimate from the first ICRC in Trieste , the second in Brussels , the third ICRC in Stockholm , I see that questions concerning uncertainty and added value are still being debated. C above the preindustrial level.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

My husband and I bought it from a family that had owned the property for 70 years. I’m not as confident that my family will be able to rely on these bricks for stable housing moving forward. And is it a right worth fighting for? What is a stable climate? I live in a Baltimore row house.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

My administration is holding companies that walk away from unplugged wells accountable. It should be the corporate greedy folks who are held accountable, not the taxpayers.” We will go after them and we will hold them accountable to the fullest extent of the law. Click Here to watch a video of the event.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 23, 2023

In some cases, ICAP accreditation takes into account real-world circumstances when determining the maximum output of a gas plant. This methodology starts with an ICAP value, which is then adjusted to account for the probability that a gas plant won’t be able to provide energy when it’s needed.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2023

Through these tactics, and many others that my colleagues have discussed, the industry has managed to subvert efforts for urgent action on climate change, allowing it to continue to rake in record profits from the extraction and burning of fossil fuels. Push for accountability and policy changes that will reduce carbon emissions.

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Earth 911

MAY 17, 2021

Solar energy accounted for 43% of new electricity-generating capacity last year in the United States, The post Does Going Solar Increase My Property Value? appeared first on Earth911.

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Frontiers

JUNE 7, 2023

Throughout my personal journey, my innate curiosity and passion for understanding our experience of the world have been the driving forces in my life. Interacting with inspiring teachers and mentors during my education further fueled my motivation to explore the possibilities of objective understanding.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

New research that I led as part of my PhD dissertation, which was just published in Earth’s Future , digs deep into the topic of sea level rise and climate justice. While conducting research for my PhD, I found that, as Antarctica starts to melt, it can actually slow down global average temperature rise. Raising a critical issue.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 22, 2024

As I outlined in my day-one blog , the opening session of the 7 th assessment of the IPCC (AR7) last week in Istanbul aimed to address four key questions, but many of these were deferred to the next session as delegates engaged in rigorous debate about what reports they should produce and more importantly, when they would be completed.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

These models often rely on methods adopted in regional electricity markets that don’t account for the systemic and widespread gas plant outages and other gas system failures that have occurred during extreme weather events fueled by climate change.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 20, 2022

Equity weighting adjusts the monetary values used in CBA to take into account that a dollar to a poor person is worth much more than a dollar to a rich one. If the cost of the regulation falls equally on the poor and the rich in dollar terms, the cost to the poor has to be multiplied to take into account their greater need for the money.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JULY 28, 2023

. #1 The money people in Houston do not spend on the hot July 28th 2023 is still in their bank account and they can spend it on a cooler November 5th 2023 day. I discuss this in my 2022 book. #3 Note this intertemporal substitution. As more workers can engage in WFH, those who hate the high heat will leave the city in summer.

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