Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The CERES estimates of the top-of-atmosphere radiative fluxes are available from 2001 to the present. We can explore the issues and pitfalls of this using the ‘simple model’ of the greenhouse effect we explored back in 2007. The simplest model for the greenhouse effect. A simple model with feedbacks.

Radiation

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2023

Shareholder advocates argue in these resolutions that Scope 3 emissions must be included in corporate targets to meet the Paris climate agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5° For many companies and sectors, a greenhouse gas inventory that omits Scope 3 would be materially misleading to investors,” the letter states.

Carbon Emissions

Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Note: On September 26, 2019, the Vanuatu Permanent Mission to the United Nations hosted a workshop on seeking an advisory opinion on climate change from the International Court of Justice. By Michael B. Professor Michael Gerrard gave a presentation about the legal and procedural issues that would be involved.

Climate Change

Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The researchers then analyzed the ‘percent of normal index’ (PNI, which gives the percentage of precipitation in a given period compared to the normal precipitation in the reference period) in a single climate model over the eight regions. was compared to the present day (2001 to 2020). . Four future hot spots.

Climate Change

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. 636 fossil fuel lobbyists were part of official country delegations to the last United Nations climate negotiations ( UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and Conference of Parties 27, or COP27 ).

Fossil Fuels

Ivy Protocol

MAY 18, 2023

Author: Ieva Blazauskaite (Ivy Protocol, Marketing Lead) To meet the climate goals outlined by the Paris Agreement, a unified approach, combining both Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) and Engineered Carbon Removal Solutions is crucial. We invite you to join us at Ivy Protocol.

2023

Edouard Stenger

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Unless you are oblivious to your surroundings, it’s hard to not be aware of the already catastrophic effects climate change is having on our lives. Most of the media still thinks that climate issues concern only folks born in the late 90s or even in the 21st century. This can be downright depressing and paralyzing.

2001

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

By Katie Bohn, Penn State News The effectiveness of national voluntary programs asking companies to pledge to lower their pollution and greenhouse gas emissions depends on pressure from the public, according to a new study led by a Penn State researcher.

2001

Environmental Europe

JULY 1, 2020

The EU is facing a key challenge in climate and energy governance. It has agreed to address climate change under the Paris Agreement , and put forward increasingly ambitious policy targets for 2020, 2030 and 2050. However, it is increasingly struggling to fulfil them. If the Commission detects “ambition gaps” (i.e.,

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

20 Webinar On Making Climate-Friendly Appropriations A Priority In The Federal Budget -- Warren Times Editorial: Renewables Are Barely A Blip On State Electric Grids -- USDA Awards PA Partnership $7.85 Thank you for your leadership! -- We Remember Sept.

Conservation

Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 8, 2023

Many see this cutting edge enactment as crucial to making possible the State’s ESG goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in buildings. In 2001, Maryland was one of the first states to incentivize green building, to reduce GHG emissions, with an income tax credit. The backstory is important.

2021

Enviromental Defense

MAY 24, 2023

Question: Some people claim EVs are worse for the environment than gasoline cars Answer: Battery-Electric vehicles (BEVs) have on average two thirds lower lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions than gasoline cars today, and this will improve as electricity grids get cleaner by cutting out fossil fuels.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

25-26 Penn State Family Symposium Focuses On Environmental Impacts On Families: Environmental Disasters, Climate Change, Built Environment PA Forestry Assn./Ned The September 6 PA Environment Digest is now available. Wolf, AG Shapiro To Support A Total Ban On Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater; 240.4

Carbon Emissions

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2025

Hutchinson Introduces Bill To Abolish DEP Climate Change, Recycling Fund, Coastal Zone Advisory Committees [PaEN] NewsClips: -- TribLive: Plum Zoning Board Rejects Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well After Lengthy Battle In Allegheny County; Company Plans To Appeal -- MCall: Is Ban On Fracking In Delaware Watershed At Risk?

Regulations

Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

For example, the ongoing debate over the impact of certain pesticides in agriculture , greenhouse gas emissions are often a battle between the science and industry's attempts to muddy the science and government lobbying to roll back legislation (2). Typically used in conjunction with “greenhouse gas” but some emissions are not GHGs.

Government

Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

The Regulation’s proposed criteria for gaseous fossil fuels (which includes both conventional natural gas, and synthetic gas derived from coal gasification) allow investment in their consumption without restriction in function, scale, or time period, as long as greenhouse gas emissions are no higher than 100 gCO2eq/kWh (see §4.29-31

Fossil Fuels

Real Climate

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Last week, the Nobel physics prize was (half) awarded to Suki Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann for their work on climate prediction and the detection and attribution of climate change. This came as quite a surprise to the climate community – though it was welcomed warmly. Gnanadesikan et al., Hegerl et al.,

Atmosphere

Edouard Stenger

AUGUST 21, 2017

While it is undeniable that we are ramping up our actions against climate change, it is hard to deny that global warming is getting scarier every week. This could increase the speed of climate change even more as this greenhouse gas is 24 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

AUGUST 9, 2021

For instance in Tokyo and Seoul, the first hot day of the year (30°C or higher) arrived on average 11 days earlier during the period 2001-2020 compared to the previous two decades. Between 2001 and 2020, the frequency of heatwaves in Beijing was nearly three times that of the previous 40-year period. in the morning. .

2001

Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Exxon has also been accused of covering up clear evidence of climate change discovered by its scientists as early as 1977 while paying for a massive public disinformation campaign to question the scientific basis of climate change such as helping create the Global Climate Coalition.

2017

Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Exxon has also been accused of covering up clear evidence of climate change discovered by its scientists as early as 1977 while paying for a massive public disinformation campaign to question the scientific basis of climate change such as helping create the Global Climate Coalition.

2017

Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Testimony before the House Agriculture Committee for a Hearing on “Climate Change and the U.S. Technological change and agricultural modernization will significantly outweigh climate change in the U.S. Vegetarianism is not important for protecting the environment or reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

One bill would mandate that firms assess and disclose on an annual basis the financially related climate risks they face and how they are managing these risks. A second bill would require annual reporting of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by a covered firm’s operations. 24] SB 253 does not require materiality.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

24 Organizing Black Birders Week Webinar With Tykee James -- Keep PA Beautiful Local Affiliates Recycle 1.1 17; Loving The Land Thru Working Forests Conference Sept.

Conservation

Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 25, 2021

Time and space do not allow a recitation of the bills that failed, but many did not pass in a session that was widely heralded as successful, including a much discussed Senate bill that would have made broad changes to Maryland’s approach to reducing statewide GHG emissions and addressing climate change that was not well received in the House.

Law

Acoel

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

image: Climate Change and Developing Countries – Public Health Notes. 13,990 ’s direction to consider the value of global environmental harms flowing from greenhouse gas emissions could not be adopted absent a clear statutory mandate to consider extraterritorial benefits of regulatory action. Biden reasoned that E.O

Clean Air Act

Legal Planet

JANUARY 23, 2023

Of the many achievements of California’s legendary legislator Fran Pavley, one of the most remarkable is then-Assemblywoman Pavley’s modest bill, AB 1493, which directed California to become the first jurisdiction in the country to control greenhouse gas emissions from cars. and the world. And three cheers for Fran Pavley.

Greenhouse

Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2024

American Trucking Ass’ns, 531 457 (2001) (Justice Scalia). The case involved EPA’s power to regulate greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide under the Clean Air Act. The Court also ruled that EPA could consider only the science relating to climate change in deciding whether to exercise this authority.

Law

Legal Planet

JANUARY 3, 2024

The first Trump administration’s approach to climate change was to ignore it, by deleting mentions of it on the White House website and erasing EPA’s public-facing pages laying out climate science. He served in the Trump administration leading the transition team at the Department of Energy.

2024

ESA

JULY 26, 2021

This includes research about atmospheric composition, water and carbon cycles, computational modeling of climate systems, renewable energy technologies, materials sciences, and social, behavior and economic research on human responses to climate change. Climate Change Action Plan For The Chicago Region Is Unveiled – WBEZ.

2021