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California’s Climate Leadership: A Timeline

Legal Planet

2002 SB1078. Required the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to set standards for greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) new vehicles. To help you keep track, here is a timeline of California’s most important actions. California established first renewable portfolio standard (20% from renewables by 2010). AB 1493 (Pavley Act).

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A distraction due to errors, misunderstanding and misguided Norwegian statistics

Real Climate

A friend asked me if a discussion paper published on Statistics Norway’s website, ‘ To what extent are temperature levels changing due to greenhouse gas emissions? ’, was purposely timed for the next climate summit ( COP28 ). I don’t know the answer to his question. But this discussion paper is problematic for sure.

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CMIP6: Not-so-sudden stratospheric cooling

Real Climate

That means the greenhouse substances are basically just CO2 and ozone, and they absorb in quite different parts of the spectrum. The basic concept is easy to grasp though. The upper atmosphere is different from the troposphere in that pressure is much less, and it’s very dry.

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Gregory L. Ebel: The Pipeline Pusher

Enviromental Defense

While “natural” gas is mostly composed of methane, a greenhouse gas that’s 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide during its first 20 years in the atmosphere, Ebel and his industry counterparts have succeeded in minimizing the perception of its climate impact.

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DOE Recognizes Allegheny College For Energy Savings As A Better Buildings Challenge Partner

PA Environment Daily

In 2002, Allegheny adopted its Environmental Guiding Principles and was a charter signatory with the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment. For over 20 years, Allegheny College has held sustainability as a core value.

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The world’s oceans are heading towards peak acidity?

A Greener Life

The heat trapped by human-induced greenhouse gases will warm the planet for many generations to come.” The annual increase from 2013 to 2021 is more than double the increase between 1993 to 2002. In a statement, WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas said “Our climate is changing before our eyes.

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California Supreme Court Finds County Ordinance Limiting Oil & Gas Development Preempted by State Law

Legal Planet

However, by the beginning of the 21st century the pernicious effects of fossil fuel emissions–in terms of both conventional air, water and ground pollution and the discharge of greenhouse gas emissions that profoundly disrupt our climate–were well-established and widely acknowledged.

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