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Rare and Severe Weather Events Are Now More Common Thanks to Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

Add climate change and we need to keep track of which decade these flood levels were determined. For example, with expected sea level rise over the next few decades what currently would be extreme coastal floods (50-year floods or a large flood with only a 2% chance in any given year) are likely to occur annually for most coastal U.S.

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The AMOC: tipping this century, or not?

Real Climate

We have direct AMOC measurements only since 2004, a time span too short for this type of study. So the Ditlevsens used sea surface temperatures (SST) in a region between the tip of Greenland and Britain as an indicator, based on Caesar et al. I’ve seen two main arguments there. Do the data used really describe changes in AMOC?

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White House To Nominate PA Native David Applegate As Director of the U.S. Geological Survey

PA Environment Daily

David joined the USGS in 2004 as the first Senior Science Advisor for Earthquake and Geologic Hazards. As the confirmed Director, I am confident he will continue to empower the agency’s scientific and technical experts to use the best available science to help address the most pressing challenges of our time.”

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Desalination and Alternative Water Supply and Efficiency

Vermont Law

In 2004, the. rising sea-levels. While simplistic. of desalination are popular on social media, urban planning of large scale development of seawater desalination on U.S. coastlines is a much more complex environmental, economical, and political discussion. Desalination Plant. in Southern California, the largest in the U.S.,

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A Stealth Climate Bill

Legal Planet

Military emissions were 85 million tons in 2004, so the trend is in the right direction. Naval bases are located – no surprise — at sea level, and thus directly exposed to the risks of sea level rise. As the 2023 funding bill shows , the military is committed to further emissions cuts.

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May 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

752 (2004), and concluded that “in light of the informational role served by MEPA review, the line that must be drawn requires a ‘reasonably close causal relationship’ between the environmental effect and the alleged cause.” The Minnesota Supreme Court adopted the U.S. Public Citizen , 541 U.S.

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Michael Shellenberger talks with Nick O’Malley, National Editor of Climate and the Environment, Sydney Morning Herald

Environmental Progress

I mean, I see this book as a bookend to this essay I wrote in 2004, I co-authored, called “The Death of Environmentalism.” Michael: Well, I mean, what — do you think we're helpless to sea level rise? And they have a huge sea wall that floats up. meters of sea-level rise — we're helpless against that!”