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Real Climate
NOVEMBER 11, 2023
While temperatures provide a measure of the Earth’s climate, it is even better to use the global sea level , which provides a far more reliable measure. The global sea level acts like the mercury in a thermometer because warmer water expands. Hence my friend’s question about COP28.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 6, 2022
Danger season, together with ongoing slow-moving disasters like sea level rise, is pushing people and ecosystems to their limits in many places. It is also a critical part of their commitments under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 30, 2022
What’s more, all of these intersecting and compounding crises reveal similar fundamental flaws in our current social, political and economic systems—including that those who are most marginalized in society suffer disproportionate harms. A rapid clean energy transition is (still) the best path forward.
Smith Enviorment
JANUARY 30, 2019
Also elephants, giraffes, rhinos (of the non-political variety), Cape buffalo, baboons, uninvited monkeys at lunch, hippos, wildebeests, hyenas, warthogs and an unexpected (to me) penguin colony. Reduce energy use per square foot in state-owned buildings by 40% from 2002-2003 levels. Leopard: Thornybush Game Preserve (photo G.Whaley).
Law Columbia
MAY 7, 2021
The County asserted that the defendants were “directly responsible for a substantial portion of the climate crisis-related impacts in Anne Arundel County,” including sea level rise, storm surge, and flooding, as well as more frequent, longer-lasting, and more severe extreme weather events. Six Youths v.
Law Columbia
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
The majority said it “reluctantly” concluded that “the plaintiffs’ case must be made to the political branches or to the electorate at large” and “[t]hat the other branches may have abdicated their responsibility to remediate the problem does not confer on Article III courts, no matter how well-intentioned, the ability to step into their shoes.”
Law Columbia
NOVEMBER 7, 2017
The plaintiffs alleged that Peabody (and a number of other fossil fuel companies) caused greenhouse gas emissions that resulted in sea level rise and damage to their property. Peabody, a coal company, filed for bankruptcy in April 2016 and emerged from bankruptcy under a plan that became effective on April 3, 2017.
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