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A distraction due to errors, misunderstanding and misguided Norwegian statistics

Real Climate

are used all over the world, based on calculations that quantify the effects of physical mechanisms and the way different parts of the atmosphere are connected to each other. The physics-based models describe how energy flows through the atmosphere and ocean, as well as how the forces from different air masses push against each other.

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We should not sugarcoat the reality of climate impacts

A Greener Life

King served under the Tony Blair and Gordon Brown New Labour Government from October 2000 to December 2007. When it has all melted the global sea levels would have risen by 7.5 Climate Repair focuses on three pillar points: reducing CO2 emissions, remove CO2 from the atmosphere and refreeze damaged parts of the climate system.

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Degradation of coastal regions in the Pacific Islands

Our Environment

Rising sea levels and increased intensity of storm surges are playing a considerable role in the degradation of coastal regions in the Pacific Islands. Illustrating the variation in sea levels from 1993 – 2018. Photo credit. Written by: Jack McCulloch. Shows a generally increasing trend. Source: NASA (August 2018).

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Climate change has already aggravated 58% of infectious diseases

A Greener Life

The consequences of climate change aren’t reserved for the oceans and atmosphere: Diseases have secured a larger presence in recent years thanks to global warming. By Jenessa Duncombe. Global warming has, in certain instances, amped up some of the world’s most deadly diseases. Climate’s Contagion.

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Another Historic Climate Court Ruling in the Netherlands

Legal Planet

Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Massachusetts pointed to the loss of coastal land from sea-level rise, while the Urgenda judgments ultimately concluded that there is a serious risk that climate change will cause the human rights of people in the Netherlands to not be met.

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Loss and Damage

Legal Planet

Even before adoption of the 1992 Framework Convention, the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) had proposed an “International Insurance Pool” to pay vulnerable countries based on observed sea level rise. The first explicit use of the term L&D was in the 2007 Bali Action Plan , in a section on enhanced action for adaptation.

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Calling Out Climate Lies for a Living

Union of Concerned Scientists

There is, in fact, substantial scientific evidence that there’s a strong link between global warming and heat waves and coastal flooding from sea-level rise,” I said. The genesis of ExxonMobil’s brazen hypocrisy can be traced back to 2007. But before he was able to do that in my imaginary scenario, I corrected the record.