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Amid Dire Colorado River Outlook, States Plan to Tap Their Lake Mead Savings Accounts

Circle of Blue

A complex and arcane water banking program in the lower Colorado River basin, adopted in 2007 and later amended, was designed to incentivize water conservation, prevent waste, and boost storage in a waning Lake Mead. The 2007 Interim Guidelines , which expire at the end of 2025, were a landmark document that secured three substantial changes.

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My Kind of Town

Legal Planet

A 2007 study used in Chicago’s climate action plan predicted that the Lake’s average level will remain about the same under a low emissions standards and drop slightly with higher emissions. That seems like a plausible scenario under climate change but seemingly hasn’t been established yet. inches of rain fell.

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A distraction due to errors, misunderstanding and misguided Norwegian statistics

Real Climate

In other words, the claim shows a lack of knowledge and is a well-known old argument that I commented on Realclimate.org in 2007. A common strawman argument We don’t expect to discern a clear effect of greenhouse gases on local measurements, and mixing up local and global climate is a basis for a common strawman argument.

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We should not sugarcoat the reality of climate impacts

A Greener Life

By Anders Lorenzen The former Chief Scientist for the UK Government, Sir David King did not hold back the scientific reality of years of climate inaction when he addressed the audience at the Net Zero Festival in London, organised by Business Green, a clean energy publication.

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What Happened During the Montana Youth Climate Trial

Legal Planet

That question was put to a Missoula-based climate scientist named Steven Running who worked on the 2007 IPCC report as part of the team that won a Nobel Peace Prize. If Montana stopped emitting greenhouse gases, would that prevent the injury to plaintiffs from climate change?

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Latest IPCC Report Urges Us To Act On Climate Change

Edouard Stenger

When I started covering climate change on this blog in 2007, climate change was a distant threat. As climate scientist say, every tonne of greenhouse gases counts. But as global surface temperature is reaching 1.1°C C above 1850–1900 in 2011–2020 this is not any more the case.

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No Word on Climate from Presidential Candidates Stumping in New Hampshire Amid Record Global Heat

Union of Concerned Scientists

We should expect to hear more, as climate impacts are only going to get worse. As a climate scientist recently said on CNN, “Until we stop pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere we have no idea what the future looks like.” Nevertheless, today in New Hampshire we hear crickets from candidates despite history and polls.