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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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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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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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Science denial is still an issue ahead of COP28

Real Climate

But they don’t tell you why: as explained for example in the paleoclimate chapter of the 4 th IPCC report of 2007 (which I co-authored), this is as expected from Earth’s natural orbital cycles. The authors have clearly swallowed a great mouthful of the toxic brew found on climate denial websites.

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The unconventional scientist who predicted that rising carbon dioxide levels would change the climate

Physics World

Writing in the 2007 book The Callendar Effect , James Rodger Fleming explains how the young Callendar was raised in a household full of “books and a vast array of technical gadgets”. As scientists began recognizing the role of anthropogenic CO 2 , it became clear that Callendar’s 1938 paper had first established the connection.

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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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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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