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Climate Reality vs. Public Perception: Will Toxic Haze and the 2023 Danger Season Make a Difference?

Union of Concerned Scientists

A 2019 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that temperatures initially considered remarkable are unremarkable about five years later. Lost in the haze: new poll highlights a stunning public disconnect on climate reality The overall scientific consensus on global warming cannot get more robust.

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How Do Californians Perceive Climate Risks to Their Household Water Supplies?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Like most older millennials, climate change has shaped my time on planet Earth. Count of extreme events in Yolo and Sacramento counties from Sept 2011 to July 2019. As a new Senior Climate Scientist at UCS, it’s my job to pay attention and connect dots between climate and weather as well as between impacts and adaptation.

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Viewpoint: Forty-three years of the environmental movement?

A Greener Life

I had just turned nine years old in 1988 when one of the world’s most prominent and daring climate scientists James Hansen gave evidence to the US Congress on the link between fossil fuels and climate change. Just months after my 32nd birthday in 2011, the world’s population reached 7 billion people.

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A Nobel pursuit

Real Climate

Manabe’s Climate Modeling. 2019 ) gives a good overview of Manabe’s particular philosophy of climate modeling which was very much focused on getting things to work, and not worrying too much about the details. The Manabe and Wetherald (1967) paper has been described as the most influential climate paper ever.

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What Happened During the Montana Youth Climate Trial

Legal Planet

Nowakowski made the same claims on the stand, saying that the department’s hands are tied when it comes to approving permits without considering the climate impacts. 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.

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Analysis: What challenges face Chile’s new ‘environmentalist’ government?

A Greener Life

A native of Chilean Patagonia, Boric became known as one of the leaders of the country’s student protests of 2011. The president-elect, who is currently finishing his second term as a congressman, made environmental and climate change issues central to his campaign.

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Getting physical with the climate crisis

Physics World

C warming and there are clear signs of the climate chaos we’re starting to unleash. . The previous summit, held in Madrid in 2019, ended in frustration with little progress on issues such as carbon financing or sharing climate burdens between nations. We’ve already hit 1.2?°C

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