A Greener Life

JULY 30, 2021

Germany has recently experienced fatal and apocalyptic climate- fuelled floods , after which the country’s Chancellor, Angela Merkel, promised the government would do more to tackle climate change. So what should Germany do with their newfound appetite for tackling climate change? Quitting coal.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2023

The rail infrastructure to transport coal from the Powder River Basin in Montana and Wyoming–the country’s primary coal source –was proven to be vulnerable to extreme floods in the spring of 2011 , and even more extreme floods in the spring of 2019. The link to climate change is clearer, however, with floods.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The landscape of Kulaley Village in northern Kenya lays barren after a drought in 2011. Climate models indicate the potential for another brutal famine in East Africa. Scientists say the pattern is yet another effect of global climate change. Scientists say the pattern is yet another effect of global climate change.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

The Hockey Stick became an icon in the case for human-caused climate change, and I found myself at the center of the contentious climate debate (I’ve described my experiences in “ The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars ”). Featured two decades later now in the AR6 SPM is a longer Hockey Stick with an even sharper blade.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 20, 2021

Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the climate change lawsuit filed by the City of Baltimore in 2018 against energy companies. This case is one of a number of cases brought by states, cities, and other municipalities against energy companies alleging that the companies contributed to climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2022

Rabe , Brookings Institution & Christopher Borick , Director Muhlenberg College Institute Of Public Opinion The 25th National Surveys On Energy and the Environment conducted by Muhlenberg College was recently released on the public’s opinions on energy and climate policy and beliefs.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 6, 2023

Scientific evidence is clear that climate change is affecting winter storms, making extreme events happen more frequently. 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. Data: NOAA 2023.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2023

The onslaught has led to another round of media headlines and press releases from environmental and public health groups asking whether the nation is at a tipping point of urgency to fight climate change. A Vox headline on the orange skies from Canadian wildfires said, “Wildfire smoke reminded people about climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 15, 2022

In 2021, 9 percent of US electricity came from those graceful kinetic sculptures, up from less than 3 percent in 2011. Globally, too, wind stands to be a leader in what’s to come for fighting climate change. Even more important, though, wind is an impressive piece of our electricity supply. And a lot more big-ness is coming.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 20, 2021

Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the climate change lawsuit filed by the City of Baltimore in 2018 against energy companies. This case is one of a number of cases brought by states, cities, and other municipalities against energy companies alleging that the companies contributed to climate change.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

Whether climate change impacts to Montana’s environment can be measured incrementally. Whether climate impacts and effects in Montana can be attributed to Montana’s fossil fuel activities. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They are: Whether Plaintiffs’ injuries are mischaracterized or inaccurate.

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Edouard Stenger

JULY 27, 2018

The author was an engineering professor at Cambridge and the Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change and was knighted by the Queen for his work. Verdict: This book shows that reversing climate change is not a technological one as we have the solutions to do so. – .

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

You read this title and say to yourself, “There is no war in climate change!” Often the discussions on climate change center around the environmental effects. Experts do not attribute climate change as a direct cause of war, but it is a catalyst for conflict. that arose from climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Since 2011, there have been five extreme winter storms that threatened the reliability of the grid, and the issues that ensued in all five of those storms were very similar. These emissions are driving the very climate change that is making extreme weather events worse.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2022

Danger season in the United States is the time of year between roughly May and October when a number of climate-related hazards, including heatwaves, floods, wildfires, and hurricanes, tend to occur—at times simultaneously or back-to-back.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 26, 2023

In an October 26 email to DEP employees, Acting Secretary Shirley confirmed “there has been a leadership change” and she will lead the agency until a replacement is named. Jessica Shirley Jessica Shirley was named Acting Executive Deputy Secretary at DEP in February 2023. Click Here for more details.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Climate change is also warming waters in Greek wetlands, threatening the livelihoods of fishermen. Reuters reports climate change is threatening the livelihoods of farmers in Turkey. In context: The Great Lakes region is frequently touted as one of the most climate-resilient places in the U.S., 245 MILLION.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Media awareness about global warming and climate change has grown fairly steadily since 2004. My impression is that journalists today tend to possess a higher climate literacy than before. Hazeleger, "Boundary layer stability and Arctic climate change: a feedback study using EC-Earth", Climate Dynamics , vol.

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A Greener Life

MAY 4, 2023

degrees C set in 2011 in the eastern city of Elche. As a result, the region has suffered from earlier-than-usual wildfires, creating fears of a repeat of last summer’s extreme waves of fires, widely attributed to climate change. The city of Cordoba in southern Spain recorded 38.8 This beats the previous record of 38.6

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Law Columbia

JUNE 26, 2023

On March 9, 2023, the Japanese Supreme Court refused to hear the first climate change litigation brought before it without specifying substantive reasons. Background information about the general climate context and litigation in Japan is available in a previous blog post. Kobe Steel Ltd.,

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HumanNature

APRIL 28, 2022

Many argue that this is one of the most intrusive things we can do to combat climate change. Getting ready to plant a ponderosa pine seedling in a post-burn landscape As human-caused climate change continues to warm the planet, plants and animals may no longer be suited to the climate conditions where they currently grow.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 24, 2023

Tanya Heikkila, who studies conflict resolution in environmental programs and development projects, told Circle of Blue that an era of climate change requires new strategies for managing the swings between wet and dry. Climate shocks, despite the hazards they present, are not destiny, though.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 24, 2022

In the 1960s climate change was not really a significant concern, not even amongst environmentalists – this was despite the fact that the Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius in 1896 was the first to claim that emissions from fossil fuels might eventually result in enhanced global warming.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 30, 2021

These rare storms are expected to become more frequent with climate change as a warmer atmosphere can hold (and during storms release!) Flooding on the Schuylkill River from Hurricane Irene, 2011. Climate change compounds the issues already present in urban environments. more moisture.

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Real Climate

JULY 24, 2023

Major abrupt past climate changes are linked to AMOC instabilities, including Dansgaard-Oeschger-Events and Heinrich Events. Stommel wrote: “The system is inherently frought with possibilities for speculation about climatic change.” 2011; Garzoli et al. For more on this see my Review Paper in Nature.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

DO: Pay your fair share of the costs of climate change. cities, counties, and states over climate damages and deception; and 39 cases brought by seven coastal parishes and the State of Louisiana seeking damages for coastal erosion around oil fields. Chevron alone is facing a $9.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 29, 2022

In 2011, a raccoon found its way into some electrical equipment at the Delaware City Refinery, taking a number of units offline. Nearly 4,000 RMP facilities throughout the United States are in areas that are seeing increasing impacts from climate change, such as coastal flooding, inland flooding, wildfires, and storm surge.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 13, 2023

In 2011, then-Governor Brown issued Executive Order B-10-11 , which established what is now the Governor’s Office of Tribal Affairs and directed all state agencies to “encourage communication and consultation with California Indian Tribes.”

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CEQA Developments

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

So stay tuned on that front…) The Court of Appeal’s Opinion The gist of the case’s narrow holding reflected in the published portion of the opinion is that the EIR’s climate change analysis did not employ a methodology previously rejected for lack of substantial evidence in Center for Biological Diversity v.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

The assessment further identified rising health issues related to natural resource extractions [defined by the Health Department as oil and gas development ] and the health impacts resulting from climate change as two of the top five threats affecting health outcomes of Pennsylvanians. Click Here for a copy of the Plan.

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Vermont Law

JANUARY 18, 2016

Summary: Green-roof zoning laws may provide a solution to the Urban Heat Island Effect, which contributes to anthropogenic climate change through heat pollution originating from large cities. Green-roofs are an overlooked solution to the complex problem of heat pollution, which contributes to anthropogenic climate change.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Last week, the Nobel physics prize was (half) awarded to Suki Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann for their work on climate prediction and the detection and attribution of climate change. This came as quite a surprise to the climate community – though it was welcomed warmly. But let’s go back to the beginning.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Climate Change Mitigation. The Governor approved a notable slate of climate legislation with a package that includes more stringent greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets and measures designed to reduce the state’s reliance on fossil fuels. Land Use and Building Decarbonization. A Few Notable Vetoes.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Government adopts a sector-by-sector plan to reach 2050 climate goals. Renewable Energy Act sets fixed feed-in tariffs and gives renewables priority on the grid. New rates are large enough to spark expansion of renewable industry. Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable. Renewables are a third of electricity consumption.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

APRIL 26, 2021

A unique photographic exploration of the impact of flooding on communities around the world due to climate events opens Saturday, May 1 at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. Gideon Mendel: Drowning World is a stark portrayal of the human condition within the context of climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2023

“Under her leadership as President and CEO, Ocean Networks Canada has become a global force in ocean data, helping us to better understand the ocean and its role in mitigating the effects of climate change, which is necessary for our survival."

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The hybrid set-up, with video links between the two hubs and digital attendence through zoom, was a change from previous ICRCs held in ICTP (2011) , Brussels (2013) , Stockholm (2016) , and Beijing (2019). They often have set protocols and routines that are not designed to accommodate climate change adaptation.

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