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Much ado about acceleration

Real Climate

There has been a lot of commentary about perceived disagreements among climate scientists about whether climate change is, or will soon, accelerate. As with most punditry, there is less here than it might seem.

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

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. A decade ago, a review of nearly 12,000 studies conducted between 1991 and 2011 found that 97.2 Climate scientists are not sitting on their 99.9

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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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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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Climate Scientist Michael Mann Awarded More than $1 Million in Defamation Case

Greenbuilding Law

But, Michael Mann is a well known climate scientist whose research in studying the “paleoclimate,” or ancient climate, has featured prominently in the politically charged debate about climate change. Scientists attempting to silence those who disagree with their science is wrong (.

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A Nobel pursuit

Real Climate

In this, he is in violent agreement with Isaac Held, his colleague at GFDL, and indeed most climate scientists. Manabe’s early focus was on radiative-convective equilibrium, and his seminal 1967 paper (with his longtime collaborator Richard Wetherald, who passed in 2011 ). But let’s go back to the beginning.