Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

As climate scientists we tend to look at the IPCC reports a little differently than the general public might. Here are a few things that mark this report out from previous versions that relate to issues we’ve discussed here before: Extreme events are increasingly connected to climate (duh!) Figure SPM 8.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The court found that a 2012 no-jeopardy determination was unsupported, arbitrary, and capricious because it did not account for the owl’s recovery. Court Dismissed Counterclaims in Climate Scientist’s Defamation Lawsuit. 2012 CA 008263 B (D.C. s anti-SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) statute­—i.e.,

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Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2023

2012) ; Cal. However, detection and attribution methods can also be used to quantify the relationship between a specific GHG contribution and specific consequences of climate change, such as temperature and sea level rise. There are many other pathways through which climate change can affect these species (e.g.,

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

National Audubon Society alleged that the rule “vastly expands potential sand mining projects in delicate coastal barriers” and further alleged that coastal barriers would become even more important due to climate change and were expected to mitigate $108 billion of sea level rise and flooding damages over the next 50 years.

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