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What’s the Role of the Land Carbon Sink in Achieving US Climate Goals?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Without the considerable carbon absorption capacity of our lands (and oceans), we’d currently have much more CO 2 in the atmosphere and an accelerated timeline of warming. In North America, the land carbon sink between 2004 and 2013 offset roughly 39% of fossil fuel emissions , but varied substantially year to year.

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From Research to Action: The Growing Impact of Attribution Science

Union of Concerned Scientists

They can also look at known carbon emission sources and model the world with and without those added emissions. Another study found that climate change made severe flooding in the United Kingdom 43 percent more likely during the winter of 2013-14. Precipitation events.

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May 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Columbia Climate Law

The federal district court for the Northern District of Texas dismissed for lack of standing a lawsuit against the EPA in which an individual pro se plaintiff asserted that EPA restrictions since 1990 on aerosols in the atmosphere had caused global warming.

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Testimony by Michael Shellenberger before the House Agriculture Committee on “Climate Change and the U.S. Agriculture and Forestry Sectors”

Environmental Progress

32] Part of the reason the planet is greening stems from greater carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and greater planetary warming. [33] 33] Scientists find that plants grow faster as a result of higher carbon dioxide concentrations. 63] This difference in emissions comes down to diet and lifespan. Chen et al.,

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November 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , No. Challenge to Settlement in Utility Rate-Setting Case in New Mexico Cited Failure to Quantify Coal Plant’s Carbon Emission Risks. Both sets of intervenors also said the court should limit any abeyance period to 120 days. Center for Biological Diversity v. filed Oct.

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ESA Policy News: August 16, 2021

ESA

However, the world could avoid the more extreme scenarios in the report if governments sharply reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions. Advances in attribution science since the last report was issued in 2013 have allowed experts to connect individual events to climate change with more certainty.

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