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The Drying Planet

Circle of Blue

The researchers were surprised to find that the loss of water on the continents has grown so dramatically that it has become one of the largest causes of global sea level rise. Note: Data is for February 2003 to December 2013 and January 2014 to April 2024. Water is being used as a strategic and political tool.

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[Act] of all trades, litigable to none: A Critical Examination of Malaysia’s Proposed Climate Change Bill

Law Columbia

Additionally, sea levels around Malaysia are projected to rise by a maximum of 3 to 10 mm by 2030 and 11 to 21 mm by 2050. Between 1970 and 2013, Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah, and Sarawak experienced surface mean temperature increases of 0.14C0.25C per decade. and 6.1%, with net revenue falling by MYR 442.42 (~USD 99.52) per ha.

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A distraction due to errors, misunderstanding and misguided Norwegian statistics

Real Climate

While temperatures provide a measure of the Earth’s climate, it is even better to use the global sea level , which provides a far more reliable measure. The global sea level acts like the mercury in a thermometer because warmer water expands. Hence my friend’s question about COP28.

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ExxonMobil Accurately Projected Rising Temperatures While Publicly Disparaging Climate Science

Union of Concerned Scientists

This methodology is similar to my own work combining climate science, political science, and history to reconstruct how UN climate negotiations have played out and what that implies for climate justice. The new paper in Science summarizes key statements by ExxonMobil executives between 2000 and 2013 that cast doubt on the science.

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A Single Paragraph’s Promise: The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Change and the Understated Question of Human Displacement

Law Columbia

The ICJ held that, under the principle of non-refoulement , states have an obligation not to return individuals to situations where there are substantial grounds to believe there is a real risk of irreparable harm to their right to life, as protected by Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

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How we Conceptualize Security will Shape our Response to Environmental Challenges

HumanNature

While environmental security remains a hotly contested idea, it is nonetheless an increasingly popular conceptual framing used by global actors who are concerned with stemming the dangerous ramifications of environmental change (Floyd and Matthew 2013). Political Geography 26 (6): 639–655 Browning, C., Dabelko (eds.).

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Loss and Damage

Legal Planet

Even before adoption of the 1992 Framework Convention, the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) had proposed an “International Insurance Pool” to pay vulnerable countries based on observed sea level rise. The first explicit use of the term L&D was in the 2007 Bali Action Plan , in a section on enhanced action for adaptation.