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The Beacon Test

Vermont Law

By Travis Rosenbluth In 2014, scientists of the IPCC agreed that human influence on the climate system is evident. Some of what is to come may be provocative and contrarian; so, take a breath —but not too deep because the air is full of carbon dioxide. Seven Years to Midnight?

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Seven Years To Midnight?

Vermont Law

By Travis Rosenbluth In 2014, scientists of the IPCC agreed that human influence on the climate system is evident. Some of what is to come may be provocative and contrarian; so, take a breath —but not too deep because the air is full of carbon dioxide. Seven Years to Midnight?

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Ask a Scientist: Calling Out the Companies Responsible for Western Wildfires

Union of Concerned Scientists

Since that 2014 study, which laid the foundation of what is called climate source attribution science , UCS scientists have collaborated with Heede on two other studies that pinpointed the major carbon producers’ culpability for specific climate change-related trends. percent of total emissions. percent of total emissions.

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AR6 of the best

Real Climate

Sea level rise is a big deal Use, abuse and misuse of the CMIP6 ensemble The radiative forcing bar chart has gone full circle Droughts and floods are complicated Don’t mention the hiatus. Sea Level Rise: The previous IPCC reports, notably AR4 and AR5 (to a lesser extent) , have had a hard time dealing with SLR.

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October 2019 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Colorado Federal Court Remanded Local Governments’ Climate Case to State Court. The court said the defendants’ argument that the plaintiffs’ state law claims were governed by federal common law appeared to be a matter of ordinary preemption, which would not provide a basis for federal jurisdiction. Rhode Island v. Chevron Corp. ,

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March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The court held that federal common law necessarily governed the nuisance claims because “[a] patchwork of fifty different answers to the same fundamental global issue would be unworkable” and “the extent of any judicial relief should be uniform across our nation.” Connecticut ) and Ninth Circuit ( Native Village of Kivalina v.

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Key NEPA-GHG Issues for the Biden-Harris Administration: Focus on FERC Chairman Glick and Incoming CEQ Chair Mallory

Arnold Porter

CEQ will likely need to grapple with many of these same questions in the NEPA GHG emissions guidance that will apply government-wide. 24, 2014) (clarifying that the proposed and later abandoned 25,000 MT CO2e/year reference point for quantitative disclosure was "not a substitute for an agency's determination of significance").]].