Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 30, 2021

As extreme storms become more ubiquitous, Philadelphia is among numerous cities grappling with flooding issues against the backdrop of aging infrastructure, rising sea levels and more extreme precipitation events. chance of happening in any given year, respectively. Flooding on the Schuylkill River from Hurricane Irene, 2011.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 7, 2024

The consequences of the climate crisis are already visible and devastating, such as rising temperatures, melting ice caps, sea level rise, extreme weather events, droughts, floods, wildfires, biodiversity loss, food insecurity, water scarcity, displacement, conflict, disease, and death. C by 2030.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

The global mean sea level has increased by 20 cm from 1901 to 2018, and the rate of increase has accelerated and is now about 3.7 A thermal expansion explained 50% of sea level rise during 1971–2018, while ice loss from glaciers contributed 22%, ice sheets 20% and changes in land water storage 8%. mm increase every year.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

These factors were followed by other hazards associated with climate change, including fires, storms, sea level rise , ocean climate change, heat waves, drought, and changes to land cover. In Scandinavia in 2014, an outbreak of cholera, a warm-water disease, shocked observers. Climate’s Contagion.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 2, 2021

trillion in economic activity, according to one 2014 study. The first of these shortage tiers — at 1,075 feet above sea level — is expected to be breached next year. Mead is currently at 1,073 feet, but for shortage determinations, it is the projected level in the following January that matters. million acres.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

APRIL 26, 2021

© GIDEON MENDEL, Jeff and Tracey Waters, Staines-upon-Thames, Surrey, UK, February 2014 C-print. and India (2014), Brazil and Bangladesh (2015) and France (2016 and 2018). Lead image: © GIDEON MENDEL, Gideon Mendel at work on his Drowning World project in Chandajan Village in Assam State, India in September 2014.

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 19, 2021

The hashtag originated from a Twitter post back in 2014. We see our record-breaking hot summers, intensified weather events and rising sea levels. I resonate with #OceanOptimism as a recent college graduate with a degree in Environmental Studies and an internship in Communications at Ocean Conservancy.

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Vermont Law

JUNE 21, 2023

By Travis Rosenbluth In 2014, scientists of the IPCC agreed that human influence on the climate system is evident. Ask most people, and they will say that we are already living in a catastrophe; just look at the eradication of the coral reefs , the rising sea levels , and melting icebergs. Seven Years to Midnight?

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Vermont Law

MAY 2, 2023

By Travis Rosenbluth In 2014, scientists of the IPCC agreed that human influence on the climate system is evident. Ask most people, and they will say that we are already living in a catastrophe; just look at the eradication of the coral reefs , the rising sea levels , and melting icebergs. Seven Years to Midnight?

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 31, 2022

It’s also causing marine heatwaves, storms, sea ice loss and sea level rise. Fishing communities and the infrastructure they need for fishing—from boats to ramps and marinas—are also vulnerable from storms and sea level rise. Marine fish and invertebrates are influenced by the conditions in their environment.

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 20, 2022

One of those stocks, gag grouper in the Gulf of Mexico, is overfished once again after being rebuilt in 2014. It’s changing more than ever with rising sea levels, warming temperatures, ocean acidification, deoxygenation and more. That number is a slight increase from last year and now part of a discouraging trend.

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A Greener Life

MAY 20, 2022

Perched at 3,730 metres above sea level in the community of Ancotanga, the Oruro solar power plant is one of the flagship projects in Bolivia’s energy transition. The new 100 MW Oruro solar plant is a boost to Bolivia’s energy transition, but there are obstacles to harnessing the radiation potential of its western highlands.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

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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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

A working group at the Brown University Climate and Development Lab put in a lot of time helping Representative Handy write the bill, which was signed into law by Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee July 2, 2014 and titled “. The Resilient RI Act. ”.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 20, 2014

At the end of March 2014, Working Group II (WGII) unleashed upon the global community their contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). Sea level is rising and islands are disappearing. Regardless, it can serve as a useful tool for climate change policy negotiations. _.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 16, 2023

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.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

rising sea-levels. between 2014 and 2015, which complicate how seawater desalination. Besides the huge cost, it takes over 10 years to plan and fund a seawater desalination plant. The construction of expensive legacy systems also amplifies the incentive to build seawalls and bulwarks along our nation’s coast, while.

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HumanNature

JANUARY 26, 2024

Threat is a bold word- but maybe not bold enough You may have encountered information regarding how global climate change may be impacting coastlines via sea level rise, or maybe you have heard individuals link the increasing severity of wildfires to increasing atmospheric temperatures. Nature 610 : 693–698. Geisseler, D. Vilonen, L.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 10, 2022

metro area in 2014, Dr. Declet-Barreto lived in Phoenix, where the average daily temperature now tops 98 degrees F from late May through mid-September. Juan Declet-Barreto , UCS senior social scientist for climate vulnerability, pays close attention to this issue. Before moving to the Washington, D.C.,

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

levels continue to increase faster than at any know. sea level rise. atmospheric CO2 levels. Yet—climate change impacts are outpacing development of p. rojects to reduce fossil fuel consumption. Since my 2012 “Fiddling as the World Floods and Burns” warnings, . cean acidity. n time in Earth’s past; . nuary 1, 56,586+ .

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 5, 2022

2025 is a deadline, not a finish line, and was envisioned in the 2014 Chesapeake Watershed Agreement. Extreme storms, heat, and rising sea levels make restoration harder and put both communities and the watershed’s natural resources at risk. Click Here to review the entire report. Pennsylvania's Milestone Commitments CBF used?the

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

The Washington Court of Appeals upheld Jefferson County’s 2014 Shoreline Master Program, which is a combination of planning policies and development regulations that address shoreline uses and development. Washington Appellate Court Said Climate Goals in County’s Shoreline Master Program Were Not Unconstitutionally Vague.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Precipitation, flooding, and sea levels are rising in Maryland. The move comes amid criticism of state and local officials’ handling of the years-long water crisis in Benton Harbor, where lead levels were found to be higher than those during the crisis in the Michigan city of Flint in 2014. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) erred in its analyses of climate change’s impact on the Rio Grande cutthroat trout when it determined in 2014 that the species no longer warranted listing under the Endangered Species Act. Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) and the Town of Saugus had appealed the MassDEP’s decision. California v. filed Sept.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 14, 2021

A similar recent case is the gain-of-function research on viruses with human pandemic potential that was subject to a funding moratorium between 2014 and 2017 – although this was controversial, because the same research may help develop vaccines or treatments. The enormous and rapid expansion of CDR needed to bolster 1.5°C

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Roughly one-third of RMP facilities are in areas at risk of wildfire, storm surge, flooding, and sea level rise, and presumably so too is much of the transportation infrastructure between these facilities. These requirements must also extend to transportation of hazardous substances.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The court stated that the issue arose “because a necessary and critical element of the hydrological damage caused by defendants’ alleged conduct is the rising sea level along the Pacific coast and in the San Francisco Bay, both of which are navigable waters of the United States.” BP p.l.c. , 18-cv-182 (S.D.N.Y. joint letter Mar.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2023

The costs of increased risks from natural hazards—wildfires, floods and sea level rise— are driving insurers away. An even bleaker picture exists in Florida , where a dozen insurance companies have abandoned homeowners.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to issue a decision on Exxon’s application to renew the NPDES permit, which had expired in 2014. The district court had granted Exxon’s motion to stay the case under the doctrine of primary jurisdiction to allow the U.S.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

The Hawai‘i Supreme Court held that the state’s Public Utilities Commission (PUC) did not abuse its discretion when it declined to re-open a 2014 order that approved a Purchase Power Agreement for wind energy.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

A climate change-related argument rejected by the trial court—that sea level rise projections in the Plan were too high and not based on best available science—did not appear to have been before the appellate court. Delta Stewardship Council Cases , Nos.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

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").]]. ocean acidification, sea-level rise, or storm events). efficiency metrics (e.g., for Biological Diversity v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

Mississippi: Lynn Fitch The sea level off the coast of Mississippi—the fifth hottest state—is rising more rapidly than in most other coastal areas, largely because the land is sinking. Between 1990 and 2016, the sea level off its 2,876-mile coast rose 6 inches , at least partly because the land is sinking.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The plaintiffs alleged that Peabody (and a number of other fossil fuel companies) caused greenhouse gas emissions that resulted in sea level rise and damage to their property. In March 2011, pursuant to the 2002 Act, the Minister had set a target of 50% reduction from 1990 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions levels by 2050.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Wolf, AG Shapiro To Support A Total Ban On Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater; 240.4

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ESA

JUNE 28, 2021

He served as NOAA’s chief scientist from 2014 and 2016 and has also led both NOAA’s Office of Atmospheric Research and the National Ocean Service. Senators confirmed Richard Spinrad to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration by a voice vote. Spinrad is a professor of oceanography at Oregon State University. A bill ( H.R.

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