Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

authors noticed this in 2015 (Soon et al., 2015) but rather than fix it they now chose to report just the (wrong) calculations that supported their conclusions. 409-452, 2015. If your conclusions depend on the order in which you enter numbers into a computer, maybe you should check your methods. Some Connolly et al.

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Yale E360

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Yet as the biggest climate negotiations since the Paris Agreement in 2015 began today in Scotland, the British hosts were making strikingly downbeat assessments of its chances of achieving further progress on taming climate change. Some start with modest ambition and achieve major success. Read more on E360 ?.

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Yale E360

JULY 13, 2021

Just 25 cities globally are responsible for 52 percent of urban greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new study that highlights the role that cities must play in reaching the goals of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. Read more on E360 ?.

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Real Climate

JANUARY 26, 2025

2015 used surface height data from satellite, and the Worthington et al 2021 reconstruction uses a water mass regression based on RAPID data. Here is how the Terhaar reconstructions (bottom two) compare: Figure 4 Several AMOC reconstructions, with the RAPID measurements on top. The reconstruction by Frajka-Williams et al. Graph: Levke Caesar.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Also in 2024, for the first time ever, solar and wind combined to generate more than coal , which was the largest source of US generation as recently as 2015. It added up to 24% of total electricity generation in 2024, compared with 23% in 2023.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Countries committed to a principle of fairness when they signed the Paris Agreement in 2015, acknowledging that those who have profited for decades from oil, gas and coal had a responsibility to deliver funds to the countries least responsible, yet most impacted by climate change. trillion, and the companies collect trillions in profits.

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Yale E360

JANUARY 7, 2022

Last year, deforestation in Brazil's Cerrado region, one of the largest savannas in the world, reached its highest level since 2015, according to newly released data from the National Institute for Space Research (INPE).

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Take Action: Tell Canada to Stop Big Oil’s Climate Villains Chairman of Canadian Natural Resources Limited: 1989 – present President of Edco Financial Holdings Ltd: 2003 – 2015 Penn West Petroleum (later Penn West Energy Trust): 1992 – 2005 Founding member at FirstEnergy Capital Corp: 1993 – 2016 Co-founder at Peters & Co. (..)

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Yale E360

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Despite Americans’ increased dependence on cell phones and other technology, the amount of electronic waste generated in the United States has shrunk 10 percent since 2015. The decline is due to the phasing out of bulky products, such as large cathode-ray tube televisions and computer monitors, according to a new study. Read more on E360 ?.

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Yale E360

JANUARY 15, 2021

The clean energy sector in the United States lost 429,000 jobs last year due to the economic impacts of Covid-19, with the industry hitting its lowest number of workers since 2015, according to a new analysis of federal unemployment filings.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2025

Despite being one of the first states to enact a renewable portfolio standard (RPS) requiring 10% of the states energy to come from renewables, the requirement expired in 2015 with no meaningful updates since.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 14, 2025

The average EV efficiency and location of EV sales (for the sales-weighted national emissions estimate) has been updated to reflect EV sales from 2015 through 2024 based on data from Atlas Public Policy. The manufacturing emissions now use GREET2024 and reflect a 95kWh battery for car/SUV EVs and 140kWh battery for EV pickup trucks.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 1, 2022

2015) , and this is also applies to Kininmonth’s calculations. 699-703, 2015. In contrast to Kininmonth simple estimates, both feedback effects and clouds are captured much better with global climate models that also use the same physics as in MODTRAN (Huang et al., Nuccitelli, S. Lewandowsky, K. Hayhoe, H.O. van Dorland, and J.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

In fact at the peak of the 2015-16 El Niño event, global anomalies for individual months already exceeded 1.5?. In fact, all the main 1.5ºC scenario literature available at the time of the Paris Agreement in 2015, for example the UNEP Emission Gap report (2015) or the UNFCCC Synthesis Reports in 2015 used such a scenario classification.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

2015 ; Connolly et al, 2021 ). And also, let’s be clear, this mysteriously justified temperature series has been created explicitly to demonstrate a connection to the HS93 solar reconstruction – that was the case in the Soon et al (2015) paper, the Connolloy et al (2021) paper and now in this new Soon et al paper.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Before the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015, the world was on track for a catastrophic four degrees of warming. The ultimate goal of COP is to reach global agreements and commitments to combat climate change, like the famous Paris Agreement, which was adopted at COP21 in 2015. What comes out of COP?

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Real Climate

JANUARY 12, 2024

Only the jump from 2014 to 2015 (coincidentally (?) also a year in which El Niño developed over the year) was comparable (both 2023 and 2015 broke the previous record by more than 0.15ºC). Indeed, even as late as October, with only two months to go, the estimates for the annual mean still did not encompass the eventual annual number.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 9, 2025

In 2015, the Conservancy established the scholarship in memory of Vanessa Joy Van Gorder. A recent graduate from West Chester University with a degree in education, Vanessa was passionate about the outdoors and loved exploring the lakes, rivers, and forests of the Upper Delaware River Region with her friends and family.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Beginning in 2015, journalists began to uncover mounting evidence of Defendants’ campaign of deception,” the complaint says. “In And the answer was a lot, a long time ago. The timeline is laid out in California’s complaint , filed in San Francisco Superior Court.

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Yale E360

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Some 1,175 gigawatts of new coal projects have been cancelled since 2015, an amount greater than the current coal capacity of China, according to a new report from climate think tank E3G. Read more on E360 ?.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 2, 2024

When countries signed the Paris Agreement in 2015, they agreed that wealthy countries would provide financing to the most vulnerable countries (often referred to as the Global South) to help advance global climate action and respond to climate disasters.

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HumanNature

MAY 2, 2025

By incorporating traditional knowledge into policy and working with traditional leaders, governments can create more inclusive policies that more culturally relevant, sustainable and driven by the local communities that are the most vulnerable to and affected by these disasters. References 1. Coppola, D. Dube, E., & Munsaka, E. Zamisa, N.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In Toronto, the use of the city’s BikeShare program has been rising steadily since in conjunction with the creation of more dedicated bike lanes throughout the city with the number of rides climbing sevenfold from 655,000 in 2015 to 4.6 million by the end of 2022.

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Carbon Emissions 2015 2022 Government 145

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2024

A 2015 survey by UCS and the international climate disclosure organization CDP found that few companies were willing to disclose their memberships or discuss whether their public stance on climate change aligned with the groups they funded (associations are not required by law to disclose their members or boards of directors).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

From 2010 to 2015, Texas experienced its second-worst drought in the state’s history. Miller plant in northern Texas getting taken offline for almost a year, until enough rain replenished the supplying reservoir in 2015. The drought led to three gas-fired steam units totaling 403 megawatts (MW) at the R.W.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 11, 2023

In the 2015 report , water crises were ranked as the risk having the most impact. The rankings should not be a surprise. Respondents to the World Economic Forum survey that informs the risk report have consistently affirmed the importance of water and the environment. The World Economic Forum has company in this regard.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2025

Resource Links: -- DCNR, DEP Increasing Efforts To Monitor Seismic Activity In Pennsylvania [PaEN 2015] -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb. Frank will discuss his study being conducted in our community. Click Here to register for the program and for more information.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 16, 2021

The 2015 Paris Climate Agreement established a $100 billion yearly budget to aid developing nations combat climate change. In some pockets in the south, this number is one in three. The World Food Program estimates that nearly $80 million is needed to provide essential food for southern Madagascar during the next farming off-season.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

Million For Drill Pad Landslide In Greene County [November 2015] -- Sunoco Pipeline Fined $59,000 For Pipeline Wetlands Violations By DEP [November 2015] -- DEP Assesses $374,000 In Penalties For Methane Gas Migration Violations [August 2015] -- DEP Assesses $8.9

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 20, 2022

In remarks last week, South Africa’s water minister Senzo Mchunu attributed the deficit to a severe multi-year drought which has afflicted the country since 2015—a weather event made more likely by global climate change. The shortages would leave 107 suburbs and townships without tap water. .

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Legal Planet

JUNE 7, 2021

But from 2015-2020, the average was 16 per year. Houston also had so-called 500-year floods in 2015 and 2016. Lisa Grow Sun and I discuss the implications in a new paper , but here are a few of the key takeaways. Escalating impacts. From 1980 to 2020, there were an average of 7 billion-dollar events per year. It was a 500-year flood.

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The Applied Ecologist

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Since 2015, Journal of Applied Ecology has welcomed a small group of mentees with minimum editorial experience each year. Are you less than five years post-PhD and live in/are from the Global South? Why not consider applying for Journal of Applied Ecology’s 2025 mentoring scheme! What is the mentoring scheme?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As I prepare to attend the UN’s 28 th annual Conference of the Parties (COP28 ), I’ve been thinking a lot about the connection between the UN climate talks and litigation, especially in light of the stark reality that parties to the 2015 Paris Agreement are falling short on key milestones leading up to the next month’s meeting.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

That’s a sizable increase from 2015, when the two counties’ CAFOs spread 170 million gallons and almost 93,000 tons on roughly the same amount of farmland. . EGLE has not compiled records for manifested waste for 2015. . In 2015, even Ohio prohibited spreading manure on snow-covered or frozen ground in the Western Lake Erie Basin. .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

of the observed rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide and 52 percent of the rise in global average temperatures between 1880 and 2015. It can, and must, start now to meet the 2015 Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 Data on the major carbon producers’ emissions have been published since 2014.

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Scientific American

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Countries need to double their energy-efficiency gains to achieve the emissions reductions required to meet the goals of the 2015 Paris climate agreement, a new report finds

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The first time I had visited the show in 2015, there were only a handful of EVs scattered among hundreds of gasoline cars and trucks, while this year many automakers had EVs front and center in their displays. I recently had the chance to visit the Los Angeles Auto Show and I was amazed at the number of electric vehicle (EV) offerings.

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