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PennFuture 25th Anniversary Celebrations Honor 7 Pennsylvanians For Fighting Climate Change, Industrial Pollution

PA Environment Daily

Michael Mann - Climate Champion Award PennFuture honored Dr. Michael E. Mann, one of the world's best-known climate scientists and author, with the Climate Champion Award for his life's research on climate studies and the impacts of human-caused climate change. Since assuming elected office in 2020, Rep.

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Opinion: The unreported climate crisis in Zambia

A Greener Life

I wrote about it in 2020 and in 2021 , and some themes emerge – Africa dominates, and so does climate change and conflict. With this in mind, I featured Zambia in my recent article for BBC Future , and I asked the Zambian climate scientist Mulako Kabisa about how climate change is affecting the country.

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We Crossed 1.5 C. Did We Breach the Paris Agreement?

Legal Planet

If you’re not a climate scientist—and maybe even if you are—reading news headlines this month has been confounding and a little scary. “In Climate Threshold ,” was the version at Forbes. degrees Fahrenheit) is a target to limit global-average heating that was adopted by nations in the 2015 Paris Agreement. C threshold?

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Colorado River Forecasts Not a ‘Crystal Ball’

Circle of Blue

From that baseline hydrologists feed their model, one by one, with historical weather observations from the years 1981 to 2015. The problem: there are more wet years in the 1981 to 2015 period than dry ones. The River Forecast Center starts with current land and water conditions: soil moisture, snowpack, stream flow.

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The State of the Air in 2024? Not Great

Union of Concerned Scientists

I moved to Merced in 2015 to study for my PhD, and I found a place I could call home. The 2024 State of the Air report I work every day on topics related to air in my role as a Senior Climate Scientist at UCS, through my volunteer grassroots work, and because I want to be a well-informed resident in the San Joaquin Valley.

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The COP26 climate summit: what scientists hope it will achieve

Physics World

But the United Nations has just said that the latest commitments of the 192 parties of the 2015 Paris agreement will equate to a 16% rise in global greenhouse-gas emissions in 2030 compared to 2010. While most climate scientists are not directly involved in high-level negotiations, their work is essential to the process.

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Courts Asked to Compel Government Action on Climate Change

Greenbuilding Law

In this instance, 16 young people from across Montana, who were between 2 and 18 years old when the case was filed in 2020, brought their constitutional climate lawsuit, Held v. Globally, the cumulative number of climate change related cases has more than doubled since 2015, bringing the total number of cases to over 2,000.