2015 Atmosphere Carbon Dioxide Climate Change 
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 4, 2024
Fossil fuels are the main driver of climate change and the terrifying effects of it that we see happening across the world. That makes this dataset a powerful tool for understanding how each of these entity’s heat-trapping emissions have contributed to climate change. The fossil fuel industry knew that too.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 27, 2024
percent of the globe’s electricity in 2015, solar now produces 5.5 Our share of solar electricity has grown from 1 percent to 6 percent since 2015. percent in 2015 to nearly 8 percent in 2023. The shift helped the United States to drop its share of fossil fuels in the energy mix from 67 percent in 2015 to 59 percent last year.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 3, 2023
Climate change is shifting so much about our world, from earlier blooms on Japan’s iconic cherry blossoms to rapid loss es of glaciers and ice sheets. Climate change is drying out our forests, priming them to burn. When plants perform photosynthesis, they open their pores to exchange oxygen for carbon dioxide.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 16, 2023
But another major culprit is climate change, which has intensified the heat and drought that have always been factors in western North America. That climate change obviously didn’t just happen on its own. Encroaching development in fire-prone areas and widespread fire suppression are among them. Licker et al.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 4, 2024
That 2013 headline resulted from the first effort to quantify emissions from the ‘carbon majors’ —fossil fuel companies and cement manufacturers whose businesses have contributed an outsized amount of heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 19, 2022
Outside of bird protection acts of the early 20 th century, protections for water, air and the atmosphere are a late 20 th -century development, created in the wake of Rachel Carson’s 1962 treatise on pesticides, Silent Spring. Climate Change on the Docket. The Court is expected soon to render its judgment in West Virginia v.
Law Columbia
MAY 24, 2024
On May 21, 2024, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) released its long-awaited advisory opinion on climate change. There was little discussion, either in the written statements or at the oral hearing, of so-called “marine geoengineering” activities that seek to use the ocean to combat climate change.
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