HumanNature

APRIL 10, 2023

Student in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University Most people remember the water cycle they learned in school: water evaporates from lakes, rivers, and the ocean, air carrying this moisture rises, cools, condenses, and forms clouds, and these clouds precipitate water back down to the surface.

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Climate Change Paris Agreement Atmosphere Cooling 52

Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

As climate scientists we tend to look at the IPCC reports a little differently than the general public might. Here are a few things that mark this report out from previous versions that relate to issues we’ve discussed here before: Extreme events are increasingly connected to climate (duh!) 1, SPM, AR5. Johnson, A.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Circuit Court of Appeals granted motions seeking to dismiss as moot the proceedings challenging the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, which established emission guidelines for greenhouse gases from existing power plants. Court Dismissed Counterclaims in Climate Scientist’s Defamation Lawsuit.

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2019 Endangered Species Act Climate Change Greenhouse 40

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 20, 2023

In 2015 Senator Kelly Ayotte supported the EPA Clean Power Plan. We should expect to hear more, as climate impacts are only going to get worse. As a climate scientist recently said on CNN, “Until we stop pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere we have no idea what the future looks like.”

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Climate Change Politics Sea Level 2007 213

Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The court stated: “Plaintiffs’ claims for public nuisance, though pled as state-law claims, depend on a global complex of geophysical cause and effect involving all nations of the planet (and the oceans and atmosphere). 34-2015-80002005 (Cal. It necessarily involves the relationships between the United States and all other nations.

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2018 Clean Air Act Climate Change Endangered Species Act 40

Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. Circuit vacated the 2015 rule to the extent that it prohibited continued use of HFCs by companies that previously switched to HFCs from an ozone-depleting substance. In Mexichem , the D.C.

2020 40

2020 Endangered Species Act Climate Change Greenhouse 40

Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2023

The project is controversial due to its contribution to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and its location on the North Slope of Alaska, which happens to be the largest undisturbed track of public land in the U.S. and an area that is highly sensitive to climate change. See, e.g., IPCC AR6 WGI Ch.3 3 ; Laidre et al. 2018) ; Tartu et al.

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Climate Change Fossil Fuels Sea Level 2008 59

ESA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration receives $1.24 billion to spend through fiscal year (FY) 2026 on weather, ocean and climate research and forecasting while the Environmental Protection Agency receives $264 million for climate change research and development. NSF also receives $3.43

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2021 Clean Water Act Climate Change Conservation 52