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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.

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Dr. Shaina Sadai Talks About COP27, Climate Justice, Sea Level Rise, and Corporate Accountability

Union of Concerned Scientists

Through greenwashing ads, disinformation campaigns, attacks on scientists, and production of fake scientific evidence, the industry has engaged the playbook of deception to undermine climate action. Where did you begin your research journey with climate change and what are some of the biggest takeaways from your research?

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A distraction due to errors, misunderstanding and misguided Norwegian statistics

Real Climate

The most important problem with the sun-climate explanation is that there has been no long-term change in either solar activity or cosmic radiation over the last hundred years that can explain the global warming we are now seeing. It’s urgent to fix our climate problem In August, the global mean temperature was close to 1.5°C

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October 2019 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Court Dismissed Counterclaims in Climate Scientist’s Defamation Lawsuit. Superior Court dismissed counterclaims brought by an individual writer against the climate scientist Michael Mann in Mann’s defamation lawsuit against National Review, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and two individuals. Chao , No. filed Sept.

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John Kerry under fire for climate action delay tactics

A Greener Life

Leading climate scientists, policy-makers, industry professionals and activists have lined up to criticise the US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry after he appeared on the UK’s BBC Andrew Marr Show saying that 50% of all emissions cuts will need to come from technologies we don’t yet have. Photo credit: BBC.

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March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

34-2015-80002005 (Cal. Arizona Court Ordered Production of Climate Scientists’ Emails Under Arizona’s Public Records Law. The court said that it agreed with the Department on this front and found that the petitioners had failed to meet their burden. North Coast Rivers Alliance v. judgment Feb. 22, 2018; consolidated ruling Jan.

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