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

Union of Concerned Scientists

An expert on sea level dynamics and climate justice within the UN negotiations, Dr. Sadai is working to ensure that her scientific studies get in the hands of decisionmakers who are shaping our world today. SS: My climate change research journey began in 2015 when I started my Ph.D. at UMass Amherst.

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The Fossil Fuel Industry Continues Producing Heat-Trapping Emissions that Drive Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

My fellowship is based on using data that trace heat-trapping emissions to major fossil fuel producers in order to understand how they have affected the climate, particularly global sea levels, and to aid efforts to hold these producers accountable. I’ve marked these important years with dotted lines in Figure 2.

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Enormous cost of relocating US climate refugees from coastal town a stark example for the whole world, researchers warn

Frontiers

The case of Tangier is a prime example of the consequences of continued sea level rise and human displacement due to the climate crisis. Continued sea level rise is one of the most serious consequences of the climate crisis, according to the latest IPCC Assessment Report.

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New, Updated Carbon Majors Dataset Holds Promise for Researchers, Litigators

Union of Concerned Scientists

UCS led the way with these source attribution studies that establish a direct causal link between emissions attributable to fossil fuel producing entities and: Roughly 40% of the increase in global mean surface temperature between 1880 and 2010, with more than 35% of this increase occurring in the past 50 years, well after fossil fuel companies understood (..)

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Why is future sea level rise still so uncertain?

Real Climate

Three new papers in the last couple of weeks have each made separate claims about whether sea level rise from the loss of ice in West Antarctica is more or less than you might have thought last month and with more or less certainty. Meanwhile Bedmap3 is underway.

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California is Suing Big Oil Thanks to Journalism

Legal Planet

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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The water south of Greenland has been cooling, so what causes that?

Real Climate

Schaffernicht, 2015: Exceptional twentieth-century slowdown in Atlantic Ocean overturning circulation. 2022), Greenland ice sheet climate disequilibrium and committed sea-level rise, Nature Clim. Rutherford, and E.J. Nature Climate Change, 5, 475–480, doi:10.1038/nclimate2554. 4. NASA Vital Signs, [link].

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