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As its Lone Climate Scientist Board Member Departs, ExxonMobil Still Heads in the Wrong Direction

Union of Concerned Scientists

There has been comparatively less attention to the decision by climate scientist Dr. Susan Avery not to seek re-election to the ExxonMobil board of directors. Yet this shift in corporate leadership is significant, marking the end of a chapter in ExxonMobil’s long and ongoing history of climate deception and disinformation.

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

In a separate but similar Ninth Circuit appeal, the federal government filed a brief on October 18 urging the court to overturn a district court decision vacating the listing of a ringed seal subspecies as threatened based on climate change threats through the end of the century. 24, 2016); Alaska Oil & Gas Association v.

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RFK Jr. Joins the War on Climate Scientists

Legal Planet

He hosts the group’s podcast, “the Highwire,” and he produced the 2016 pseudo-documentary “Vaxxed.” is on when it comes to the war on scientists. That war was on display recently in the defamation trial of two right-wing bloggers who attacked climate scientist Michael Mann to try to smear his work and ultimately climate science itself.

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A Total Eclipse of the Heat

Legal Planet

C hotter than the second-hottest year to date, 2016. Communities from Texas to Ohio that are benefiting from this scientifically informed tourism boom are the same places where some people like to question and mock climate scientists. The annual-average temperature was 1.48 C above the pre-industrial average, just shy of the 1.5

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July 3rd 2023 was the hottest day ever recorded

A Greener Life

degrees C, the average global temperature set a new record surpassing the previous record set in August 2016 of 16.92 Heatwaves gripping many parts of the world was a key contribution to this new unwelcome record, showing how climate change is strengthening its grip on the world. Measuring 17.01

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More frequent El Niño events predicted by 2040

A Greener Life

Lance/2016/Flickr , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Cutting-edge models predict that El Niño frequency will increase within 2 decades because of climate change, regardless of emissions mitigation efforts. ENSO is so influential that climate scientists have dedicated decades to tracking and predicting its irregular cycles.

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How Do Californians Perceive Climate Risks to Their Household Water Supplies?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Like most older millennials, climate change has shaped my time on planet Earth. As a new Senior Climate Scientist at UCS, it’s my job to pay attention and connect dots between climate and weather as well as between impacts and adaptation. Count of extreme events in Yolo and Sacramento counties from Sept 2011 to July 2019.