Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
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.
Legal Planet
APRIL 7, 2024
target set by the Paris Agreement – and an astonishing 0.17 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.
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Real Climate
NOVEMBER 11, 2023
See for instance Benestad (2016). A common strawman argument We don’t expect to discern a clear effect of greenhouse gases on local measurements, and mixing up local and global climate is a basis for a common strawman argument. It’s urgent to fix our climate problem In August, the global mean temperature was close to 1.5°C
HumanNature
APRIL 10, 2023
Altering cloud properties influences Earth’s climate On sunny days, it’s clear that clouds leave shadows on the landscape. Climate scientists are interested in clouds for exactly this reason- clouds reflect sunlight, which has a cooling effect on surface temperatures. Cirrus clouds formed this way have many, small ice crystals.
Law Columbia
OCTOBER 7, 2019
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.
Law Columbia
MARCH 6, 2018
In an unpublished decision, the Ninth Circuit said its 2016 opinion reversing a district court’s striking down of the listing of the bearded seal adjudicated the same issues and was the controlling law of the circuit. Arizona Court Ordered Production of Climate Scientists’ Emails Under Arizona’s Public Records Law. judgment Feb.
Law Columbia
AUGUST 4, 2021
The Washington Supreme Court ruled that a climate activist should be permitted to present a necessity defense to charges of criminal trespass and unlawful obstruction of a train in connection with a 2016 protest on railroad tracks used by trains carrying coal and oil products. The cases were filed in 2016 , 2020 , and 2021.
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