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5 Ocean Victories of 2021

Ocean Conservancy

But when I look back on this year, I am so energized by what we have accomplished for our ocean. Through a changing administration, an ongoing global pandemic and a tumultuous political environment, we at Ocean Conservancy have never lost sight of our goal of a healthy and resilient ocean that supports us all.

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Emergency?

Legal Planet

Wildfire in Canada , smoke in NYC , heat domes in Texas , massive heat in the Atlantic ocean are just some of this month’s news. Citi, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America are also among the top five fossil financiers since 2016, the report found.” The leading edge of that disruption is already here.

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A distraction due to errors, misunderstanding and misguided Norwegian statistics

Real Climate

The physics-based models describe how energy flows through the atmosphere and ocean, as well as how the forces from different air masses push against each other. See for instance Benestad (2016). Furthermore, the volume of the oceans increases from the melting of land ice.

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Using Clouds to Fight Climate Change

HumanNature

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. C temperature target.

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Banking Against Science: Financial Institutions Continue to Fund Climate Destruction

Union of Concerned Scientists

Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Citi, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley together funded fossil-fuel expansion for the top 100 fossil-fuel companies, to the tune of $445 billion from 2016 to 2021. These six banks alone were responsible for a third of the $1.3 trillion of global investments in the top 100 fossil fuel companies.

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Policy News: October 25, 2021

ESA

The UN website describes the aim of the meeting, “The COP26 summit will bring parties together to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.” National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA – Solicitation for New Members: Ocean Exploration Advisory Board.

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May 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Circuit in 2016 signaled that the legal framework for the Clean Power Plan “hinges on important issues of federal that EPA then—and the court below now—got so wrong this Court was likely to grant review.” Ninth Circuit Said Biden Action Mooted Case Challenging Trump Revocation of Withdrawal of Oceans Lands from Oil and Gas Leasing.

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