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A Nobel pursuit

Real Climate

In this, he is in violent agreement with Isaac Held, his colleague at GFDL, and indeed most climate scientists. The proof of the pudding in climate model terms though are the quality and skill of the predictions. A recent paper Stouffer and Manabe (2017) , assessed how good the Manabe and Stouffer (1989) predictions were.

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What Happened During the Montana Youth Climate Trial

Legal Planet

By the end of the century, Montana could see several months a year with temperatures staying above 90 degrees, said Cathy Whitlock, a retired paleoclimate scientist at Montana State University who was the lead author of the 2017 Montana Climate Assessment.

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Ask a Scientist: Calling Out the Companies Responsible for Western Wildfires

Union of Concerned Scientists

Since that 2014 study, which laid the foundation of what is called climate source attribution science , UCS scientists have collaborated with Heede on two other studies that pinpointed the major carbon producers’ culpability for specific climate change-related trends. percent of total emissions.

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

Sentencing was scheduled for February 3, 2017. The petitioners said they wished to obtain a ruling on the merits prior to the scheduled May 2017 completion date for the pipeline in the event that the D.C. The plaintiff labeled this scheme the “Climate Alarmism Enterprise.” United States v. Ruffatto , No. 2:16 -cr-00167 (W.D.

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Roe v. Wade Draft Bodes Ill for Air, Wetlands and EPA

Union of Concerned Scientists

EPA , the landmark 2007 decision that said the EPA has the authority to regulate carbon dioxide emitted from new motor vehicles. Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. Carbon dioxide is not harmful to ordinary things, to human beings, or to animals, or to plants. All of us are exhaling carbon dioxide right now.

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October 2019 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The appellate court therefore ruled that state courts were without jurisdiction to consider claims that a California Environmental Quality Act review should have considered the impacts of climate change on continued operation of the dam. Court Dismissed Counterclaims in Climate Scientist’s Defamation Lawsuit. Bernhardt , No.

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March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

A few days after the California court issued its order, North Dakota and Texas asked the Wyoming federal court to lift a stay that the court had imposed in December 2017. DOE estimated that the standards would reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 99 million metric tons and save consumers and businesses $8.4 2017 CA 006685 B (D.C.

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