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Using Clouds to Fight Climate Change

HumanNature

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.

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October 2019 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Colorado Federal Court Remanded Local GovernmentsClimate Case to State Court. The court said the defendants’ argument that the plaintiffs’ state law claims were governed by federal common law appeared to be a matter of ordinary preemption, which would not provide a basis for federal jurisdiction. Rhode Island v. Chao , No.

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March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The federal district court for the Northern District of California denied Oakland’s and San Francisco’s motions to remand their climate change public nuisance lawsuits against five major fossil fuel producers to state court. It demands to be governed by as universal a rule of apportioning responsibility as is available.”

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May 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Columbia Climate Law

Citing Shortcomings in NEPA Analysis of Cumulative Climate and Groundwater Impacts, Montana Federal Court Vacated Oil and Gas Leases. The court rejected the argument that a more recently enacted statute governing rate structure conflicted with and preempted the 1980 statute. s decision not to participate in the Paris Agreement.

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Ask a Scientist: In Moments of Despair, Climate Progress Can Keep Hope Alive

Union of Concerned Scientists

To get an assessment of the progress thus far, as well as an idea if what has to happen next, I turned to two of my colleagues in the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) Climate & Energy Program: Principal Climate Scientist Rachel Licker and Transmission Policy Manager Sam Gomberg. How cool is that?

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The Trump War on Science: Daring blindness, Denying climate change, Destroying the EPA and other daily disasters

Science Blogs

This post covers from approximately mid-June, 2017 up to August 31, 2017. A few general resources: Sidelining Science Since Day One: How the Trump administration has harmed public health and safety in its first six months by The Union of Concerned Scientists I Heart Climate Scientists. . July 2017. .