Law and Environment

APRIL 11, 2022

Nonetheless, here are some of what seemed to me to be important takeaways: Firstly, and most importantly, we’re not doing a very good job at mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. I suspect that, if one asked the average American whether GHG emissions increased or decreased from 2010 to 2019, they would say that emissions decreased.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

The “for one year” part is crucial: stratospheric aerosols stay in the atmosphere roughly a year, so one gram offsets the heating effect of one ton only for the first year after the ton is emitted. SAI can offset the effects of greenhouse gases on global-average temperature, but not their total climatic and environmental effects.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2023

Heightened flood risk The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said in a recent outlook that about 44 percent of the United States is at risk of floods this spring, equating to about 146 million people. This includes most of the eastern half of the country, the federal agency said.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 4, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen The emissions from methane , a powerful greenhouse gas (GHG) with 80 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide (CO2) rose in 2023 despite several pledges and initiatives to reduce emissions. Graph credit: IEA.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

.” A growing body of scientific research shows that even if society were to halt emissions overnight, a certain amount of atmospheric warming—and accompanying environmental risks— would still occur. degrees Celsius , according to the International Energy Agency.

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Real Climate

APRIL 2, 2021

1 Average number of named storms by day of the year in the historical record from 1851–2019 (dark blue line). But this also raises other questions: 1) Can we expect the season to continue to lengthen as global warming from increasing concentration of globally well mixed greenhouse gas (GWM-GHG) continues to warm the Atlantic SSTs?

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 18, 2022

Photo credit: Copernicus Sentinel data (2019), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 Atmospheric CO2 levels at record highs. Globally, the levels of CO2 and methane which are the main greenhouse gases continued to climb, and both hit record highs in 2021. Levels of CO2 in the atmosphere reached 414.3 By Anders Lorenzen.

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Physics World

MARCH 14, 2022

Although the existence of such planets has not been confirmed, the team argue that modelling their hypothetical mineralogy, interior structure and atmosphere could guide future observations by shaping our understanding of what is possible. Alpha Centauri is a multiple-star system just 4.3 Carbon world. Real-life planetary laboratories.

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Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

Understanding Climate Change & Greenhouse Gas Emissions. The greenhouse effect is a popular name for the earth’s warming effect which occurs naturally when gasses in the atmosphere trap heat from the sun and prevent it from escaping back into space. Greenhouse Gas Emissions are Increasing. F), let alone 1.5°C

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The increasing greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere are warming the global temperature, shifting precipitation patterns, raising global sea levels, melting glaciers, and more [5]. As society evolves, extreme weather also changes.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

its district, appellate , and supreme courts decided in favor of Urgenda, an upstart environmental organization, ordering the government to more aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Everyone produces greenhouse gases.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2023

People should be celebrating, not demonizing, modern increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). In other words, the Earth came within 30 ppm in CO2’s atmospheric concentration of witnessing the extinction of most land-based plants and all higher terrestrial life-forms – nearly a true climate apocalypse. Read more here.]

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Real Climate

JANUARY 15, 2022

Fig 13, from Lenssen et al (2019). Zyss, "Improvements in the GISTEMP Uncertainty Model", Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres , vol. 6307-6326, 2019. Uncertainties arise in the raw data directly, in any homogenizations that are performed, in the data interpolation, in corrections for non-climatic effects etc.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

As I outlined here , Montana state law prohibits the consideration of greenhouse gas emissions or climate impacts–– inside and outside the state’s borders––when reviewing projects and approving permits. If Montana stopped emitting greenhouse gases, would that prevent the injury to plaintiffs from climate change? “We

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 12, 2021

A relentless interval of hot, dry weather, made worse by heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere, has turned this section of the state into a cauldron of flame, dust, and smoke. It finds more evidence that severe weather events are linked to carbon in the atmosphere and are becoming more extreme. ON THE RADAR.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Laut, "Solar activity and terrestrial climate: an analysis of some purported correlations", Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics , vol. Thomson, "Dependence of global temperatures on atmospheric CO 2 and solar irradiance", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , vol. 2569, 2019. 27489-27492, 2000.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Further, while gas emits less carbon dioxide than coal, its main component is methane, an extremely potent greenhouse gas that is released into the atmosphere when gas is burned—a fact that ConocoPhillips conveniently left out on its website. Methane is also a fast-acting greenhouse gas in terms of its impact on the climate.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Under the LCFS each fuel pathway gets a unique carbon intensity (CI) based on a lifecycle analysis of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production and use of the fuel. dairy herds fell by more than half between 2002 and 2019, with an accelerating rate of decline in 2018 and 2019, even as milk production continued to grow.”

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Breezometer

MAY 26, 2022

Another major problem with the slash and burn method is that it contributes to greenhouse gas emissions because of the scale of activity - producing a significant amount of CO 2 and increasing other types of air pollution. For Indonesia alone, the extreme Southeast Asian haze season of 2019 resulted in $5.2 billion in economic damages.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The previous summit, held in Madrid in 2019, ended in frustration with little progress on issues such as carbon financing or sharing climate burdens between nations. As air sunk through the atmosphere, it got squeezed and heated. Taken together, however, clouds in today’s atmosphere have an overall net cooling effect.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

4] As our climate is warming due to rising emissions of greenhouse gases into our atmosphere, extreme weather events and intense variations in temperature are becoming more frequent. [5]. 12] Major Greenhouse Reductions needed by 2050:IPCC. 6] Noah Berger, EPA. 3] Williams A., Abatzoglou J., Gershunov A., Guzman-Morales J.,

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

(Likely climate change impacts in New Zealand | Ministry for the Environment, 2019). Evidence for climate change | Ministry for the Environment, 2019) So how is climate change affecting New Zealand? Likely climate change impacts in New Zealand | Ministry for the Environment, 2019). The science behind climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2022

Climate change is often discussed in terms of global temperature increase, sea level rise, and hundreds of millions of tons of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere,” said Secretary McDonnell. Video and photos of the event will be available later today at PAcast. Video and photos of the event will be available later today at PAcast.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This shift is good news because tackling methane is crucial to the fight against climate change due to its significantly higher global warming potential than CO2, the disposal of relatively cheap methods of controlling emissions, and its short atmospheric lifespan.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 24, 2021

The most high-stakes and controversial of these is solar geoengineering, which would make the Earth a little more reflective to incoming sunlight, most likely by spraying a fine mist of reflective aerosols in the upper atmosphere. Potential solar geoengineering methods. Source: Carbonbrief. Summer School Participants.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2023

The first part asks the Court to unpack the State Parties’ obligations to prevent, reduce, and control pollution of the marine environment “caused by anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere.” This effectively brought climate change to the realm of UNCLOS, which does not expressly deal with the issue.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

In a previous blog post , I briefly reviewed some of the innovative strategies to reduce methane emissions from agricultural livestock and rice operations, which have the potential to combat a significant source of global greenhouse gas emissions. This appears to be the only national level agricultural methane target currently in law.

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Washington Nature

MAY 26, 2023

by Lena Beck Dr. Ailene Ettinger joined TNC in 2019 as a Quantitative Ecologist. How is your work contributing to the reduction of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere? Most recently, Dr. Ettinger has been focused on climate change mitigation research of on-the-ground efforts such as planting trees.

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HumanNature

MARCH 24, 2022

When forests burn, that carbon is released into the atmosphere and contributes to greenhouse gases (mostly as carbon dioxide). Forest Ecology and Management 2019 , 432 (October 2018), 694–706. This may result in previously forested areas shifting into other types of ecosystems, such as grasslands. Westerling, A. Emelko, M.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The state recognizes that a reduction in scope three emissions can count towards the utilities reduction in their greenhouse gas emissions.” Methane, the largest component of natural gas, traps up to 80 times as much heat as carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. 27 Released 1.1

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Global Green

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Individuals and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) jointly brought a legal challenge against the Directive RED II in 2019. As of 2019, hydroelectricity was still the most productive renewable energy source and represents the 16% of the energy mix generated on a global scale. So, is burning trees renewable? Hydropower. Ocean energy.

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Manning Law

JUNE 8, 2020

CO 2 levels in the atmosphere hit an all-time high in early May. And while greenhouse gas emissions may dip this year because of lockdowns, we should not celebrate. Think of the atmosphere as a bathtub, and emissions as the water that flows from the tap. This directly impacts human health and wealth. The tub is still filling.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 31, 2022

We need to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases to head off the most severe impacts of climate change, but we also need to take additional steps to help fisheries adapt. Flooding of the Mississippi River in 2019 led to a catastrophic regional fishery disaster in Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana that included shrimp fisheries.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Methane is essential to control, since stabilizing climate requires reducing all anthropogenic greenhouse-gas emissions to net-zero. Atmospheric concentrations. For example, methane stayed roughly flat for about a decade from the late 1990s, but has increased rapidly since then – by nearly 16 ppb in 2020 over 2019.

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HumanNature

APRIL 10, 2023

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.

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Real Climate

MAY 12, 2021

Meanwhile, note that the factors listed above involve the whole Earth system: the oceans, the cryosphere, the atmosphere, the solid earth and lithosphere, and a full range of scales, from the city block and shoreline, to ice dynamics that change over kilometers, to GRD footprints, to the whole global ocean. 132-137, 2019. Ommen, M.V.

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Physics World

MARCH 16, 2022

A 2019 study ( Environ. When the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union took place in California in 2019 the 28,000 delegates emitted around 80,000 tonnes of CO 2 equivalent (tCO 2 e) travelling there and back home afterward. They estimated that in 2019, the average astronomer in the Netherlands emitted 4.7

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