Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

There has been comparatively less attention to the decision by climate scientist Dr. Susan Avery not to seek re-election to the ExxonMobil board of directors. Yet this shift in corporate leadership is significant, marking the end of a chapter in ExxonMobil’s long and ongoing history of climate deception and disinformation.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 5, 2024

Unfortunately, the weather experienced in Tokyo then was not a one-off event but in line with what climate scientists predict we can expect in a warming world. And this is only the beginning it is going to get much worse as the planet continues to heat up, even if we stop all emissions tomorrow.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2023

We don’t need Taylor Swift to “fall in love with a climate scientist,” we just wish she’d write a song about the climate crisis. When the breathless coverage of her relationship with Travis Kelce first boosted ratings for NFL football, some suggested Swift should use her star power for good by “dating a climate scientist.”

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

Whether climate change impacts to Montana’s environment can be measured incrementally. Whether climate impacts and effects in Montana can be attributed to Montana’s fossil fuel activities. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They are: Whether Plaintiffs’ injuries are mischaracterized or inaccurate.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In a world with just random local fluctuations but no climate change, about half the weather stations would show a (more or less significant) warming, the other half a cooling. The real result of their statistical analysis is thus: global temperature does show climate change! It’s not hard to understand.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2023

Trials I recently returned to the Union of Concerned Scientists as the Wester States Regional Director. Previously, I was a Senior Climate Scientist, and as such I was part of an effort to address unregulated groundwater mining in California through the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (or SGMA). The final verdict?

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Last week, the Nobel physics prize was (half) awarded to Suki Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann for their work on climate prediction and the detection and attribution of climate change. This came as quite a surprise to the climate community – though it was welcomed warmly. Manabe’s Climate Modeling.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 19, 2019

Due to climate change, increase competition for essential natural resources, including water and energy, has occurred between nations. Considering Climate Risks and the Indus Waters Treaty in the 2019 India-Pakistan Showdown (Part 1). By Nadia B. Metal shrapnel from the bombs was visible in four distinct craters.”).

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

26 (GC26) on children’s rights and the environment with a special focus on climate change. Still, the decision holds significant implications for safeguarding children’s rights within the climate change context and set a foundation for future climate-related cases centered on children. Argentina et al.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 24, 2022

In the 1960s climate change was not really a significant concern, not even amongst environmentalists – this was despite the fact that the Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius in 1896 was the first to claim that emissions from fossil fuels might eventually result in enhanced global warming. This has since changed many times.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

We have examined the effect of the geographical distribution of measurements in a study that was cited by New Scientist in 2019 , and we found that the uneven distribution of thermometer measurements can give a misleading impression that the perceived warming rate has been slower than the actual global warming. It has taken time.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 12, 2021

Climate Change Is Intensifying the Water Cycle, New IPCC Report Finds – The climate crisis will jeopardize key sources of fresh water and make extreme weather events more severe. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of the world’s leading climate scientists, released its sixth climate assessment on Monday.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

I followed with great interest the launch of the sixth assessment report Working Group 1 (The Physical Science Basis) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on August 9th. This is likely an effect of man-made climate change. Maybe give them a quiz to see how much they remember. .

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The president-elect, who is currently finishing his second term as a congressman, made environmental and climate change issues central to his campaign. One of the strongest names is that of Maisa Rojas, a renowned climate scientist who will take over as the new Minister for the Environment. “My

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

After a decade of global warming trends, the world experienced the second warmest year on record in 2019. Humans everywhere are experiencing the impact of climate change. Individual citizens and businesses ready to make a change need an avenue for actionable, measurable impact. Mann, Ph.D., Mann, Ph.D.,

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HumanNature

APRIL 10, 2023

But this simplified pathway misses a key step in cloud formation–and one that could help us combat climate change. Altering cloud properties influences Earth’s climate On sunny days, it’s clear that clouds leave shadows on the landscape. C above pre-industrial levels by 2100 to avoid the most severe impacts of climate change.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

C warming and there are clear signs of the climate chaos we’re starting to unleash. . 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. Long term, climate change is a greater threat than the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 10, 2022

Climate scientists at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) have dubbed the six-month stretch from May through October the “ Danger Season.” Not only has much of what climate scientists have been warning about come to pass, many of the extreme weather events the planet is now experiencing are worse than they expected. “To

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

“And what’s really becoming clear is that these very extreme precipitation events are occurring more frequently than they used to and the main reason for that is human-caused climate change.” – Daniel Swain, a UCLA climate scientist. trillion in total losses. 5,000 HOMES.

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Physics World

MARCH 16, 2022

As the world grapples with the consequences of climate change, many scientists have begun to face up to the realities of their carbon emissions. It turns out, for example, that climate-change researchers fly more frequently than scientists in other fields. But other scientists also fly a lot.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 126. 5, 2019), No. and non-U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 5, 2023

Beth Pratt, the California regional executive director for the National Wildlife Federation, told the Guardian newspaper in April, “Yosemite is ground zero for climate change.” It makes them ripe for disproportional impacts from climate change, relative to the nation in general. The night sky over Big Bend National Park.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Plaintiffs aim to hold the federal government accountable for worsening the dangers of climate change through increased reliance on fossil fuels and for breach of its fiduciary obligation to protect the atmosphere and oceans under the public trust doctrine. The case, however, may not even get to trial. Win or lose, Juliana.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

Climate Change on the Docket. When the Obama administration attempted to implement the Clean Power Plan , it said that the new standards would fight climate change, create tens of thousands of jobs in renewable energy and avoid up to 3,600 premature deaths from soot and smog. There is now a 99.9 After the Massachusetts v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 4, 2023

These conditions increase Puerto Rico’s dependence and reduce our self-sufficiency and resilience to climate change-driven natural disasters. Edil is both a climate scientist and environmental attorney working to advance decolonization for Puerto Rico and achieve environmental justice for Puerto Ricans.

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Environmental Progress

AUGUST 3, 2020

We know we must now work to both cut greenhouse gas emissions to reduce the severity of climate change and at the same time work to adapt to the impacts we can no longer avoid. Gleick disagrees and defends the Malthusian notion that future food surpluses are highly uncertain due to climate change, and argues that I ignore such risks.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

With announcements from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) growing bleaker by the year, climate change activism has become increasingly bold and desperate. [1] Extinction Rebellion pours fake blood on the steps of the Trocadero in Paris in 2019. They are both acts of pessimistic hope.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 133. By Margaret Barry and Hillary Aidun.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 148. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

The US House Oversight and Reform Committee kicked off its investigation of the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long climate change disinformation campaign last fall by inviting top executives from BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell to testify about their role and subpoenaing their companies for internal documents.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

Democrats said the General Assembly has been holding hearings on the RGGI regulations since the concept was first proposed in October of 2019 and Senate Republicans have yet to offer a plan for reducing carbon pollution or a proposal for helping workers and communities caught in the market-driven transition to clean energy. Read more here.

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ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

report on how world can still stop climate change. Department of Energy Office of Science encourages researchers to apply for supplemental funding to collaborate with scientists impacted by the war in Ukraine. report on how world can still stop climate change. In this issue: 5 Takeaways from U.N. Executive Branch.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The SCC is a metric that seeks to capture all of the costs that emitting a ton of carbon dioxide (or equivalent amounts of other greenhouse gases such as methane) imposes on society by contributing to climate change over the hundreds of years it remains in the atmosphere.

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ESA

JULY 18, 2022

NOAA: The Biden administration named Dr. Sarah Kapnick as the agency’s chief scientist. Kapnick most recently worked as a senior climate scientist and sustainability strategist for asset and wealth management at J.P. These 2019 regulations allowed the U.S. Executive Branch. ESA Correspondence to Policymakers.

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ESA

JUNE 1, 2021

This bill passed the full House in 2019 but did not advance in the Senate. The bill includes $18 billion for climate change mitigation and adaptation and $500 million to mitigate climate impacts on vulnerable communities, including communities of color and tribes. The full House similar legislation in 2019.

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