2019 Climate Scientist Greenhouse Politics 
Real Climate
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
It is 33 years now since the IPCC in its first report in 1990 concluded that it is “certain” that greenhouse gas emissions from human activities “will enhance the greenhouse effect, resulting on average in an additional warming of the Earth’s surface.” Is it sheer incompetence or is it politically motivated?
Real Climate
NOVEMBER 11, 2023
A friend asked me if a discussion paper published on Statistics Norway’s website, ‘ To what extent are temperature levels changing due to greenhouse gas emissions? ’, was purposely timed for the next climate summit ( COP28 ). I don’t know the answer to his question. But this discussion paper is problematic for sure.
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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. This now-infamous climate prohibition has been called a “limitation” on the Montana Environmental Policy Act, or MEPA.
Law Columbia
OCTOBER 7, 2019
Fourth Circuit Declined to Stay Remand Order in Baltimore’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies; Companies Sought Stay from Supreme Court. Rhode Island Federal Court Denied Motion to Stay Remand Order in Rhode Island’s Climate Change Case. Pursuant to a consent order, the remand order will not be entered until October 10, 2019.
HumanNature
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Candidate in the Department of Political Science at Colorado State University What do a crack on Glen Canyon Dam and a Van Gogh painting covered in tomato soup have in common? Extinction Rebellion pours fake blood on the steps of the Trocadero in Paris in 2019. They are both acts of pessimistic hope.
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. But, said the judge, “this is a securities fraud case, not a climate change case.”.
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 falsely accuses me of cherry-picking a quote from a 2019 New York Times story on Amazon fires. “If Sen won the Nobel Prize for economics in 1998.
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