Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

These risks aren’t hypothetical: A leak from a carbon dioxide pipeline already caused serious health harms in Satartia, Mississippi, where 45 people were hospitalized following a pipeline rupture in early 2020. You might be familiar with carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

It is precisely the impacts from these severely changed weather systems that the Held plaintiffs cited as reasons for their initial complaint filed in 2020. Unprecedented weather events have become the standard. The smoke-filled skies from near-constant summer wildfires forced Olivia, then 16 years old, to stay inside during the summer.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Here are the basics: The Pledge aims to achieve a collective goal of reducing global methane emissions by at least 30 percent below 2020 levels by 2030. California’s 2016 law, SB 1383 , requires a 40 percent reduction from 2013 levels, which is comparable to the 30 percent reduction from 2020 levels identified in the Global Methane Pledge.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 23, 2023

California did this despite substantial growth over the decade from 2010 to 2020, adding about 2.4 That adds up to something in the ballpark of fifty million tons of CO2 that California kept out of the atmosphere during that decade beyond what happened in the power sector nationally. reduction is attributable to California).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 27, 2022

Still, both the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) forecast , released on May 24, and the Colorado State University (CSU) forecast , released on April 7, predict a season with above-normal activity— for the seventh consecutive year. Can we expect more seasons like 2020 and 2021? Of course, we have questions!

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Real Climate

APRIL 2, 2021

By Jim Kossin, Tim Hall, Mike Mann, and Stefan Rahmstorf The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season broke a number of records , with the formation of an unprecedented 30 “named storms” (storms that reach wind-speed intensity of at least 18 m/s and are then given an official name). 2020 ), many others do not. 2021 ; Knutson et al.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 18, 2022

They found that the past seven years were the world’s warmest by a clear margin, with 2016 and 2020 the warmest on record. 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. ppm from 2020, the scientists said.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The previous warmest January was recorded three years ago, January 2020, showing that extreme weather events and temperature records are being broken on a more and more frequent basis. 2023 was already the warmest year ever recorded, based on data since records began, dating back to 1850. above pre-industrial temperatures for the first time.”

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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. The report noted wealthy nations’ unkept promise to deliver $100 billion in annual climate aid by 2020.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The UN body the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) explained that the economic downturn brought on by nationwide lockdowns only caused a temporary downturn in emissions and was not enough to reverse the rising levels of greenhouse gasses (GHG) in the atmosphere. Not going in the right direction.

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Real Climate

JUNE 25, 2022

This follows from the need to run for much longer simulation periods (centuries, as opposed to days) (a factor of ~5000 more computation), and to include more components of the climate system (the full ocean, atmospheric chemistry, aerosols, bio-geochemistry, ice sheets etc.) 3653-3680, 2020. 7591-7617, 2020. Van Roekel, .F.

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Clean Energy Law

JUNE 8, 2022

Assembly Bill 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, requires CARB to develop and update every five years a scoping plan that describes the approach California will take to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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Real Climate

JANUARY 15, 2022

Zyss, "Improvements in the GISTEMP Uncertainty Model", Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres , vol. There is a candidate for this, which is the impact of anomalous freshwater from Antarctica (see for instance, Rye et al., We should probably try and sort this out at some point… Ensembles of uncertainty. Zelinka, T.A. Myers, D.T.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 1, 2022

Burning fossil fuels, cutting down forests, raising livestock, making cement, and using synthetic fertilizers are among the actions that have increased the amount of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere to the point that the planet’s basic functions are coming undone. These impacts are not linear — they accelerate with more warming.

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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]. Zarzycki (2020): Forecasted attribution of the human influence on Hurricane Florence. As society evolves, extreme weather also changes. Painter, S.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Global-average temperature (meaning surface temperature averaged over every place on the Earth’s surface) varies over periods of days, months, and years, in addition to the long-term trend being driven by increasing greenhouse gases. So, you can have an unusually hot month or year, which may in turn be followed by a cooler month or year.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Just days before the conference she was featured in an article where she attempted to shift blame away from the fossil fuel industry by saying that oil companies can only decarbonize as fast as the rest of the economy – a comment that completely ignores the fact that the oil and gas industry is Canada’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions.

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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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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

When it comes to climate action, it can be difficult to understand what makes a strong climate plan that puts us on a pathway to zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions – and what new policies and tools are actually dangerous distractions from real solutions. Current global CCUS capacity is about 0.001% of annual greenhouse gas emissions.

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Manning Law

JUNE 8, 2020

In celebration of Environment Day 2020 on June 5, we publish here in full the speech given by Inger Andersen, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme. CO 2 levels in the atmosphere hit an all-time high in early May. “World Environment Day is a day of celebration.

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Real Climate

MARCH 4, 2021

Since it was a control simulation with no external “forcing” (no greenhouse gas changes, no variations in solar output, no volcanic eruptions, etc.), any oscillation that was produced has to be internally generated. Consider a parallel analysis (Figure 1-right) of the CMIP5 historical simulations.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The group’s annual report for 2020 found that 227 environmental advocates were killed for their activism, a new record high. The report’s authors say that although 2020 broke the record as the deadliest year for environmental activists, the numbers are likely even higher, since many attacks are not reported. degrees Celsius.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In 2020, the lab released its first public Environment Report that detailed the status of CERN’s environmental footprint. It found that greenhouse-gas emissions emitted by the lab in 2018 was 223 800 tonnes of carbon-dioxide equivalent. The CERN particle-physics lab near Geneva, for example, uses 1.3 Eager to learn.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The bankruptcies were set in motion even before 2020. A 2020 study found that Native American households’ median energy burden was 45 percent higher than non-Hispanic White households, while Black households’ median energy burden was 43 percent higher and Hispanic households’ burden was 20 percent higher.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The promise from many nations is to reach net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050 (or earlier) and interim targets are essential. But the United Nations has just said that the latest commitments of the 192 parties of the 2015 Paris agreement will equate to a 16% rise in global greenhouse-gas emissions in 2030 compared to 2010.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 12, 2021

According to a poll carried out in 2020 by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), only a quarter of people aged between 18 and 24 in the UK are aware that nuclear is a low-carbon source of energy. Tricky problem Nuclear energy is often not viewed as a low-carbon energy source. Courtesy: Shutterstock/andrea dantee).

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Frontiers

AUGUST 7, 2023

Writing as part of Frontiers’ guest editorials series, the study’s lead author – Prof Martin Siegert, deputy vice chancellor of the University of Exeter (Cornwall) – discusses how without there being a rapid shift to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, the Antarctic environment will experience ever more drastic changes.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

A sign surrounded by flames warning the public about COVID-19 near Lake Berryessa in Napa, California on the 18th of August 2020. [1] August and September of 2020 will be forever etched into the memories of Californians as devastating wildfires burnt out of control and destroyed more than 4.2 2] 2020 Incident Archive, 2020 Fire Season.(2021).CAL

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

King calls for immediate testing and deployment of often-controversial carbon removal techniques to begin drawing down atmospheric greenhouse gases by tens of billions of tonnes per year.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Conventional Gas Wells Venting/Leaking On September 25, 2023 , DEP inspected the Fogel 114 conventional gas well in Mead Township, Warren County operated by Bearcat Oil Co, LLC and found the recently drilled well was being vented to the atmosphere, as is the normal procedure for new wells. Erosion and sedimentation controls were in place.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The World Meteorological Organization Greenhouse Gas Bulletin. The WMO’s GHG bulletin’s headline takeaways are stark: Atmospheric concentrations of three major heat-trapping gases, carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), methane (CH 4 ) and nitrous oxide (N 2 O) hit all-time highs in 2021 (see table below).

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HumanNature

MARCH 30, 2021

Guest Post By Shelby McClelland , 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Agriculture’s global environmental footprint The agriculture sector is responsible for 23% of net global greenhouse gas emissions. Greenhouse gas emission sources and sinks in agriculture. Credit: Amy Swan.

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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. A 2020 report from the US Department of Agriculture on Consolidation in U.S. Unfortunately, this is far from the truth.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The CERES estimates of the top-of-atmosphere radiative fluxes are available from 2001 to the present. We can explore the issues and pitfalls of this using the ‘simple model’ of the greenhouse effect we explored back in 2007. The simplest model for the greenhouse effect. A simple model with feedbacks.

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Breezometer

MAY 26, 2022

So far during 2022, Southeast Asia has experienced relatively less haze due to an ongoing La Niña event, an oceanic weather pattern in the Pacific that ushered wetter weather to the region since late 2020. What Exactly Causes the Haze Smoke?

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

2019) Scientists have discovered that the world is warming, which researchers attribute to a rise of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, which triggers changes in weather conditions as well as the frequency and severity of severe weather events like heavy storms, heat waves, and droughts. What is climate change?,

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