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A Summer Job, Record Heat, Climate Hope

Legal Planet

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. The state contended that their actions are not responsible for global climate change. Montana’s GHG emissions cause and contribute to climate change.”

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The COP28 Halftime Report

Legal Planet

So have the many , many announcements and initiatives concerning new efforts to reduce methane emissions from the waste sector, agricultural operations, and oil and gas facilities that leak and vent the potent greenhouse gas. That work gets harder if the community is too large.

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A Nobel pursuit

Real Climate

In this, he is in violent agreement with Isaac Held, his colleague at GFDL, and indeed most climate scientists. Famously, these early results were half the input into the Charney report ‘s estimate of climate sensitivity in 1979 (the other half being the preliminary results from Jim Hansen’s model at GISS).

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We Crossed 1.5 C. Did We Breach the Paris Agreement?

Legal Planet

If you’re not a climate scientist—and maybe even if you are—reading news headlines this month has been confounding and a little scary. “In Climate Threshold ,” was the version at Forbes. In First, Earth’s Temperature Breached Key Threshold Over a 12 Month Period ” is how the Wall Street Journal put it. or even 0.2 In a word, no.

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The COP26 climate summit: what scientists hope it will achieve

Physics World

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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Antarctic extreme events: ‘All-time records are being shattered not from decades ago, but from the last few years and months’

Frontiers

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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Courts Asked to Compel Government Action on Climate Change

Greenbuilding Law

In this instance, 16 young people from across Montana, who were between 2 and 18 years old when the case was filed in 2020, brought their constitutional climate lawsuit, Held v. Climate change litigation is continuing and evolving rapidly, and we expect the number of cases will continue growing.