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Viewpoint: Forty-three years of the environmental movement?

A Greener Life

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. In 2021 the world emitted 36.4

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Deciphering the ‘SPM AR6 WG1’ code

Real Climate

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. In my opinion the press conference on 9 August 2021 didn’t do justice to the vast effort that went into it.

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Policy News: May 28, 2021

ESA

billion for the National Institute of Agriculture, including $700 million for the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative, which represents a $265 million increase over FY 2021 levels. billion increase over FY 2021 levels. billion, a $400 million increase over FY 2021 levels. billion increase over FY 2021.

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Identifying the Means to an End: The Role of the Social Cost of Carbon

Arnold Porter

March 8, 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. [[N: Missouri v. Biden , Civ.

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Policy News: April 11, 2022

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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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Policy News: May 23, 2022

ESA

ESA is accepting expression of interest from members to receive an ESA “observer status” badge to attend the Conference of Parties (COP) 27 Climate Change Conference, which will take place from Nov. Biden signed an executive order in September 2021 expanding the size of the PCAST to 32 members from 26.

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