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Four Reasons We Investigated the Fossil Fuels Behind Forest Fires: an Inside View of Latest UCS Report

Union of Concerned Scientists

New research led by the Union of Concerned Scientists and released today quantifies the contribution of heat-trapping emissions from the world’s largest fossil fuel producers and cement manufacturers to worsening wildfires across western North America. That’s an area roughly the size of the state of Maine.

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Climate Reality vs. Public Perception: Will Toxic Haze and the 2023 Danger Season Make a Difference?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Superstorm Sandy in 2012, Hurricanes Harvey and Irma in 2017, and Hurricane Irma in 2021 were all accompanied by the same question. A harsh new normal Whether we wake up or not, a harsh climate is the new normal. Not-a-scientist Milloy further pontificated , “This doesn’t kill anybody.

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ExxonMobil Accurately Projected Rising Temperatures While Publicly Disparaging Climate Science

Union of Concerned Scientists

Corporate leadership was informed about advances in climate science and incorporated those advances when its scientists built their own models. Regardless, the company publicly cast doubt on the reality of global warming, attempted to discredit climate scientists and climate models, and tried to block climate action.

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Climate Change Is Intensifying the Water Cycle, New IPCC Report Finds

Circle of Blue

By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — August 10, 2021. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of the world’s leading climate scientists, released its sixth climate assessment on Monday. These events are unlikely in our current climate—but the warmer Earth gets, the bigger the risk becomes.

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A distraction due to errors, misunderstanding and misguided Norwegian statistics

Real Climate

Presumably Dagsvik and Moen are used to this kind of model, but they seem to be inexperienced with the models used for weather and climate, which on the other hand are based on the laws of physics. Furthermore, the volume of the oceans increases from the melting of land ice.

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In the wake of the latest dire climate report, how do we keep moving forward?

Enviromental Defense

Julia Levin, Senior Climate and Energy Program Manager. Alienor Rougeot, Climate and Energy Program Manager. August 9th, 2021. Maybe only when Texas freezes over, or the ocean is on fire, or heat waves cook marine life, or wildfires and floods around the world occur will they listen”- and still, nothing.We

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Smoke in Our Eyes: National Park Grandeur Degraded by Global Warming

Union of Concerned Scientists

Wildfires in 2021 temporarily closed Sequoia National Park and a popular part of Big Bend National Park in Texas. It makes them ripe for disproportional impacts from climate change, relative to the nation in general. An unsettling haze in Yosemite Valley. Photo is the author’s own.