Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

As the world heads into COP27 , there is no room for bad information on climate change in our major newspapers. Yet the seasonal shifts that typically occur in September 2022 were punctuated by several significant melt events on the Greenland ice sheet. The transition to winter can be stark and swift. Surprising?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2023

Human-caused climate change is redistributing species across the globe, re-ordering ecological communities, and even driving genetic changes in some populations. We need to better understand these changes, and to adapt biodiversity conservation strategies to take them into consideration. Photo: UNESCO/David G.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2022

Deadly heatwaves, extreme drought, food and water shortages, catastrophic flooding, rapidly intensifying tropical storms, raging wildfires—around the world, climate change is exacerbating extreme conditions and their harsh toll on people and ecosystems. The fearsome toll of climate impacts is already clear, leading U.N.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 24, 2022

And is that kind of description even relevant as the planet heats up and climate change changes everything? The first date ever to record 40°C in the UK was July 19, 2022. Thanks to climate change. Add climate change and we need to keep track of which decade these flood levels were determined.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 18, 2024

As the world continues to warm in the coming years climate events such as heatwaves, flooding and rising sea levels are forecast to accelerate. The London Mayor ordered the report after London in recent years has experienced soaring temperatures, wildfires and floods.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

November 22, 2022. A draft National Climate Assessment report describes how climate change may affect Great Lakes drinking water. A draft National Climate Assessment report describes how climate change may affect Great Lakes drinking water. Rachel Duckett, Interim Fresh Editor. Upcoming Events.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Climate Change Mitigation. The Governor approved a notable slate of climate legislation with a package that includes more stringent greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets and measures designed to reduce the state’s reliance on fossil fuels. A Few Notable Vetoes. Conclusion.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Most of these pieces were about the company’s support for a seemingly independent network of anti-regulation, “free-market” nonprofits that spread falsehoods about the reality and seriousness of climate change. We do not support climate denial,” he replied. “We Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobil CEO from 2006 to 2016.

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HumanNature

APRIL 16, 2024

Student in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Colorado State University The Challenge of Sea Level Rise Imagine your favorite beach town slowly disappearing beneath encroaching waves. Rising sea levels, a consequence of climate change, pose a significant threat to coastal communities worldwide.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 31, 2022

Going back to 1978 and through this month, Congress has acknowledged climate change in a total of 87 enactments, as shown by a database just posted by Columbia’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. The Sabin Center’s collection of congressional references to climate change can be accessed here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The world’s biggest fossil fuel companies recently released their 2022 earnings reports, revealing record-breaking profits last year; just five companies–ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, Chevron, and TotalEnergies–reported a total of nearly $200 billion in profits. billion, respectively, during 2022. billion and $35.5

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 2, 2022

Summer tourism, sea level rise, and storm surges threaten East Coast wells. By Hannah Richter, Circle of Blue – August 2, 2022. Hilton Head is fast becoming a prominent test case of rising sea levels and intense coastal storms heralded by climate change. Picture credit: Jeeban Panthi.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

Attorneys general (AGs) in the five states most vulnerable to climate change, however, are doing the exact opposite: Instead of defending their constituents, they are defending the fossil fuel industry. By railing against what he calls a “radical climate change movement” and suing the federal government to protect corporate polluters.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 18, 2023

As of May 31, 2022, only 42 MW of offshore wind capacity was in operation, less than 1% of the Administration’s 30,000-MW target. Second, we urged BOEM to analyze the extent to which the impacts of climate change, absent the project at issue, pose a population-level threat to marine mammals.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 20, 2024

"Sharing data-backed information in a user-friendly tool is critical to helping the many local officials, policymakers and planners in the Basin struggling to understand how to take action in the face of climate change," said Kristen Bowman Kavanagh, DRBC’s Deputy Executive Director and project lead.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 5, 2023

California is no stranger to the impacts of climate change. From droughts to wildfires to rising sea levels and torrential rains, the state has felt the effects of a changing climate in a variety of ways. Incremental changes in vapor pressure deficit due to climate change are linked to interrelated threats.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 20, 2022

Australia’s Kakadu Flood Plains in February 2022. What’s Up With Water—July 19, 2022 — This week’s episode of What’s Up With water covers a setback to the environment rights of nature in Florida and a recent lawsuit against the U.S. is not prepared for the kind of water shortages that climate change will bring.

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Acoel

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Posted on October 18, 2022 by Jeff Civins. However, that cooperation masks the failure of federal and state governments, and the private sector, to work together to tackle climate change, which likely exacerbated the intensity and destructiveness of that storm. Immediacy cannot be a prerequisite to cooperation on climate change.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The Sea-Level Witch. Another easy one: just take a Sea Witch costume and wear shoe lifts. 31, 2022] Download as PDF But really, these invented figures can’t hold a candle to the real ones in our world. Here are some possibilities: Cruela de Coal. This is an easy make-over of the Disney costume. TRICK OR TREAT!

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

As sea levels rise, ghost forests expand. By Hannah Richter, Circle of Blue – September 14, 2022. Sea level rise is causing ghost forests to expand along the east coast, with hotspots in New Jersey, Maryland, and North Carolina. It’s the rapid change that is the most concerning,” said Asaro. “We

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 20, 2022

As 2022 comes to a close, I am reflecting on everything we’ve accomplished together on behalf of our ocean throughout the last 12 months. Parties across the globe made strides for our climate. C, our ocean and coasts are severely threatened by acidification, storms, sea level rise, warming and more.

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Real Climate

DECEMBER 17, 2023

70) Moreover, the recent 5th National (US) Climate Assessment , NCA5, concludes in a similar vein that [HighResMIP with resolutions between 20 and 50 km from CMIP6] simulations support the conclusion of a global decrease in tropical cyclone frequency together with an increase in intensity with warming. Source Fig. b) from Blunden, J.,

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 22, 2022

By Hannah Richter, Circle of Blue – August 22, 2022. Despite promising adaptation strategies, sea level rise is projected to drown tens of thousands of acres of farmland within the century. Atlantic sea levels are rising three to four times faster than the global ocean average.

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ESA

JULY 18, 2022

The spending bills largely include increases for ecological science programs, in line with the discretionary spending increases included in the President’s Budget Request (see ESA Policy News July 1, 2022 , ESA Policy News June 20, 2022 & Federal Budget Tracker ). Comments must be submitted by July 28, 2022.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 2, 2024

The temporal and substantive proximity of these cases, across no less than four different international forums, is a reflection of the immense frustration that civil society and State actors who are the most vulnerable to the harms resulting from climate change feel with the status quo. Duarte Agostinho and Others v.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The 27 th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27) in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, ended last Sunday, November 20, 1.5 Climate change related harms that are not avoided by adaptation are referred to as loss and damage. She writes here in her personal capacity. .

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 11, 2023

A new, first-of-its-kind study suggests that global warming this century will cause more glacial melting and sea level rise than previously thought. Pollution and climate change in India’s Ladakh region are jeopardizing local shepherds’ long-standing, sustainable ways of life. On the Radar.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 21, 2024

While nonbinding, the unanimous advisory opinion offers important support for small island nations facing climate impacts and raises the bar for other nations to reduce their global warming emissions to protect the world’s oceans. Lays out polluting nations’ obligations.

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Washington Nature

APRIL 22, 2024

From mega wildfires to declining salmon runs and a recent natural disaster declaration for Washington’s iconic cherry crop, communities across the state are seeing direct impacts of climate change. These are more than statistics; these are the real-world impacts of climate adaptation. miles of salmon streams.

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Washington Nature

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In the face of a changing climate, it’s become clear that the GMA also needs to be updated to respond to the climate crisis by addressing our need to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and building community resilience. By updating the GMA now, those benefits will be realized sooner.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Together, the story they tell is of a world that seems hell-bent on heedlessly careening toward climate disaster, even as the necessary and beneficial solutions are within our reach. These crucial goals can help accelerate the world’s transition to clean energy and turn down fossil fuels that are driving climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 4, 2022

The need to invest in our Nation’s future is especially true when it comes to the unprecedented risks we face from the climate crisis – and the opportunities we can create through action. Today, for the first time in history, OMB is formally accounting in the Federal Budget for risks of climate change. billion and $9.60

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Scientific American

JANUARY 12, 2023

The world’s oceans hit their warmest levels on record for the fourth consecutive year in 2022, fueling sea-level rise and contributing to climate disasters.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JANUARY 17, 2024

from Chapter 4 of the Fifth National Climate Assessment The Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) was released on November 14, 2023. As those paying attention to agriculture know, climate impacts have become increasingly apparent since the last assessment was published in 2018.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 16, 2023

Data published by the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) shows that the average temperature in Europe from December 2022 to February 2022 was 1.4 By Anders Lorenzen Scientists from the European Union have announced that this last winter is the second-warmest in Europe on record ever.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 17, 2021

The federal government acknowledged changing conditions in the drying American Southwest on Monday, declaring a Tier 1 shortage for the lower Colorado River basin. The Tier 1 shortage was triggered because the water level in Mead is projected to be 1,065 feet above sea level at the end of 2021 — 10 feet lower than the shortage threshold.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

State and federal officials move forward plans and policies for water conservation, conveyance, and climate resilience. Kermanian , and Julie Miles The winter of 2022-23 brought historic levels of precipitation to California after years of deep drought , dwindling reservoirs, and groundwater depletion. By Michael G.

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