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The Kids Get It: Why Proposition 4 Is the Right Thing to Do

Union of Concerned Scientists

I don’t have to explain why investing in climate resilience is about the best financial decision California could make right now for her future. billion in sea level rise and coastal resilience, and about a half billion in extreme heat mitigation. billion in 2022. Climate change is here and it’s costly.

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Amid Dire Colorado River Outlook, States Plan to Tap Their Lake Mead Savings Accounts

Circle of Blue

Arizona officials, meanwhile, plan to use 69,100 acre-feet of ICS credits to reduce mandatory cutbacks that will be required in 2022 if Mead declines as projected. The first of these shortage tiers — at 1,075 feet above sea level — is expected to be breached next year. The water supply scenarios are indeed daunting.

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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

In addition, it stores vast quantities of freshwater that if released to the ocean would rise sea level by tens of meters and interfere with saline-driven ocean currents that transfer heat around the planet. Prof Martin Siegert is an award-winning Antarctic glaciologist and climate scientist.

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UNICEF warns 27 million children at risk from climate fuelled floods

A Greener Life

Millions of children worldwide are at risk from the devastating floods which have impacted almost every corner of the Earth this year, and which climate scientists say have intensified and are happening much more frequently due to climate change. million children affected by flooding in 2022 are among the most vulnerable.

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Ask a Scientist: Calling Out the Companies Responsible for Western Wildfires

Union of Concerned Scientists

In just five years, from 2018 through 2022, wildfires scorched 38.3 Since that 2014 study, which laid the foundation of what is called climate source attribution science , UCS scientists have collaborated with Heede on two other studies that pinpointed the major carbon producers’ culpability for specific climate change-related trends.

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Senate Committees Hear Familiar Pro/Con Comments On Economic, Environmental Impacts Of EQB’s Final Carbon Pollution Reduction Program Covering Power Plants - RGGI

PA Environment Daily

RGGI was a bad idea in 2019, and in 2022, it is potentially a tragic idea. It needs to be an informed decision with equal input from climate scientists and economists. The DEP estimates that by joining RGGI in 2022, Pennsylvania would have been able to cut carbon emissions by at least 25.5% Read more here. **The

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

It makes them ripe for disproportional impacts from climate change, relative to the nation in general. The 2020 study offered an exclamation point: “Without emissions reductions, climate change could increase temperatures across the national parks, up to 9ºC (16ºF) by 2100 in parks in Alaska.