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Much ado about acceleration

Real Climate

Last year, Jim Hansen and colleagues published a long paper that included a figure suggesting that they expected that global temperature trends from 2011 to increase above the recent linear trends. 24 from Hansen et al (2023). However, it not so obvious that the recent El NiƱo can be so easily removed in such a way. Tselioudis, E.

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

To date in 2023, the United States has already suffered nine climate and weather disasters resulting in at least a billion dollars of damage, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. A decade ago, a review of nearly 12,000 studies conducted between 1991 and 2011 found that 97.2 percent agreement.

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Rebuild By Design: Atlas Of Disaster Finds Climate-Related Extreme Weather Caused Over $630 Million In Disaster Damage In PA From 2011 to 2021; Doesn't Include Damage Not Covered By Federal Programs

PA Environment Daily

counties have experienced a federal climate disaster between 2011-2021, with some having as many as 12 disasters during that time. Pennsylvania From 2011 to 2021 Pennsylvania had 9 climate disaster declarations with six counties having fire or more disasters. In 2021 alone, the U.S.

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Recap of 2023 CEQA Amendments Now In Effect

CEQA Developments

We saw a continued focus on incentivizing affordable and infill developments on the condition that the project pay prevailing wages (AB 2011), reducing barriers for specified sustainable transit projects (SB 922), and amendments akin to ā€œpet project exemptionsā€ that are targeted to solving a narrower set of concerns (SB 118 and SB 886).

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Californiaā€™s Climate Leadership: A Timeline

Legal Planet

2011 CARB adopted cap and trade system. 2023 SB 253. Required CARB to create an inventory of GHG emissions. Effectively prohibited California utilities from using electricity from coal-fired generation. 2009 CARB established Low Carbon Fuel Standard for vehicles. 2015 SB350. Renewable energy target raised to 50% by 2030.

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes Listing Oblong Rocksnail, Once Believed Extinct

Endangered Species Law

On October 31, 2023, the U.S. In 2011, a population was discovered which inhabits a 5.6 Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) proposed listing the oblong rocksnail ( Leptoxis compacta ) as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). river mile stretch of the Cahaba River about 10 miles south of Birmingham.

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Wildfire Threat to Texas Nuclear Weapons Facility Highlights Intersecting Risks

Union of Concerned Scientists

Those high temperatures are part of a global period of extraordinarily warm temperaturesā€”2023 was the hottest year on record, and global temperatures have continued to run about 1Ā°C (nearly 2Ā°F) above the historical average so far this year. Two major wildfires threatened Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico in 2000 and 2011.