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What Is a Climate Model and How Does It Work?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Climate models are the main tool climate scientists use to predict how Earth will respond to more heat-trapping pollutants in the atmosphere. But what exactly is a climate model? Lets start off easy by breaking down the phrase climate model.” What causes a circulation? temperature, rainfall, etc.)

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The Drying Planet

Circle of Blue

Instead, a significant portion of the water taken from underground flows off the land through rivers and on to the oceans. Moisture lost to evaporation and drought, plus runoff from pumped groundwater, now outpaces the melting of glaciers and the ice sheets of either Antarctica or Greenland as the largest contributor of water to the oceans.

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Trump’s Pick for Energy Secretary, Chris Wright, is Wrong on Purpose. Here are the Facts. 

Union of Concerned Scientists

In videos and Congressional testimony , Wright portrays himself as a truth teller, while falsely claiming that climate scientists and renewable energy advocates are deceptive. Advances in attribution science also show that climate change is contributing to worsening some types of extreme weather.

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Forests with robust animal populations store four times as much carbon

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Why Congress Must Block a Liability Waiver for the Fossil Fuel Industry 

Union of Concerned Scientists

1) People are feeling the impacts of climate change and footing the bill The impending arrival of Danger Season is a stark reminder that climate change impacts are already devastating communities worldwide, intensifying many kinds of extreme weather events, driving sea level rise, and harming human health.

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The Endangerment Finding Is in Danger. Will EPA’s Zeldin Uphold Climate Science?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Opponents of climate action have long understood the power of the Endangerment Finding and tried unsuccessfully to dismantle it during the first Trump administration. Project 2025 also includes a call to Establish a system, with an appropriate deadline, to update the 2009 endangerment finding. This directive shouldnt fool anyone.

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Trump Administration Attempts Burying Climate Change Evidence to Further Fossil Fuel Agenda

Union of Concerned Scientists

With ocean surface temperatures more than 2 degrees Celsius above normal in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, Helene was able to rapidly intensify to a Category 4 hurricane before making landfall in Florida. As my colleague Dr. Marc Alessi noted last year: Helene was an example of what hurricanes will look more like in the future.