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Union of Concerned Scientists
OCTOBER 26, 2022
The suit claims that BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, Shell, and the American Petroleum Institute misled the public despite clear knowledge that their products cause climate change. For more than 50 years , the fossil fuel industry has obstructed meaningful climate action. at UMass Amherst.
Real Climate
NOVEMBER 11, 2023
are used all over the world, based on calculations that quantify the effects of physical mechanisms and the way different parts of the atmosphere are connected to each other. The physics-based models describe how energy flows through the atmosphere and ocean, as well as how the forces from different air masses push against each other.
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Circle of Blue
AUGUST 16, 2021
Meltwater from Greenland’s ice sheets have caused about a quarter of the rise in the world’s sea levels. This week, Circle of Blue looks at a major new climate report, which finds that a warming planet is accelerating the water cycle. The report found that some changes in the water cycle are already evident.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 16, 2023
But another major culprit is climate change, which has intensified the heat and drought that have always been factors in western North America. That climate change obviously didn’t just happen on its own. Ekwurzel was joined by Heede, then-UCS climate scientist Peter Frumhoff , and four other scientists.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 20, 2023
Two seasons in one The presidential primary season coincides with “ Danger Season ”—the period between May and October when the Northern Hemisphere experiences back-to-back extreme weather augmented by climate change. Candidates are crisscrossing New Hampshire amid climate-related and climate-boosted catastrophes.
Real Climate
AUGUST 12, 2021
I followed with great interest the launch of the sixth assessment report Working Group 1 (The Physical Science Basis) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on August 9th. The cause of our changing climate is the increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations that we have released into the air.
Real Climate
AUGUST 9, 2021
As climate scientists we tend to look at the IPCC reports a little differently than the general public might. Here are a few things that mark this report out from previous versions that relate to issues we’ve discussed here before: Extreme events are increasingly connected to climate (duh!) Figure SPM 8. Johnson, A.
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