Legal Planet

DECEMBER 5, 2022

China is responsible for about 11% of all the carbon now in the atmosphere, so that would mean paying for that percentage of damage from extreme events caused by climate change. This suggests that a country’s responsibility for climate change should be based on its share of global consumption.

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Inside Climate News

JULY 31, 2023

New evidence of a previous Greenland meltdown suggests large parts of the ice sheet vanished at temperatures similar to today’s.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

The fossil fuel industry has known for decades that its products cause climate chang e Contrary to what the fossil fuel industry would like you to believe, the link between burning fossil fuels and climate change has been well established for decades.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 1, 2022

In summarizing its report on the consequences of climate change, the scientific body described a society running out of time to prevent unbearable damage to the planet’s lands and waters — and to the people and creatures that depend on them. Climate change is a threat to human well-being and the health of the planet.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Today, climate change is the central, though by no means the only, concern in environmental law. I found only one relevant reference using the term “climate change” before 1985. In one sentence of a 1975 article, John Barton referred to “climate change” as a potentially severe long-term problem.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

It is urgent to implement the Methane Pledge as soon as possible given methane, a potent heat-trapping gas, already has devastating effects on human health and the climate, which will continue for years to come. But its short lifetime in the atmosphere is also a reason for hope. The planet has already warmed 1.1

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Commissioners bring experience, stature, broad global representation — but crucially, are not presently in political office, so they are not required to advance national positions. They can speak and discuss freely. Getting better, but not very comforting. Current and coming advances in carbon-free technology will help, of course.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The flood of fallacies or deceptions begins with the paper’s title: “To what extent are temperature levels changing due to greenhouse gas emissions?” But the effect of greenhouse gases is not even investigated in the paper – which suggests the title is politically motivated. Ed Hawkins, National Centre for Atmospheric Science.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2022

Here is a summary of the findings-- Americans continue to favor reducing greenhouse gas emissions as their preferred approach for staving off the worst impacts of climate change, according to new public opinion findings. At the same time, increasing evidence mounted of intensifying climate impacts in America and beyond.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

of the observed rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide and 52 percent of the rise in global average temperatures between 1880 and 2015. When thinking about global emissions, don’t picture an individual—point your finger at powerful corporations, specifically the 88 companies that are largely responsible for climate change.

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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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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

(The “for one year” part is crucial: stratospheric aerosols stay in the atmosphere roughly a year, so one gram offsets the heating effect of one ton only for the first year after the ton is emitted. Those following debates on active climate interventions have been expecting – and worrying about – something like this for a few years.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

When I was growing up, climate change wouldn’t have qualified as a typical topic of conversation around the dinner table, let alone soil health or the ability of soils to store carbon. billion USD to support the USDA’s efforts to mitigate climate change via agricultural soils. Not so in the modern day, however.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

C is a political target, not a scientifically determined limit. But it’s a political target that’s based on a reasonable assessment of science that suggests that harms from climate change are likely to get worse faster after passing 1.5 It says the Agreement aims to hold global-average heating “well below 2.0

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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.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

This week, Circle of Blue reports on how water fits into the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference. When diplomats and government ministers converge on Glasgow this fall, they hope to rekindle pivotal negotiations on global climate that were dampened during the pandemic. degrees Celsius. There are other hurdles as well.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In the long run, warming will be determined by how much carbon we pump into the atmosphere before we stop. If we can shave down the curve even a little, we reduce the ultimate tonnage of carbon lingering in the atmosphere. There would be value in slowing down climate change even if we can’t change how bad it will ultimately get.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

C above the pre-industrial average in 2020, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned in its recent report that Earth could hit 1.5°C C could help avoid the most serious effects of climate change. from the atmosphere sometime in the future. Global mean surface temperatures reached 1.2°C

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

Whether climate change impacts to Montana’s environment can be measured incrementally. Whether climate impacts and effects in Montana can be attributed to Montana’s fossil fuel activities. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The admission says a lot about political will. Enter the youth plaintiffs.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2023

The onslaught has led to another round of media headlines and press releases from environmental and public health groups asking whether the nation is at a tipping point of urgency to fight climate change. A Vox headline on the orange skies from Canadian wildfires said, “Wildfire smoke reminded people about climate change.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 18, 2024

Incorporating International Climate Change Law to Maintain the ECHR’s Relevance Amid the Climate Crisis “Everything could be different – and yet there is almost nothing I can change.” This is mainly due to the interplay of climate physics underpinning climate change and the rationale of the judicial process.

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Inside Climate News

JULY 29, 2022

Four noted atmospheric scientists explain that the answer to “why?” is climate change: “The evidence is clear,” said one. By James Bruggers After three years in office, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has grown accustomed to holding media briefings on weather disasters.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

A recent atmospheric river in British Columbia leaves nearly 20,000 people stranded and thousands of animals dead. Human civilization is moving and with climate change and shifting water supplies, we face the greatest migration in human history. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. IN RECENT WATER NEWS. With Parag Khanna. 18,000 PEOPLE.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 31, 2023

An energetic, bustling atmosphere was partly the point. The conference, however, was constrained by an agreement that no political declaration would be made. The conference, however, was constrained by an agreement that no political declaration would be made. Will these initiatives bear fruit? Time will tell.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 18, 2022

The EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), the EU’s Earth Observation Programme, said that records dating back to 1850 showed that in 2021 the global average temperature was 1.1-1.2 Atmospheric CO2 levels at record highs. Levels of CO2 in the atmosphere reached 414.3 C above 1850-1900 levels. Uphill battle.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 2, 2021

Decades ago, their own scientists told car companies and oil companies about climate change, information the companies chose to ignore. He talked her into studying climate change. She went on to become the head of the climate change program at Argonne National Lab and a professor at UC Davis.

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Legal Planet

JULY 25, 2023

We give lots of lip service describing climate change as an emergency or existential threat. According to the Climate Emergency Declaration Organization, 2336 jurisdictions around the world have declared it to be an emergency, but we are not really acting like it. There are many possible emergency actions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Four important global reports released in the last two days set up a deeply sobering context for the upcoming annual international climate talks in Egypt, also called COP27. Source: UN Climate Change 2022 NDC Synthesis Report. Source: UN Climate Change 2022 NDC Synthesis Report. The UNEP Emissions Gap Report.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Researchers including those from Imperial College London and University of Exeter assess factors controlling global temperatures post ‘net zero’ and offer a pioneering framework for better estimating climate change risks. These risks must inform climate mitigation and adaptation policies to protect future generations.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 19, 2022

Action on climate change of all kinds needs to be right at the heart of government policy and programs.” – Doug Parr, policy director at Greenpeace UK. In context: HotSpots H2O: In Afghanistan, Political Upheaval Aggravates Drought-Fueled Famine. . “Adaptation can no longer be an afterthought. On the Radar.

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Vermont Law

JULY 31, 2023

This model can represent a domestic or global scenario of climate damage, but many in the United States favor domestic views only. should account for global damages from climate change in its SCC modeling based on how their emissions exacerbate that global harm. The question is whether the U.S. The short answer is yes, the U.S.

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Global Green

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Ultimately, the message conveyed by Moore is renewable technology is not enough to save our planet from climate change and the only way forward is for the human race to slow down. Besides sequestering 25% of the CO2 from the atmosphere , oceans are an immense resource for energy production. How green are renewables? So, what?”.

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Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Steep reductions in emissions of methane—which traps 81 times as much heat as carbon dioxide in the first 20 years in the atmosphere—are among the most important steps for slowing climate change in the short term. By Phil McKenna The U.S.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 20, 2023

It is not the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, which resulted in UN conventions on three major environmental issues: biodiversity, climate change, and desertification. The political dimension is a huge part of the solution to the water crisis,” said Federico Properzi, chief technical adviser of UN-Water.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 6, 2022

Water infrastructure investment decisions are far too important, with far too many consequences, to be used for brazenly political purposes in the lead up to an election.”. The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), released earlier this week, focused on ways to reduce carbon pollution.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 30, 2021

. ——————————————– In extreme weather news, new research finds that climate change is behind the intensity of deadly storms that hit Germany and Belgium last month. Such downpours are rare, but due to climate change they are happening more often.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Climate Change Grips Trout Streams Across the Nation: How Anglers Are Responding Across the country, anglers have watched as droughts, floods, and high temperatures batter the rivers they depend on. The issue has begun changing minds about climate change among recreational fishermen, a demographic that leans politically conservative.

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