Atmosphere Climate Scientist Conservation Ocean 
Real Climate
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
The only region of cooling is the northern Atlantic, where climate models have long predicted just that due to a slowing of the Atlantic Ocean overturning circulation. The heating of the global ocean has been going on at a steady rate of nine zeta Joules per year for decades , which is 15 times the worldwide primary energy consumption.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 22, 2023
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. That fits with the last five years , which have seen an annual average of 18 billion-dollar weather and climate disasters.
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Law Columbia
OCTOBER 7, 2019
The court was not persuaded by the plaintiffs’ contention that the FWS had concluded that conservation projects would outpace climate change effects on the trout or by the argument that the FWS erred by abandoning a finding in its 2008 determination that climate change constituted a “severe” threat to the trout that exacerbates other threats.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 20, 2023
Some of the highest risks can be found in the candidates’ home states: the ocean off of Florida has hit 98 degrees— hot tub temp s! Among mid-Atlantic states, New Jersey is ground zero for climate change. We should expect to hear more, as climate impacts are only going to get worse.
Law Columbia
JUNE 6, 2023
Scientists, conservation groups, and legal experts have argued that the 2008 policy was and continues to be “both scientifically and legally incorrect” because there are scientific techniques and data that can be used to evaluate the effect of project-level emissions on threatened and endangered species.
Law Columbia
MARCH 6, 2018
The court stated: “Plaintiffs’ claims for public nuisance, though pled as state-law claims, depend on a global complex of geophysical cause and effect involving all nations of the planet (and the oceans and atmosphere). California Federal Court Ordered Publication of Obama-Era Energy Conservation Standards in Federal Register.
Columbia Climate Law
MAY 8, 2020
The federal district court for the Northern District of Texas dismissed for lack of standing a lawsuit against the EPA in which an individual pro se plaintiff asserted that EPA restrictions since 1990 on aerosols in the atmosphere had caused global warming. Federal Court Rejected NEPA Claims in Challenge to Gulf of Mexico Leases.
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