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Science denial is still an issue ahead of COP28

Real Climate

It is 33 years now since the IPCC in its first report in 1990 concluded that it is “certain” that greenhouse gas emissions from human activities “will enhance the greenhouse effect, resulting on average in an additional warming of the Earth’s surface.” Is it sheer incompetence or is it politically motivated?

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HotSpots H2O: Ongoing Madagascar Famine Is Driven By Poverty, Not Climate Change

Circle of Blue

International organizations had blamed the calamity on climate change, but a new study rejects that assumption. agencies that the emergency was “the world’s first climate-induced famine.” Instead, the biggest factors contributing to widespread hunger are political and economic. The COVID-19 pandemic has multiplied these risks.

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A distraction due to errors, misunderstanding and misguided Norwegian statistics

Real Climate

A friend asked me if a discussion paper published on Statistics Norway’s website, ‘ To what extent are temperature levels changing due to greenhouse gas emissions? ’, was purposely timed for the next climate summit ( COP28 ). I don’t know the answer to his question. But this discussion paper is problematic for sure.

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We Crossed 1.5 C. Did We Breach the Paris Agreement?

Legal Planet

If you’re not a climate scientist—and maybe even if you are—reading news headlines this month has been confounding and a little scary. “In Climate Threshold ,” was the version at Forbes. C is a political target, not a scientifically determined limit. C,” and “pursue efforts” to limit heating to 1.5 Q: Why is 1.5

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What Happened During the Montana Youth Climate Trial

Legal Planet

As I outlined here , Montana state law prohibits the consideration of greenhouse gas emissions or climate impacts–– inside and outside the state’s borders––when reviewing projects and approving permits. This now-infamous climate prohibition has been called a “limitation” on the Montana Environmental Policy Act, or MEPA.

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Bad science and bad ethics in Peter Gleick’s Review of “Apocalypse Never” at Yale Climate Connections

Environmental Progress

We know we must now work to both cut greenhouse gas emissions to reduce the severity of climate change and at the same time work to adapt to the impacts we can no longer avoid. Malthusians and socialists within the Democratic Party and center-left political coalitions in Europe clashed overpopulation and poverty.

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October 2019 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Circuit Court of Appeals granted motions seeking to dismiss as moot the proceedings challenging the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, which established emission guidelines for greenhouse gases from existing power plants. Court Dismissed Counterclaims in Climate Scientist’s Defamation Lawsuit.

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