Legal Planet

DECEMBER 2, 2024

But it has passed laws regulating two powerful greenhouse gases, and some other climate laws stretching back over the past five decades. Only laws that specifically cover climate or greenhouse gases are included. For instance, naval bases are generally located at sea level, and thus structures are at risk from sea level rise.)

Law

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

establishing that heat-trapping emissions (or greenhouse gas emissions) are air pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act. The 2007 case was brought by petitioners (which included several state attorney generals and NGOs, including the Union of Concerned Scientists) in the context of greenhouse gas emissions from new motor vehicles.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

APRIL 7, 2025

Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius predicts changes in surface temperature due to greenhouse effect. Scientist calculates greenhouse effect from fossil fuels and matches it to recorded global temperature changes. Systematic measurements of atmospheric CO2 levels begin at Mauna Loa observatory.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 24, 2025

A government website housed on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) website–climate.gov–had “a rich trove of climate data and information,” as my colleague Marc Alessi said. We were braced for this website to shut down, because the Trump administration has laid off many of the federal workers who maintained it.

Politics

Real Climate

MAY 12, 2021

Three new papers in the last couple of weeks have each made separate claims about whether sea level rise from the loss of ice in West Antarctica is more or less than you might have thought last month and with more or less certainty.

Sea Level

Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

Another clue indicating a shortcoming is if you look at the atmospheric CO 2 -concentrations over time to see how much impact the IPCC reports have had on the real policy-makers in the world (Figure below). The cause of our changing climate is the increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations that we have released into the air.

Atmosphere

Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

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 ). The global sea level acts like the mercury in a thermometer because warmer water expands.

Sea Level

Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

Sea level rise is a big deal Use, abuse and misuse of the CMIP6 ensemble The radiative forcing bar chart has gone full circle Droughts and floods are complicated Don’t mention the hiatus. Sea Level Rise: The previous IPCC reports, notably AR4 and AR5 (to a lesser extent) , have had a hard time dealing with SLR.

Sea Level

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. It finds more evidence that severe weather events are linked to carbon in the atmosphere and that those weather events are becoming more extreme. Just as human behavior causes atmospheric warming, it can also prevent it.

2021

Law and Environment

AUGUST 9, 2021

Here are a number of the lowlights: It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land. Widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred. Global warming of 1.5°C

Climate Change

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen On the eve of the COP28 UN climate summit, The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a United Nations (UN) body, has warned that the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases (GHG) is forecast to continue the trend that resulted in record-high CO2 measurements last year. Photo credit: iStock.

Greenhouse

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The latest science shows clearly that the infrastructure in Baltimore will be taxed by sea level rise, extreme heat, and extended droughts. While weather is always variable, a stable climate helps us safeguard against the devastating impacts of extreme weather events, sea-level rise, and disruptions to essential services.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Westlaw searches for “global warming” and “greenhouse effect” pick up only a handful of citations before 1985. The other article about nuclear power also observed in passing that “coal combustion may disrupt global weather patterns by increasing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, creating a ‘greenhouse effect.’”.

Carbon Dioxide

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 16, 2021

The world is gathering soon in Glasgow to debate how to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions over the coming decades. First, after carbon dioxide emissions cease, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels begin to decrease, as they are absorbed by natural processes and sinks in the oceans and on land.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 5, 2023

From droughts to wildfires to rising sea levels and torrential rains, the state has felt the effects of a changing climate in a variety of ways. The increase regional VPD is mostly attributed to human-cause climate change (68%) and the rest (32%) is attributed to variations in the atmospheric circulation.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

its district, appellate , and supreme courts decided in favor of Urgenda, an upstart environmental organization, ordering the government to more aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Everyone produces greenhouse gases.

Carbon Dioxide

Legal Planet

AUGUST 10, 2021

As in previous reports, this one also uses “Representative Concentration Pathways” (RCPs) that show how the world will respond to different trajectories for emissions of greenhouse gases. So here’s the key question: How much more carbon are we going to load into the atmosphere? Every 1000 gigatons of carbon translates into about 0.5 °C

Paris Agreement

A Greener Life

JUNE 3, 2022

If people everywhere stopped burning fossil fuels tomorrow, stored heat would still continue to warm the atmosphere. But that doesn’t mean the planet returns to its preindustrial climate or that we avoid disruptive effects such as sea-level rise. Oceans will continue to store heat and exchange it with the atmosphere.

Carbon Dioxide

Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Some in the industry see the warming as an opportunity, as passages through the Arctic open for longer periods, even going so far as to claim there will be lower overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the shorter voyages. Warmer water also expands and raises sea levels as well as holds less oxygen.

Ocean

A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

As the risks of sea-level rise, stronger tropical storms and seawater intrusion grow due to climate change , Indonesia is ramping up efforts to protect mangrove ecosystems across the archipelago as part of both its COVID-19 recovery efforts and climate change commitments. Photo credit: Andry Denisah / Alamy. By Nithin Coca.

Sea Level

Law Columbia

MAY 22, 2024

The Advisory Opinion addresses several key questions regarding application of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) in the context of climate change, including the interaction between UNCLOS and the global climate change regime, and the specific obligations of States to reduce climate-damaging greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Climate Change

Washington Nature

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This is a direct result of excessive greenhouse gas emissions, including carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4), and the exploitation of natural resources for capitalistic gain. This can happen naturally, as growing trees and plants turn CO2 into biomass—this is the foundational premise of Natural Climate Solutions.

Carbon Dioxide

Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2024

Question a) referred to States’ obligations to prevent, reduce and control marine pollution in relation to the deleterious effects resulting or likely to result from climate change and ocean acidification caused by anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions into the atmosphere. 157 as used in para. 52, 54, 60 and 68).

Law

Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

Rising sea levels and increased intensity of storm surges are playing a considerable role in the degradation of coastal regions in the Pacific Islands. Illustrating the variation in sea levels from 1993 – 2018. Ideally, the best way to save these islands is to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions. should be.

Coastal Erosion

Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

Understanding Climate Change & Greenhouse Gas Emissions. The greenhouse effect is a popular name for the earth’s warming effect which occurs naturally when gasses in the atmosphere trap heat from the sun and prevent it from escaping back into space. Greenhouse Gas Emissions are Increasing.

Climate Change

Acoel

AUGUST 10, 2021

Here are a number of the lowlights: It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land. Widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred. Global warming of 1.5°C

Climate Change

Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2023

For example, issues of statehood and loss of territory due to sea level rise would arguably fall outside the Tribunal’s competence and could be addressed in the ICJ advisory request on climate change. The question is divided into two parts. Conducting an expansive interpretation of the Convention, arts.

Climate Change

Frontiers

AUGUST 7, 2023

Writing as part of Frontiers’ guest editorials series, the study’s lead author – Prof Martin Siegert, deputy vice chancellor of the University of Exeter (Cornwall) – discusses how without there being a rapid shift to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, the Antarctic environment will experience ever more drastic changes.

Ocean

Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 2, 2022

Climate change is a problem which has a known solution: We must dramatically reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and prepare now for intense climate impacts. Do you live in a coastal community at risk from sea level rise? It is up to all of us to hear this siren and demand a drastic reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.

Ocean

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JANUARY 17, 2024

On the other hand, the chapter’s assessment of alternative plant proteins is more measured, noting their potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions but also identifying the clear downsides in terms of increased needs for infrastructure and energy. Sea level rise is also important in the region, causing saltwater intrusion and salinization.

Sea Level

ESA

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

4) Increased emissions and concentration of atmospheric greenhouse gases cause warming on land and water over relatively short periods of time (years, decades). In contrast, sea level rise from the melting of ice occurs much more slowly because it takes a while and it takes energy to melt the ice.

Sea Level

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Even before adoption of the 1992 Framework Convention, the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) had proposed an “International Insurance Pool” to pay vulnerable countries based on observed sea level rise. The first explicit use of the term L&D was in the 2007 Bali Action Plan , in a section on enhanced action for adaptation.

Climate Change

Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 31, 2022

It’s also causing marine heatwaves, storms, sea ice loss and sea level rise. We need to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases to head off the most severe impacts of climate change, but we also need to take additional steps to help fisheries adapt. Climate change is making the ocean warmer, more acidic and lower in oxygen.

Climate Change

Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

Satellites, for example, are used in meteorology to track weather systems and to monitor atmospheric fronts to predict what the weather will do next. Known as ENSO, they are opposite effects of the same process and are defined as an oscillation (a variation in magnitude) between the temperature of the atmosphere and the ocean.

Atmosphere

Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 21, 2024

In this consideration of Danone’s motion to dismiss the complaint, some are troubled that the court began with this “factual background” saying that in its order, it is taken as true for the purposes of this motion, “Human activities have increased the concentration of carbon dioxide, or CO2, in the atmosphere, driving climate change.

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2022

Climate change is often discussed in terms of global temperature increase, sea level rise, and hundreds of millions of tons of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere,” said Secretary McDonnell. Video and photos of the event will be available later today at PAcast.

Climate Change

Environment Next

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

that EPA could regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. auto sector carbon emissions) was to address the less-direct causal chain between atmospheric greenhouse gases and sea level rise in Massachusetts. It did not apply to UPHE’s claims that tailpipe emissions harmed its members’ health. .

Clean Air Act