Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 18, 2022
We are already starting to see successes in the courts, the IPCC reported that the majority of climate cases outside of the United States have seen favorable ruling. One important win came when the Dutch court ruled that Shell must cut carbon emissions from both its operations and the oil and gas products the company sells.
Physics World
OCTOBER 6, 2021
An area of high pressure above the Pacific Ocean was driven eastwards through the jet stream by a “Rossby wave” – a planetary-scale fluctuation arising from the Coriolis force. Overall, cement accounts for 3% of the world’s carbon emissions. Wood you believe?
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Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 16, 2023
Since that 2014 study, which laid the foundation of what is called climate source attribution science , UCS scientists have collaborated with Heede on two other studies that pinpointed the major carbon producers’ culpability for specific climate change-related trends. Licker et al. What went into that calculation?
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 10, 2022
Climate scientists at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) have dubbed the six-month stretch from May through October the “ Danger Season.” Not only has much of what climate scientists have been warning about come to pass, many of the extreme weather events the planet is now experiencing are worse than they expected. “To
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 5, 2023
According to studies in 2018 and 2020 led by Patrick Gonzalez, who was the principal climate scientist for the National Park Service, a White House climate advisor, and a lead author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the mean annual temperature of the parks has increased at double the US rate since 1895.
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.
Columbia Climate Law
MAY 8, 2020
The plaintiffs alleged among other things that the defendants the two projects’ cumulative impacts on carbon emissions. Federal Court Rejected NEPA Claims in Challenge to Gulf of Mexico Leases.
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