Carbon Emissions Fossil Fuels Ocean Sea Level 
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
A simple statement that masks just how complicated the issues are: mixing politics, economics, livelihoods, fisheries and endangered species in the ocean body that is the Gulf of Maine. GOM communities, not fossil fuel interests, should determine policies that affect GOM people. Sea levels are rising.
Ocean Conservancy
MARCH 27, 2023
We’ve heard so much about the effects of climate change on our ocean. Carbon pollution from fossil fuel use and land development have heated the atmosphere and ocean, leading to sea level rise, stronger storms, fisheries’ moving poleward, and widespread loss of sea ice and glaciers.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 10, 2023
Today the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released its annual report on billion-dollar weather and climate-related disasters in the United States, which tells a grimly familiar story. The math of rising carbon emissions and the rapidly dwindling carbon budget to stay below 1.5˚C.
Ocean Conservancy
MARCH 2, 2022
Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. As the CEO of Ocean Conservancy, I naturally look to our ocean. There, we can tackle shipping emissions, which are projected to generate 18% of all global emissions by 2050. If we continue on our current path, we will see our ocean deteriorate before our eyes.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 23, 2023
They’re called Scope 3 emissions, and they are key to understanding the big picture of a company’s impact on the environment. First, let me explain the three “scopes” of carbon emissions. Scope 1 emissions come from power plants, oil rigs and other sources directly owned or controlled by a company.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 16, 2023
percent of total emissions. found that the companies—down to 88 due to mergers—were responsible for about 55 percent of ocean acidification between 1880 and 2015. They also calculated that the companies’ emissions have been responsible for 37 percent of the burned forest area in the region since 1986. Licker et al.
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 10, 2022
Scientists call this the urban heat island effect because, when you look at a map of temperatures, cities will appear as hot “islands” surrounded by a cooler “ocean” of lower temperatures in the surrounding areas. They make cities hotter than the more rural, less-developed areas outside of them. Some cities and counties are doing that.
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