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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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RFK Jr. Joins the War on Climate Scientists

Legal Planet

But he also voices full-throated conspiracy theories denying the reality of human-caused climate change. These election fraud and anti-vaccine conspiracies converge with some far-out ideas about climate science. Respect for science matters and this staffing choice shows definitively which side RFK Jr.

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The COP28 Halftime Report

Legal Planet

This is true, for example, for the progress on establishing the new ‘loss and damage’ fund and the pledges of hundreds of millions of dollars into that fund to help developing countries bear the costs of climate change damage. That work is essential and has attracted a lot of attention as an early COP success.

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Antarctic extreme events: ‘All-time records are being shattered not from decades ago, but from the last few years and months’

Frontiers

While the main focus has been on operational activities in Antarctica, global warming caused by fossil-fuel burning by these (and other) countries has left Antarctica on the brink of irreversible change. Prof Martin Siegert is an award-winning Antarctic glaciologist and climate scientist.

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Q & A: Mathy Vathanaraj Stanislaus

Academy of Natural Sciences

These experiences resulted in the first comprehensive adaptation plan for the country to address the measures, preparedness and response to increased flooding, fire and other consequences of climate change for the country. We cannot solve these problems with a myopic view of what climate and environment looks like.

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The Trump War on Science: Daring blindness, Denying climate change, Destroying the EPA and other daily disasters

Science Blogs

The Trump War on Science: Daring blindness, Denying climate change, Destroying the EPA and other daily disasters. But along with those macro-level issues, Trump and his cronies are still hammering away at climate change denial, environmental protection, research funding and public health issues. 2017.06.01.