Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

Fossil fuels are the root cause of climate change, of long-standing environmental injustices, and are also frequently connected to geopolitical strife and violent conflicts. Other countries are dependent upon these fossil fuels, they don’t make themselves free of them. This is a fossil fuel war.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 18, 2022

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released its sixth assessment of climate change, comprised of three separate reports presenting the latest science on climate change, related impacts, adaptation, vulnerability , and mitigation at a time when more and more people are pressing for climate action.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

Just last week, we heard that with regard to climate change, “ humanity is on thin ice—and that ice is melting fast.” Yet policymakers still use the disinformation playbook to deceive and misinform the public about climate change, at the expense of our well-being and our future. Source: Google maps.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 7, 2024

Read out of context, that description fits climate change too, of course. Millions of us hopped planes, booked expensive AirBnBs, and made all sorts of detailed plans to be in exactly the place that scientists told them to be months ago. “ So why do so many ignore scientists’ predictions about climate change?!!”

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

A state court judge in the ‘Last Best Place’ just gave the youth climate movement a shot in the arm with the first decision of its kind that directly connects specific state actions to global climate change and then to injuries suffered by young people. courts have not yet engaged in this kind of fact-finding on climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 20, 2023

Corporate leadership was informed about advances in climate science and incorporated those advances when its scientists built their own models. Regardless, the company publicly cast doubt on the reality of global warming, attempted to discredit climate scientists and climate models, and tried to block climate action.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 26, 2022

While there is enormous potential for UN climate negotiations to transform climate action, meaningful progress has been delayed in part by the fossil fuel industry’s deceptive tactics. Last year’s COP was notable as the first to explicitly mention “fossil fuels” in the final decision document.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 18, 2023

A first ever trial on constitutional protections from climate change is underway in Montana. In this instance, 16 young people from across Montana, who were between 2 and 18 years old when the case was filed in 2020, brought their constitutional climate lawsuit, Held v. Supreme decisions?), Will it be effective?

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

The very first American trial of a youth climate lawsuit was hardly blockbuster Court TV, but we learned a lot from the proceedings. 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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 19, 2023

Ricardo Salvador, UCS Food and Environment Program Director, arrested with Jane Fonda protesting climate change on Nov. Ricardo Salvador Why break the rules: The moral dilemma of the “ well-behaved ” scientist Science must be objective. But what of scientists? And we’re not alone in asking. It’s understandable.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 6, 2024

In addition, the Business Council of Canada (BCC), an industry group to which the banks belong, has pushed the federal government to label fossil fuels as green under the federal government’s proposed sustainable finance taxonomy (a classification system for green investments).

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Mann, climate change scientist, author and Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State, and Director of the Earth System Science Center, is the 2022 recipient of the Stroud Award for Freshwater Excellence. Speaking Truth and Science About Climate Change Michael E. Mann, Ph.D.,

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 6, 2023

if so P … S …), the climate change which is driven by the burning of fossil fuels , combined with the emergence of the natural El Nino climate pattern in the Eastern Pacific, are the joint forces that pushed the world into record territory this year. degrees C of temperature rises.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 24, 2022

The field, located in the Norwegian Sea, will be operated by the Dutch fossil fuel giant Shell whose net-zero plans are unambitious at best. Many will be worried that the determination to ease our reliance on Russian fossil fuels is taking priority over the escalating climate crisis. ” New discoveries.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

There has been comparatively less attention to the decision by climate scientist Dr. Susan Avery not to seek re-election to the ExxonMobil board of directors. Yet this shift in corporate leadership is significant, marking the end of a chapter in ExxonMobil’s long and ongoing history of climate deception and disinformation.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

And it’s been one month since the Montana First District Court determined that the state of Montana had indeed violated Montana youth’s right to a “clean and healthful environment” by collaborating with the fossil fuel industry. Montana was monumental for many reasons: it was the first-ever constitutional climate trial in the U.S.;

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A Greener Life

JUNE 24, 2022

In the 1960s climate change was not really a significant concern, not even amongst environmentalists – this was despite the fact that the Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius in 1896 was the first to claim that emissions from fossil fuels might eventually result in enhanced global warming. billion.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Several scientists, including authors of the IPCC report, told the Associated Press that the world is locked into exceeding the 1.5° We are pretty much locked into 1.5,” said report co-author Malte Meinshausen, a climate scientist at the University of Melbourne in Australia. mark soon. “We These kinds of comments are not new.

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A Greener Life

JULY 5, 2023

Heatwaves gripping many parts of the world was a key contribution to this new unwelcome record, showing how climate change is strengthening its grip on the world. ” Climate scientists explain that climate change in conjunction with the weather pattern of El Nino is to blame. .” Measuring 17.01

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A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

The IPCC Chair Hoesung Lee during the unveiling of the report: Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change. Last week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) yet again warned us about the climate impacts hurtling toward us at breakneck speed. Photo credit: IPCC / Mark Speight.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 10, 2023

As 2022 turned into 2023, record-high temperatures swept across the European continent, prompting activists to call for faster action on climate change. The role of climate change. By Anders Lorenzen. Several weather records were broken in many countries. C degrees. .

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A Greener Life

MAY 9, 2022

Cutting-edge models predict that El Niño frequency will increase within 2 decades because of climate change, regardless of emissions mitigation efforts. The El Niño–Southern Oscillation ( ENSO ) is one of the most significant, but variable, climate patterns in the world. Photo credit: ©EU/ECHO/J. By Rachel Fritts.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 24, 2021

That was the timeline laid down by the most prestigious body of climate scientists for limiting warming to 1.5 What the IEA found was that the world should not invest in or approve new fossil fuel projects. What the IEA found was that the world should not invest in or approve new fossil fuel projects.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 5, 2022

Mann, climate change scientist, author and Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State, and Director of the Earth System Science Center, is the 2022 recipient of the Stroud Award for Freshwater Excellence. Mann’s research on climate variability and extremes has been at the forefront of climate change science.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 30, 2021

With the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) coming up next month, it is strange to think that less than 100 years ago global warming was not widely accepted, even among experts. Then in 1896, preliminary calculations by Arrhenius hinted that humanity’s burning of fossil fuels could raise CO 2 levels and warm our planet.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Wealthy nations have not even delivered a $100bn annual fund to help developing nations with climate mitigation and adaptation, which had been promised for 2020 onwards. While most climate scientists are not directly involved in high-level negotiations, their work is essential to the process. Courtesy: Michelle Bell. “We

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 2, 2022

This will be the defining moment for the Prime Minister’s legacy on climate change. This week’s report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world’s leading climate scientists, paints a terrifying picture of the future if Canada and the world don’t tackle fossil fuels with urgency.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2023

We don’t need Taylor Swift to “fall in love with a climate scientist,” we just wish she’d write a song about the climate crisis. When the breathless coverage of her relationship with Travis Kelce first boosted ratings for NFL football, some suggested Swift should use her star power for good by “dating a climate scientist.”

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A Greener Life

JULY 19, 2021

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has directly blamed climate change and as she visited the trail of devastation left behind at flood sites said Germany must pick up the pace with which it is tackling the impact of the climate crisis. Scientists have said that this extreme weather event bears the hallmark of climate change.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Solar activity provides no alternative explanation for today’s climate change Dagsvik and Moen claim that recent research indicates that variations in the sun’s magnetic field are of great importance for long-term fluctuations in solar activity. Our job is to be thorough and verify questionable results. It has taken time.

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A Greener Life

MAY 12, 2023

With our children already paying a terrible price for climate change, we must act to protect their future, urges an IPCC scientist. When heatwaves disrupt our children’s education, it is time to demand climate action. I am writing this as a climate scientist and a mother of two young children.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

By Ralph Kisberg, Responsible Decarbonization Alliance This guest essay first appeared in the Daily Item on September 11, 2022 -- While the majority of Pennsylvanians want the nation to seriously address climate change, close to half of all federal legislators and substantially more than half the legislators in our statehouse are not yet on board.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

He set out to outline the global acceleration of extreme weather events driven by continued fossil fuel production. What happens in the Arctic does not stay in the Arctic He is particularly concerned about the changes in the Arctic and explained that the region is warming four times faster than the global average.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 5, 2021

Climate scientists have long predicted that the Mediterranean will be hit hard by rising temperatures and changes in rainfall, driven by human emissions. Future wildfire risk is projected to increase in southern Europe , according to the last report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 18, 2021

Last week, the IPCC released their latest climate report – and the findings were serious. The report is the most comprehensive to-date from the international panel of scientists who work on climate change – and shows just how crucial the next couple years are for climate action. But it is still there.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

California Sues Fossil Fuel Polluters California’s climate accountability lawsuit is groundbreaking in several ways: California is the first major fossil fuel-producing state to file a climate accountability lawsuit. California Gov.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 7, 2023

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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