A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen John Kerry, the former US Secretary of State and Special Envoy on Climate Change, an army veteran and veteran of US politics now aged 80, took the stage in London today as the keynote speaker at the 2025 Soft Power Index. David Haigh in conversation with John Kerry. Photo credit: Brand Finance.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 21, 2025

Congress must resist such effortswhether through the upcoming budget process or as stand-alone legislationand protect the ability of states, municipalities, and others harmed by fossil fuel-driven climate change to hold polluters accountable through litigation and legislation.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Of course, an honest assessment of the latest climate science will show that since 2009 the evidence has become even more compelling and dire. Climate change, driven by rising heat-trapping emissions, is already causing significant harm to peoples health and well-being and to vital ecosystems.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 13, 2025

Behind these individual instances of harm is a clear strategy: they want to bury the scientific evidence of the impacts and economic damages caused by climate change to avoid having to take any action to address them. More expensive property and infrastructure exposed to climate-fueled disasters contribute to higher damage costs.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 30, 2025

Heres what else has happened in the last 7 days No Climate Assessment: The Trump administration has unceremoniously dismissed all the expert authors of the next authoritative look at how climate change is affecting the US. Climate change will lead to municipal bankruptcies. billion aid package. Download as PDF

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

MARCH 7, 2025

So Donald Trump has imposed massive tariffs on Canada and Mexico, and then paused them, and then imposed them again, and then paused them — as always, he is the master of political coitus interruptus. So, with regard to tariffs, in the words of the great climate scientist Lt. These are very bad times.

Climate Scientist

Legal Planet

MARCH 13, 2025

And those very same people when they’re scared for their own lives they will indeed run to a scientist (a doctor) and hope for help, and it wont be there to the same extent it was before. Scientific communities have debated the wisdom of protesting like any other party to partisan politics. Not only is Trump 2.0

Government

Inside Climate News

JULY 30, 2025

Climate scientist Michael Mann called the report “a deeply misleading antiscientific narrative, built on deceptive arguments, misrepresented datasets, and distortion of actual scientific understanding.”

Climate Scientist

Inside Climate News

JULY 1, 2025

Climate scientists are alarmed by the Trump administration’s latest attack on climate change research.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 11, 2025

14 -15 [PaEN] -- TribLive: Climate Change Will Continue With Warmer, Wetter Conditions Predicted -- DEP Sets Feb. 14 -15 [PaEN] -- TribLive: Climate Change Will Continue With Warmer, Wetter Conditions Predicted -- DEP Sets Feb. One In Susquehanna County Now [ PDF of Article ] -- WHYY/BillyPenn: Why Gov.

Natural Resources

Legal Planet

JULY 10, 2025

It is not too soon to be explaining that storms like this are becoming more intense as a result of climate change. Good timing for Grist to launch Disaster 101 , which it calls “your guide to extreme weather preparation, relief, and recovery.” “We’ve now entered the era of consequences of our climate negligence,” Whitehouse told her.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

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. is on when it comes to the war on scientists. is on when it comes to the war on scientists.

Climate Scientist

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.”

Climate Change

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.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

JUNE 24, 2024

Such arguments against “climate scientists becoming climate activists” are happily boosted by climate denialists, delighted to have another stick with which to beat climate science and to insinuate that climate scholarship is biased. Some fear alienating publics from science and scholarship.

Politics

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.

Climate Scientist

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Below is a look at what tools are currently being used to facilitate justice for climate change on an international scale and where those mechanisms are falling short in ensuring transitional justice and a clean future. Unfortunately, when it comes to climate change, the truth is often obscured.

Fossil Fuels

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.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The suit claims that BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, Shell, and the American Petroleum Institute misled the public despite clear knowledge that their products cause climate change. For more than 50 years , the fossil fuel industry has obstructed meaningful climate action. at UMass Amherst.

Sea Level

PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

PennFuture celebrated 25 years of fighting climate change and industrial pollution by holding anniversary celebrations in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia to honor seven Pennsylvanians for their contributions to restoring and protecting the environment. Michael Mann - Climate Champion Award PennFuture honored Dr. Michael E.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

Whether climate change impacts to Montana’s environment can be measured incrementally. Whether climate impacts and effects in Montana can be attributed to Montana’s fossil fuel activities. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The admission says a lot about political will. Enter the youth plaintiffs.

Fossil Fuels

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.

Sea Level

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 5, 2024

This post was co-authored by UCS Principal Climate Scientist Kristina Dahl. Outline of a Special Report on Climate Change and Cities Delegates dissected the proposed outline for the Climate Change and Cities report over several days. Ultimately, and to our great relief, science prevailed.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 20, 2023

They combined their expertise in climate science, science history, and document analysis to create a perfect blend of scientific analysis and socially relevant research. Corporate leadership was informed about advances in climate science and incorporated those advances when its scientists built their own models.

Fossil Fuels

Inside Climate News

AUGUST 1, 2022

By Bob Berwyn As global greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, some climate scientists say it’s time to start paying more attention to the most extreme, worst-case outcomes, including the potential for widespread extinctions, mass climate migration and the disintegration of social and political systems.

Climate Scientist

Environmental Progress

JUNE 29, 2020

On behalf of environmentalists everywhere, I would like to formally apologize for the climate scare we created over the last 30 years. Climate change is happening. I have been a climate activist for 20 years and an environmentalist for 30. Lire en français ici. Leer en español aquí. It’s just not the end of the world.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

MARCH 7, 2022

For climate scientists, the war in Ukraine came at the worst possible time as the media attention they would have hoped for surrounding the release of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report was urgently diverted to the breaking news story of Russia invading Ukraine. Climate risks.

Climate Change

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.,

Climate Scientist

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.

Fossil Fuels

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.

Carbon Emissions

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 3, 2024

Regan Will Not Seek Relection -- PennLive: Will-Known Harrisburg Community Leader Alvin Taylor Running For Senate Seat Being Vacated By Republican John DiSanto -- Politics PA: Think PA’s Automatic Voter Registration Favors Dems? Scott Perry Due To His Involvement In The Jan.

Natural Gas

HumanNature

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Candidate in the Department of Political Science at Colorado State University What do a crack on Glen Canyon Dam and a Van Gogh painting covered in tomato soup have in common? Yet, even when faced with widespread evidence of a climate crisis, there is a compulsion to deny that climate change will be as bad as climate models predict.

2022

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 18, 2024

. -- DEP Awards $101.1 Million In Federally-Funded Grants To Support Local Abandoned Mine-Related Restoration; Deadline For Next Round Of Grants Feb. 19-22 [PaEN] -- Senate Environmental Committee To Hold 2nd Joint Hearing With Ohio Legislature On Electric Grid Reliability Feb. 1; Will It Address Natural Gas Infrastructure Vulnerabilities ?

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 9, 2023

. -- Hold Erie Coke Accountable Calls On EPA, DEP, Erie County & City To Form Erie Coke [Coal] Plant Community Working Group On Site Cleanup, Revitalization [PaEN] -- Erie News Now: State Report Details Pollution At Erie Coke [Coal] Plant Site -- Online Link Now Available For Aug. Potter County To Sept. Potter County To Sept.

Conservation

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The president-elect, who is currently finishing his second term as a congressman, made environmental and climate change issues central to his campaign. One of the strongest names is that of Maisa Rojas, a renowned climate scientist who will take over as the new Minister for the Environment. “My

Government

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.

Climate Scientist

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 20, 2022

There is no limit to what oil companies can charge you] -- Centre Daily Times: Leading Climate Scientist Michael E. Other States/National/International -- USA Today: How Will Climate Change Impact American Companies? House returns to session March 28 (NV), 29. Mann Leaving Penn State For U. What’s Your Community Doing?

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