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Twenty years of blogging in hindsight

Real Climate

In a nutshell, they are responsible for climate change, mainly due to an increased greenhouse effect. The consequence is global warming, changes to Earth’s hydrological cycle, melting ice and snow, thawing permafrost, rising sea levels and changes to the weather statistics.

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Four Reasons We Investigated the Fossil Fuels Behind Forest Fires: an Inside View of Latest UCS Report

Union of Concerned Scientists

1 – People and places are struggling with wildfire As a climate scientist living in California and witnessing the consequences of decades of unchecked climate change, my personal and professional lives often overlap. Last summer, my family and I went on a long, winding road trip through California and Oregon.

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War in Ukraine and the Climate Crisis Are Connected: Our Future Depends on Solutions that Address Both

Union of Concerned Scientists

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. Europe is starting to take some important steps in that direction through its REPowerEU plan aimed at getting off Russian gas before 2030.

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Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults

PA Environment Daily

Visit DEP’s Teaching Green webpage to learn about more environmental education resources.

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Senate Committees Hear Familiar Pro/Con Comments On Economic, Environmental Impacts Of EQB’s Final Carbon Pollution Reduction Program Covering Power Plants - RGGI

PA Environment Daily

Republicans said the final regulations will increase the cost of electricity for individuals and businesses, have a negative impact on jobs and will not significantly reduce carbon pollution. While electricity rates are already rising across the country, during the first 10 years that RGGI was in place, rates dropped nearly 6% in RGGI states.

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May 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Columbia Climate Law

States, Electricity Providers Allowed to Intervene in Case Concerning Management of Glen Canyon Dam. A climate change-related argument rejected by the trial court—that sea level rise projections in the Plan were too high and not based on best available science—did not appear to have been before the appellate court.

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March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

First, the court said the cities’ novel theories of liability based on the defendants’ sales of their product did not differentiate their claims from earlier transboundary pollution suits in which the Supreme Court ( American Electric Power Co. Arizona Court Ordered Production of Climate Scientists’ Emails Under Arizona’s Public Records Law.