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Why Climate Scientists Are Sounding the Alarm on the Ocean Circulation System AMOC

Union of Concerned Scientists

Last month, 44 climate scientists from 15 countries wrote an open letter to the Nordic Council of Ministers highlighting the risk of a potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a critical ocean current system in the Atlantic Ocean. What are climate scientists demanding? degrees Celsius.

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Climate Science Deniers and Fossil Fuel Greenwashing: Danger in Trump’s Second Term

Union of Concerned Scientists

Chris Wright, Trumps nominee for Energy Secretary , has denied the well-established connection between climate change and extreme weather events. Liberty Energy, the fracking corporation he heads, describes its Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) focus as delivering secure, reliable, affordable access to energy.

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Why is EPA at War with Its Own Employees?

Legal Planet

It is not too soon to be explaining that storms like this are becoming more intense as a result of climate change. Attribution science has progressed rapidly, but it will take some time to study the Texas flood, according to scientists on  a webinar panel held this week by Climate Central.

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Future Trends in Climate Litigation Against Governments

Law Columbia

National governments are the most important systemic actors in the governance of climate action, primarily because they are the only actors with the ability to adopt economy-wide decarbonization measures. Over 80 government framework cases have been filed around the world, using a wide variety of legal and factual arguments.

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How Post-War Justice Strategies Can Be Applied to the Climate Crisis  

Union of Concerned Scientists

The subsequent rise of attribution science has been able to prove the direct correlation between climate change and specific disasters like drought, wildfires, and extreme heat. Climate scientists at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) even have linked disasters to individual companies , some of which are state-owned like Saudi Aramco.

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The COP26 climate summit: what scientists hope it will achieve

Physics World

But the United Nations has just said that the latest commitments of the 192 parties of the 2015 Paris agreement will equate to a 16% rise in global greenhouse-gas emissions in 2030 compared to 2010. While most climate scientists are not directly involved in high-level negotiations, their work is essential to the process.

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The cost of climate inaction laid bare as fatal wildfires sweep Turkey

A Greener Life

They said the government was not doing enough to help them, while 16 planes and 51 helicopters tackled the blazes across a swathe of southwest Turkey. Climate scientists have long predicted that the Mediterranean will be hit hard by rising temperatures and changes in rainfall, driven by human emissions.