Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 6, 2021

agencies that the emergency was “the world’s first climate-induced famine.” Instead, the biggest factors contributing to widespread hunger are political and economic. Friederike Otto, one of the study’s co-authors, said that the ongoing famine highlights the risks faced by vulnerable nations, even without climate breakdown.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

But the effect of greenhouse gases is not even investigated in the paper – which suggests the title is politically motivated. This warming was predicted not only by independent university and government scientists, but also by scientists from the oil company Exxon. Is it sheer incompetence or is it politically motivated?

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

Climate Envoy Kerry: No Rolling Back Clean Energy Transition PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- Inquirer: 100 Days: A Look At Shapiro’s ‘Common Ground’ Approach To Governing One Of The Nation’s Most Politically Divided States -- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: Pennsylvania’s House Takeover - A Tale Of Two Speakers - By Fmr Rep.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

If you’re not a climate scientist—and maybe even if you are—reading news headlines this month has been confounding and a little scary. “In Climate Threshold ,” was the version at Forbes. C is a political target, not a scientifically determined limit. C,” and “pursue efforts” to limit heating to 1.5 Q: Why is 1.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

The legislation would lump climate science together with abortion, immigration, and diversity, equity and inclusion, labelling all of them “controversial.” Professors would be required to “encourage and allow students to reach their own conclusions” and “not seek to inculcate any social, political, or religious point of view.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In fact, a recent study examined parts of this heat wave—from late November up until December 11, 2022—and found that climate change made the event 60 times more likely. As a climate scientist, I’m used to reading attribution numbers on the order of magnitude of 15, 20, or maybe 30 times more likely.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 5, 2022

Profile Dr. Mann has spent his career investigating climate change, communicating about its reality, and highlighting the politics that seek to undermine action against it. Mann’s research on climate variability and extremes has been at the forefront of climate change science.

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Edouard Stenger

APRIL 25, 2023

Michael E Mann is a climate scientist who is famous for the hockey stick theory. He has been for a long time a target of attacks from conservatives and climate deniers. Very useful as a social and political commentary, it felt short in quite a few ways. This is not useful at all for our energy transition.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

In the 103-page decision , the court relies heavily on the facts laid out by these climate scientists who testified under oath and faced cross-examination. The current barriers to implementing renewable energy systems are not technical or economic, but social and political,” the decision says.  Is it a ‘game-changer’?

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2023

. -- April 10 PA Environment Digest Now Available [PaEN] -- Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Facility Malfunction Dec. 27 Released 1.1

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 18, 2022

Impacts are worse than early climate scientists predicted, and rising temperatures limit potential adaptation opportunities. Some climate impacts are irreversible and cannot be addressed by remedies down the line. Disinformation has impeded action.

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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

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2023

Disinformation dulls urgency Climate change denial and skepticism is a key feature of the deep political divide in this nation, fueled by long-running and coordinated campaigns of disinformation , often funded by fossil fuel interests. Climate scientists are not sitting on their 99.9 percent consensus.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Despite being in the same political party that created it, the UK’s new prime minister, Liz Truss, is in the process of completely changing the country’s energy policy. Campaigners and climate advocates have reacted strongly to the move, with Greenpeace UK deeming it ‘unlawful’. A North Sea oil platform. By Anders Lorenzen.

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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.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 7, 2024

While climate scientists focus on refining model simulations, very few countries appear to see geoengineering as primarily a question of narrowly scientific or even purely climatic feasibility. And the window within which effective governance could be established is closing.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Through greenwashing ads, disinformation campaigns, attacks on scientists, and production of fake scientific evidence, the industry has engaged the playbook of deception to undermine climate action. To explore climate justice, I drew on the three-fold framework of justice theory. I restructured my Ph.D.

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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.

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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.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Millions of children worldwide are at risk from the devastating floods which have impacted almost every corner of the Earth this year, and which climate scientists say have intensified and are happening much more frequently due to climate change. Photo credit: UNICEF / UN0580114 / Ramasomanana. By Anders Lorenzen.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

What we heard in plaintiffs’ case was not justiciable controversy, but rather a weeklong hearing of political grievances that properly belongs to the legislature, not a court of law,” said Assistant Attorney General Michael Russell. The admission says a lot about political will. I’m kidding, but only slightly.)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

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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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 2, 2022

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. Will he follow through with a policy that limits carbon pollution from Canada’s #1 polluters?

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A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

The UN agency concluded global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are at the highest levels in human history and without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors limiting climate change to 1.5°C C will be beyond reach.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

The note can also be interpreted as an insult because it suggests that we climate scientists do not know our subject. We know from previous experience that it is likely that such cases will be used uncritically and selectively for political and economic goals. Hence my friend’s question about COP28.

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Greenbuilding Law

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

But, Michael Mann is a well known climate scientist whose research in studying the “paleoclimate,” or ancient climate, has featured prominently in the politically charged debate about climate change. who referred to an article by Simberg article in his article.

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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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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.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 11, 2023

degrees, the upper limit described by climate scientists to avoid irreversible climate catastrophe. This scenario is not politically realistic, but is the only scenario which aligns with global equity, considering Canada’s historical GHG emissions and ability to transition.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

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 Although politics is a new world for her, she has been involved in a number of different capacities for some time.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The resulting closures caused great unemployment and hardship in coal-mining areas, together with much social and political violence and unrest in 1984-5. The emissions from the burning of coal such as steel and power plants are the single biggest contributor to climate change. degrees C target.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Climate scientists are adamant that CCS en masse is needed if we are to avoid the worst impacts of climate change; a view backed by the International Energy Agency (IEA) adds that the sector must grow fast and store 7.6 billion tonnes of CO2 each year – a huge increase from the 40 million tonnes currently stored.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Arizona Board of Regents Filed Notice of Appeal in Climate Scientist Public Records Case. In addition to adding the New York attorney general as a defendant, Exxon also sought leave to add claims of federal preemption and for conspiracy to deprive Exxon of its constitutional rights. motion to intervene Oct.

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A Greener Life

JULY 6, 2022

I have directed my legal team to work with the Department of Justice and affected agencies to review this decision carefully and find ways that we can, under federal law, continue protecting Americans from harmful pollution, including pollution that causes climate change.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 17, 2024

But Climate Scientists are Still Under Attack. What’s Missing From Railroad Safety Data? Dead Workers and Severed Limbs.

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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? 7] While despair, pessimism, and grief are often associated with political apathy, [8] pessimistic hope can inspire bold activism and provide an outlet for grief.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

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