Circle of Blue

AUGUST 22, 2022

Despite promising adaptation strategies, sea level rise is projected to drown tens of thousands of acres of farmland within the century. He makes his living on the Turnbridge Plantation in his hometown of Hardeeville, South Carolina, 30 minutes from the Atlantic Ocean. Storm events are getting steadily more intense.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

Sea level rise is a big deal Use, abuse and misuse of the CMIP6 ensemble The radiative forcing bar chart has gone full circle Droughts and floods are complicated Don’t mention the hiatus. Sea Level Rise: The previous IPCC reports, notably AR4 and AR5 (to a lesser extent) , have had a hard time dealing with SLR.

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Ocean Conservancy

JANUARY 18, 2023

As a person immersed in this interior, “fresh coast” worldview, I hadn’t spent much time considering how our practices might affect the ocean thousands of miles away. Love ocean content? Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. What would this mean for the ocean and coastal spaces? Enter Your Email.loading.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 5, 2022

But plastics present a much broader threat to our ocean, climate and marginalized coastal communities. More plastic means more pollution—for the climate, coastal communities and our ocean. This current legislation provides an opportunity for government leaders, and all of us, to have their backs in advancing their fights.

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 29, 2021

Although both the Jobs Plan and the Families Plan are critical components of building back better, I want to take a deeper look into why the American Jobs Plan is inexplicably linked to our ocean and climate—and why accounting for this link is vital to the plan’s success. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 20, 2021

The significance of the ocean to humanity cannot be overstated, whether it is regulating Earth’s climate, providing food to billions or helping society transition to renewable, fossil fuel-free energy. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. © Daniel Sebastian Padilla Ochoa/Ocean Conservancy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

For example, sea level rise and climate-driven migration from the islands threatens Vanuatu sand drawing traditions, endangering the passing down of important traditional knowledge on kinship, farming, and seasonal cycles. Many climate threats to intangible heritage have been identified. What’s next for climate and cultural rights?

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Real Climate

AUGUST 25, 2023

that the sea surface temperature there in winter is a good index of AMOC strength, based on a high-resolution climate model. Not in summer when the ocean is covered by a shallow surface mixed layer heated by the sun and highly dependent on weather conditions.) We argued in Caesar et al. The reanalysis data show the latter is the case.

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 24, 2021

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. This transition will require a huge amount of investment from governments and the private sector at all levels. That’s not helping our ocean or Americans. Offshore wind power is a key ocean-based climate solution that we need to invest in. Never miss an update.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2023

Some marine species also experience boundaries to movement, including ocean currents, thermoclines, and shipping lanes, but they are generally more able to track changes in sea temperatures. In the oceans, prolonged periods of unusually high sea surface temperatures are having a major impact.

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Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

This government-wide effort seeks to ensure that at least 40% of the overall benefits from federal investments in climate and clean energy are realized in disadvantaged communities. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Never miss an update. Enter Your Email.loading.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 7, 2022

The legislation would create a Chief Resilience Officer (CRO) to serve under the White House and authorize the development and implementation of a comprehensive, government-wide national climate adaptation and resilience strategy. The legislation would require the federal government to: Strategically address worsening climate impacts.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 7, 2023

By Prof Martin Siegert, University of Exeter (Cornwall) Image: Shutterstock.com 42 governments around the world have agreed to protect Antarctica’s environment. In the ocean, 19 marine heatwaves have been recorded between 2002 and 2018. Prof Martin Siegert in Antarctica. The world’s largest ever heatwave (38.5C

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Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2023

Consequently, the response to this advisory opinion request should consider the climate change regime set by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Paris Agreement (Paris Agreement) concerning the ocean. However, ITLOS is not responsible for implementing the UNFCCC or the Paris Agreement.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JANUARY 17, 2024

Sea level rise is also important in the region, causing saltwater intrusion and salinization. from Chapter 21 of NCA5 Changes like sea level rise are resulting in the loss of culturally significant locations for subsistence harvesting. Other risks include increasing tropical cyclones and sea level rise.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

“There is, in fact, substantial scientific evidence that there’s a strong link between global warming and heat waves and coastal flooding from sea-level rise,” I said. Later in the hour, Tillerson told Rose that the federal government should end subsidies for renewable energy. “I

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 10, 2021

As ocean lovers, we’re always searching for effective ways to conserve and protect all the ocean holds and provides. No matter our skillset or where we live, we are all connected to the ocean and we each have the potential to contribute. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Never miss an update.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 13, 2021

Just months be fore the crucial UN climate summit, COP26 kicks off in Glasgow, UK in November the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued one of its starkest reports stating that governments have taken too long to take action and we are now paying the price. What’s to come.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

By railing against what he calls a “radical climate change movement” and suing the federal government to protect corporate polluters. In 2015, when he took office as AG after stints in the Texas Legislature, he sued the Environmental Protection Agency for strengthening a standard for ground-level ozone, better known as smog.

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Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 12, 2022

Now, as I am preparing for the Our Ocean Conference in Palau—one of the small island states being heavily affected by rising sea levels—those thoughts remain at the forefront of my mind. Want to learn more about ocean animals? Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Sign up to receive our emails.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2022

For 2022, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicted a season with above normal activity on its August 4 updated forecast , calling for 14-20 named storms. As we said previously , “Fiona caught Puerto Rico’s government utterly unprepared, leaving the population unprotected.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 16, 2023

found that the companies—down to 88 due to mergers—were responsible for about 55 percent of ocean acidification between 1880 and 2015. CP: There are lots of things that the federal government could do to hold corporations accountable. Ekwurzel was joined by Heede, then-UCS climate scientist Peter Frumhoff , and four other scientists.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

STILL FIDDLING, AT 100 SECONDS TO MIDNIGHT, AS THE WORLD WARMS, FLOODS AND BURNS: OCEANS’ SURVIVAL NEED FASTER SITING AND TRANSMISSION OF OFFSHORE WIND FARM PROJECTS. levels continue to increase faster than at any know. sea level rise. atmospheric CO2 levels. By Jeff Thaler, Esq. . ?. . cean acidity. wildfires.

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 20, 2023

Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. How are the folks at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) helping with all this extreme weather? Coastal flooding : Sea levels are rising as the ocean heats up and polar ice melts.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 2, 2022

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. As the CEO of Ocean Conservancy, I naturally look to our ocean. We can decrease production of virgin plastic that comes from fossil fuels and pollutes our ocean as well. If we continue on our current path, we will see our ocean deteriorate before our eyes.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

As the risks of sea-level rise, stronger tropical storms and seawater intrusion grow due to climate change , Indonesia is ramping up efforts to protect mangrove ecosystems across the archipelago as part of both its COVID-19 recovery efforts and climate change commitments. Photo credit: Andry Denisah / Alamy. By Nithin Coca.

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Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Clean ocean energy solutions are critical to reducing emissions and averting the climate crisis. Climate change is the single greatest threat our ocean faces. It puts the wildlife and communities that depend on the ocean at risk through impacts like ocean acidification, sea level rise and temperature changes.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

SB 1145 requires CARB to create and maintain an online dashboard providing the public with information about the state’s progress on meeting its climate change goals, increasing government accountability. A Few Notable Vetoes. Conclusion.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 20, 2023

Some of the highest risks can be found in the candidates’ home states: the ocean off of Florida has hit 98 degrees— hot tub temp s! Coastal residents can see in the UCS report, Underwater , how sea level rise will impact real estate in every coastal zip code and congressional district.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 10, 2022

Scientists call this the urban heat island effect because, when you look at a map of temperatures, cities will appear as hot “islands” surrounded by a cooler “ocean” of lower temperatures in the surrounding areas. What can state and local governments, together with communities, do?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 20, 2023

This new research found that ExxonMobil’s climate projections from its internally developed models accurately projected the temperature rise that has happened since then and that its calculations were in line with independent research produced at the time by academic and government scientists.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 2, 2022

For example, the SEC rule’s disclosure regime is based on one created by the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) , an international initiative that grew out of a council of government finance officials known as the G20.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2022

More disappointing, framing outcomes in false binaries of success or failure can lead us to think that the most consequential climate actions only take place at these elite global summits—when action is urgently needed from every single one of us, and, from every institution, corporation, and government.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).

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Law Columbia

APRIL 12, 2023

The interplay between the ocean and climate change is in the scientific literature , including recent reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The ocean is both a ‘victim’ of climate change (e.g., absorption of GHG by the oceans is the upstream cause of ocean acidification) and ‘part of the solution’ (e.g.,

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Acoel

OCTOBER 18, 2022

However, that cooperation masks the failure of federal and state governments, and the private sector, to work together to tackle climate change, which likely exacerbated the intensity and destructiveness of that storm. And even a slight rise in sea level makes the threat of a storm surge that more terrifying.

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Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

Warmer temperatures will encourage the melting of glaciers, ice fields, summer Arctic sea ice, and permafrost, some of which may be irreversible. Sea levels will continue to rise throughout the 21st century, contributing to more frequent and severe coastal flooding in low-lying areas along coasts around the world.

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