Legal Planet

AUGUST 7, 2023

That brings us to the second argument that companies could make, that any deception claims relate to speech intended to influence the political process and that political speech is exempt from liability even if it is false. The boundary between those two categories is somewhat blurry. Are the lawsuits preempted by federal law?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In contrast to civil, political, and economic rights, cultural rights have been side-lined and neglected in dialogues about climate policy and human rights. Sea level rise, coastal flooding and erosion due to more extreme storms have drastically affected traditional food gardens and plantations, and damaged coconut groves.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

If we had been optimizing to the new climate from scratch, we would have spent more money on infrastructure; settlement patterns would have been different; cities would have been located further from sea level; and our current population might be lower given the need to grow food in more challenging weather.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

This is not a surprise, particularly after Governor Lamont’s statement that there is no political support for TCI in Connecticut. We’re just incurring the cost in extreme weather and rising sea levels, rather than by paying more for gas at the pump. It’s called an externality. That’s not a good long-term tradeoff.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

While temperatures provide a measure of the Earth’s climate, it is even better to use the global sea level , which provides a far more reliable measure. The global sea level acts like the mercury in a thermometer because warmer water expands. Hence my friend’s question about COP28.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A simple statement that masks just how complicated the issues are: mixing politics, economics, livelihoods, fisheries and endangered species in the ocean body that is the Gulf of Maine. Sea levels are rising. The Gulf of Maine Research Institute climate dashboard clearly indicates sea surface temperature anomalies.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Hope for government relief is weaning among Ghanaians displaced by rising sea levels and flooding. “By Seaside towns and cities like Keta have slowly been eroding over the years due to rising sea levels. Proposed regulations in California could fine residents for wasting water. By Sunday at dawn, the water was everywhere.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

APRIL 11, 2024

I didn’t have the political language,” Resita said. In her film, Resita explains that this is so common that you can predict the sea level of an area based on its racial demographics, known as racial topography. In Princeville, a Black community was built on land that was undesirable to white people at the time.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

C, with both those temperature increases defined relative to pre-industrial levels, meaning the period between 1850 and 1900 because that’s how far back reasonably good temperature records go. C is a political target, not a scientifically determined limit. It says the Agreement aims to hold global-average heating “well below 2.0

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 2, 2022

Impacts on People and Politics Not Addressed. The proposed SEC rule also fails to address political influence. UCS recommended that the SEC require companies to disclose political activity, including direct and indirect election spending and lobbying. Investors—and the public—deserve stability and certainty.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

While changing consumption is an important part of the climate action conversation, such talking points from the fossil fuel industry obscure its decades-long campaign of disinformation around climate science, not to mention the resources and political power they have amassed to limit consumers’ options for other forms of energy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 26, 2024

In addition, a more inclusive approach to EO 12866 meetings could allow for the input of marginalized communities that are already seeing harms from sea level rise and changing patterns of severe weather.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In an article about loss of coastal land in Louisiana, Oliver Houck observed that sea level rise might pose a “grim” long-term threat to the coast but had had little effect to date. There were a few more mentions of climate change in 1983. She also called for international consultations and for strategies to deal with deforestation.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 29, 2021

They are often left to deal with climate effects on the ground, from wildfires to sea level rise to drought, and they can provide a political bulwark of sorts even as U.S. federal climate action wavers or underdelivers. That may prove very useful at COP26 and beyond. Download as PDF. The post What do U.S.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

While the Governor signed a number of significant environmental laws, he also vetoed several, including laws intended to address impacts to low-income communities of color from air pollution, water pollution, and sea level rise. A Few Notable Vetoes.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 26, 2024

In addition, a more inclusive approach to EO 12866 meetings could allow for the input of marginalized communities that are already seeing harms from sea level rise and changing patterns of severe weather.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 3, 2022

Saltwater Intrusion, a “Slow Poison” to East Coast Drinking Water — Summer tourism, sea level rise, and storm surges threaten East Coast wells. While the issue has gained political traction in the United States, it has flown under the radar in Britain. New flash flood watches were issued for this week. 140 PEOPLE.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 7, 2024

The consequences of the climate crisis are already visible and devastating, such as rising temperatures, melting ice caps, sea level rise, extreme weather events, droughts, floods, wildfires, biodiversity loss, food insecurity, water scarcity, displacement, conflict, disease, and death. C by 2030.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Low-income residents in the slums of Gambia’s capital city face severe flooding as sea levels rise and infrastructure deteriorates. HotSpots H2O: In Afghanistan, Political Upheaval Aggravates Drought-Fueled Famine – Drought, a financial crisis, and political collapse are accelerating the country’s decline into all-out famine.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 7, 2022

By restoring degraded ecosystems and effectively and equitably conserving 30 to 50 per cent of Earth’s land, freshwater and ocean habitats, society can benefit from nature’s capacity to absorb and store carbon, and we can accelerate progress towards sustainable development, but adequate finance and political support are essential.”.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 20, 2023

This methodology is similar to my own work combining climate science, political science, and history to reconstruct how UN climate negotiations have played out and what that implies for climate justice. The present is always being created out of past actions that led to where we are today.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 1, 2022

It is a clear demonstration for how our future depends on society’s choices and the political will of those in leadership positions. This level of warming would lead to devastating losses in habitats, increased risk of sea level rise in extreme heat and other weather impacts that would put many communities at risk.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The blue zone at COP27 holds negotiation rooms, along with the official plenary space where political leaders meet and make decisions.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

In 2022 floods, driven by rising sea- levels, tidal surges, and extreme and prolonged rainfall have contributed to the increased spread of major killers of children, such as malnutrition, malaria, cholera and diarrhoea. . The outbreak has claimed the lives of 203 people, including 28 children.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

APRIL 24, 2022

Name any climate change challenge you can think of ranging from sea level rise, to extreme heat, to increased fire risk and I discuss how capitalism helps us to adapt to the challenge. Climate adaptation optimism is still viewed as politically incorrect stuff.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

From rising sea levels and increased flooding to more frequent, severe, and widespread wildfires, the effects of climate change are being felt across the United States. States and local governments are suing for damages So why are states and local governments suing the fossil fuel industry now? But the tide is turning.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

It captures the changes in mortality rates that are going to happen… the changes in crop yields… the changes in sea level rise, and the damages that will cost…”. How fast will sea levels and temperatures rise? What is the cost of living with, versus adapting to, sea level rise?

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

At this point, they remain political. And history teaches us that political obstacles can be overcome,” he wrote in an editorial accompanying the article, also published in Frontiers in Science.   Sea-level rise for decades after net zero is an example we must plan for, but there may be others that require further analysis.

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Acoel

JANUARY 20, 2023

The term has become politically volatile, yet recognizing a community’s risk level – whether it’s risk of flooding, heat, earthquakes or forest fires – and then deciding how to address it is key to assuring our societal safety. The rich, the poor, the elderly, the disabled, the young? That’s a very tall order.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Climate change causes sea-level rise, natural resource scarcity, and natural disasters. First, scarcity of natural resources can change the political economy of a state. Southern Sudan started experiencing drought as a result of sea level temperature rise in the Indian Ocean. The conflict in .

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

What stands in the way of progress is the need for governments in the G20 to take the political decisions to get the transformation underway,” he said. In addition, finance for loss and damage caused by irreversible impacts, such as sea-level rise and salination of groundwater, is going to be a big theme going forward.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2022

Danger season, together with ongoing slow-moving disasters like sea level rise, is pushing people and ecosystems to their limits in many places. Moreover, in many parts of the world, poverty and structural inequities rooted in colonialism, unfair economic systems, and discrimination are exposing some people to heightened risks.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

As a scholar of political science, this provokes compelling questions about current relationships across states, their governments, and who offers protection. Political Geography 26 (6): 639–655 Browning, C., The Future of Critical Security Studies: Ethics and The Politics OfSecurity. Guest Post by Julie Liebenguth , Ph.D.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 26, 2021

In an opinion by Justice Stevens, the Court held that the threat of sea level rise gave a state government standing to bring the suit. This is my nominee as the most important Supreme Court environmental ruling of all time. It was the first case in which the Court was confronted with the issue of climate change.

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Vermont Law

JUNE 21, 2023

Ask most people, and they will say that we are already living in a catastrophe; just look at the eradication of the coral reefs , the rising sea levels , and melting icebergs. The awareness has increased for sure (which is a good thing).

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Vermont Law

MAY 2, 2023

Ask most people, and they will say that we are already living in a catastrophe; just look at the eradication of the coral reefs , the rising sea levels , and melting icebergs. The awareness has increased for sure (which is a good thing).

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Instead, it has been to stem and confuse the flow of information about climate change to the public and political leaders. The California plaintiffs, by contrast, are seeking money damages from fossil fuel companies to offset the costs required to adapt to, among other things, rising sea levels. What is the class of tortfeasors?

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