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Calling Out Climate Lies for a Living

Union of Concerned Scientists

So I decided to write a column in which I pretended to have been on the show alongside Tillerson, calling it “Rex & Me: The Charlie Rose Show You Should Have Seen Last Friday,” a nod to Michael Moore’s first film, Roger & Me. Rose first asked Tillerson about his take on global warming.

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We Crossed 1.5 C. Did We Breach the Paris Agreement?

Legal Planet

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 In First, Earth’s Temperature Breached Key Threshold Over a 12 Month Period ” is how the Wall Street Journal put it. Earth Just Experienced 12 Months Of Global Temperatures Above Critical 1.5C

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Deciphering the ‘SPM AR6 WG1’ code

Real Climate

The new SPM covers 41 pages, and one could debate whether that can be called a ‘summary’. Also, the summaries of the IPCC reports can seem a bit confusing. You should keep in mind that the CO 2 concentrations increase because some of us have worked hard to extract fossil resources from the ground.

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A Total Eclipse of the Heat

Legal Planet

I hope we can collectively reckon with another terrifyingly awesome atmospheric event: the hottest year. Much has been said and written about how this total eclipse can connect us. If you think the author drew any obvious connection here to the climate crisis, you’d be wrong. There’s a lesson here.

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Public Pressure on ExxonMobil Works. Little Else Does.

Union of Concerned Scientists

ExxonMobil’s withdrawal from IPAA is a victory for civil society organizations and shareholders pressuring major oil and gas corporations to stop spreading climate disinformation and blocking climate policy. What could those “areas of work” be, you ask? To be clear, this is preposterous.)

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What Happened During the Montana Youth Climate Trial

Legal Planet

At its most basic, this trial asked, “Can the state both guarantee a clean and healthful environment and ignore climate factors that contribute to a clean and healthy environment?” These five questions are a prism through which we can view the now-concluded trial from the eyes of the court. Question 5 is the stickiest.

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What 115°F in California’s Central Valley Feels Like

Union of Concerned Scientists

Stories of farmworkers picking produce under extreme heat are numerous, as the United Farm Workers (UFW) often documents. . So imagine you are a farmworker in a Central Valley community on such a day. The lowest temperature last night was 75°F, and you wake up to go to work before the sun comes out. Your feet get hot.

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