Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 19, 2023

The unprecedented spate of climate-driven catastrophes unfolding around the world right now is just terrifying. It’s understandable to sometimes feel overwhelmed and unsure what to do. Because what we choose to do next will make all the difference in how the future unfolds, especially in the lifetimes of our children and grandchildren.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

IPCC Chair Hoesung Lee called the report ” a fundamental policy document for shaping climate action in the remainder of this pivotal decade.” limit is achievable but it will take a quantum leap in climate action.” You know what makes news? You know what doesn’t make news? Is that the right outlook?

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 29, 2021

California Governor Jerry Brown in Bonn for the 2018 climate summit. You’ve likely heard that the big annual United Nations climate conference is about to get underway in Glasgow, with nations around the world gathering together to try to advance international climate cooperation. COPs are a good place to tell that story.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2022

While summer is still summer and we on the climate team at UCS look forward to ice cream and late sunsets as much as anyone, there’s something we need to tell you: Climate change has transformed summer into our country’s Danger Season, and we’d best start seeing it as such so that we can adequately prepare. What does that mean?

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

A state court judge in the ‘Last Best Place’ just gave the youth climate movement a shot in the arm with the first decision of its kind that directly connects specific state actions to global climate change and then to injuries suffered by young people. courts have not yet engaged in this kind of fact-finding on climate change.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2022

Chicago is also, as it turns out, ground zero for climate change. Climate change is making old solutions obsolete. Kearney and Merrill show that the story is a bit more complex than the conventional tale of private greed versus the public interest. What happens to lake levels depends on which trend predominates.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

The very first American trial of a youth climate lawsuit was hardly blockbuster Court TV, but we learned a lot from the proceedings. As I outlined here , Montana state law prohibits the consideration of greenhouse gas emissions or climate impacts–– inside and outside the state’s borders––when reviewing projects and approving permits.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

But its ongoing practices tell a very different story. Together with Scientists for Global Responsibility, we’ve launched a petition demanding that Elsevier and its parent company, RELX, detail their plans to align their business practices with their public commitments to address climate change. Who or what is Elsevier?

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

A friend asked me if a discussion paper published on Statistics Norway’s website, ‘ To what extent are temperature levels changing due to greenhouse gas emissions? ’, was purposely timed for the next climate summit ( COP28 ). I don’t know the answer to his question. But this discussion paper is problematic for sure.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

Just last week, we heard that with regard to climate change, “ humanity is on thin ice—and that ice is melting fast.” Yet policymakers still use the disinformation playbook to deceive and misinform the public about climate change, at the expense of our well-being and our future. No kidding, Senator. Source: Google maps.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The destruction caused by climate change is directly linked to human activity, primarily burning fossil fuels. There are multiple realistic, tangible solutions that would rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, yet policy addressing anthropogenic climate change remains slow and insufficient.

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Legal Planet

JULY 17, 2023

I like to tell them the story of Joe Mendelsohn. Mendelsohn, who worked at a tiny, obscure non-profit, decided that EPA needed to address climate change. A new book by Neil Proto, one of the participants, tells their story and that behind the Supreme Court’s rulings.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The Climate Overshoot Commission recently completed its work, releasing its report at the United Nations last Thursday, September 14. General Assembly and a collection of high-level climate and environment events, including the Sustainable Development Goals Summit , 18-19 Sept, and the Climate Ambition Summit , 20 Sept.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 18, 2022

When you think about it, the Hanukkah story is, in a funny way, about a miraculous increase in energy efficiency. This may just seem like a professor going off on a tangent — what else is new? It may seem less so when we remember how seriously climate change threatens the world and how much we need to decrease energy use.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 26, 2024

In 2011, my community experienced what was the second-largest oil spill in the province’s history – 4.5 I had to figure out how to bridge the silos that existed in our society – between the renewable energy sector, climate organizations, government policy-makers, project financers, utilities, labour, engineers – the list goes on.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

What Is Agricultural Use? We all know the story, and the percentages: of water used by human beings in California (i.e. So it makes little sense to call on urban users to conserve, so the story goes, until ag goes first. But we need to be clear, at least to ourselves, what that means. But just think about this a moment.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 7, 2024

They can also shape the public perception and awareness of the most pressing issues of our time, such as the climate crisis. However, a new study by Good Energy and the USC Norman Lear Center has found that most TV and film scripts are ignoring the climate crisis, or failing to address it in a meaningful and realistic way.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2023

The onslaught has led to another round of media headlines and press releases from environmental and public health groups asking whether the nation is at a tipping point of urgency to fight climate change. A Vox headline on the orange skies from Canadian wildfires said, “Wildfire smoke reminded people about climate change.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Climate change and upstream development made the riverfront town of Ottawa, Illinois even more prone to flooding. The town crystallizes difficult truths of climate adaptation: that safety requires constant vigilance and, often, immense personal sacrifice. That would soon change. Everybody has a story.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The fate of the Paris Pact reveals the difficulties in incorporating water into global climate agreements. National actions take precedent in climate adaptation and mitigation over watershed-level plans. Recognition of water in national climate plans is increasing but more could be done. What became of the Paris Pact?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 10, 2023

I love the way the state isn’t afraid to lead in times of great change. But those workers, all the Rosies riveting away under welding helmets, sleeping in shifts, for months and even years, didn’t know how the story would end. Here’s what we at UCS are doing to make that happen. The state continues to lead.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

APRIL 4, 2021

The expected benefits depend on what the person steals. What is the resale value of the object? This background now allows me to tell my story. A friend of mine bought my new Yale Press Book; Adapting to Climate Change. To end this true story, permit me to note that this is an example of how economists operate.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 2, 2021

Decades ago, their own scientists told car companies and oil companies about climate change, information the companies chose to ignore. Those scientists advocated for the truth, and their stories deserve telling. He talked her into studying climate change. What about the oil industry?

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 11, 2023

One of the featured speakers in the first webinar-- Re-Imagining A Christian Response To A Changing Climate-- was Dr. Julia O’Brien from the Lancaster Theological Seminary. She shared her expertise as a scholar of the Hebrew Bible [the Old Testament] and what the implications are in reading the text can have on our theology.

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Real Climate

JANUARY 13, 2023

But there are a few things that don’t get covered much in the mainstream stories, and so we can dig into them a bit here. What influence does ENSO really have? It’s well known (among readers here, I assume), that ENSO influences the interannual variability of the climate system and the annual mean temperatures.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

We’ve reached the midpoint of the annual, two-week international climate conference known as COP (for “conference of parties”), so it’s a good time to reflect on what’s gone down in Dubai. That work is essential and has attracted a lot of attention as an early COP success.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 31, 2023

Read the full story from the Pew Research Center. A recent report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has underscored the need for international action to avoid increasingly severe climate impacts in the years to come.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2023

Today the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released its annual report on billion-dollar weather and climate-related disasters in the United States, which tells a grimly familiar story. Many of these disasters—including floods, storms, wildfires and droughts—were worsened by climate change. .

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Earlier this week, Greenwire (subscription required) had an interesting story about the role that EPA’s estimate of the cost to comply with the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards rule played in the politics and judicial review of the rule. Unfortunately, the $9.6 Unfortunately, the $9.6

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Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

What is South Korea doing to cut its emissions? South Korea is one of the world’s great economic success stories, going from an impoverished agricultural country at midcentury to a developed country today. South Korea has made significant international climate commitments. At the moment, South Korean climate policy is in flux.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 1, 2023

The story centers largely on one anecdote from the town of Encintas, California in June when a 15-year-old riding an e-bike was clipped by a van and thrown violently while waiting to turn left on a 55-mile-per-hour road. Here are three: E-bikes are a powerful climate solution. Cars and car-centric design are often the problem.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 2, 2023

Climate change news is often quite depressing, with frequent stories on the science and ever-worsening impacts. What gets lost in this otherwise important coverage is the amazing and inspiring tales of innovation and solutions happening all around us, in every sector and walk of life.

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Energy & the Law

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Its time again to report on climate-related news from a perspective other than the alarmists. First, have you wondered why all the news your Google search finds seems to spell climate D-O-O-M? Maybe its because the UN has teamed up with the search engine to bury the kind of stories you see here. Don’t take my word for it.

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Washington Nature

APRIL 16, 2024

After the volcano erupted, DeAnne produced a show for Portland’s Town Hall program that allowed those affected by the eruption to come together and tell their stories. We wanted to create a show to hear what people’s experience had been and to talk about their needs,” DeAnne said. This story ties in to townhall.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 19, 2023

Read the full story at Inside Climate News. New research reveals what one scientist called a “very stark image of climate change” as methane leaks from springs exposed by the glaciers’ retreat.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JANUARY 26, 2024

With the urgency climate change demands, they came from a diverse array of states with an important and powerful message to share: keep IRA funding for conservation programs in agriculture. This can include improving practices already carried out, or finding new conservation practices that complement what farmers are already doing.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 17, 2023

And what are nuclear weapon states missing that they so desperately need to understand? One of the differences between the countries belonging to a NWFZ and Nuclear Weapons States (NWS) is the different perception they have in what security means. But the fact is nuclear weapons are devastating no matter what country owns them.

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