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A distraction due to errors, misunderstanding and misguided Norwegian statistics

Real Climate

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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CMIP6: Not-so-sudden stratospheric cooling

Real Climate

That means the greenhouse substances are basically just CO2 and ozone, and they absorb in quite different parts of the spectrum. The basic concept is easy to grasp though. The upper atmosphere is different from the troposphere in that pressure is much less, and it’s very dry.

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The world’s oceans are heading towards peak acidity?

A Greener Life

The heat trapped by human-induced greenhouse gases will warm the planet for many generations to come.” The annual increase from 2013 to 2021 is more than double the increase between 1993 to 2002. In a statement, WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas said “Our climate is changing before our eyes.

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Green Building may be our Best Hope to Repair the Planet

Greenbuilding Law

The de riguer environmental imperative of responding to the immediate threat of global warming through reducing greenhouse gas emissions, to the detriment of other environmental impacts, is simply taking one environmental impact too far. This is not my perspective alone.

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Gregory L. Ebel: The Pipeline Pusher

Enviromental Defense

While “natural” gas is mostly composed of methane, a greenhouse gas that’s 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide during its first 20 years in the atmosphere, Ebel and his industry counterparts have succeeded in minimizing the perception of its climate impact.

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Reflections from Columbia’s Forum on Climate-Related Fiduciary Duty

Law Columbia

As the physical and economic harms of climate change accumulate, corporate managers have faced increasing pressure to reduce their companies greenhouse gas emissions and adapt their businesses to climate-related risks. Broadly, fiduciary duties arise when one person entrusts another with discretion over their financial affairs.

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Susannah Pierce: A Climate Villain Painting Big Oil Green

Enviromental Defense

Just days before the conference she was featured in an article where she attempted to shift blame away from the fossil fuel industry by saying that oil companies can only decarbonize as fast as the rest of the economy – a comment that completely ignores the fact that the oil and gas industry is Canada’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions.