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Arctic Report Card 2024: How Did the Region Fare? Ask the Caribou

Union of Concerned Scientists

This report, issued by NOAA annually since 2006, was a much-anticipated event at the annual American Geophysical Union meeting because the implications matter far beyond the Arctic. It was its first failing grade after thousands of years holding onto more carbon than released to the atmosphere.

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Core collection: Facing climate change

Environmental News Bits

Booklist published its first core collection on climate change in 2006, and all of the books listed there are still urgently important because the reality of global warming is still being denied in spite of ever-rising planetary temperatures and the ever-worsening impacts of climate change.

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What do U.S. states do at a COP, anyway?

Legal Planet

The core of this gathering is the yearly “conference of parties” (or COP) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and its related implementing protocols, including the Kyoto Protocol and, most recently, the Paris Agreement. negotiations. The first is boosterism–which isn’t as silly as it may sound.

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Droughts Push More People to Migrate Than Floods

Circle of Blue

Indications of migration due to water scarcity and groundwater depletion came as early as 2006 in Mexico’s Tehuacán Valley where a combination of declining rainfall and factory farms caused community wells to go dry. “It is not easy to be outside of one’s homeland,” she told Circle of Blue in 2006.

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We’re Naming Summer “Danger Season” in the US. Here’s Why.

Union of Concerned Scientists

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. Dangerous?!

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Sea Level Rise is Already Threatening Communities

Union of Concerned Scientists

But with estimates suggesting that sea level rise will affect more than one billion people around the world in the next 25 years, this is one member of the dysfunctional climate change family that shouldn’t be ignored. And since 2006, it has been even faster: as high as 4.2 Why is this?

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Inside the IPCC 61st Plenary Meeting: Debates and Decisions Shaping Climate Policy

Union of Concerned Scientists

Outline of a Special Report on Climate Change and Cities Delegates dissected the proposed outline for the Climate Change and Cities report over several days. We intervened when the debate veered into specific scientific questions, particularly the question of whether wildfires are being influenced by climate change.