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What Happened During the Montana Youth Climate Trial

Legal Planet

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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The unconventional scientist who predicted that rising carbon dioxide levels would change the climate

Physics World

Then in 1896, preliminary calculations by Arrhenius hinted that humanity’s burning of fossil fuels could raise CO 2 levels and warm our planet. This was finally validated in 1938, when Callendar first carried out effective climate modelling. Callendar was born in 1898. 139 1961 ).

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We should not sugarcoat the reality of climate impacts

A Greener Life

By Anders Lorenzen The former Chief Scientist for the UK Government, Sir David King did not hold back the scientific reality of years of climate inaction when he addressed the audience at the Net Zero Festival in London, organised by Business Green, a clean energy publication.

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A distraction due to errors, misunderstanding and misguided Norwegian statistics

Real Climate

In other words, the claim shows a lack of knowledge and is a well-known old argument that I commented on Realclimate.org in 2007. A common strawman argument We don’t expect to discern a clear effect of greenhouse gases on local measurements, and mixing up local and global climate is a basis for a common strawman argument.

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Smoke in Our Eyes: National Park Grandeur Degraded by Global Warming

Union of Concerned Scientists

It was because of smoke during the 2007 wildfire season in the United States, the second worst at the time for acreage burned. It makes them ripe for disproportional impacts from climate change, relative to the nation in general. It was an apocalyptic encore of the worst-ever 2006 season that saw 9.9 million acres burned.

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The Endangerment Finding Is in Danger. Will EPA’s Zeldin Uphold Climate Science?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Its no surprise that this anti-science, pro-fossil fuel administration wants to go after the Endangerment Finding. Of course, an honest assessment of the latest climate science will show that since 2009 the evidence has become even more compelling and dire. What is the Endangerment Finding? Environmental Protection Agency et al.

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Roe v. Wade Draft Bodes Ill for Air, Wetlands and EPA

Union of Concerned Scientists

Fossil fuel and chemical polluters, business lobbyists and conservative private land interests have fought these laws and the EPA since their inception and they made fresh headway during the Trump administration, which undertook a widespread effort to gut environmental protections and slashed staffing of the EPA back to levels of the 1980s.