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Ask a Scientist: Calling Out the Companies Responsible for Western Wildfires

Union of Concerned Scientists

Since that 2014 study, which laid the foundation of what is called climate source attribution science , UCS scientists have collaborated with Heede on two other studies that pinpointed the major carbon producers’ culpability for specific climate change-related trends. percent of total emissions. What went into that calculation?

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Using Attribution Science to Evaluate the Effects of Oil and Gas Emissions on Endangered and Threatened Species

Law Columbia

However, detection and attribution methods can also be used to quantify the relationship between a specific GHG contribution and specific consequences of climate change, such as temperature and sea level rise. Less sea ice also means that bears must swim longer distances, which poses a drowning risk to young cubs.

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Why Congress Must Block a Liability Waiver for the Fossil Fuel Industry 

Union of Concerned Scientists

1) People are feeling the impacts of climate change and footing the bill The impending arrival of Danger Season is a stark reminder that climate change impacts are already devastating communities worldwide, intensifying many kinds of extreme weather events, driving sea level rise, and harming human health.

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May 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Columbia Climate Law

A climate change-related argument rejected by the trial court—that sea level rise projections in the Plan were too high and not based on best available science—did not appear to have been before the appellate court. Delta Stewardship Council Cases , Nos. The case was filed in the Hague Court of Appeals.

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