Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

According to the report , average net annual human-caused GHG emissions were at their highest levels in human history between 2010 and 2019, with urban areas responsible for an increasing proportion of the emissions. The rate of emissions growth year on year slowed between 2010-2019 in comparison to the previous decade.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JANUARY 17, 2024

Sea level rise is also important in the region, causing saltwater intrusion and salinization. from Chapter 21 of NCA5 Changes like sea level rise are resulting in the loss of culturally significant locations for subsistence harvesting. Other risks include increasing tropical cyclones and sea level rise.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Michael Greenstone, a University of Chicago economist, first calculated it in 2010. It captures the changes in mortality rates that are going to happen… the changes in crop yields… the changes in sea level rise, and the damages that will cost…”. How fast will sea levels and temperatures rise?

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

C, we stand to lose ocean and coastal ecosystems we depend on to sea level rise, warming temperatures, ocean acidification and other climate impacts. The biggest win for this two-week event was the recommitment to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. While not new, this remains a critically important commitment.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

APRIL 26, 2021

Haiti (2008), Pakistan (2010), Australia and Thailand (2011), Nigeria (2012), Germany and The Philippines (2013),?England?and Their proximity struck him as a shared vulnerability that seemed to unite people. Mendel continued to photograph and document flood zones around the world, visiting?Haiti He photographed flooding in the U.S.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2017

First, new research has traced to just 90 fossil fuel firms the following percentages of anthropogenic carbon dioxide and methane emissions, global mean surface temperature (GMST), and global sea level rise (GSL): From 1880 to 2010: GHGs: 57% GMST: 42–50% GSL: 26–32%. From 1980 to 2010: GHGs: 43% GMST: 29–35% GSL: 11–14%.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 17, 2013

In other words, rather than just considering the greenhouse gas emissions from individual projects, environmental impact statements are now regularly considering how a proposed project will be affected by anticipated sea level rise, increased storm surges, more intense heat waves, and the like. 3] [link]. [4]

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

SIDS face a range of risks, including extreme floods, storms, droughts, unpredictability of precipitation patterns and sea-level rise, ocean acidification and deoxygenation (World Health Organization, 2018; Douglas & Cooper, 2020, Thomas, 2020). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 117 (15), 8254-8262. OECD (2022).

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

degrees, but data suggests emissions have instead increased instead by 16% since 2010. Anything short of that is rich countries exploiting the situation even further. Fossil fuels alone – coal, oil and gas – account for over 75% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 20, 2014

to the atmosphere in 2010 (while the United States emitted 17.6 metric tons), but it is already considering ways to reinforce coastline against climate-change-induced sea level rise and looking into alternatives for their agricultural sectors that will be sustainable as the climate changes. metric tons of CO.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Since the Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint was established in 2010, states have put practices in place to achieve an estimated 42 percent of the nitrogen-pollution reductions and 64 percent of the phosphorus reductions that the Blueprint requires. The effects of climate change are being felt across the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 10, 2019

These amendments flesh out many of the provisions on climate change and energy that were first added to the CEQA Guidelines in 2010. GHG Emissions Analysis. The CEQA Guidelines have been revised to clarify the appropriate methodology for measuring and assessing the significance of GHG emissions, consistent with recent case law.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

UCS led the way with these source attribution studies that establish a direct causal link between emissions attributable to fossil fuel producing entities and: Roughly 40% of the increase in global mean surface temperature between 1880 and 2010, with more than 35% of this increase occurring in the past 50 years, well after fossil fuel companies understood (..)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2023

In the oceans, prolonged periods of unusually high sea surface temperatures are having a major impact. These annual marine heatwaves (MHWs) have increased by 54% during the last century, and eight of the ten worst MHWs have occurred since 2010. National Park Service scientist Erik Stabenau calls this “fighting water with water”.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

above 2010 levels, instead of the sharp downward trajectory we need. The needs are immense and crushing for low-income nations already reeling from billions of dollars of damages from extreme floods, drought, sea level rise and other climate impacts, as well as a human toll that is incalculable.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JUNE 9, 2021

This resilience edge can be built up either due to natural advantage (their physical location and topography) or due to local collective action in figuring out how to protect themselves against threats ranging from extreme heat, to drought to sea level rise to local fire risk. My 2021 book builds on these themes.

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Arnold Porter

JULY 16, 2021

uncertain costs and losses resulting from damage to property or assets, such as a mortgage portfolio, caused by weather events, sea-level rise, increasing temperatures, etc.) This should include both (a) physical risks (i.e., and (b) transition risks (i.e.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 16, 2023

But how was Richard Heede able to calculate that, at the time, 90 companies were responsible for nearly two-thirds of the carbon emissions between 1854 and 2010? Just seven private and state-owned companies—BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Gazprom, the National Iranian Oil Company, Saudi Aramco and Shell—accounted for a whopping 18.7

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 1, 2024

The SEC released guidance in 2010 directing public companies to disclose risks resulting from climate-related regulation, legislation, and weather, among other sources.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

There is, in fact, substantial scientific evidence that there’s a strong link between global warming and heat waves and coastal flooding from sea-level rise,” I said. billion (in 2010 dollars) in federal tax breaks and subsidies for nearly 100 years. Renewables,” I added, “have gotten peanuts in comparison.”

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Scientists estimate that emissions must be reduced by 45% by 2030, compared with 2010 levels, and from there to net zero emissions by 2050, if the world is to have a good chance of remaining within the 1.5C All countries are now being urged to revise their NDCs before Cop26 in line with a 1.5C target, the lower of the two Paris goals.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

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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Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2023

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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Legal Planet

MAY 24, 2021

These directives represent a number of vital first steps in evaluating and managing what Treasury Secretary Yellen (among many others) has called an “existential risk” to the economy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2023

The costs of increased risks from natural hazards—wildfires, floods and sea level rise— are driving insurers away. An even bleaker picture exists in Florida , where a dozen insurance companies have abandoned homeowners. New Hampshire’s 2009 Climate Action Plan is the product of a very diverse and thoughtful steering committee.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

The Obama Administration set the first vehicle GHG emissions standards in 2010 for vehicles manufactured in model years 2012 through 2016, and set revised standards in 2012 for model years 2017 through 2025. Heat waves can also cause costly infrastructure damage in cities and exacerbate air pollution.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 9, 2020

And then I said — this was 2010, I came out as pro-nuclear, which was great timing because Fukushima happened next year, so just a bit for popularity — and then I decided to campaign for nuclear in 2016, because nuclear plants were being closed, mostly for political reasons, you know, and yes, there's cheap gas. I mean, come on dude.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Lawsuit Sought Critical Habitat Designation for Green Sea Turtles Whose Habitat Is Threatened by Sea Level Rise and Other Factors. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service to designate critical habitat for distinct population segments of the green sea turtle. WildEarth Guardians v. Bernhardt , No.

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Washington Nature

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Before joining Cascadia Law Group and TNC, Maia first joined the Ecology Division of the Washington Attorney General’s Office in 1994, and eventually landing the position as the head of Ecology’s Water Resources Program in 2010. She also tackled the challenge of containing leaking radioactive waste at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 5, 2023

Horry County gained almost 100,000 people between 2010 and 2021. A similar situation involving sea level rise and flooding could play out in Atlantic City, New Jersey, or Norfolk, Virginia, or Galveston, Texas. The increase in flooding in Horry County parallels another upsurge there: population growth.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The plaintiffs alleged that Peabody (and a number of other fossil fuel companies) caused greenhouse gas emissions that resulted in sea level rise and damage to their property. Peabody, a coal company, filed for bankruptcy in April 2016 and emerged from bankruptcy under a plan that became effective on April 3, 2017.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

Mississippi: Lynn Fitch The sea level off the coast of Mississippi—the fifth hottest state—is rising more rapidly than in most other coastal areas, largely because the land is sinking. Between 1990 and 2016, the sea level off its 2,876-mile coast rose 6 inches , at least partly because the land is sinking.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Wolf, AG Shapiro To Support A Total Ban On Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater; 240.4

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