Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

That 2013 headline resulted from the first effort to quantify emissions from the ‘carbon majors’ —fossil fuel companies and cement manufacturers whose businesses have contributed an outsized amount of heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere. Nearly two-thirds of industrial heat-trapping emissions can be traced to just 90 entities.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

To meet emissions goals and avoid the worst impacts of climate change, this trend will need to accelerate over the coming decades. Only around 50,000 EVs were on the road in 2013, but there are now over 1.5 Burning gasoline in an automobile produces carbon dioxide, the primary cause of climate change.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

I followed with great interest the launch of the sixth assessment report Working Group 1 (The Physical Science Basis) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on August 9th. The problems with the SPM are similar those from the previous fifth assessment report which prompted me to write a post in 2013.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2022

Chicago is also, as it turns out, ground zero for climate change. Climate change is making old solutions obsolete. Chicago has been confronting an unusual problem that may be linked with climate change. In 2020, the lake level hit a record high, after having hit a record low in 2013.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 10, 2024

In North America, the land carbon sink between 2004 and 2013 offset roughly 39% of fossil fuel emissions , but varied substantially year to year. These same environmental changes can also increase carbon losses from land-based ecosystems.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 6, 2024

These were the following, showing northern mid-latitude extreme events from 1950-2013: Cohen et al (2014). Caesar, "Global Land-Based Datasets for Monitoring Climatic Extremes", Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society , vol. 997-1006, 2013. The data plotted are derivable from the GHCNDEX data available from Climdex.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The fossil fuel industry has long been the main driver of climate change, but Big Oil’s CEOs and profiteers would like you to believe that it is a part of the solution. In 2013 he organized a fundraising dinner at Calgary’s Petroleum Club to help raise political donations to former BC Premier Christy Clark’s re-election campaign.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 27, 2023

How is climate change affecting our ocean? What does climate change mean for fish? And a 2013 collapse of the stock of Atlantic northern shrimp in the Gulf of Maine was tied to an marine heatwave in 2012. Some effects of climate change aren’t as easy to spot as shifting ranges or fish stock collapses, however.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Japan ) and a second in Yokosuka in 2019 ( Yokosuka Climate Case ). In the 2019 case, the judgments focused on the procedural aspect of the replacement of the coal-fired power plant and discussion of the climate issues was limited. The court viewed climate change as an uncertain future danger.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Last week, the Danish government pledged at least $13 million to developing nations which have experienced losses caused by the impact of climate change , becoming the first country globally to offer ‘loss and damage’. Photo credit: Ida Marie Odgaard / Ritzau Scanpix/via Reuters. By Anders Lorenzen . The Sahel to benefit.

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Inside Climate News

AUGUST 22, 2021

As climate change brings longer, more destructive fire seasons, the wine industry scrambles to protect vineyards from the dreaded taint of smoke.

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Real Climate

MARCH 5, 2023

Instead, they chose to hide the structural uncertainty in the MSU retrievals (the TMT trends for 1979-2013 in UAH v5.5 TLT trends for 1979-2013 were 0.14± 0.05 Climatic Change , vol. But McNider and Christy chose not to do that. and RSS v3.3 and 0.08 +/- 0.05 K/dec respectively – a factor of two different!),

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Climate change and upstream development made the riverfront town of Ottawa, Illinois even more prone to flooding. In the mid-90s, climate change and upstream development funneled more runoff than ever into the already flood-prone area. It’s a place that crystallizes the glaring truths of living with climate change.

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Real Climate

APRIL 2, 2021

But it emphasizes an important point about the relationship between SST and hurricane behavior in general: The hurricane response to SST changes depends on what caused the SST changes ( Emanuel and Sobel 2013 ). 2013 ; Sobel et al. 2021 ), and changes in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The share of online transactions among total US sales grew from just under six percent in 2013 to around 15 percent in 2021, according to the Census Bureau’s Annual Retail Trade Survey.

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Land-Use and Climate Change Growing urban populations are accelerating land-use change (LUC) around the globe, as witnessed in the Front Range of Colorado 1–3. In recent history, we have witnessed LUC exacerbating climate change due to disturbed soils, development of greenhouse gas (GHG) producing land uses, and more 4.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Solar activity provides no alternative explanation for today’s climate change Dagsvik and Moen claim that recent research indicates that variations in the sun’s magnetic field are of great importance for long-term fluctuations in solar activity. Our job is to be thorough and verify questionable results. It has taken time.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The Growing Greener Communities is an initiative to create healthy waterways, improve quality of life and limit climate change impacts in our communities, according to PRC Executive Director Darren Spielman.

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Real Climate

MAY 12, 2021

The last major revision (BedMap2) was in 2013 ( Fretwell et al., 2013 ), but many areas remain without good data and important revisions are still being made (Morlighem et al., 375-393, 2013. Both of these effects make a straightforward connection between global mean warming and WAIS mass loss tricky. But there is more.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 7, 2025

The California Air Resources Boards (CARB) 2022 Scoping Plan the states roadmap for climate strategiescalls for per-capita VMT reductions of 30 percent below 2019 levels by 2045 (equivalent to slashing the average persons VMT from 24.6 miles per day ).

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 23, 2024

Last week, Toronto experienced another “100 year storm” just 11 years after the previous one in 2013. Yes, the extreme rainfall likely owes something to climate change, but another key factor contributing to the flash flood is the destruction of critical natural areas. So why exactly did this happen?

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2025

Since 2013, the Stroud Center has played a vital role in the Delaware River Watershed Initiative (DRWI), a collaboration of over 50 organizations working to protect drinking water for 15 million people across four states in the Delaware River basin, from New York to Delaware.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen Research indicates that driven by increased demands for fresh vegetables and climate change, the vertical farming market could be about to take off. Additionally, on a global level, yields are decreasing due to the impact of climate change. Globally, vertical farming products are expected to reach $ 6.46

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

To avoid the worst potential consequences of climate change, we will have to transform the transportation and electric power sectors in tandem. In other words, cars and trucks are responsible for 23.5 percent of total US heat-trapping emissions, nearly as much as the electric power sector, which contributes 25 percent.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 20, 2023

Regardless, the company publicly cast doubt on the reality of global warming, attempted to discredit climate scientists and climate models, and tried to block climate action. The new paper in Science summarizes key statements by ExxonMobil executives between 2000 and 2013 that cast doubt on the science.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

of solar correlations in all manner of climate records ( and non-climate records ) has been a staple of the ABC (‘Anything-but-CO 2 ‘) crowd since the 1980s. 4171-4176, 2013. Gundermann, "Solar cycle lengths and climate: A reference revisited", Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics , vol. Laut, and J.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 29, 2023

These fees and programs were established with legislation in 2007 and then were extended until 2024 with the passage of Assembly Bill 8 in 2013 (hence the name, “AB 8 fees”). It’s clear , and it has been clear for decades, that to stave off the worst impacts of climate change we must drastically reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The global climate crisis requires immediate action, and we can start here at home in our Commonwealth, where we produce more than one percent of global greenhouse gases annually. Climate change is a global issue, but Pennsylvanians know that the local impacts are increasingly severe. Peduto was selected for the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2024

That provision was declared unconstitutional by the PA Supreme Court in a landmark ruling in December 2013 based on the Environmental Rights Amendment in Pennsylvania’s Constitution. Read more here. Read more here.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Climate change is also warming waters in Greek wetlands, threatening the livelihoods of fishermen. Reuters reports climate change is threatening the livelihoods of farmers in Turkey. In 2013, the average value of the salmon was $6.3 Drought, floods, and wildfires are destroying the crops of Turkish farmers.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

How climate change and human activity are driving violence between farming and pastoralist communities. Climate change and human activity are driving desertification, a form of land degradation which leads to vegetation loss and fewer water sources. . They are the ones that are feeling the impact of climate change.”.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

As habitat loss, invasive species, climate change and numerous other challenges threaten Western Pennsylvanias native wildlife, plants and landscapes, the role of conservationists becomes ever more critical. She attended Slippery Rock university where she earned a BS in Geography and Environmental Studies.

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Inside Climate News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

By Bob Berwyn As Typhoon Haiyan howled into the Philippines in November 2013, people knew that a powerful storm was coming, but they were not expecting a typhoon with 196 mile per hour winds, driving a storm surge up to 23 feet high.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Having said that, ask Alberta’s Premier about the scientific fact that climate change is real and increasing the severity of fires, floods and droughts in this province and she’ll dismiss you as a radical. Why does the Premier seemingly accept the possibility of chemtrails and not the science behind climate change and its impacts?

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

This will be the first climate change case heard before the Supreme Court. Through May 2022, all existing climate litigation cases in Japan concern the construction or operation of coal-fired power plants and refer to citizens’ attempts to stop the use of coal. Japan’s climate change context. Civil law cases.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Meanwhile, oil and gas companies spend millions of dollars to convince Canadians they care about climate change while at the same time, they lobby governments to delay or stop actions that reduce their pollution. We need to hold polluters accountable for driving climate change.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 27, 2023

How is climate change affecting our ocean? What does climate change mean for fish? And a 2013 collapse of the stock of Atlantic northern shrimp in the Gulf of Maine was tied to an marine heatwave in 2012. Some effects of climate change aren’t as easy to spot as shifting ranges or fish stock collapses, however.

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