2014 Atmosphere Paris Agreement 
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
of the observed rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide and 52 percent of the rise in global average temperatures between 1880 and 2015. Data on the major carbon producers’ emissions have been published since 2014. It can, and must, start now to meet the 2015 Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5
Real Climate
NOVEMBER 11, 2023
are used all over the world, based on calculations that quantify the effects of physical mechanisms and the way different parts of the atmosphere are connected to each other. The physics-based models describe how energy flows through the atmosphere and ocean, as well as how the forces from different air masses push against each other.
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HumanNature
APRIL 10, 2023
Student in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University Most people remember the water cycle they learned in school: water evaporates from lakes, rivers, and the ocean, air carrying this moisture rises, cools, condenses, and forms clouds, and these clouds precipitate water back down to the surface.
Law Columbia
JULY 6, 2017
A magistrate judge in the federal district court for the District of Oregon granted motions by three trade groups to withdraw from the lawsuit seeking to hold the United States liable for its actions and inaction leading to the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Law Columbia
NOVEMBER 9, 2021
These decisions help implement and operationalize the text of the Paris Agreement, much like regulations clarify statutory law. And though it lasts in the atmosphere for shorter period than CO 2 , cutting methane and other short-lived climate pollutants are critical for bending the curve of warming towards a more livable planet.
Law Columbia
OCTOBER 7, 2019
Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) erred in its analyses of climate change’s impact on the Rio Grande cutthroat trout when it determined in 2014 that the species no longer warranted listing under the Endangered Species Act. National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration , No. Democracy Forward Foundation v. 1:19-cv-02751 (D.D.C.,
Law Columbia
MARCH 6, 2018
The court stated: “Plaintiffs’ claims for public nuisance, though pled as state-law claims, depend on a global complex of geophysical cause and effect involving all nations of the planet (and the oceans and atmosphere). It necessarily involves the relationships between the United States and all other nations.
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