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The Animal Agriculture Industry Undermines Climate Action

Legal Planet

Photo by MRC Témiscamingue via Unsplash The case for decarbonization to address climate change is often, understandably, directed toward the fossil fuel industry. The international scientific community has long known of the animal agriculture sector’s harmful contributions to climate change.

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How Major Carbon Producers Drive Sea Level Rise and Climate Injustice

Union of Concerned Scientists

The worlds largest fossil fuel and cement producers have known for decades that their products cause climate change, yet they spread disinformation to misinform the public and have profited as people around the world have suffered from ever-worsening climate impacts.

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The Drying Planet

Circle of Blue

Around 2014, though, the pace of drying appears to have accelerated, the authors found, and is now growing by an area twice the size of California each year. Note: Data is for February 2003 to December 2013 and January 2014 to April 2024. Graphics by Lucas Waldron/ProPublica.

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The Deceit Playbook: Fossil Fuel Interests Target  Opponents with Intimidation Campaigns 

Union of Concerned Scientists

The alleged scheme involved hacking into the email accounts of staff members at UCS and several other public interest organizations, all of whom were working to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for their role in climate change. According to the US governments sentencing memo, clients of Azaris firm paid him approximately $4.8

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Appointing an Oil Executive as New CEO of the Alberta Energy Regulator Shatters Any Hope for a Fair and Effective Oversight of the Industry

Enviromental Defense

Recent research shows that 97% of tailings spills between 2014-2023 went uninspected, despite AER claims of routine inspections. The AER has consistently failed to fulfill its mandate to ensure safe, environmentally responsible energy development.

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Operationalizing Climate Science

Real Climate

Both of these issues stem from the realization that climate change is no longer purely a long-term issue for which an assessment updated every decade is sufficient. The End of History A big part of the effort to both understand past climate and project future climate is supported by the CMIP program. Gettelman, and A.

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Heat Domes Are Hotter and Lingering Longer—Because of the Arctic

Scientific American

Thats because this weeks heat wave — which tumbled century-old temperature records in some areas — was clearly influenced by climate change, scientists say. Climate models have long predicted that these patterns would occur more frequently with climate change.