A Greener Life

JUNE 24, 2022

I had just turned nine years old in 1988 when one of the world’s most prominent and daring climate scientists James Hansen gave evidence to the US Congress on the link between fossil fuels and climate change. In 1990 the IPCC completed their First Assessment Report climate report. This has since changed many times.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 29, 2021

But the United Nations has just said that the latest commitments of the 192 parties of the 2015 Paris agreement will equate to a 16% rise in global greenhouse-gas emissions in 2030 compared to 2010. While most climate scientists are not directly involved in high-level negotiations, their work is essential to the process.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

The UN agency concluded global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are at the highest levels in human history and without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors limiting climate change to 1.5°C The scientists said that in the scenarios they assessed, in order to limit warming to the 1.5°C C will be beyond reach.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

As climate scientists we tend to look at the IPCC reports a little differently than the general public might. Here are a few things that mark this report out from previous versions that relate to issues we’ve discussed here before: Extreme events are increasingly connected to climate (duh!) 1, SPM, AR5.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 19, 2023

But government agencies provide little to no oversight of these labels. And yet another wrinkle — climate scientists agree that humans can’t simply offset our way out of the climate crisis. But what does it mean and, more importantly, can you trust it? And consumers are woefully under-informed.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 2, 2021

With the federal government now projecting that Lake Mead will drop precipitously in the next two years — perhaps to levels not seen since the Great Depression, when the country’s largest reservoir was first filled — that emergency has arrived. Taking into account the system cuts, the Bureau of Reclamation counts just over 2.8

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HumanNature

APRIL 10, 2023

Altering cloud properties influences Earth’s climate On sunny days, it’s clear that clouds leave shadows on the landscape. Climate scientists are interested in clouds for exactly this reason- clouds reflect sunlight, which has a cooling effect on surface temperatures. Cirrus clouds formed this way have many, small ice crystals.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 6, 2023

degrees C target that world leaders agreed upon in the Paris Agreement of 2015. The organisation labelled it as a ‘deafening cacophony’ of broken climate records. Scientists, climate advocates, governments around the world as well as ordinary citizens will be concerned having seen what just 1.4

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Physics World

APRIL 22, 2021

C above the average,” says the report’s lead author Freja Vamborg , a climate scientist at Copernicus. Despite localized temporary reductions in air pollution , the COVID-19 pandemic appears to have had minimal impact on climate trends. The Arctic really saw quite a spectacular year. Freja Vamborg.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The ESA does not require more, and NMFS did not act arbitrarily or capriciously in concluding that the effects of global climate change on sea ice would endanger the Beringia DPS in the foreseeable future.” Arizona Board of Regents Filed Notice of Appeal in Climate Scientist Public Records Case. motion to intervene Oct.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2022

LNG Producers In Run-Up To Ukraine War -- The Guardian: ‘This Is A Fossil Fuel War’: Ukraine’s Top Climate Scientist Speaks Out Related Articles: -- PA Natural Gas Politicians Want To ‘Unleash’ PA’s Gas Industry - What We Need First Is For Industry To Take Up The Slack; Oil & Gas 2.0; under the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The lawsuit targets the role the American Petroleum Institute (API) has played in the fossil fuel industry’s climate deception conspiracy, building on previous complaints by the states of Delaware, Minnesota, and New Jersey; the District of Columbia; and five cities and counties. Climate scientists, that’s who.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 16, 2023

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. Licker et al. What should they do?

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Colorado Federal Court Remanded Local Governments’ Climate Case to State Court. The court said the defendants’ argument that the plaintiffs’ state law claims were governed by federal common law appeared to be a matter of ordinary preemption, which would not provide a basis for federal jurisdiction. Rhode Island v. Chao , No.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 20, 2023

In 2015 Senator Kelly Ayotte supported the EPA Clean Power Plan. We should expect to hear more, as climate impacts are only going to get worse. As a climate scientist recently said on CNN, “Until we stop pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere we have no idea what the future looks like.”

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The federal district court for the Northern District of California denied Oakland’s and San Francisco’s motions to remand their climate change public nuisance lawsuits against five major fossil fuel producers to state court. It demands to be governed by as universal a rule of apportioning responsibility as is available.” judgment Feb.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 28, 2024

At this year’s annual general meetings, major investor-owned fossil fuel corporations are facing fewer climate-related shareholder proposals than at any time since the adoption of the Paris climate agreement in 2015. But that doesn’t mean they’re under less pressure over their role in driving the climate crisis.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 1, 2023

The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) recently conducted a survey of federal scientists to ask about the state of science, and the results are in. The lack of staff has recently reached a dire level at the EPA and may impede the ability to fully implement President Biden’s climate goals.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. Circuit vacated the 2015 rule to the extent that it prohibited continued use of HFCs by companies that previously switched to HFCs from an ozone-depleting substance. In Mexichem , the D.C.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

EPA , Justice Alito badgered Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar to explain how the government was not overreaching by claiming “the authority to set industrial policy and energy policy and balance such things as jobs, economic impact, the potentially catastrophic effects of climate change, as well as costs.”. There is now a 99.9

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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. But the ESA requires that the government conduct a scientific assessment before it reaches that conclusion. 3 ; Laidre et al.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2022

Since Congress lifted the ban on oil exports in 2015, all American-drilled oil and some of our natural gas have been priced on the international market. And of the remaining 10 percent that occurs on federal land, the oil and gas industry has millions of acres leased. They have 9,000 permits to drill now. under the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

Egged on by Koch devotees both inside and outside the government, the Trump administration rolled back at least 260 regulations , including more than 100 environmental rules. The Koch network, with its toxic anti-government bias, will likely cast a long shadow over Washington for years to come. Ted Cruz , Florida Gov. Rick Scott.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2022

LNG Exporters Emerge As Big Winners Of Europe Natural Gas Crisis; Price For LNG 10 Times Its Value A Year Ago -- The Guardian: ‘This Is A Fossil Fuel War’: Ukraine’s Top Climate Scientist Speaks Out -- PA Natural Gas Politicians Want To ‘Unleash’ PA’s Gas Industry - What We Need First Is For Industry To Take Up The Slack; Oil & Gas 2.0;

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

climate change and biodiversity conservation policies, including the 2050 net-zero emissions goal and the “30 by 30” conservation goal. Gonzalez is a forest ecologist who is adjunct faculty at the University of California, Berkeley and the leading climate scientist for the National Park Service. 15 at 3:00 pm eastern.

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ESA

JUNE 1, 2021

The Trump administration proposed steep cuts across the government in its president’s budget request, especially to scientific and environmental programs. The bill includes $18 billion for climate change mitigation and adaptation and $500 million to mitigate climate impacts on vulnerable communities, including communities of color and tribes.

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