Legal Planet

APRIL 7, 2024

C hotter than the second-hottest year to date, 2016. Communities from Texas to Ohio that are benefiting from this scientifically informed tourism boom are the same places where some people like to question and mock climate scientists. The annual-average temperature was 1.48 C above the pre-industrial average, just shy of the 1.5

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In a separate but similar Ninth Circuit appeal, the federal government filed a brief on October 18 urging the court to overturn a district court decision vacating the listing of a ringed seal subspecies as threatened based on climate change threats through the end of the century. 24, 2016); Alaska Oil & Gas Association v.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

See for instance Benestad (2016). A common strawman argument We don’t expect to discern a clear effect of greenhouse gases on local measurements, and mixing up local and global climate is a basis for a common strawman argument. 679-688, 2016. References R.E.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 6, 2023

Like most older millennials, climate change has shaped my time on planet Earth. As a new Senior Climate Scientist at UCS, it’s my job to pay attention and connect dots between climate and weather as well as between impacts and adaptation. Count of extreme events in Yolo and Sacramento counties from Sept 2011 to July 2019.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Cody Moser, a senior hydrologist at the Center, told Circle of Blue that data from the years 2016 through 2020 will be added this fall. An update of the River Forecast Center’s data sets will soon help reduce the skew. Instead of 35 historical hydrologies fed through the models, there will be 40.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 3, 2022

set at Magilligan (Londonderry) in 2016 and the previous English record of 13.0C There was therefore some outrage that the Met Office didn’t note climate change when they announced these temperature records. Meanwhile, a daily minimum temperature of 13.2 This beats the previous UK record of 13.1C set at London St James Park in 2008.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

I think in hindsight that my concerns from 2013 to some extent were supported by the fact that the IPCC organised an Expert Meeting on Communication, Oslo, Norway, 9–10 February 2016. Climate scientists are convinced that the world oceans have warmed down to a depth of 700 m since the 1970s because of our past emissions of greenhouse gases.

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A Greener Life

MAY 9, 2022

Lance/2016/Flickr , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Cutting-edge models predict that El Niño frequency will increase within 2 decades because of climate change, regardless of emissions mitigation efforts. ENSO is so influential that climate scientists have dedicated decades to tracking and predicting its irregular cycles.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Other researchers further explored climate change with new measurements of temperature, infrared absorption by CO 2 (where Callendar’s own work contributed), and the carbon cycle. As scientists began recognizing the role of anthropogenic CO 2 , it became clear that Callendar’s 1938 paper had first established the connection.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Millions of children worldwide are at risk from the devastating floods which have impacted almost every corner of the Earth this year, and which climate scientists say have intensified and are happening much more frequently due to climate change. Photo credit: UNICEF / UN0580114 / Ramasomanana. By Anders Lorenzen.

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A Greener Life

JULY 5, 2023

degrees C, the average global temperature set a new record surpassing the previous record set in August 2016 of 16.92 Heatwaves gripping many parts of the world was a key contribution to this new unwelcome record, showing how climate change is strengthening its grip on the world. Measuring 17.01

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Edouard Stenger

MARCH 20, 2017

According to the respected International Energy Agency’s new report, global greenhouse gases emissions from energy remained flat in 2016 while the global economy grew by 3.1 Coal demand fell worldwide but the drop was particularly sharp in the United States, where demand was down 11% in 2016.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Allison Crimmins is the Director of the National Climate Assessment. She is a climate scientist on detail from EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where she is leading the fifth National Climate Assessment at the U.S. Climate and Health Assessment.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

One of the strongest names is that of Maisa Rojas, a renowned climate scientist who will take over as the new Minister for the Environment. “My A broad, cross-ministry environmentalism was one of the most striking attributes of Gabriel Boric’s recently selected cabinet of 24 ministers, 14 of whom are women.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Tillerson, meanwhile, dismissed the Paris climate agreement goal of keeping global temperature increase to well below 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels (and striving to limit it to 1.5 Climate scientists, that’s who. degrees C) as “something magical.” is not good enough?”

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Court Dismissed Counterclaims in Climate Scientist’s Defamation Lawsuit. Superior Court dismissed counterclaims brought by an individual writer against the climate scientist Michael Mann in Mann’s defamation lawsuit against National Review, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and two individuals. Chao , No. filed Sept.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

It cannot be easy to be a federal scientist right now. I know – I was a climate scientist at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) when Donald J. Trump won the 2016 election. This article is republished from SciLight, an independent science policy publication on Substack. Download the toolkit (PDF).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 1, 2023

For instance, we previously found that the EPA’s Office of Research and Development, the agency’s scientific research arm, lost 12 percent of its workforce between 2016 and 2020. Fifty-nine percent of surveyed scientists (982 respondents) reported noticing staff departures, retirements, or hiring freezes in the past two years.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 28, 2024

It also marks the end of the Board tenure of climate scientist Dr. Susan Avery. I’ve submitted two questions to ExxonMobil: ExxonMobil Chair and CEO Darren Woods has recently been dismissing evidence of the company’s climate deception as “what was said 30 years ago,” and insisting that “the world has moved on.”

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Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2023

This approach has been used to assess the responsibility of specific entities, such as national governments and carbon emitting companies, to climate change-related harms. Climate scientists have also compiled a substantial body of research on the relationship between anthropogenic climate change and ecological impacts.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

In an unpublished decision, the Ninth Circuit said its 2016 opinion reversing a district court’s striking down of the listing of the bearded seal adjudicated the same issues and was the controlling law of the circuit. Arizona Court Ordered Production of Climate Scientists’ Emails Under Arizona’s Public Records Law. judgment Feb.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

The Washington Supreme Court ruled that a climate activist should be permitted to present a necessity defense to charges of criminal trespass and unlawful obstruction of a train in connection with a 2016 protest on railroad tracks used by trains carrying coal and oil products. The cases were filed in 2016 , 2020 , and 2021.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 8, 2025

Fossil fuel interests have been in Trumps inner circle from the jump In 2016, President Trump tapped ExxonMobil Chair and CEO Rex Tillerson as his Secretary of State. Climate scientists, backed by robust research, say so. degrees Celsius) as something magical. is not good enough?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

Koch’s most recent public comments about climate change came during lengthy interviews with the Washington Post in 2015 and 2016. Climate scientists, he added, “have these models that show it, but the models don’t work….”.

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ESA

JULY 18, 2022

Mining in the area has been the subject of political controversy for years — President Obama recommended a mining withdrawal in this area in 2016, but the Trump administration stopped that process. 6654 ) from Chair Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) permanently authorizing National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers. Executive Branch.

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