2016 Climate Scientist Fossil Fuels 
Union of Concerned Scientists
OCTOBER 1, 2024
Climate Week events highlighted commitments and actions needed from the financial sector and other corporations to support and spur government ambition. I had the honor of moderating one of the latter events, Scientists & Activists vs. Fossil Fuel Finance.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 7, 2025
The year 2023 was by far the warmest in Earths recorded history, and perhaps in the past 100,000 years , shattering the previous record set in 2016 by 0.27C (0.49F). In other words, 2023 and 2024 have been much hotter than scientists’ predictions. But why were 2023 and 2024 so warm?
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Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
The future trajectories are based on different scenarios, such as versions of the future where the world comes together to take action and phase out fossil fuels, or versions where fossil fuel production continues throughout this century. One team found that emissions just up until 2016 could lead to approximately 2.33.6
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 4, 2024
There has been comparatively less attention to the decision by climate scientist Dr. Susan Avery not to seek re-election to the ExxonMobil board of directors. Yet this shift in corporate leadership is significant, marking the end of a chapter in ExxonMobil’s long and ongoing history of climate deception and disinformation.
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
Physics World
OCTOBER 30, 2021
Then in 1896, preliminary calculations by Arrhenius hinted that humanity’s burning of fossil fuels could raise CO 2 levels and warm our planet. This was finally validated in 1938, when Callendar first carried out effective climate modelling. Callendar was born in 1898. 139 1961 ).
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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