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​​The Science Behind Sea Level Rise: How Past Emissions Will Shape Our Future

Union of Concerned Scientists

One team found that emissions just up until 2016 could lead to approximately 2.33.6 feet of sea level rise by 2300even if no other emissions happened after 2016. Thats why climate scientists are sounding the alarmbecause global efforts under the Paris Agreement to keep warming below those levels are far off track.

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A Total Eclipse of the Heat

Legal Planet

target set by the Paris Agreement – and an astonishing 0.17 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.

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A distraction due to errors, misunderstanding and misguided Norwegian statistics

Real Climate

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. It’s urgent to fix our climate problem In August, the global mean temperature was close to 1.5°C

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Using Clouds to Fight Climate Change

HumanNature

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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October 2019 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

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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Here’s What We’re Asking Major Fossil Fuel Corporations at This Year’s Annual Meetings

Union of Concerned Scientists

BP keeps climate-conscious shareholders out BP faced no climate-related shareholder proposals this year. On April 25, the corporation held only an in-person annual meeting, with no webcast and very little news coverage—even as activists protested the corporation’s role in the climate crisis and fueling the war in Gaza.

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March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

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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