Frontiers

AUGUST 7, 2023

In addition, it stores vast quantities of freshwater that if released to the ocean would rise sea level by tens of meters and interfere with saline-driven ocean currents that transfer heat around the planet. Prof Martin Siegert in Antarctica. The world’s largest ever heatwave (38.5C

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Science Blogs

AUGUST 29, 2017

The release of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels is, conceiveably, the most important environmental issue in the world today. — "Costs and benefits of carbon dioxide," Nature , May 3, 1979. Tue, 08/29/2017 - 08:57. The limits of adaptation. If you think the country is polarized now, just wait a few years.

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Edouard Stenger

OCTOBER 29, 2018

It would halve the number of humans that will be exposed to water scarcity; prevent runaway sea level rise that could put many of the world’s islands under water and render uninhabitable the large delta and low-coastal regions that are home to two-thirds of the world’s population. That is a lot for just one technology.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

D-2017-009-2 ), located in Gloucester County NJ (the “Dock 2 Project”). The level of greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere locks us into a rise in sea- level that is extremely detrimental to communities and businesses on our coastal lands and river banks.

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 20, 2023

The horrible impacts of Matthew’s rainfall would soon be repeated by others, like Harvey (2017) and Florence (2018). How are the folks at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) helping with all this extreme weather? Coastal flooding : Sea levels are rising as the ocean heats up and polar ice melts.

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Since March 2018, a team led by Licai Deng from the National Astronomical Observatories of China, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has been monitoring cloudiness, night-sky brightness, air temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction at “Summit C” on Saishiteng Mountain, which lies some 4200 m above sea level.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 16, 2023

Rick Heede combined publicly available records about extracting and producing carbon-intensive materials with scientific data about the amount of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases released into the atmosphere from manufacturing and burning each of these products. Licker et al.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The way to do this that now looks most promising would be to spray a fine mist of reflective aerosols in the upper atmosphere. And serious anticipatory adaptation measures, even for risks as well known as coastal inundation from sea-level rise, remain few, weak, and highly contentious. to 1%) of incoming sunlight.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

There is, in fact, substantial scientific evidence that there’s a strong link between global warming and heat waves and coastal flooding from sea-level rise,” I said. Darren Woods, ExxonMobil CEO from 2017 to the present. But before he was able to do that in my imaginary scenario, I corrected the record.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The court stated: “Plaintiffs’ claims for public nuisance, though pled as state-law claims, depend on a global complex of geophysical cause and effect involving all nations of the planet (and the oceans and atmosphere). 2017 CA 006685 B (D.C. It necessarily involves the relationships between the United States and all other nations.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The court previously reached the same conclusion in December 2018, but the California Supreme Court directed it to reconsider the case in light of the Supreme Court’s 2017 decision in Friends of the Eel River v. Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) and the Town of Saugus had appealed the MassDEP’s decision. California v. Bernhardt , No.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 26, 2023

The justices declined to take up numerous cases in which government entities have sued oil, gas and coal companies, seeking compensation for the climate change-related damage the jurisdictions they claim to have suffered, and which they attribute to the greenhouse gas emissions the companies’ products have released into the atmosphere.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2023

Bernhardt’s reasoning was that it would be impossible to establish the requisite causal link between GHG emissions, global climate change, and specific localized effects on species and their habitat due to the “complex and independent processes active in the atmosphere and the ocean acting on GHGs.” 2017) ; Lunn et al.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in December 2017 and March 2018 because the environmental assessments for the lease sales failed to meet National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requirements, including by failing to take a hard look at cumulative climate change impacts. Delta Stewardship Council Cases , Nos.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The plaintiffs alleged that Peabody (and a number of other fossil fuel companies) caused greenhouse gas emissions that resulted in sea level rise and damage to their property. Peabody, a coal company, filed for bankruptcy in April 2016 and emerged from bankruptcy under a plan that became effective on April 3, 2017. Seggos , No.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

The County asserted that the defendants were “directly responsible for a substantial portion of the climate crisis-related impacts in Anne Arundel County,” including sea level rise, storm surge, and flooding, as well as more frequent, longer-lasting, and more severe extreme weather events. Center for Biological Diversity v. 15,2 2009).

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A Greener Life

APRIL 5, 2023

Several rivers meander through the flat, swampy county and overflow after intense downpours, the kind that are occurring much more frequently as a warmer atmosphere leads to more intense rain events. It’s the very nature of the low-lying landscape. Instead, people attribute the water issues to destroyed marshlands and razed forests.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

In 2017, Hurricane Harvey —one of the worst—drenched Houston with more than 4 feet of rain, killed at least 88 people, and caused $125 billion in damage. Mississippi: Lynn Fitch The sea level off the coast of Mississippi—the fifth hottest state—is rising more rapidly than in most other coastal areas, largely because the land is sinking.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The SCC is a metric that seeks to capture all of the costs that emitting a ton of carbon dioxide (or equivalent amounts of other greenhouse gases such as methane) imposes on society by contributing to climate change over the hundreds of years it remains in the atmosphere. The SCC then monetizes those impacts over time.

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ESA

JUNE 28, 2021

Senators confirmed Richard Spinrad to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration by a voice vote. He served as NOAA’s chief scientist from 2014 and 2016 and has also led both NOAA’s Office of Atmospheric Research and the National Ocean Service. Former President Donald Trump shrank the size of both of monuments in 2017.

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