Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Each credit one metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent pollution below the standard. I’ve written recently about why a Cap on Vegetable Oil-Based Fuels Will Stabilize and Strengthen California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard , which addresses the bio-based diesel credits. Source California Air Resources Board.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

We know that over 135 years, 88 fossil fuel producers contributed approximately: 61% of the observed rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide 52% of the rise in global average temperature 34% of global sea level rise 55% of the increase in ocean acidification Fisheries, including lobsters, are responding to the warming by moving elsewhere.

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HumanNature

APRIL 14, 2022

For example, the Palmer Drought Severity Index (Dai 2019) uses past history of a region to determine what categories drought falls into. In general, increased carbon dioxide from human activities will lead to higher temperatures. References Dai, Aiguo & National Center for Atmospheric Research Staff (Eds). Rippey, BR.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 4, 2024

The Earth’s surface is about 70 percent ocean; the ocean absorbs 95 percent of our excess heat and over 25 percent of our excess carbon dioxide, contributes half of Earth’s oxygen production, and provides other services that sustain life as we know it. 29, citing the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, article 31).

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

Another scientist who focuses on greenhouse gas emissions accounting told the court Montana is responsible for tens of millions of tons of carbon dioxide emissions each year – the sixth-most in the U.S. I could see even a narrow ruling finding in favor of the youth plaintiffs on those issues.

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Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

The greenhouse effect is a popular name for the earth’s warming effect which occurs naturally when gasses in the atmosphere trap heat from the sun and prevent it from escaping back into space. C increase, the IPCC report states GHG emissions must be cut back by 43% by 2030 and 84% by 2050 (relative to 2019 levels). F), let alone 1.5°C

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Edouard Stenger

OCTOBER 11, 2021

7 to 13 percent might not look like much, but within a region, a country, a continent, this adds up to dozens of coal-fired and gas-fired plants adding carbon dioxide to our atmosphere for no reason. January 2019. This is just energy being completely wasted for no reason besides lack of sound management. November 2018.

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Physics World

MARCH 16, 2022

A 2019 study ( Environ. 14 095001 ) found that professors at the University of Montreal in Canada had twice the annual carbon footprint of the average Canadian, with most of the difference linked to professional travel. They estimated that in 2019, the average astronomer in the Netherlands emitted 4.7

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Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2024

Question a) referred to States’ obligations to prevent, reduce and control marine pollution in relation to the deleterious effects resulting or likely to result from climate change and ocean acidification caused by anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions into the atmosphere.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 4, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen The emissions from methane , a powerful greenhouse gas (GHG) with 80 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide (CO2) rose in 2023 despite several pledges and initiatives to reduce emissions. Graph credit: IEA.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2023

“I think it's important that we keep in mind that Pennsylvania accounts for about one percent of the world's carbon emissions, which is more than some countries, and [it’s] important to remember that the fossil fuel industry remains the leading source of global methane pollution. 27 Released 1.1

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HumanNature

MARCH 24, 2022

Forests are incredibly good at storing carbon, in both soils and plants. When forests burn, that carbon is released into the atmosphere and contributes to greenhouse gases (mostly as carbon dioxide). Normally when a forest regrows after a fire, it’s able to capture that carbon dioxide and store it again.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2022

Climate change is often discussed in terms of global temperature increase, sea level rise, and hundreds of millions of tons of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere,” said Secretary McDonnell. Video and photos of the event will be available later today at PAcast.

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Science Blogs

APRIL 11, 2019

This could absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and help biodiversity thrive. But it’s now clear that mitigation alone is not enough: we need to draw down carbon that we have already emitted from the atmosphere. The other main strategies for carbon drawdown are both, in my view, disastrous. Categories.

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Acoel

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Each ton of carbon dioxide emitted causes permanent damage to the atmosphere and other public natural resources. Under a prior line of cases, it must be presumed that the Pennsylvania General Assembly acted consistent with its duties under the amendment when it adopted the Air Pollution Control Act.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

million has been given to pro-fossil fuel think tanks by Tory donors since the 2019 general election. million from fossil fuel interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since the 2019 election. Lord Moynihan donated £53,000 to Liz Truss in 2022, and £100,000 to Boris Johnson in 2019.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 15, 2020

July 1, 2019). The Juliana plaintiffs bring public trust claims, asserting that the federal government violated the young plaintiffs’ constitutional rights by allowing dangerous carbon dioxide concentrations to be emitted by fossil fuel companies. People by James v. Exxon Mobil Corp. , 3d 1233(A), 1 (N.Y. BP P.L.C., et al , No.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

Replacing these massive carbon sink forests with machinery which continuously pumps vast amounts of carbon dioxide into the Earth’s atmosphere is increasing the rate of global warming. In 2019 over two thirds of environmental activists murdered were from Latin America [5].

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

In China, cadmium in soil mainly comes from atmospheric deposition of the metal after it has been emitted from coal-burning, metallurgical facilities and animal-source fertilisers. An increase of only a few percentage points would sequester huge quantities of carbon. each year.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 12, 2021

2019 ) gives a good overview of Manabe’s particular philosophy of climate modeling which was very much focused on getting things to work, and not worrying too much about the details. The basic issue stems from the different timescales of the ocean and atmosphere. Manabe’s Climate Modeling. That paper ( Manabe et al.,

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

This version originates from a 1995 German book and to this day is highly popular with the climate skeptics bubble on social media, and with the German right-wing AfD climate denial party (see my 2019 blog article ). Figure 2: Carbon dioxide levels and global temperature over the past 2022 years. Image: Prof.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2021

By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal Pennsylvania is ideally suited to help the nation fight global warming by becoming a leader in the effort to capture and store emissions of carbon dioxide, state officials say. In the battle to slow global warming, carbon dioxide is the chief target. from 1990–2019.

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Physics World

MARCH 14, 2022

Planets orbiting the Sun-like stars of Alpha Centauri could be carbon-rich worlds with diamonds and graphite littered across their surfaces, say astronomers. Carbon world. Within our Solar System, for example, the carbon-to-oxygen (C/O) ratio is 0.5, meaning that there are twice as many oxygen atoms for every atom of carbon.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

not plants, animals, or bacteria), get their energy by breaking down organic molecules via a different chemical pathway than we air-breathers use to get our energy, which does not require oxygen and ends in methane instead of carbon dioxide and water. Atmospheric concentrations. Climate impact. W/m 2 from elevated CO 2.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

During 2020, I started hearing aerosol particles mentioned outside of the atmospheric science field. News sources in late 2019 began reporting the invisible threat of COVID-19 with limited ideas of how it was spreading. Headlines would pose the question – “could it be transmitted through the air conditioning?

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2023

People should be celebrating, not demonizing, modern increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). In other words, the Earth came within 30 ppm in CO2’s atmospheric concentration of witnessing the extinction of most land-based plants and all higher terrestrial life-forms – nearly a true climate apocalypse.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2023

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide for the first twenty years that it remains in the atmosphere. “For the future of Pennsylvania’s climate and the health of those living closest to oil and gas wells, the EPA must adopt the strongest rules possible as quickly as possible.”

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Studies show it may be possible through the adoption of improved farming practices which take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and store it in the soil. 12 The dollar values of carbon incentives are as diverse as the agencies that offer them. Biden’s climate strategy looks to pay farmers to curb carbon footprint.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Fossil fuel combustion produces carbon dioxide (CO2), the most abundant global warming pollutant, but also produces local pollutants such as fine particulate matter (PM2.5), nitrogen oxides (NOx), carbon monoxide (CO) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). which is formed in the atmosphere from precursor gases such as NOx.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

4] As our climate is warming due to rising emissions of greenhouse gases into our atmosphere, extreme weather events and intense variations in temperature are becoming more frequent. [5]. We need to make changes in the present day so we don’t leave a carbon dioxide ridden earth without forests for our future generations.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Because methane has 28 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide and a shorter atmospheric life of only 12 years, immediate action to reduce methane emissions —including from agriculture—is critical to slow our warming climate, especially in light of expanding global populations and food demand. 2018 , Petersen et al.,

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Acoel

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Washington State was the first state to legalize human composting in 2019, followed by Colorado (2021), Oregon (2021), and then Vermont (2022). While the cremation process burns fossil fuels and emits carbon dioxide and particulates into the atmosphere, the environmental impact of cremation versus burial is arguably about the same.

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Global Green

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Individuals and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) jointly brought a legal challenge against the Directive RED II in 2019. Their legal case pointed out including forest biomass as a carbon neutral renewable energy source is detrimental for the environment. So, is burning trees renewable? Hydropower. Ocean energy.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The loss in fish populations disrupts blue carbon sequestration in the deep ocean, contributing even more carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere. Between 2019 and 2020, at least 30 Indonesian workers died on Chinese fishing vessels. Beyond environmental destruction, GFFs notoriously exploit labor.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Oil and gas major ConocoPhillips’ website says gas is “one of the safest and cleanest fuels available” and that when it is burned, it “produces mostly carbon dioxide and water vapor—the same substances emitted when humans exhale.” Likewise, pipeline giant Williams Companies now refers to its gas projects as “clean energy” projects.

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The National Academies will hold a webinar about Ocean Carbon Dioxide Removal (Ocean CDR) Jan 20 as part of a monthly climate webinar series. Ocean CDR is a set of strategies to sequester carbon dioxide in ocean waters. on critical decision-making for crisis response and future recovery related to COVID-19.

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Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

In 2019 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change warned that warming of 1.5 32] Part of the reason the planet is greening stems from greater carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and greater planetary warming. [33] 33] Scientists find that plants grow faster as a result of higher carbon dioxide concentrations.

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