Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

We have examined the effect of the geographical distribution of measurements in a study that was cited by New Scientist in 2019 , and we found that the uneven distribution of thermometer measurements can give a misleading impression that the perceived warming rate has been slower than the actual global warming. It has taken time.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

NASA’s newly updated online tool, SEA (Sea-level Evaluation and Assessment), provides a snapshot of the ocean’s rise or fall for locations across the planet. It covers the period between 1993 and 2019. Read the full story from NASA. Read more →

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Inside Climate News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In a worst case scenario, rising global temperatures and marine heatwaves could melt enough of the Thwaites Glacier and other Antarctic ice to raise sea levels 10 feet by the early 2100s.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 17, 2023

In south and central Florida , where decades of Everglades restoration projects are already underway, climate change is forcing engineers to pivot. In Trinidad and Tobajo, dry seasons are drier and rainy seasons are more extreme, a weather pattern scientists have attributed to climate change, the New York Times reports.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

In recent years, The Netherlands has become the leading site of climate change litigation. Most climate-change harms will be in the future and in often-distant low-latitude countries. Shell also explicitly recognizes that CO 2 emissions must be reduced in order to prevent dangerous climate change. (In

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

At the evening seafood reception that year, in a corner near the fresh oysters, a board member of the Maine Lobstermen’s Association remarked to me, “Everyone blames everything on climate change, but they blame the Right Whale on lobstering.” His remark has remained with me ever since. Sea levels are rising.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2023

Despite the ongoing debate on whether ITLOS has jurisdiction to issue an advisory opinion on climate change, if the Tribunal asserts jurisdiction (on jurisdiction, see here and here) , there is still much to uncover. Assuming the ITLOS will assert jurisdiction, this post’s objective is twofold.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

The case of Tangier is a prime example of the consequences of continued sea level rise and human displacement due to the climate crisis. The effects of the climate crisis can be seen all over the world. Ultimately, sea level rise will force people to migrate to higher ground, creating climate change refugees.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2025

The request follows similar initiatives at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Seas (ITLOS, see here and here ), the International Court of Justice (ICJ, see here and here ), and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR, see here ).

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The 27 th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27) in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, ended last Sunday, November 20, 1.5 Climate change related harms that are not avoided by adaptation are referred to as loss and damage. She writes here in her personal capacity. .

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Climate change touches many aspects of our lives, including the food on our plates. Many of our foods are vulnerable as climate impacts worsen, from staple crops like maize to much-loved treats like coffee and chocolate. Climate change is making the ocean warmer, more acidic and lower in oxygen.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 20, 2024

"Sharing data-backed information in a user-friendly tool is critical to helping the many local officials, policymakers and planners in the Basin struggling to understand how to take action in the face of climate change," said Kristen Bowman Kavanagh, DRBC’s Deputy Executive Director and project lead.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 16, 2023

Data published by the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) shows that the average temperature in Europe from December 2022 to February 2022 was 1.4 This ranks as the joint-second warmest winter on record on the European continent, only exceeded by the winter of 2019-2020.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Plaintiffs unsuccessfully challenged the City’s 2019 subdivision map approval based on the claim that a subsequent EIR was required due to changes in the project and circumstances allegedly showing it would have new significant impacts on the endangered salt marsh harvest mouse (“harvest mouse”) and its wetlands habitat.

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Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

We’re already experiencing the impact of climate change across the world; now an update from the IPCC suggests weather extremes could become the norm in the near future. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2024

The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) issued an advisory opinion on April 21, 2024 in response to a request submitted by the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law (COSIS). 52-54) and acknowledged the critical role the ocean plays in regulating the climate system (para.

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HumanNature

APRIL 16, 2024

Student in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Colorado State University The Challenge of Sea Level Rise Imagine your favorite beach town slowly disappearing beneath encroaching waves. Rising sea levels, a consequence of climate change, pose a significant threat to coastal communities worldwide.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

By: Deborah Klenotic, Deputy Communications Director Climate change is a major challenge facing Pennsylvania, and the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is leading many efforts to fight back and protect communities. Find more materials at DEP’s Climate Change webpage.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Two-thirds of the G20’s public finance for energy went to fossil fuels in 2019–2020. Subsidies reached new highs in 2021, even before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a Climate Transparency analysis finds. In total, 63% of the G20’s public finance for energy went to fossil fuels in 2019–2020. Photo credit: Jiri Vondrous / Alamy.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 4, 2022

The need to invest in our Nation’s future is especially true when it comes to the unprecedented risks we face from the climate crisis – and the opportunities we can create through action. Today, for the first time in history, OMB is formally accounting in the Federal Budget for risks of climate change. billion and $9.60

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Frontiers

MARCH 24, 2023

She is also a fellow with The George J Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions and an associate of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute. Photo credit: Karrah Kwasnik What encouraged you to work towards sustainability, more specifically on climate change issues and sustainable agriculture? “I

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Negotiations at the 28 th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28) in Dubai, UAE, wrapped up early last week. Despite the fact that countries are already suffering losses due to climate change, the road to a Loss and Damage Fund has been relatively long.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 7, 2022

The Future is : Gender Inclusion in Climate Crisis Solutions By Beckett McGowan , Juris Doctor Candidate (VLGS '23), Staff Editor for the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law April 7, 2022 Climate Change is the great exasperator. 1) However, natural disasters are not the only thing exasperated by Climate Change.

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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. “But Our interest in developing a local climate action plan began with an idea to install rooftop solar panels on our town hall.

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 20, 2022

On the whole, the 2021 report points to management progress staying stagnant, and more stocks are less healthy and less resilient to climate change. The total number of rebuilt stocks—47—hasn’t changed since 2019. On one hand, the fishery management system is keeping up adequate management of some stocks.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 8, 2021

By Jessica Wentz, The IPBES Global Assessment on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (2019) estimated that approximately one million species are currently at risk of extinction, with climate change being a major driver of accelerating extinction risk.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 14, 2024

These state-level “Climate Superfund” bills are modeled on the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), commonly known as Superfund, which imposes liability on multiple parties, including the generators of waste, for the cleanup of contaminated sites. Constitution.”

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

On September 23, 2022, the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) delivered a landmark decision in Daniel Billy and others v Australia (Torres Strait Islanders Petition) finding that the Australian Government is violating its human rights obligations to the indigenous Torres Strait Islanders through climate change inaction.

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Washington Nature

MAY 26, 2023

Ailene Ettinger joined TNC in 2019 as a Quantitative Ecologist. Her work focuses on applied conservation problems — how science informs approaches to solving real-world issues — and has led her to research wide-ranging topics, from whales in the Salish Sea to tropical bee communities on coffee farms. AE: I think there are a few links.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 24, 2022

And is that kind of description even relevant as the planet heats up and climate change changes everything? Thanks to climate change. Add climate change and we need to keep track of which decade these flood levels were determined. Extreme event probability and associated severity is changing.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The decision flies in the face of the advice of the secretariat of the World Heritage Convention which had recommended that because of slow progress in addressing the dual threats of climate change and over-tourism, Venice should be placed on its “in danger” list. Sea level rise and worsening storms are wreaking havoc.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Together, the story they tell is of a world that seems hell-bent on heedlessly careening toward climate disaster, even as the necessary and beneficial solutions are within our reach. These crucial goals can help accelerate the world’s transition to clean energy and turn down fossil fuels that are driving climate change.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In the background , the question always looms, “Are these extreme weather events caused by climate change ? ”. Julia Aylen wades through waist deep water carrying her pet dog as she is rescued from her flooded home during Hurricane Dorian in Freeport, Bahamas, Tuesday, Sept. As society evolves, extreme weather also changes.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 14, 2021

As climate change brings with it heavier and more frequent flooding events, experts say policies in place to reduce risk are insufficient. FEET ABOVE SEA LEVEL. Levels in Lake Ontario are currently 245.34 feet above sea level, only two feet higher than the record low for this time of year.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 7, 2024

used the words “ climate change ” expressly. According to a 2019 report by the Motion Picture Association, there were 1.4 According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the global average temperature has already risen by 1.1°C C above pre-industrial levels and is likely to reach 1.5°C

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 13, 2024

On June 13, the Delaware River Basin Commission announced that at its June 5 quarterly public business meeting it approved a resolution directing staff to develop a Climate Resilience Plan that includes elements related to planning, consultation, outreach, education and rulemaking concerning climate change.

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Washington Nature

MARCH 30, 2023

Moore, we acknowledge the need for scientific research led by Black scientists who have vested interest in climate issues that directly impact Black communities, including sea level rise & nutrient pollution in our oceans. I think that is the changing point of the conversation,” she says. Photography by BIMS.

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