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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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2023

By comparing these two data sets, scientists can determine the probability that human activities are responsible for observed changes in temperature, precipitation patterns, sea level rise, and other climate change indicators. Event attribution science studies have found that climate change has altered: Extreme heat events.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

This work was first instigated as part of the pre-development of the Smithsonian’s Deep Time exhibit (which opened in 2019). van de Weg, "Long-term Phanerozoic global mean sea level: Insights from strontium isotope variations and estimates of continental glaciation", Gondwana Research , vol. van der Meer, C.R.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

The global mean sea level has increased by 20 cm from 1901 to 2018, and the rate of increase has accelerated and is now about 3.7 A thermal expansion explained 50% of sea level rise during 1971–2018, while ice loss from glaciers contributed 22%, ice sheets 20% and changes in land water storage 8%. mm increase every year.

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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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Sea levels are rising. The Gulf of Maine Research Institute climate dashboard clearly indicates sea surface temperature anomalies. The Maine Climate Council went to work in 2019 because of the significant climate impacts to the people in Maine as well as to the natural resources on which people depend.

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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. Continued sea level rise is one of the most serious consequences of the climate crisis, according to the latest IPCC Assessment Report.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 17, 2023

Amidst these weather disruptions — “Trinidad’s average temperature has risen two and half times above the global average from 1946 to 2019,” according to the New York Times — citizens are reckoning with the government’s decision to pursue oil and gas.

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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. 4th at 1312.).

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

Massachusetts pointed to the loss of coastal land from sea-level rise, while the Urgenda judgments ultimately concluded that there is a serious risk that climate change will cause the human rights of people in the Netherlands to not be met. First, who can stand as a plaintiff? C and an 85% chance for 2°C.

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Physics World

JANUARY 7, 2022

Isolated at the head of the Zermatt Valley, climbing the perfectly shaped mountain, which has a summit height of 4470 m above sea level, is on the to-do list of thousands of climbers – and some physicists.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 16, 2023

This ranks as the joint-second warmest winter on record on the European continent, only exceeded by the winter of 2019-2020. C3S Deputy Director Samantha Burgess said: “These low sea ice conditions may have important implications for the stability of Antarctic ice shelves and ultimately for global sea level rise”

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

During the initial negotiations of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Convention), AOSIS proposed to set up an “International Climate Fund” to finance adaptation, and an “International Insurance Pool” as a separate entity to provide financial insurance specifically against sea level rise.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 20, 2024

In 2019, the DRBC established the Advisory Committee on Climate Change to provide the Commission with scientifically based information and recommendations. The DRBC has also developed a complex computer model to evaluate sea level rise scenarios and plan for systemic impacts within the basin.

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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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Circle of Blue

JUNE 2, 2021

The first of these shortage tiers — at 1,075 feet above sea level — is expected to be breached next year. Mead is currently at 1,073 feet, but for shortage determinations, it is the projected level in the following January that matters. A few years later these rules were altered to bring Mexico into the program.

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Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

According to the report , average net annual human-caused GHG emissions were at their highest levels in human history between 2010 and 2019, with urban areas responsible for an increasing proportion of the emissions. The rate of emissions growth year on year slowed between 2010-2019 in comparison to the previous decade.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

from 2019 to 2020 and 44.4% As of 2020, the three largest sources of emissions in Pennsylvania are: -- Electricity Generation (29% of gross emissions) -- Transportation Fuel Consumption (22% of gross emissions) -- Industrial Emissions (19% of gross emissions) Emissions from electricity generation decreased 10.4% from 2005 to 2020.

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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. In total, 63% of the G20’s public finance for energy went to fossil fuels in 2019–2020. Oil drilling rigs off Invergordon, Scotland. Photo credit: Jiri Vondrous / Alamy. By Catherine Early. Market distortion.

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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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Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2024

Question b) related to the protection and preservation of the marine environment in relation to climate change impacts, including ocean warming, sea level rise, and ocean acidification. ITLOS recognized that these questions “necessarily have scientific aspects” which it had to consider (para.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2023

For example, issues of statehood and loss of territory due to sea level rise would arguably fall outside the Tribunal’s competence and could be addressed in the ICJ advisory request on climate change. The question is divided into two parts.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 31, 2022

It’s also causing marine heatwaves, storms, sea ice loss and sea level rise. Flooding of the Mississippi River in 2019 led to a catastrophic regional fishery disaster in Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana that included shrimp fisheries. Marine fish and invertebrates are influenced by the conditions in their environment.

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 20, 2022

The total number of rebuilt stocks—47—hasn’t changed since 2019. It’s changing more than ever with rising sea levels, warming temperatures, ocean acidification, deoxygenation and more. The stock has increased to a size that can once again support long-term fishing. Here is the verdict: Progress on rebuilt stocks has stalled.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 7, 2022

Countless research has warned of the climate catastrophe that will happen if anthropogenic carbon emissions continue to rise: sea-level rise will accelerate, tropical storms will occur in greater number with greater severity, and droughts will grow harsher and longer. (1) Hill, et al.,

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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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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 20, 2023

For developing countries and small island states, the consequences of stronger storms, rising sea levels, increasing temperatures and other climate-related phenomena will be difficult to endure, and the countries who will likely suffer the most are often the least responsible for climate change.

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Frontiers

MARCH 24, 2023

Through high school and college, I continued to spend my summers farming and eventually started my own mixed-vegetable operation, which I ran between 2009 and 2019. I worked on the study mentioned with my colleagues, Dr Meredith Niles and Hannah Aitken, in 2019. The work was very rewarding.

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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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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 12, 2019

December 12, 2019. The report, The Thin Green Line, looks at staffing levels and funding for environmental programs between 2008 and 2018 in the lower 48 states. On December 5, the Environmental Integrity Project (a national nonprofit organization) issued a report on state funding for environmental protection programs.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

In 2019, the governor set a state goal for greenhouse gas emissions to be reduced 26 percent by 2025 and 80 percent by 2050.? It’s projected that more flooding will increasingly stress utility systems and roads and bridges around the state.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 4, 2022

billion annually, the equivalent of an increase between 78 percent and 480 percent, by the end of the century. -- Over 12,195 individual Federal buildings and structures could be inundated under ten feet of sea level rise, with a total combined replacement cost of over $43.7 billion and $9.60

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Law Columbia

MARCH 14, 2024

Each bill addresses emissions over roughly the same period—2000 to 2018 in Maryland, Massachusetts, and New York, and 2000 to 2019 in Vermont. Each bill also limits its reach to Super-emitters with “sufficient connection with the State to satisfy the nexus requirements of the U.S. Constitution.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Sea level rise and worsening storms are wreaking havoc. One of the most recent serious floods was In November 2019, when almost 90% of the city was inundated, damaging more than 80 ecclesiastical buildings including the bell tower of San Dorato in Murano and mosaic floor of the 7th century church of Santa Maria Assunta in Torcello.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Rising sea temperatures are impairing the health of marine environments around the islands, by coral bleaching and ocean acidification. In May 2019, a group of eight Torres Strait Islanders and six of their children submitted a complaint against the Australian government to the UNHRC.

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Washington Nature

MAY 26, 2023

by Lena Beck Dr. 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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 24, 2022

Add climate change and we need to keep track of which decade these flood levels were determined. For example, with expected sea level rise over the next few decades what currently would be extreme coastal floods (50-year floods or a large flood with only a 2% chance in any given year) are likely to occur annually for most coastal U.S.

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