Real Climate

JULY 25, 2021

Climate adaptation steams forward with an accelerated speed that can be seen through the Climate Adaptation Summit in January (see previous post ), the ECCA 2021 in May/June, and the upcoming COP26. One example is the ECCA 2021 Climate Adaptation solutions on YouTube provided by ERA4CS.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen On the eve of the COP28 UN climate summit, The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a United Nations (UN) body, has warned that the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases (GHG) is forecast to continue the trend that resulted in record-high CO2 measurements last year. Photo credit: iStock.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 20, 2023

Research produced by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has shown that rising temperatures, sea level rise , and ocean acidification have all been made worse by fossil fuel companies’ activities and products. The company’s own research estimated that to prevent the average temperature from rising beyond 2 degrees Centigrade (3.6

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Law Columbia

MAY 22, 2024

On one hand, numerous adverse effects of climate change manifest in the ocean, such as ocean acidification, temperature changes, and rising sea levels. b) to protect and preserve the marine environment in relation to climate change impacts, including ocean warming and sea level rise, and ocean acidification?

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In coastal counties, which are home to about 40% of the United States’ population, critical water infrastructure is growing more vulnerable to climate change and faces a host of compounding hazards such as sea level rise and flooding, heavy precipitation and extreme storm surges.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

Rising sea levels and increased intensity of storm surges are playing a considerable role in the degradation of coastal regions in the Pacific Islands. Illustrating the variation in sea levels from 1993 – 2018. Low-lying areas of tropical Pacific islands’ accessed 28 February 2021, [link]. [2] Photo credit.

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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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Acoel

AUGUST 10, 2021

Posted on August 10, 2021 by Seth Jaffe. Here are a number of the lowlights: It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land. Here are a number of the lowlights: It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land. My emphasis.).

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JANUARY 17, 2024

Sea level rise is also important in the region, causing saltwater intrusion and salinization. from Chapter 21 of NCA5 Changes like sea level rise are resulting in the loss of culturally significant locations for subsistence harvesting. Other risks include increasing tropical cyclones and sea level rise.

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A Greener Life

MAY 20, 2022

Perched at 3,730 metres above sea level in the community of Ancotanga, the Oruro solar power plant is one of the flagship projects in Bolivia’s energy transition. When its second phase was inaugurated in February 2021, President Arce highlighted the importance of the project for the country’s energy transition. “We

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ESA

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

For 2021-2022, Working Group 1 has published their very lengthy report; we’re still waiting for the others. 4) Increased emissions and concentration of atmospheric greenhouse gases cause warming on land and water over relatively short periods of time (years, decades). Sea level has risen about 8?

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Even before adoption of the 1992 Framework Convention, the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) had proposed an “International Insurance Pool” to pay vulnerable countries based on observed sea level rise. The first explicit use of the term L&D was in the 2007 Bali Action Plan , in a section on enhanced action for adaptation.

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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

JUNE 16, 2022

In addition to extreme weather, electric utilities and system operators must also prepare for shifts in baseline weather and environmental conditions, such as higher average temperatures and sea levels, when planning and operating the electric grid. storms) and ignored more gradual changes (e.g., You can access the toolkit here.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 5, 2022

billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions into our atmosphere—the equivalent of 300 coal-fired power plants—and these facilities are sited in predominantly low-income communities and communities of color. More plastic means more pollution—for the climate, coastal communities and our ocean. By 2030, plastic production will contribute 1.3

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The climate system is connected largely through atmospheric waves that carry temperature, pressure, and wind signals which impact weather thousands of miles away. On longer timescales, the ocean connects global patterns through ocean circulation and sea level pressure. What is a forecast of opportunity? J., & Barnes, E.

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Law Columbia

MAY 29, 2024

This applies to any source of pollution, whether land-based, vessel-based, and atmospheric. In the context of marine pollution from GHG emissions from vessels, ITLOS referred to the IMO adopted amendments to Annex VI to MARPOL in 2011 and 2021 with a view to reducing GHG emissions from ships. 4) of UNCLOS.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

To meet these goals, the state is facilitating burgeoning carbon capture and sequestration (or storage) (CCS) technologies that capture carbon from point sources to store, as well as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), which removes carbon from the atmosphere. The post 2021-2022 California Environmental Legislation: What’s Been Enacted?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 20, 2023

As a climate scientist recently said on CNN, “Until we stop pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere we have no idea what the future looks like.” My next meeting is with former congressman Bill Hurd of Texas, and I want to ask him to expand on his positions he shared in 2021.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

That 2013 headline resulted from the first effort to quantify emissions from the ‘carbon majors’ —fossil fuel companies and cement manufacturers whose businesses have contributed an outsized amount of heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Just like in 2021, a lot of us may be thinking “it was not too bad.” However, 2021 saw the third most active hurricane season since record keeping began in 1851. And then there are the hurricanes. ” After all, we hardly had storms or hurricanes in the news for the past 3 months.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The needs are immense and crushing for low-income nations already reeling from billions of dollars of damages from extreme floods, drought, sea level rise and other climate impacts, as well as a human toll that is incalculable. billion in 2021.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Precipitation, flooding, and sea levels are rising in Maryland. The move comes amid criticism of state and local officials’ handling of the years-long water crisis in Benton Harbor, where lead levels were found to be higher than those during the crisis in the Michigan city of Flint in 2014. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

The New Jersey part of PennEast Pipeline was canceled in September, 2021. In December 2021, the company requested DEP to withdraw/revoke their permits for PA portion. Read more here. **The Read more here. Read more here. Amanda Cappelletti (D-Delaware) Sen. That was in 1969. So that was in 1971.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2023

The 2021 New Hampshire Climate Assessment states unequivocally: “Without significant reduction in atmospheric greenhouse gases (GHG), extreme precipitation events are projected to increase a minimum of 20%, leading to an increase in freshwater flooding regionally.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

As for hurricanes, Texas suffered no fewer than 81 tropical or subtropical cyclones from 1980 through 2021. Louisiana: Jeff Landry Nearly a million residents of Louisiana—the second hottest state—are threatened by coastal flooding, and between 2000 and 2021 the state was hit by 28 tropical or subtropical cyclones.

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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. Horry County gained almost 100,000 people between 2010 and 2021. It’s the very nature of the low-lying landscape.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Congress also found that these processescould contribute to significant global warming, altering world climate patterns and increase global sea levels. The Growing Climate Solutions Act of 2021 was aimed at helping farmers, ranchers, and private forest landowners enter the offsets market.

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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. But before he was able to do that in my imaginary scenario, I corrected the record. Previously, its reports included grants of $5,000 or more. billion respectively.

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The Energy Law

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The SCC Estimate assigned a dollar value on estimated global damages caused by every additional ton of greenhouse gas emitted into the atmosphere by using economic models that capture the impacts of climate change, including rising sea levels, changes to agricultural productivity, water shortages, property damages from increased flood risk, etc.

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ESA

JULY 18, 2022

Next week, the House is expected to consider another six spending bills, including a bill funding the National Science Foundation and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Morgan and was a deputy division leader at NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory until 2021. She has a Ph.D. International.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

EPA’s response to the petitions is due June 3, 2021. 29, 2021); North American Coal Corp. On April 15, 2021, federal defendants, defendant-intervenors, and environmental groups filed a stipulation for dismissal of appeals of a district court’s November 2020 decision finding that the U.S. West Virginia v. 20-1530 (U.S.

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ESA

JUNE 28, 2021

The Department of Energy Science for the Future Act increases recommended funding levels for the Office of Science to $11.1 Congress funded the DOE Office of Science at $7 billion in FY 2021. The Senate voted to overturn this rule in April 2021. Responses to this request for information are due July 28, 2021.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

March 8, 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. 4:21-cv-00287-SPM (E.D.

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