Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 6, 2023

Scientific evidence is clear that climate change is affecting winter storms, making extreme events happen more frequently. Like most older millennials, climate change has shaped my time on planet Earth. Count of extreme events in Yolo and Sacramento counties from Sept 2011 to July 2019. Data: NOAA 2023.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

PennFuture celebrated 25 years of fighting climate change and industrial pollution by holding anniversary celebrations in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia to honor seven Pennsylvanians for their contributions to restoring and protecting the environment. Michael Mann - Climate Champion Award PennFuture honored Dr. Michael E.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 30, 2024

As my colleague Brenda Ekwurzel wrote after the historic tornado outbreak that ripped across the Midwest and Appalachia in December 2021: “It is more than worth it to invest in ways to improve weather forecasts and communication of the risks with such powerful extreme events. Twisters only briefly gives us a look into this work.

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Breezometer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

She leads numerous initiatives that promote a better understanding of our planet’s dynamic weather and climate changes. BreezoMeter’s own Paul Walsh is a data science leader in the realm of weather & climate sustainability strategy for small-medium enterprises (SMEs). Paul Walsh. Dr. Marshall Shepherd. Jen Carfagno.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

I followed with great interest the launch of the sixth assessment report Working Group 1 (The Physical Science Basis) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on August 9th. In my opinion the press conference on 9 August 2021 didn’t do justice to the vast effort that went into it.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Atmospheric rivers are projected to intensify as the climate continues to warm. By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — November 22, 2021. There are three main factors why, climate scientist Simon Donnor explained to the Globe and Mail. Climate change is projected to intensify atmospheric rivers across the globe.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Solar activity provides no alternative explanation for today’s climate change Dagsvik and Moen claim that recent research indicates that variations in the sun’s magnetic field are of great importance for long-term fluctuations in solar activity. Our job is to be thorough and verify questionable results. It has taken time.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Global solutions: What physicists can do to tackle the climate crisis. “A But the challenges of climate change shouldn’t be “other people’s problems”; they concern all of us. Thankfully, plenty of physicists are already doing their bit to tackle the climate crisis, as we report in the October issue of Physics World magazine.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 11, 2021

by David Randall (Colorado State University) As a climate scientist myself, I was excited to learn that Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi have been awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize for Physics.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 20, 2023

Corporate leadership was informed about advances in climate science and incorporated those advances when its scientists built their own models. Regardless, the company publicly cast doubt on the reality of global warming, attempted to discredit climate scientists and climate models, and tried to block climate action.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 3, 2022

The ghost of climate change. While it can be tricky to immediately link one extreme weather event to climate change, scientists have consistently said that we can link the frequency and the severity of extreme weather events to climate change , hence why we successively continue to break weather records. .

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

26 (GC26) on children’s rights and the environment with a special focus on climate change. In 2021, the CRC dismissed the complaints since the petitioners had failed to exhaust domestic legal remedies at the national level. Argentina et al. ).

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 15, 2024

It would counter the expertise of climate scientists, and would damage the label’s credibility internationally,” said Julie Segal, Senior Manager of Climate Finance at Environmental Defence Canada. “To

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A Greener Life

JUNE 24, 2022

In the 1960s climate change was not really a significant concern, not even amongst environmentalists – this was despite the fact that the Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius in 1896 was the first to claim that emissions from fossil fuels might eventually result in enhanced global warming. In 2021 the world emitted 36.4

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Physics World

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Wealthy nations have not even delivered a $100bn annual fund to help developing nations with climate mitigation and adaptation, which had been promised for 2020 onwards. While most climate scientists are not directly involved in high-level negotiations, their work is essential to the process. Courtesy: Eunice Lo. “I

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 18, 2021

Last week, the IPCC released their latest climate report – and the findings were serious. The report is the most comprehensive to-date from the international panel of scientists who work on climate change – and shows just how crucial the next couple years are for climate action. August 9th, 2021.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 5, 2021

Climate scientists have long predicted that the Mediterranean will be hit hard by rising temperatures and changes in rainfall, driven by human emissions. Future wildfire risk is projected to increase in southern Europe , according to the last report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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Law Columbia

APRIL 4, 2024

Youth4ClimateAction in Republic of Korea We are in a critical decade for action on climate change. National governments are the most important systemic actors in the governance of climate action, primarily because they are the only actors with the ability to adopt economy-wide decarbonization measures.

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JANZEN AG

APRIL 19, 2022

Nearly every large food industry corporation today has pledged to combat climate change by reducing its own carbon footprint. McDonald’s Accelerating Climate Action to Reach Net Zero Emissions by 2050 ). PepsiCo Doubles Down on Climate Goal and Pledges Net-Zero Emissions by 2040 ). Climate Change , Walmart).

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Chile’s president-elect Gabriel Boric speaks in Santiago, the day after his election victory in December 2021. The president-elect, who is currently finishing his second term as a congressman, made environmental and climate change issues central to his campaign. Photo credit: ZUMA Press / Alamy.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

With announcements from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) growing bleaker by the year, climate change activism has become increasingly bold and desperate. [1] To avoid the agony of perpetual disappointment, we may need to learn how to embrace despair while actively willing social change.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 18, 2024

. -- DEP Awards $101.1 Million In Federally-Funded Grants To Support Local Abandoned Mine-Related Restoration; Deadline For Next Round Of Grants Feb. 19-22 [PaEN] -- Senate Environmental Committee To Hold 2nd Joint Hearing With Ohio Legislature On Electric Grid Reliability Feb. 1; Will It Address Natural Gas Infrastructure Vulnerabilities ?

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A Greener Life

JUNE 5, 2024

With less than two months to the 2024 Olympics, held in Paris one can think back to the most recent Games held in Tokyo in 2021 where extreme heat severely impacted not only the scheduling but also put significantly more stress on the human body. If you love running it would be in your own interest to care about climate action too.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 24, 2021

Senate returns to session September 20, 21, 22 -- Committee Schedule House returns to session September 27, 28, 29 -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events TODAY 9:00: DEP Climate Change Advisory Committee meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. Contact: Lindsay Byron, lbryon@pa.gov. Meeting available by WebEx.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2023

The better news is that methane does not last as long as carbon dioxide, so climate scientists have targeted reduced methane emissions as a primary means to produce short-term reductions in warming. In addition to harming the atmosphere, the massive leak also caused short-term health problems for nearby residents.

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Physics World

MARCH 16, 2022

As the world grapples with the consequences of climate change, many scientists have begun to face up to the realities of their carbon emissions. It turns out, for example, that climate-change researchers fly more frequently than scientists in other fields. But other scientists also fly a lot.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2022

On June 1, PPL Corporation announced it has joined Climate READi, a three-year initiative launched by the Electric Power Research Institute to address energy system climate resilience and adaptation as extreme weather events continue to increase. "As To learn more about this program, visit EPRI’s Climate READi webpage.

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Acoel

AUGUST 25, 2021

Posted on August 25, 2021 by Richard M. Due to climate change, that drought has been getting progressively worse: warmer winters lead to less precipitation, and hotter summers cause drier conditions, creating a vicious, downward cycle of heat and drought. Indeed, the Western U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

9 Webinar On Methane Emission Fees Under New Federal Climate, Energy Act And Impacts On Oil & Gas Industry PA Organization For Watersheds & Rivers Hosts Nov. Million In Revenue At Lowest Tax Rate On Record Chesapeake Bay Foundation: Implementing Farm Conservation Practices In Pennsylvania Will Result In $352.5 15 DEP Hosts Dec.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

By Ralph Kisberg, Responsible Decarbonization Alliance This guest essay first appeared in the Daily Item on September 11, 2022 -- While the majority of Pennsylvanians want the nation to seriously address climate change, close to half of all federal legislators and substantially more than half the legislators in our statehouse are not yet on board.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 1, 2024

While at least one event provided a platform for oil and gas industry greenwashing, others centered people directly affected by fossil fuel-driven climate change who are holding bad actors accountable. I had the honor of moderating one of the latter events, Scientists & Activists vs. Fossil Fuel Finance.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Million For Community Air Pollution Monitoring Projects In Pennsylvania [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: EPA Underwriting Citizen Scientists Monitoring Air Quality In Southwestern PA -- Stroud Water Research Center Honors Michael E. Of Health & Human Services Announces $4.5 Mann, Ph.D., Mann, Ph.D., In Erie County.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 6, 2021

For months, international’s organizations have blamed the calamity on climate change. By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — December 6, 2021. International organizations had blamed the calamity on climate change, but a new study rejects that assumption. Image © Heinonlein / Wikimedia Commons.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 10, 2023

This year has brought new evidence of what major fossil fuel companies knew and when about the role their products play in climate change, as well as what they did in spite of what they knew. I is for Intensity Targets Reducing global warming emissions intensity alone is not sufficient to slow the pace of climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 20, 2023

Two seasons in one The presidential primary season coincides with “ Danger Season ”—the period between May and October when the Northern Hemisphere experiences back-to-back extreme weather augmented by climate change. Candidates are crisscrossing New Hampshire amid climate-related and climate-boosted catastrophes.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 4, 2023

These conditions increase Puerto Rico’s dependence and reduce our self-sufficiency and resilience to climate change-driven natural disasters. Edil is both a climate scientist and environmental attorney working to advance decolonization for Puerto Rico and achieve environmental justice for Puerto Ricans.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2022

To get an assessment of the progress thus far, as well as an idea if what has to happen next, I turned to two of my colleagues in the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) Climate & Energy Program: Principal Climate Scientist Rachel Licker and Transmission Policy Manager Sam Gomberg. percent; natural gas, 38.3

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