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Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 17, 2025
Figure 1: Future annual CO 2 emissions in the five illustrative scenarios Source: Sixth Assessment Report of IPCC Working Group I, 2021 By combining radiative forcing (the climate side, represented by the numbers at the end of each scenario name e.g. 1.9 One of the primary applications of IPCC scenarios is in global climate modeling.
Real Climate
OCTOBER 27, 2021
It’s also urgent because the oceans act like a flywheel, making sure that cuts in emission of greenhouse gases will have a lagged effect on global warming. Climate change adaptation was addressed in the Paris Agreement from 2015, the Climate Adaptation Summit in January 2021 , and will be one of four key priorities during the upcoming COP26.
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Circle of Blue
AUGUST 11, 2021
By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — August 10, 2021. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of the world’s leading climate scientists, released its sixth climate assessment on Monday. These events are unlikely in our current climate—but the warmer Earth gets, the bigger the risk becomes.
Real Climate
AUGUST 12, 2021
In my opinion the press conference on 9 August 2021 didn’t do justice to the vast effort that went into it. There is no doubt that we have changed Earth’s climate through our activities on a broad range of aspects that includes consequences for the atmosphere, the oceans, snow, ice, Earth’s fauna and ecosystems.
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.
Legal Planet
MAY 19, 2022
In their 2021 book , Lakefront: Public Trust and Private Rights in Chicago , Joseph Kearney and Tom Merrill plumb the social and legal history of the lakeshore. That seems like a plausible scenario under climate change but seemingly hasn’t been established yet. Chicago has long fascinated environmental historians.
Breezometer
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
A senior hurricane researcher at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , Eric Blake has studied atmospheric changes for two decades, earning his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Louisiana at Monroe and Colorado State University, respectively. Eric Blake. Nate Johnson.
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