Law and Environment

AUGUST 9, 2021

Here are a number of the lowlights: It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land. Widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred. My emphasis.).

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 22, 2022

Despite promising adaptation strategies, sea level rise is projected to drown tens of thousands of acres of farmland within the century. He makes his living on the Turnbridge Plantation in his hometown of Hardeeville, South Carolina, 30 minutes from the Atlantic Ocean. Storm events are getting steadily more intense.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 1, 2022

by Jianjun Yin, University of Arizona Sea levels are rising, and that will bring profound flood risks to large parts of the Gulf and Atlantic coasts over the next three decades. A new report led by scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warns that the U.S.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

It shows the atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and tells a story about the carbon cycle, involving Earth’s crust, the atmosphere, land surface, the biosphere, and the oceans. The Keeling curve, highlighted with the release of important climate reports and climate summits.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

are used all over the world, based on calculations that quantify the effects of physical mechanisms and the way different parts of the atmosphere are connected to each other. The physics-based models describe how energy flows through the atmosphere and ocean, as well as how the forces from different air masses push against each other.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A simple statement that masks just how complicated the issues are: mixing politics, economics, livelihoods, fisheries and endangered species in the ocean body that is the Gulf of Maine. He was on to something And the lobsterman was correct: we can blame carbon emissions for ocean acidification and warming in the Gulf of Maine.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

For ocean advocates like me who have been tracking the $1.5 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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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

As deeply troubling reports continue to come in about ocean waters hitting historic hot temperatures, sectors like global shipping are trying to understand the consequences of a warmer ocean and what can be done to stop the heating. Warmer water also expands and raises sea levels as well as holds less oxygen.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 16, 2021

First, after carbon dioxide emissions cease, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels begin to decrease, as they are absorbed by natural processes and sinks in the oceans and on land.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In particular, he said, “reliance upon coal, on the other hand, could aggravate the ‘greenhouse effect,’ whereby excess carbon dioxide (which accompanies coal burning) traps heat inside the earth’s atmosphere, thus possibly melting the icecaps and raising the level of the oceans.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2023

Today the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released its annual report on billion-dollar weather and climate-related disasters in the United States, which tells a grimly familiar story. Wherever you live in the United States, you were undoubtedly affected by these disasters, directly or indirectly.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 3, 2022

The ocean retains heat for much longer than land does. If people everywhere stopped burning fossil fuels tomorrow, stored heat would still continue to warm the atmosphere. But that doesn’t mean the planet returns to its preindustrial climate or that we avoid disruptive effects such as sea-level rise. By Richard B.

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Law Columbia

MAY 22, 2024

From COSIS to ITLOS The ocean and climate are inextricably linked. On one hand, numerous adverse effects of climate change manifest in the ocean, such as ocean acidification, temperature changes, and rising sea levels. On the other hand, the ocean plays an important role in combating climate change.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Sea levels were quickly rising, and the rapid waters kept sediment from settling. However, when combined with climate change impacts like rising sea levels, the intensity of these threats becomes magnified.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2022

For 2022, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicted a season with above normal activity on its August 4 updated forecast , calling for 14-20 named storms. .” After all, we hardly had storms or hurricanes in the news for the past 3 months.

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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.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 27, 2023

We’ve heard so much about the effects of climate change on our ocean. Carbon pollution from fossil fuel use and land development have heated the atmosphere and ocean, leading to sea level rise, stronger storms, fisheries’ moving poleward, and widespread loss of sea ice and glaciers.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2024

Scientific reports on climate issues, as well as reports on the state of the ocean, its ecosystems, and the relevance of the ocean for climate change, play a central role in the opinion. 52-54) and acknowledged the critical role the ocean plays in regulating the climate system (para. 157 as used in para. 52, 54, 60 and 68).

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Legal Planet

JUNE 29, 2023

For example, consider how climate change is often described as an increase in parts per million of atmospheric CO 2 , inches of sea level rise, square kilometers of melting arctic ice, increasingly severe and unpredictable weather patterns, and ocean acidification.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 5, 2022

Atmosphere The gaseous envelope surrounding the Earth. The dry atmosphere consists almost entirely of nitrogen (78.1% The dry atmosphere consists almost entirely of nitrogen (78.1% In addition, the atmosphere contains water vapor, whose amount is highly variable but typically 1% volume mixing ratio.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 5, 2022

But plastics present a much broader threat to our ocean, climate and marginalized coastal communities. More plastic means more pollution—for the climate, coastal communities and our ocean. Plastic pollution is a social justice issue, a climate issue and an ocean issue. Want to learn more about Ocean Justice?

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 20, 2021

The significance of the ocean to humanity cannot be overstated, whether it is regulating Earth’s climate, providing food to billions or helping society transition to renewable, fossil fuel-free energy. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. © Daniel Sebastian Padilla Ochoa/Ocean Conservancy.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 15, 2025

The production was made possible through funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Since 2012, Pennsylvania Sea Grant has invested over $5.7 The videos are available online via the programs website , and YouTube Channel. million in Great Lakes, coastal, and watershed research.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 24, 2023

Each IPCC report gives us more insights into how our ocean is changing, how those changes might impact the wildlife and communities that depend on it, and the options for ocean-based climate solutions. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

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Physics World

APRIL 27, 2021

Part of this movement is an oscillation on a timescale of about a year – caused by short-term fluctuations such as changes in ocean currents and atmospheric pressure. This allowed GRACE to determine the shape of the Earth and monitor changes in sea level, glaciers and groundwater.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

As the risks of sea-level rise, stronger tropical storms and seawater intrusion grow due to climate change , Indonesia is ramping up efforts to protect mangrove ecosystems across the archipelago as part of both its COVID-19 recovery efforts and climate change commitments. Photo credit: Andry Denisah / Alamy. By Nithin Coca.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2023

Consequently, the response to this advisory opinion request should consider the climate change regime set by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Paris Agreement (Paris Agreement) concerning the ocean. However, ITLOS is not responsible for implementing the UNFCCC or the Paris Agreement.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 7, 2023

In addition, it stores vast quantities of freshwater that if released to the ocean would rise sea level by tens of meters and interfere with saline-driven ocean currents that transfer heat around the planet. In the ocean, 19 marine heatwaves have been recorded between 2002 and 2018.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 2, 2022

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. As the CEO of Ocean Conservancy, I naturally look to our ocean. We can decrease production of virgin plastic that comes from fossil fuels and pollutes our ocean as well. If we continue on our current path, we will see our ocean deteriorate before our eyes.

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Acoel

AUGUST 10, 2021

Here are a number of the lowlights: It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land. Widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred. My emphasis.).

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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. A Few Notable Vetoes.

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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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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. Photo credit. Written by: Jack McCulloch. Shows a generally increasing trend. Source: NASA (August 2018).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Goodwine, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation ; and Dr. Wassila Thiaw, the head of International Desks in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center, along with Brenda Mallory, the chair of the White House’s Council on Environmental Quality.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Wild-caught seafood from our ocean is no exception. Climate change is making the ocean warmer, more acidic and lower in oxygen. It’s also causing marine heatwaves, storms, sea ice loss and sea level rise. Cod live in colder ocean waters, which can make them vulnerable as waters warm.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Last month, 44 climate scientists from 15 countries wrote an open letter to the Nordic Council of Ministers highlighting the risk of a potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a critical ocean current system in the Atlantic Ocean. But what exactly would cause the AMOC to collapse? What is the AMOC?

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