Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Addressing methane is critically important in addressing climate change – methane is the second largest contributor to human-driven warming after carbon dioxide. Human-driven sources of methane, including fossil fuels, agriculture, and waste, account for about 60% of emissions. Methane has contributed 0.5°C C of the 1.1°C

Atmosphere

Nature

JULY 7, 2025

Nature 642 , 105–111; 2025 ) shows that 59% of the carbon dioxide released by rivers originates from millennia-aged reservoirs. Such ‘old’ carbon has low levels of the radioactive isotope carbon-14, and could therefore be mistaken for carbon stemming from fossil fuels. Dean et al.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

As a result of fossil fuel-driven climate change, it’s on track to be the warmest year in recorded history. This heat fueled extreme weather events across the world, with most having significant impacts on human life and infrastructure and ecosystems. 2024 will be a year to remember.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 14, 2025

President-elect Trump has nominated Liberty Energy CEO Chris Wright to be US Energy Secretary, confirming the fossil fuel industrys outsized and undue influence in shaping and implementing the Trump Administrations agenda. The human-caused, fossil fuel-driven, Climate Crisis is here. Here are the facts.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2025

Mackintosh has closely followed the case which was first filed in 2018 by Vanuatu, an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. Guterres said the “sun is rising on a clean energy age,” as 91% of new renewable power projects were cheaper than fossil fuels, according to a new IRENA report. Newsom would lead the fight, you’d be wrong.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 13, 2025

To limit the public health and economic costs of the climate crisis, the country must transition quickly from fossil fuels to clean energy and invest in resiliencebut of course the Trump administration is hell-bent on doing the exact opposite. It can also be used to quantify the benefits of reducing these emissions. How costly?

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

A former member of Congress from Long Island, New York, with scant regulatory experience, Zeldin promised to defer to the research of the scientists on whether climate change made oceans more acidic. The obvious goal is to plunder more public land and water for private profit for the fossil fuel and mining industries.

Climate Change

New Scientist

JULY 25, 2025

This is the second year in a row in which the land carbon sink has nearly vanished due to climate-related stressors, and would explain why 2024 saw a record jump in the concentration of CO₂ in the atmosphere. In 2024, the sink was expected to strengthen as El Niño faded and there were fewer wildfires.

Atmosphere

Law Columbia

APRIL 29, 2025

Lawsuits challenging expedited reviews of fossil fuel energy projects under emergency permitting procedures announced by the U.S. This assertion of presidential power is all but certain to be contested. Department of the Interior on April 23, 2025.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

MAY 1, 2025

The second Trump Administrations first 100 days dealing with carbon management and negative emissions can be summed up in one word incoherence. However, other steps taken have meaningfully undermined federal government policy and expertise on carbon removal. For example, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act provided for $3.5

Carbon Dioxide

Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 1, 2025

Here are some tips Can solar and geothermal energy help a church and its neighbors wean off fossil fuels? 514) Local government (440) Public lands (60) National parks & forests (51) State government (191) U.S. 514) Local government (440) Public lands (60) National parks & forests (51) State government (191) U.S.

Recycling

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. GOM communities, not fossil fuel interests, should determine policies that affect GOM people. Sea levels are rising.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 20, 2024

The primary cause of accelerating sea level rise is human activity As people burn fossil fuels and emit heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide, our atmosphere and our oceans warm up. As the ocean warms, it expands. That adds water to the oceans, which raises their level.

Sea Level

Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

but it inevitably brings forth a mish-mash of half-remembered, inappropriate or out-of-date comparisons between the impacts of carbon dioxide and methane. There is also a very small impact of the CH 4 oxidation to CO 2 itself for any fossil-fuel derived methane. (a) Stocks and flows. References. Etminan, G. Myhre, E.J.

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Lead author Adam Gold , a watershed researcher for the Environmental Defense Fund, said the wild uncertainty is because the court arbitrarily created a new standard for federal protection divorced from the science of how wetlands support larger streams, rivers, lakes and the ocean.

Carbon Dioxide

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. So, we’re seeing the ocean heat up, lose oxygen and get bigger. as a national policy leader.

Ocean

Real Climate

AUGUST 25, 2023

Not in summer when the ocean is covered by a shallow surface mixed layer heated by the sun and highly dependent on weather conditions.) The argument has been made that the ‘cold blob’ might not be caused by an AMOC decline but by heat loss at the ocean surface. We argued in Caesar et al. The reanalysis data show the latter is the case.

Ocean

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 26, 2022

While there is enormous potential for UN climate negotiations to transform climate action, meaningful progress has been delayed in part by the fossil fuel industry’s deceptive tactics. Last year’s COP was notable as the first to explicitly mention “fossil fuels” in the final decision document.

Sea Level

Legal Planet

AUGUST 2, 2021

In the early 1960s, he wrote again about fossil fuels as causes of global warming. Black, had participated in a National Academy of Sciences report that said CO 2 increases might eventually require reducing the use of fossil fuels. He had already written about global warming before starting there in 1956.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

AUGUST 5, 2022

Human activity adds more than 50 gigatons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere each year. New Solid Carbon technology might be able to lock climate-warming carbon dioxide below ocean bedrock. Large-scale solutions are urgently needed. Photo credit: Francisco Anzola, Flickr CC BY 2.0. By Dr Kate Moran.

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 10, 2024

The longevity of naturally occurring carbon sinks, like those in Earth’s forests, is a key part of all modeled and projected pathways to net-zero. Without the considerable carbon absorption capacity of our lands (and oceans), we’d currently have much more CO 2 in the atmosphere and an accelerated timeline of warming.

Atmosphere

Legal Planet

AUGUST 2, 2022

Assessments by the IPCC have made clear that the most feasible way for the world to meet its target of restricting climate change to below two degrees Celsius of warming includes rapid and massive expansion of carbon removal technology – technology that would extract carbon dioxide and permanently sequester that carbon dioxide underground.

Carbon Dioxide

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. Over the years, scientists added oceans , land, ice sheets, chemistry and biology. Oceans in the future. By Richard B. Ricky) Rood.

Carbon Dioxide

Inside Climate News

JANUARY 18, 2024

Bottom trawling disturbs the ocean floor, researchers found. Critics question whether “trawl disturbance” is different from the carbon flux that naturally occurs in oceans.

Fossil Fuels

Real Climate

JULY 10, 2022

The sources of these increases are dominated by the burning of fossil fuels, landfills, mining, oil and gas operations, agriculture (especially livestock for methane), and industry. New greenhouse gas compounds such as halocarbons (CFCs, HFCs) did not exist in the pre-industrial atmosphere. Etminan, G. Myhre, E.J. Highwood, and K.P.

Radiation

A Greener Life

JANUARY 11, 2024

degrees Celsius warmer than in the 1850-1900 pre-industrial period, when humans began burning fossil fuels on an industrial scale, pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. This warms the surface waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean and contributes to higher global temperatures. What’s in store for 2024?

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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.

Ocean

A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

Since then, the Conservative government has made a series of U-turns on its own net zero policies, attacked Labour’s green spending plans, and doubled down on its support for new fossil fuel projects, approving more than 100 new North Sea oil and gas licences. This comes as DeSmog and Democracy for Sale reveal that £6.8 percent (£1.8

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

MAY 9, 2022

This tropical Pacific Ocean phenomenon affects weather in South America, Australia, Asia, and beyond. During an El Niño event, the sea surface temperature of the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean warms, and trade winds weaken. In the most fossil fuel-intensive scenario, carbon dioxide emissions more than double by 2099.

Climate Change

Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

The changes to the world's oceans include warming, more frequent marine heatwaves, ocean acidification, and reduced oxygen levels. Based on the lifetime of currently operating fossil fuel power plants and planned plants, it is highly likely global warming will exceed 1.5°C Image originally featured on eia.gov.

Climate Change

Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. It is within this context that Ocean Conservancy releases Zero-Carbon for Shipping: Sailing Carbon-free along North America’s West Coast. If nothing is done to clean up shipping, its carbon emissions are projected to jump by almost 130% by 2050.

Carbon Dioxide

Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Heat is the fuel that makes hurricanes big, powerful and rainy. As humans burn fossil fuels and release huge amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses, the amount of heat trapped on Earth rises steadily. The air gets hotter, and the ocean water gets hotter. Read the full story at NPR.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

MAY 8, 2024

However, unlike the energy sector, where renewable energy sources, reduced consumption and increased energy efficiency offer clear alternatives to today’s heavy reliance on fossil fuels, decarbonizing the industrial sector presents a more complex challenge.

Fossil Fuels

Global Green

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The thought-provoking film also highlights the renewables’ dependence on fossil fuels. Following Moore’s movie broadcasting, various climate experts signed a letter where they claim scientific and technological advancements made renewable energy alternatives more viable and cheaper to run than fossil fuels.

Renewable Energy

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Specifically, they allege the government has knowingly caused carbon dioxide levels to rise in a way that compromises the climate system, threatening human health and welfare. Cities and states are fighting back against high carbon-emitting industries, too. New York v. Exxon Mobil. For example, a.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

not plants, animals, or bacteria), get their energy by breaking down organic molecules via a different chemical pathway than we air-breathers use to get our energy, which does not require oxygen and ends in methane instead of carbon dioxide and water. First, underwater – in the sediments on the bottom of swamps, lakes, and the ocean.

Atmosphere

Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 22, 2023

Utilities Commission (NCUC) to “take all reasonable steps” to achieve a 70% reduction in carbon dioxide ( CO 2 ) emissions from electric generating units (EGUs) by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality for the utility generation system by 2050. January 22, 2023. A 2021 North Carolina law requires the N.C.

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