Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 7, 2022

UCS climate scientist reviews "Don't Look Up," an allegory for climate inaction.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 11, 2021

According to the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report published Monday, Southeast Asia coastal zones are among the world’s most climate vulnerable regions. Graphic courtesy of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

There has been comparatively less attention to the decision by climate scientist Dr. Susan Avery not to seek re-election to the ExxonMobil board of directors. Yet this shift in corporate leadership is significant, marking the end of a chapter in ExxonMobil’s long and ongoing history of climate deception and disinformation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 19, 2024

Accelerating risks from climate change are colliding with shortcomings in insurance markets—such as a lack of transparent information and affordability provisions—to create a perfect storm for people and communities on the front lines of floods, droughts, and wildfires. Many of these disasters bear the fingerprints of climate change.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 27, 2021

All countries in the world urgently need to adapt to climate change but are not yet in a good position to do so. It’s urgent because we are not even adapted to the present climate. However, I would argue that the climate research community has not had a visible presence during any of these meetings.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 1, 2024

Dearest blog readers, I’m attending my first meeting of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and it is so. And in that moment, my heart swelled because I could see the room for what it was: a room full of some of the most dedicated people in the world committed to tackling the climate crisis. fascinating.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Statement by Stephen Legault, Senior Manager, Alberta Energy Transition Canmore | Traditional territories of the Treaty 7 Nations – Denying the link between fossil fuels, CO2, and climate change will only hurt Alberta and its future economic well-being.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2023

We don’t need Taylor Swift to “fall in love with a climate scientist,” we just wish she’d write a song about the climate crisis. When the breathless coverage of her relationship with Travis Kelce first boosted ratings for NFL football, some suggested Swift should use her star power for good by “dating a climate scientist.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Understanding sea level rise as a long-term, multi-generational problem is essential to comprehending the scale of climate change and the need for bold action now. While this knowledge may be sobering, it underscores the importance of reducing emissions, holding major polluters accountable, and adapting to a changing world.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 7, 2025

Scientists are sounding the alarm because this warming is shockingly bigbigger than what we would have expected given the long-term warming trend from fossil fuel-caused climate change. Important questions are still being sorted out Climate scientists are still trying to figure out what exactly made 2023 and 2024 so warm.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 19, 2025

Climate models are the main tool climate scientists use to predict how Earth will respond to more heat-trapping pollutants in the atmosphere. But what exactly is a climate model? Lets start off easy by breaking down the phrase climate model.”

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Among the host of conspiracy theories out there, a perennial one depicts climate science as a global hoax perpetuated by scientists. There are thousands of climate scientists around the world, which is an awful lot of people for a secret conspiracy. Keeping quiet about something is not a prized professional trait.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 17, 2025

The IPCC compiles scientific insights on climate change, informing policymakers and the public about risks and possible actions. In essence, combined with climate models, they provide a way to envision the consequences of different actions or inactions. What Are Future Climate Scenarios?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 14, 2025

The last IPCC report stated that climate-related litigation has influenced the outcome and ambition of climate governance. It also highlighted that outside the formal climate policy processes, climate litigation is an important arena for various actors to confront and interact over how climate change should be governed.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Moreover, climate scientists have a lot more data to work with. And so far, the models have been closely enough in accord with actual weather developments to give us some confident that—at least in conditions relatively like today’s– the modeling errors aren’t severe enough to dramatically change predictions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2025

Climate models are the main tool scientists use to assess how much the Earths temperature will change given an increase in fossil fuel pollutants in the atmosphere. As a climate scientist, Ive used them in all my research projects, including one predicting a change in Southwestern US precipitation patterns.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2022

Reflections on the film, "Don't Look Up.".

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Inside Climate News

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

East Coast and dangerous climate shifts in northwestern Europe. By Bob Berwyn New research by an international team of climate scientists documents a surge of global warming during the past 15 years that risks shutting down a key ocean current by 2050.

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Inside Climate News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Former NASA climate scientist James Hansen urged Congress decades ago to act on climate change. Now he says he expects reduced aerosol pollution to lead to a steep temperature rise.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Climate impacts contributed to overall poor cereal harvests The poor harvests should be seen in the light of record-breaking rain in the 2023/24 winter, which climate scientists say is exacerbated by climate change. Additionally, a wet July disrupted and delayed the harvesting of spring cereals.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

I don’t have to explain why investing in climate resilience is about the best financial decision California could make right now for her future. Ironically, these are many of the same people who also argued that climate change wasn’t “real” just a few short years ago.) Climate change is here and it’s costly.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Through our research we identified eight key research areas that offer unique opportunities for scientists to inform climate litigation. Three of these are highlighted as priority research areas: attribution science, climate change and human health, and economic modeling.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 21, 2021

The first climate change presentation I saw was back in the 1970s when I was working for the National Weather Service. Murray Mitchell, was the top climate scientist for NWS. While that got the bulk of the publicity, Dr. Mitchell assured us that the warming of the climate would be the biggest problem in the future.

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Inside Climate News

OCTOBER 11, 2024

By Bob Berwyn As people in parts of the southeastern United States try to pick up the pieces of their broken homes, lives and dreams after the twin gut punches delivered by Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton, climate scientists have some unwelcome news.

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Scientific American

DECEMBER 9, 2021

A collaborative center will help climate scientists build better models for prevention and mitigation. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Below is a look at what tools are currently being used to facilitate justice for climate change on an international scale and where those mechanisms are falling short in ensuring transitional justice and a clean future. Unfortunately, when it comes to climate change, the truth is often obscured.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Misusing TEK affects climate science As scientists realized that Western science was failing to comprehensively address climate change, they began seeking out TEK as a method of combatting its effects. Some oral documentation of discussions of initial change goes back as far as the 1950s.

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Inside Climate News

AUGUST 8, 2024

By Amy Green, Lisa Sorg Tropical Storm Debby, a plodding, waterlogged system that has already saturated four southeastern states, bears many characteristics of a warming planet, climate scientists say. It’s reminiscent of other catastrophic tropical cyclones that have battered the United States over the past eight years.

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New Scientist

MAY 2, 2024

The record-breaking heat of 2023 has seen a rare disagreement break out between climate scientists, with some saying it shows Earth may have entered a new period of warming

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 18, 2022

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released its sixth assessment of climate change, comprised of three separate reports presenting the latest science on climate change, related impacts, adaptation, vulnerability , and mitigation at a time when more and more people are pressing for climate action.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 19, 2023

Ricardo Salvador, UCS Food and Environment Program Director, arrested with Jane Fonda protesting climate change on Nov. Ricardo Salvador Why break the rules: The moral dilemma of the “ well-behaved ” scientist Science must be objective. But what of scientists? And we’re not alone in asking. It’s understandable.

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Real Climate

APRIL 4, 2024

There has been a lot of commentary about perceived disagreements among climate scientists about whether climate change is, or will soon, accelerate. Li, "Global warming in the pipeline", Oxford Open Climate Change , vol. As with most punditry, there is less here than it might seem. von Schuckmann, N.G.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2022

Chicago is also, as it turns out, ground zero for climate change. Climate change is making old solutions obsolete. Chicago has been confronting an unusual problem that may be linked with climate change. That seems like a plausible scenario under climate change but seemingly hasn’t been established yet.

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Inside Climate News

JULY 23, 2024

Scientists blame its migration on global warming and worry the disease may gain a foothold in the U.S. The bug notorious for spreading the disease is finding a new home in Africa. By Victoria St.

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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

AUGUST 5, 2024

This post was co-authored by UCS Principal Climate Scientist Kristina Dahl. Outline of a Special Report on Climate Change and Cities Delegates dissected the proposed outline for the Climate Change and Cities report over several days. Ultimately, and to our great relief, science prevailed.

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Real Climate

JULY 25, 2021

Chris Lennard from the University of Cape Town takes us through different aspects of climate change adaptation. The good news is that there are some initiatives on climate change adaptation which involve climate scientists such as the Infrastructure and Climate Network ( ICNet Global ).

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