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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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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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

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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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

And just like summertime in the US, this period (December, January, and February) has transformed into a “ danger season ” as a result of climate change, replete with deadly heatwaves, drought, and wildfires. Sixty times more likely is a remarkable figure to me. And there would be some justice.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 6, 2021

For months, international’s organizations have blamed the calamity on climate change. International organizations had blamed the calamity on climate change, but a new study rejects that assumption. And so [climate change] will only make things more difficult for these regions in the world.”.

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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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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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Legal Planet

JANUARY 9, 2025

The evidence shows that hydroclimate whiplash has already increased due to global warming, and further warming will bring about even larger increases, says Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with UCLA and UC Agriculture and Natural Resources who led the study. Not necessarily.

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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

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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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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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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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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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 18, 2023

The graph above shows spikes when the Inflation Reduction Act was moving towards passage in July and August, and in the run-up to the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, last November. What can we do?

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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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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 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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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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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

It’s 20 years since we started blogging on climate here on RealClimate (December 10, 2004). We wanted to counter disinformation about climate change that was spreading through various campaigns. In a nutshell, they are responsible for climate change, mainly due to an increased greenhouse effect.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2022

While summer is still summer and we on the climate team at UCS look forward to ice cream and late sunsets as much as anyone, there’s something we need to tell you: Climate change has transformed summer into our country’s Danger Season, and we’d best start seeing it as such so that we can adequately prepare. Dangerous?!

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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

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In summer and fall, monthly global temperature anomalies spiked beyond most projections, helping to drive those extremes, and they may not level off anytime soon, said James Hansen, lead author of a study published today in the journal Oxford Open Climate Change that projects a big jump in the rate of warming in the next few decades.

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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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A Greener Life

JANUARY 7, 2024

Off the scale The climate scientist remarked: “2023 was off the end of the scale.” The climate stripes are all about starting conversations about climate change, and 2024 has to be the year we turn conversations into faster action,” Prof Hawkins concluded.

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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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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

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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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. In other words, does experiencing extreme events change how people feel about the need for more adaptive water projects?

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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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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

AUGUST 13, 2021

As more high temperatures are forecast in the next few days, two of our climate scientists explain how people of color in four cities--Fresno, CA, Miami, FL, Mobile, AL, and Shreveport, LA--are at risk from the effects of urban heat islands.

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