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LA Fires and the Climate Connection

Legal Planet

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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RFK Jr. Joins the War on Climate Scientists

Legal Planet

But he also voices full-throated conspiracy theories denying the reality of human-caused climate change. These election fraud and anti-vaccine conspiracies converge with some far-out ideas about climate science. Respect for science matters and this staffing choice shows definitively which side RFK Jr.

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No, There’s No Scientific Conspiracy About Climate Change

Legal Planet

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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Model Uncertainty in Politics and Climate Policy

Legal Planet

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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Climate Change and Me

Academy of Natural Sciences

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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PennFuture 25th Anniversary Celebrations Honor 7 Pennsylvanians For Fighting Climate Change, Industrial Pollution

PA Environment Daily

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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HotSpots H2O: Unusually Powerful ‘Atmospheric River’ Pummels British Columbia and Pacific Northwest

Circle of Blue

There are three main factors why, climate scientist Simon Donnor explained to the Globe and Mail. The soil was already saturated when this rainfall event came,” said Jeremy Venditti, a professor of environmental science at Simon Fraser University. But this one was unusually powerful.