Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It is 33 years now since the IPCC in its first report in 1990 concluded that it is “certain” that greenhouse gas emissions from human activities “will enhance the greenhouse effect, resulting on average in an additional warming of the Earth’s surface.” It’s not hard to understand.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Last week, the Nobel physics prize was (half) awarded to Suki Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann for their work on climate prediction and the detection and attribution of climate change. This came as quite a surprise to the climate community – though it was welcomed warmly. But let’s go back to the beginning.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

A friend asked me if a discussion paper published on Statistics Norway’s website, ‘ To what extent are temperature levels changing due to greenhouse gas emissions? ’, was purposely timed for the next climate summit ( COP28 ). I don’t know the answer to his question. But this discussion paper is problematic for sure.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 16, 2021

This week, Circle of Blue looks at a major new climate report, which finds that a warming planet is accelerating the water cycle. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of the world’s leading climate scientists, has released its sixth assessment report. The report, while grim, does offer hope.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Several scientists, including authors of the IPCC report, told the Associated Press that the world is locked into exceeding the 1.5° We are pretty much locked into 1.5,” said report co-author Malte Meinshausen, a climate scientist at the University of Melbourne in Australia. mark soon. “We These kinds of comments are not new.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Three of these are highlighted as priority research areas: attribution science, climate change and human health, and economic modeling. We also identified five strategic areas for further research at the forefront of climate litigation.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

A state court judge in the ‘Last Best Place’ just gave the youth climate movement a shot in the arm with the first decision of its kind that directly connects specific state actions to global climate change and then to injuries suffered by young people. courts have not yet engaged in this kind of fact-finding on climate change.

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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

JULY 12, 2023

As I outlined here , Montana state law prohibits the consideration of greenhouse gas emissions or climate impacts–– inside and outside the state’s borders––when reviewing projects and approving permits. This now-infamous climate prohibition has been called a “limitation” on the Montana Environmental Policy Act, or MEPA.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The state contended that their actions are not responsible for global climate change. It reminded me of the unsurprising, but still disappointing finger pointing between high carbon emitting-countries while negotiating climate responsibilities and greenhouse gas emission caps at COP27. I felt giddy when I read her words.

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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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Enviromental Defense

JULY 29, 2024

Increasingly it’s becoming synonymous with heatwaves and extreme weather events caused by climate change. As the climate continues to change and average global temperatures rise, heat domes, heat waves, and extreme temperatures days will become more frequent. Extreme heat is a serious threat.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

As climate scientists we tend to look at the IPCC reports a little differently than the general public might. Here are a few things that mark this report out from previous versions that relate to issues we’ve discussed here before: Extreme events are increasingly connected to climate (duh!) 1, SPM, AR5.

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Inside Climate News

JULY 28, 2024

“Optimism and hope are muscles we have to exercise,” climate scientist Rob Jackson says. His new book offers a paradigm for how to think about climate change and the health of the planet.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The promise from many nations is to reach net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050 (or earlier) and interim targets are essential. But the United Nations has just said that the latest commitments of the 192 parties of the 2015 Paris agreement will equate to a 16% rise in global greenhouse-gas emissions in 2030 compared to 2010.

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A Greener Life

MAY 9, 2022

Cutting-edge models predict that El Niño frequency will increase within 2 decades because of climate change, regardless of emissions mitigation efforts. The El Niño–Southern Oscillation ( ENSO ) is one of the most significant, but variable, climate patterns in the world. Photo credit: ©EU/ECHO/J. By Rachel Fritts.

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Inside Climate News

AUGUST 1, 2022

A new paper discusses ‘climate end games’ as the planet approaches environmental tipping points that could exacerbate other global crises like pandemics and war.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

The IPCC Chair Hoesung Lee during the unveiling of the report: Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change. Last week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) yet again warned us about the climate impacts hurtling toward us at breakneck speed. Photo credit: IPCC / Mark Speight.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

According to the Emissions Gap report, released annually and which looks at the pledges made by countries to tackle climate change, the world faces between 2.5C The point of no return Climate scientists warn that facing a scenario where the world warms by 3 degrees C, we would pass a point of no-return tipping points.

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Edouard Stenger

MARCH 21, 2023

Yesterday the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its latest report and compared our current situation to defusing a time bomb. This should be front news and urge us all to change our lives radically. When I started covering climate change on this blog in 2007, climate change was a distant threat.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 7, 2022

For climate scientists, the war in Ukraine came at the worst possible time as the media attention they would have hoped for surrounding the release of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report was urgently diverted to the breaking news story of Russia invading Ukraine. By Anders Lorenzen.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 18, 2023

A first ever trial on constitutional protections from climate change is underway in Montana. Of note, there are state constitution based climate change lawsuits against state governments pending in early stages of pleading in Hawaii , Utah , and Virginia. Supreme decisions?), Will it be effective?

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HumanNature

APRIL 10, 2023

But this simplified pathway misses a key step in cloud formation–and one that could help us combat climate change. Altering cloud properties influences Earth’s climate On sunny days, it’s clear that clouds leave shadows on the landscape. Without these changes to clouds, the Earth would already be warmer.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 12, 2021

Climate Change Is Intensifying the Water Cycle, New IPCC Report Finds – The climate crisis will jeopardize key sources of fresh water and make extreme weather events more severe. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of the world’s leading climate scientists, released its sixth climate assessment on Monday.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 1, 2021

“A code red for humanity” is how António Guterres, the United Nations’ secretary general, described the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , which summarizes our current scientific understanding of the Earth’s climate and the potential impact that changes to it could have on the planet.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 4, 2024

Youth4ClimateAction in Republic of Korea We are in a critical decade for action on climate change. National governments are the most important systemic actors in the governance of climate action, primarily because they are the only actors with the ability to adopt economy-wide decarbonization measures.

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JANZEN AG

APRIL 19, 2022

Nearly every large food industry corporation today has pledged to combat climate change by reducing its own carbon footprint. McDonald’s Accelerating Climate Action to Reach Net Zero Emissions by 2050 ). PepsiCo Doubles Down on Climate Goal and Pledges Net-Zero Emissions by 2040 ). Climate Change , Walmart).

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Frontiers

AUGUST 7, 2023

Writing as part of Frontiers’ guest editorials series, the study’s lead author – Prof Martin Siegert, deputy vice chancellor of the University of Exeter (Cornwall) – discusses how without there being a rapid shift to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, the Antarctic environment will experience ever more drastic changes.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 19, 2023

By Claire Hemlett An increasing number of food brands are turning to climate labels to boost sales. In the face of research that meat and milk are high in greenhouse gas emissions , companies are angling for new ways to reach eco-conscious consumers. Photo credit: Sentient Media. Our emissions are just too high at this point.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The UK’s independent climate advisory panel, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has criticised the decision to go ahead, as have opposition parties and green groups as well as other organisations. The emissions from the burning of coal such as steel and power plants are the single biggest contributor to climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Humans everywhere are experiencing the impact of climate change. Individual citizens and businesses ready to make a change need an avenue for actionable, measurable impact. After a decade of global warming trends, the world experienced the second warmest year on record in 2019. Mann, Ph.D., Mann, Ph.D.,

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2022

On June 1, PPL Corporation announced it has joined Climate READi, a three-year initiative launched by the Electric Power Research Institute to address energy system climate resilience and adaptation as extreme weather events continue to increase. "As

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Edouard Stenger

MARCH 20, 2017

There are still reasons to cheer in our fight against climate change. According to the respected International Energy Agency’s new report, global greenhouse gases emissions from energy remained flat in 2016 while the global economy grew by 3.1

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

MARCH 16, 2022

These experiences resulted in the first comprehensive adaptation plan for the country to address the measures, preparedness and response to increased flooding, fire and other consequences of climate change for the country. We cannot solve these problems with a myopic view of what climate and environment looks like.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Long term, climate change is a greater threat than the COVID-19 pandemic. Without human-induced climate change, that heat would be at least 150 times rarer. On balance, clouds nearer the stratosphere warm us, whereas low-lying clouds tend to cool us because their greenhouse effect is smaller.

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Physics World

MARCH 16, 2022

As the world grapples with the consequences of climate change, many scientists have begun to face up to the realities of their carbon emissions. It turns out, for example, that climate-change researchers fly more frequently than scientists in other fields. But other scientists also fly a lot.

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