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. Its a great question, but the warming effect from heat-trapping gases far outweighs the cooling effect from industrial aerosols.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Climate Change Grips Trout Streams Across the Nation: How Anglers Are Responding Across the country, anglers have watched as droughts, floods, and high temperatures batter the rivers they depend on. The issue has begun changing minds about climate change among recreational fishermen, a demographic that leans politically conservative.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Some estimates suggest they could disappear by 2030 due to the climate change triggered by human fossil fuel use, which began less than 200 years ago. Glaciers, once thought of as static, timeless icons, have become a fleeting phenomenon, highlighting the urgent need for action on climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

On April 25, the Department of Environmental Protection announced the release of the 2024 Climate Change Action Plan Update and 2024 Climate Impacts Assessment Report. Visit DEPs Climate Change webpage for more information on these and other Pennsylvania climate initiatives.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2021

The question isn't just how they suffer from climate change, but how they contribute to it.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 17, 2024

These interventions would not precisely offset greenhouse-gas-driven climate change. They could cool the Earth on average but not precisely undo the patterns of disruption from GHGs. Now, people are talking about possible interventions that might limit or delay some of the most harmful effects of global climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 25, 2024

I didn’t walk into the movie theater last week, popcorn in hand, expecting Twisters , a summertime action movie about “taming” tornadoes, to be a movie about climate change. And to be clear, at no point did Twisters actually mention climate change. But I also left feeling deeply unsettled. Source: NOAA, 2023.

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Cool Green Science

JANUARY 12, 2025

Many non-native species will likely flourish under climate change, but there are still things we can do to stop their spread. The post How Will Climate Change Affect the Spread of Invasive Species? appeared first on Cool Green Science.

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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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Cool Green Science

JANUARY 31, 2022

How can the shellfish industry adapt to the challenges posed by climate change? The post Oyster Hatcheries Help the Industry Adapt to Climate Change appeared first on Cool Green Science.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 30, 2023

We are halfway through this year’s Danger Season —the period between May and October when climate change makes extreme weather events more likely—and the unprecedented ferocity and scale of extreme weather have been making headlines and impacting our lives. More on those themes below. Where are the trees? Here are the trees!

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Legal Planet

JUNE 21, 2021

is staring climate change in the face. The worst news is that the situation is only going to get worse as climate change progresses. If we don’t cut emissions quickly and dramatically, climate change will accelerate, putting droughts, heatwaves, and wildfires into overdrive. The western U.S.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Does the climate keep warming, stay the same, or even cool? There is another important aspect to what is sometimes called “committed warming,” “climate inertia,” or “zero emissions commitment,” an aspect I wrote about over a decade ago. As I noted in my article, that may still produce a backlash against continued climate action.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 17, 2021

I forwarded this question to Dr. Juan Declet-Barreto, UCS senior social scientist for climate vulnerability, who is quite familiar with the situation. We recently received a question from a UCS supporter in Denver about how to best address the urban heat island effect.

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Yale E360

AUGUST 26, 2022

Siberia is today among the fastest-warming regions on Earth, but in the 7,000 years prior to the Industrial Revolution it saw summer temperatures steadily decline, according to a new study that underscores the profound impact of human-caused climate change on northern Russia. Read more on E360 ?.

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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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Yale E360

AUGUST 12, 2021

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Cool Green Science

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Climate change might change more about birds than their migration patterns. The post Larger Beaks, Smaller Bodies: Could Climate Change Literally Change Birds? appeared first on Cool Green Science.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Nuclear plants hoover up enormous volumes of water for cooling, killing aquatic life and warming rivers in the process. In particular, trade-offs between climate mitigation and water resources should be weighed,” Rosa wrote in an email to Circle of Blue. But other low-carbon technologies do not tread as lightly.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

First, the cooling from the reflective materials they will inject, for which they are already selling carbon credits, charging $10 per gram of SO 2 released (!) Those following debates on active climate interventions have been expecting – and worrying about – something like this for a few years. Could this activity change the climate?

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Scientific American

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Many states prioritize using money from a federal energy assistance program for low-income people to defray energy costs for heating rather than cooling bills

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

We’ve been hearing a lot lately about geoengineering – the various scientific theories and governance ideas that could eventually lead to technological interventions to help cool the planet. Take this recent CNN story titled “Supporters of a controversial climate solution say it could be key. Anyone can float a balloon.

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New Scientist

JULY 22, 2022

To adapt to climate change, the UK needs to install “passive cooling” mechanisms in homes, such as window shades and improved ventilation systems

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 22, 2022

Biden announced millions of dollars in funding for climate change measures, including upgrading infrastructure, weatherizing buildings and installing cooling … Continue reading Biden announces new climate change actions but holds an emergency declaration in reserve.

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New Scientist

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Under heat and water stress, plants sacrifice their leaves to keep their sexual organs cool – a strategy that we could harness to protect crops from climate change

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Real Climate

MARCH 4, 2021

Two decades ago, in an interview with science journalist Richard Kerr for the journal Science, I coined the term the “Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation” (AMO) to describe an internal oscillation in the climate system resulting from interactions between North Atlantic ocean currents and wind patterns. Background.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 5, 2023

California is no stranger to the impacts of climate change. From droughts to wildfires to rising sea levels and torrential rains, the state has felt the effects of a changing climate in a variety of ways. Vapor pressure deficit is closely related to temperature and climate change is causing temperatures to rise.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 21, 2022

A woman trying to cool down during the heatwave in Spain. As many parts of Europe were last week gripped by an early heatwave , Europeans hunting for shade were increasingly concerned over climate change. Photo credit: Reuters / Marcelo del Pozo. By Anders Lorenzen.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Existing global environmental governance institutions – even those designed to address climate change – are ill-equipped for such challenges. This means redoubling efforts to cut emissions, and reliably constrain temperature rises, not gambling on speculative technological interventions to cool the planet.

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Scientific American

APRIL 22, 2023

Through “bike buses,” more pedestrian-friendly streets and electric vehicles, some cities are making strides in decarbonizing transportation

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 20, 2024

But with estimates suggesting that sea level rise will affect more than one billion people around the world in the next 25 years, this is one member of the dysfunctional climate change family that shouldn’t be ignored. Cool, right?) Why is this? Read on for the science you need to know about sea level rise, in seven parts.

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Washington Nature

JULY 6, 2023

We’ve collected a number of helpful resources that go into the relationships between climate change and health, and offer ways people can prepare, adapt, and stay healthy. Visit the Climate Impacts Group page U.S. Read more below! government site offers key insights into local air quality using the Air Quality Index (AQI).

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

estimate of no further CO 2 -induced warming or cooling once global CO 2 emissions reach and stay at next zero. ZEC therefore causes no changes between SR1.5 Nature Climate Change. In: Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. IPCC (2014) Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 17, 2025

From Texas to Tamil Nadu, power grids have been buckling under unprecedented demand for cooling, exposing a paradox of the energy transition. By 2050, global cooling demand could more than double, posing an even greater challenge for China and the worlds energy transition. in June, but cooling needs resulted in a 9.4%

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The grid needs electricity most during extreme temperatures so that we can all stay reasonably cool during sweltering heat waves and reasonably warm during frigid cold winter storms. Further, gas plants that require cooling , like gas steam and combined cycle plants, are cooled less efficiently in high temperatures.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

I followed with great interest the launch of the sixth assessment report Working Group 1 (The Physical Science Basis) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on August 9th. In addition, ozone depletion higher up in the stratosphere has caused a cooling high up in the atmosphere.

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