Legal Planet

APRIL 6, 2023

Most climate change projections end at the end of this century. We’re only beginning to get a sense of the impacts of climate change that far ahead. Basically, the temperature will tend to stick at the same level for a long time. Changes in the oceans will continue over a long period of time.

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Inside Climate News

AUGUST 26, 2024

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warns that the climate crisis will leave many people stranded “without a lifeboat.” By Bob Berwyn The realm of island nations spread across the vast Southwestern Pacific Ocean can conjure up an idyllic image of tiny tropical gems scattered on a deep blue jewelry table.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 24, 2024

A new analysis out today and led by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) reveals a significant amount of critical infrastructure along US coastlines at risk of disruptive flooding today and in the near future as sea level rises, potentially affecting millions of coastal residents.

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Law Columbia

MAY 22, 2024

On May 21, 2024, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) delivered a long-awaited Advisory Opinion on climate change and international law. This marks the first time that an international tribunal has issued an advisory opinion on State obligations regarding climate change mitigation.

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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. The Keeling curve, highlighted with the release of important climate reports and climate summits.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2023

Today the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released its annual report on billion-dollar weather and climate-related disasters in the United States, which tells a grimly familiar story. Many of these disasters—including floods, storms, wildfires and droughts—were worsened by climate change. .

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 16, 2021

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. What are the political implications of the fact that climate change will continue after emissions cease, or even potentially grow worse? degrees Celsius.

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Law and Environment

JUNE 8, 2022

The ocean covers 71% of the planet and holds nearly 97% of the Earth’s water, and about 40% of the world’s population lives within 100 kilometers of the coastline. What is Bluetech? Spotlight on SeaAhead.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

As deeply troubling reports continue to come in about ocean waters hitting historic hot temperatures, sectors like global shipping are trying to understand the consequences of a warmer ocean and what can be done to stop the heating. Warmer water also expands and raises sea levels as well as holds less oxygen.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

For ocean advocates like me who have been tracking the $1.5 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) rollout, the need for this long overdue investment in climate resilience is crystal clear. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

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Inside Climate News

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The global average sea level is rising 2 inches per decade and speeding up, but in some regions, the rate is more than twice that fast.

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Inside Climate News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Disruption of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current could freeze Europe, scorch the tropics and increase sea level rise in the North Atlantic. By Bob Berwyn A new study affirms that a critical system of Atlantic Ocean currents that shunt warm and cold water between the poles is “on course” to a tipping point.

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A Greener Life

MAY 23, 2022

Our oceans are acidifying. A new report has warned that the level of acidity in the world’s oceans is higher now than it has been for the past 26,000 years. In a statement, WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas said “Our climate is changing before our eyes. Photo credit: Reuters / Jorge Silva.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Coastal regions and small ocean islands face significant risks from rising sea levels due to climate change, because waters can flood and inundate low-lying land surfaces. Read the full story from the Geological Society of America. Read more →

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 1, 2022

by Jianjun Yin, University of Arizona Sea levels are rising, and that will bring profound flood risks to large parts of the Gulf and Atlantic coasts over the next three decades. A new report led by scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warns that the U.S.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

I was joined by Ocean Conservancy colleagues working to advance ocean-climate action. C, we stand to lose ocean and coastal ecosystems we depend on to sea level rise, warming temperatures, ocean acidification and other climate impacts. degrees Celsius. If we warm beyond 1.5°C,

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The planet has accumulated as much heat in the past 15 years as it did in the previous 45 years; the ocean has absorbed the majority of this excess heat. Scientists have consistently warned that the continued burning of fossil fuels is heating the planet, including the ocean.

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Scientific American

JANUARY 12, 2023

The world’s oceans hit their warmest levels on record for the fourth consecutive year in 2022, fueling sea-level rise and contributing to climate disasters.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 2, 2021

High tides are part of the problem, but there’s another risk that has been slowly creeping up: sea level rise. Since 1880, average global sea levels have risen… Read more → East Coast has been experiencing hurricane-like flooding in recent days, with Georgia and the Carolinas getting the latest round.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 2, 2022

Summer tourism, sea level rise, and storm surges threaten East Coast wells. At a rate of 400 feet per year, saltwater is migrating west from the ocean to once-secure inland groundwater reserves. Hilton Head is fast becoming a prominent test case of rising sea levels and intense coastal storms heralded by climate change.

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Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 12, 2022

In October 2021, I had the honor of joining world leaders, activists and other representatives from non-governmental organizations in Glasgow for the United Nations Climate Change Conference (also known as COP26). The central message of the conference was abundantly clear: the impacts of climate change are all around us.

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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

MAY 21, 2024

While nonbinding, the unanimous advisory opinion offers important support for small island nations facing climate impacts and raises the bar for other nations to reduce their global warming emissions to protect the world’s oceans. Lays out polluting nations’ obligations.

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 19, 2021

Maya Canonizado is a Communications Intern at Ocean Conservancy, based in Los Angeles, CA. Growing up and living on the coast her whole life sparked her love for the ocean and the desire to protect it from a young age. Before I started working for Ocean Conservancy, I browsed through this very website. Never miss an update.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2023

Despite the ongoing debate on whether ITLOS has jurisdiction to issue an advisory opinion on climate change, if the Tribunal asserts jurisdiction (on jurisdiction, see here and here) , there is still much to uncover. Assuming the ITLOS will assert jurisdiction, this post’s objective is twofold. The question is divided into two parts.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Climate change touches many aspects of our lives, including the food on our plates. Many of our foods are vulnerable as climate impacts worsen, from staple crops like maize to much-loved treats like coffee and chocolate. Wild-caught seafood from our ocean is no exception.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 27, 2022

As sea levels continue to rise as climate change accelerates, experts in coastal cities are planning accordingly. From New York City to New Orleans, policymakers who live near the ocean seem to be gradually recognizing their “The Day After Tomorrow”-esque peril. Read the full story at Salon.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 27, 2023

We’ve heard so much about the effects of climate change on our ocean. Carbon pollution from fossil fuel use and land development have heated the atmosphere and ocean, leading to sea level rise, stronger storms, fisheries’ moving poleward, and widespread loss of sea ice and glaciers.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 21, 2023

The photo went viral and made clear the threat from rising sea levels to low-lying island nations. An archipelago of small islands south of Sri Lanka, Maldives is the flattest country on earth , the average height of land just four feet above sea level. I have been in the capital, Male, this week helping lead a U.S.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 24, 2021

by Thomas Mortlock (Macquarie University), Itxaso Odériz (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)), Nobuhito Mori (Kyoto University), and Rodolfo Silva (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)) Sea level rise isn’t the only way climate change will devastate the coast.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The Sea-Level Witch. Another easy one: just take a Sea Witch costume and wear shoe lifts. Like many ocean creatures, this mermaid is now threatened by rising temperatures and ocean acidification. But really, these invented figures can’t hold a candle to the real ones in our world. Talk about a supervillain!

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Real Climate

DECEMBER 17, 2023

70) Moreover, the recent 5th National (US) Climate Assessment , NCA5, concludes in a similar vein that [HighResMIP with resolutions between 20 and 50 km from CMIP6] simulations support the conclusion of a global decrease in tropical cyclone frequency together with an increase in intensity with warming. Support for the warm-area-connection?

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Acoel

AUGUST 10, 2021

The IPCC has released its Sixth Assessment Report on the physical science basis of climate change. Here are a number of the lowlights: It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land. Widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

At the evening seafood reception that year, in a corner near the fresh oysters, a board member of the Maine Lobstermen’s Association remarked to me, “Everyone blames everything on climate change, but they blame the Right Whale on lobstering.” His remark has remained with me ever since. Sea levels are rising.

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Real Climate

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Here we start by taking the Greenland mass loss rate into the ocean, times the temperature difference between the meltwater and the water it replaces. For the part entering the ocean as ice, we must also consider that to melt ice requires energy. Nature Climate Change, 5, 475–480, doi:10.1038/nclimate2554. References.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 24, 2023

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has sounded the alarm on climate change since their first report in 1990. Their reports provide policymakers with the information they need, like those in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) who set the ambition for global climate action.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Presumably Dagsvik and Moen are used to this kind of model, but they seem to be inexperienced with the models used for weather and climate, which on the other hand are based on the laws of physics. The global sea level acts like the mercury in a thermometer because warmer water expands.

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