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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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

The fossil fuel industry has known for decades that its products cause climate chang e Contrary to what the fossil fuel industry would like you to believe, the link between burning fossil fuels and climate change has been well established for decades.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 7, 2023

First, they will argue that they can’t be held liable for failing to disclose their knowledge of the causes of climate change because there was uncertainty about the topic and it was controversial. In their efforts to get the cases into federal court, the oil companies argued that federal law bars state lawsuits about climate change.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

While temperatures provide a measure of the Earth’s climate, it is even better to use the global sea level , which provides a far more reliable measure. The global sea level acts like the mercury in a thermometer because warmer water expands. Our job is to be thorough and verify questionable results.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Today, climate change is the central, though by no means the only, concern in environmental law. I found only one relevant reference using the term “climate change” before 1985. In one sentence of a 1975 article, John Barton referred to “climate change” as a potentially severe long-term problem.

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Legal Planet

JULY 10, 2024

Proposition 4 would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $10 billion pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance a variety of projects combating climate change, increasing resiliency, and supporting climate solutions. billion to combat sea level rise.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The core of this gathering is the yearly “conference of parties” (or COP) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and its related implementing protocols, including the Kyoto Protocol and, most recently, the Paris Agreement. federal climate action wavers or underdelivers. negotiations. Download as PDF.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

You read this title and say to yourself, “There is no war in climate change!” Often the discussions on climate change center around the environmental effects. Experts do not attribute climate change as a direct cause of war, but it is a catalyst for conflict. that arose from climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

I’ve just arrived in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, for the 27 th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change—the UN’s annual global climate conference, aka COP27. Notably, this year, the Climate Justice Pavilion sits in the blue zone, staffed by U.S.-based

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Inside Climate News

JULY 31, 2023

By Bob Berwyn At the current level of human-caused global warming, extreme rainfall from atmospheric rivers, as well as an extensive network of previously undetected micro-cracks, could degrade large parts of the Greenland Ice Sheet faster than expected and accelerate melting toward worst-case projections for ice loss and sea level rise, recent research (..)

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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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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Climate Change Mitigation. The Governor approved a notable slate of climate legislation with a package that includes more stringent greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets and measures designed to reduce the state’s reliance on fossil fuels. A Few Notable Vetoes.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2017

We know that burning fossil fuels is the main cause of anthropogenic climate change, and that climate change is the source of adverse impacts on communities and even regional and national economies. Instead, it has been to stem and confuse the flow of information about climate change to the public and political leaders.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 1, 2022

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading scientific authority on climate change. Every six or seven years, scientists from around the world organize into expert working groups and review thousands of the latest studies on climate change. What is the IPCC? Never miss an update.

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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. Climate risks.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

APRIL 11, 2024

I didn’t have the political language,” Resita said. In her film, Resita explains that this is so common that you can predict the sea level of an area based on its racial demographics, known as racial topography. In Princeville, a Black community was built on land that was undesirable to white people at the time.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

APRIL 24, 2022

In February 2021, Johns Hopkins Press published my Co-authored " Unlocking the Potential of Post-Industrial Cities" and in March 2021, Yale University Press published my book; " Adapting to Climate Change". Climate adaptation optimism is still viewed as politically incorrect stuff.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 7, 2024

used the words “ climate change ” expressly. The consequences of the climate crisis are already visible and devastating, such as rising temperatures, melting ice caps, sea level rise, extreme weather events, droughts, floods, wildfires, biodiversity loss, food insecurity, water scarcity, displacement, conflict, disease, and death.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 2, 2024

This post was co-authored with Natalya Gomez , Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Geodynamics of Ice sheet – Sea level interactions at McGill University. The Antarctic Ice Sheet faces an uncertain future under climate change. There is a viscous (meaning flowy or squishy) mantle under the Earth’s crust.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Hope for government relief is weaning among Ghanaians displaced by rising sea levels and flooding. “By Seaside towns and cities like Keta have slowly been eroding over the years due to rising sea levels. climate summit in November. Proposed regulations in California could fine residents for wasting water.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

Fossil fuels are the root cause of climate change, of long-standing environmental injustices, and are also frequently connected to geopolitical strife and violent conflicts. These data are alarming—underscoring how far off track the world continues to be in cutting the heat-trapping emissions fueling climate change.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Yesterday, the Baker administration announced that the Transportation Climate Initiative is dead in Massachusetts, at least for now. This is not a surprise, particularly after Governor Lamont’s statement that there is no political support for TCI in Connecticut. It’s called an externality. That’s not a good long-term tradeoff.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 20, 2023

They combined their expertise in climate science, science history, and document analysis to create a perfect blend of scientific analysis and socially relevant research. In fact, climate models produce robust science. This research shows yet again that climate modeling is a reliable and powerful tool for understanding our world.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

As the impacts of climate change are felt more acutely with each passing year, new research suggests that the future costs of emitting CO2 today may be much higher than previously calculated. The “ climate module ”: How will the climate be altered by those emissions ? How fast will sea levels and temperatures rise?

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Vermont Law

APRIL 7, 2022

The Future is : Gender Inclusion in Climate Crisis Solutions By Beckett McGowan , Juris Doctor Candidate (VLGS '23), Staff Editor for the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law April 7, 2022 Climate Change is the great exasperator. 1) However, natural disasters are not the only thing exasperated by Climate Change.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Millions of children worldwide are at risk from the devastating floods which have impacted almost every corner of the Earth this year, and which climate scientists say have intensified and are happening much more frequently due to climate change. The outbreak has claimed the lives of 203 people, including 28 children.

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Acoel

JANUARY 20, 2023

The term has become politically volatile, yet recognizing a community’s risk level – whether it’s risk of flooding, heat, earthquakes or forest fires – and then deciding how to address it is key to assuring our societal safety. The rich, the poor, the elderly, the disabled, the young? That’s a very tall order.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2022

L&D has a specific meaning in climate talks that may not be obvious to anyone not immersed in the process: harms caused by climate change that are not avoided by adaptation. Given any particular trajectory of realized climate change (which of course depends on how fast emissions are cut), adaptation measures (e.g.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Anchoring ourselves in a fuller understanding of the web of global politics, special interests, and principled voices that have been shaping the climate movement for over 30 years is a great step, and I recommend this short video to deliver those goods. Our panelists are in the thick of these issues.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 26, 2021

It was the first case in which the Court was confronted with the issue of climate change. In an opinion by Justice Stevens, the Court held that the threat of sea level rise gave a state government standing to bring the suit. This is my nominee as the most important Supreme Court environmental ruling of all time.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

C, we stand to lose ocean and coastal ecosystems we depend on to sea level rise, warming temperatures, ocean acidification and other climate impacts. We must reduce greenhouse gas emissions now, as Dr. Sarah Cooley , Ocean Conservancy’s director of climate science, emphasized when addressing a COP27 session.

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Frontiers

MARCH 24, 2023

She is also a fellow with The George J Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions and an associate of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute. Photo credit: Karrah Kwasnik What encouraged you to work towards sustainability, more specifically on climate change issues and sustainable agriculture? “I

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Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Clean ocean energy solutions are critical to reducing emissions and averting the climate crisis. Climate change is the single greatest threat our ocean faces. It puts the wildlife and communities that depend on the ocean at risk through impacts like ocean acidification, sea level rise and temperature changes.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

As a scholar of political science, this provokes compelling questions about current relationships across states, their governments, and who offers protection. Climate Change, Human Security and Violent Conflict. Political Geography 26 (6): 639–655 Browning, C., Guest Post by Julie Liebenguth , Ph.D.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Human civilization is moving and with climate change and shifting water supplies, we face the greatest migration in human history. JCG: Human civilization is moving and with climate change and shifting water supplies, we face the greatest migration in human history. I’m J. Carl Ganter.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Monica Montgomery is the Political Director for the non-profit, non-partisan advocacy organization Council for a Livable World. It also really connected my own interest in US politics, and national security, with a more specific focus towards an issue like nuclear arms control non-proliferation.”. Author: Lucy Thompson.

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Vermont Law

JUNE 21, 2023

Ask most people, and they will say that we are already living in a catastrophe; just look at the eradication of the coral reefs , the rising sea levels , and melting icebergs. Celsius is as bombastic as the argument that claims, “climate change is a hoax.”

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