Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Last year, I met Dave Schneider, a climate scientist who studies ice sheets and climate systems, work very similar to my own. He recently published a children’s book titled Goodnight Fossil Fuels! that’s specifically about climate change and fossil fuel accountability.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 17, 2025

SSP4: A divided world A highly unequal world where some adopt clean technology while much of the population remains dependent on fossil fuels. SSP5: Taking the highway A scenario driven by economic growth and high fossil fuel use, leading to rapid warming. Studies show that high-emission scenarios like SSP5-8.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2025

Climate models are the main tool scientists use to assess how much the Earths temperature will change given an increase in fossil fuel pollutants in the atmosphere. As a climate scientist, Ive used them in all my research projects, including one predicting a change in Southwestern US precipitation patterns.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Statement by Stephen Legault, Senior Manager, Alberta Energy Transition Canmore | Traditional territories of the Treaty 7 Nations – Denying the link between fossil fuels, CO2, and climate change will only hurt Alberta and its future economic well-being.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 20, 2023

Corporate leadership was informed about advances in climate science and incorporated those advances when its scientists built their own models. Regardless, the company publicly cast doubt on the reality of global warming, attempted to discredit climate scientists and climate models, and tried to block climate action.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The climate crisis is one of humanity’s most complex conflicts yet. The dangerous impacts of a warming, fossil-fuel dependent world span from wildfires capable of destroying entire towns to cancer-causing air pollution that afflicts the next generation. Unfortunately, when it comes to climate change, the truth is often obscured.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The kids get it.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 19, 2024

Accelerating risks from climate change are colliding with shortcomings in insurance markets—such as a lack of transparent information and affordability provisions—to create a perfect storm for people and communities on the front lines of floods, droughts, and wildfires.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 19, 2023

At last year’s UNFCCC Conference of the Parties in Egypt, UN Secretary General, António Guterres warned , “We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator.” Climate experts provided them all with the scientific basis for their warnings. Climate scientists, what would you risk for that reward?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 26, 2022

While there is enormous potential for UN climate negotiations to transform climate action, meaningful progress has been delayed in part by the fossil fuel industry’s deceptive tactics. Last year’s COP was notable as the first to explicitly mention “fossil fuels” in the final decision document.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 18, 2022

Here in the United States, there are dozens of cases being brought against fossil fuel companies and others claiming recompense for climate damages and prosecuting the companies for actively deceiving their shareholders and the public to block climate action.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 15, 2024

A taxonomy is supposed to clear up greenwashing, but including fossil fuels like ‘natural’ gas under a sustainable finance taxonomy would muddy the waters rather than clarify them. To advance a climate aligned financial system, fossil fuels like ‘natural’ gas should not be included under a Canadian sustainable finance label.”

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

In the 103-page decision , the court relies heavily on the facts laid out by these climate scientists who testified under oath and faced cross-examination. ” Prioritizing fossil fuels over renewable energy in 2023 for insubstantial reasons does not pass strict scrutiny. They’ll have to be pushed.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2023

We don’t need Taylor Swift to “fall in love with a climate scientist,” we just wish she’d write a song about the climate crisis. When the breathless coverage of her relationship with Travis Kelce first boosted ratings for NFL football, some suggested Swift should use her star power for good by “dating a climate scientist.”

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Gone are the net-zero promises and focus on a rapid clean energy transition, and in its place is a new narrative that more fossil fuels will solve the country’s energy crisis. The new license offering which will run until June next year is the first since 2019-2020 after it was put on hold due to a climate compatibility check.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 11, 2021

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of the world’s leading climate scientists, released its sixth climate assessment on Monday. The 1,300-page paper is the most comprehensive, up-to-date report yet on the physical science of climate change, synthesizing the findings of thousands of recent publications.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

The very first American trial of a youth climate lawsuit was hardly blockbuster Court TV, but we learned a lot from the proceedings. 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.

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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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A Greener Life

AUGUST 24, 2022

The field, located in the Norwegian Sea, will be operated by the Dutch fossil fuel giant Shell whose net-zero plans are unambitious at best. Many will be worried that the determination to ease our reliance on Russian fossil fuels is taking priority over the escalating climate crisis. ” New discoveries.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 7, 2024

Communities from Texas to Ohio that are benefiting from this scientifically informed tourism boom are the same places where some people like to question and mock climate scientists. as one writer put it on X. There’s a lesson here. We are also witnessing the awesome power of the star at the center of our solar system.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 24, 2021

That was the timeline laid down by the most prestigious body of climate scientists for limiting warming to 1.5 What the IEA found was that the world should not invest in or approve new fossil fuel projects. And that fossil fuel production should shrink by 75 per cent by 2050 in order to limit warming to 1.5

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 6, 2024

The Canadian Bankers’ Association (CBA) explicitly advocated against climate-related financial policy in their testimony on the Climate-Aligned Finance Act. The banks’ financing of oil, gas, and coal, as well as their related policies, contravene the net-zero pathways from energy economists and climate scientists from the IEA and IPCC.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 24, 2022

In the 1960s climate change was not really a significant concern, not even amongst environmentalists – this was despite the fact that the Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius in 1896 was the first to claim that emissions from fossil fuels might eventually result in enhanced global warming.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 6, 2023

if so P … S …), the climate change which is driven by the burning of fossil fuels , combined with the emergence of the natural El Nino climate pattern in the Eastern Pacific, are the joint forces that pushed the world into record territory this year. degrees C of temperature rises.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Wealthy nations have not even delivered a $100bn annual fund to help developing nations with climate mitigation and adaptation, which had been promised for 2020 onwards. While most climate scientists are not directly involved in high-level negotiations, their work is essential to the process. Courtesy: Michelle Bell. “We

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A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

The UN agency concluded global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are at the highest levels in human history and without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors limiting climate change to 1.5°C C will be beyond reach.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Throughout his career, Minott and the Clean Air Council earned a reputation for holding government agencies and fossil fuel companies accountable. Michael Mann - Climate Champion Award PennFuture honored Dr. Michael E. He was concerned about the worldwide consumption of fossil fuels and its impact on climate change.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

And it’s been one month since the Montana First District Court determined that the state of Montana had indeed violated Montana youth’s right to a “clean and healthful environment” by collaborating with the fossil fuel industry. Montana was monumental for many reasons: it was the first-ever constitutional climate trial in the U.S.;

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Environmental Progress

JUNE 29, 2020

But that just shows the power of climate alarmism. Over the last few years I helped save enough nuclear plants from being replaced by fossil fuels to prevent a sharp increase in emissions But until last year, I mostly avoided speaking out against the climate scare. Partly that’s because I was embarrassed.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

To share his knowledge and warn the public about climate change, he has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed and edited publications, numerous op-eds and commentaries, and five books. For more information on programs, initiatives and special events, visit the Stroud Water Research Center website, Click Here to subscribe to UpStream.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 3, 2022

There was therefore some outrage that the Met Office didn’t note climate change when they announced these temperature records.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

He set out to outline the global acceleration of extreme weather events driven by continued fossil fuel production. The warming has even taken many other climate scientists by surprise and no one has predicted such a rapid warming trend, with feedback loops being a key contributing factor, he argued.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 2, 2022

This week’s report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world’s leading climate scientists, paints a terrifying picture of the future if Canada and the world don’t tackle fossil fuels with urgency. This cap must therefore be strict enough that the industry can no longer expand.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 5, 2021

Climate scientists have long predicted that the Mediterranean will be hit hard by rising temperatures and changes in rainfall, driven by human emissions. Future wildfire risk is projected to increase in southern Europe , according to the last report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

The note can also be interpreted as an insult because it suggests that we climate scientists do not know our subject. This issue is therefore not only about academic freedom, because doubt is often used to undermine the climate issue quite deliberately by groups with financial interests.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 4, 2023

5: Virtual Keynote & Panel Discussion, 5 Regional Workshop Locations [PaEN] -- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Climate Activists Call On PA Lawmakers To End Fossil Fuel Use At ‘PA Climate Convergence’ -- Inside Climate News - Jon Hurdle: At ‘Climate Convergence’ In PA, Environmental Activists Urge Gov.

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A Greener Life

MAY 9, 2022

ENSO is so influential that climate scientists have dedicated decades to tracking and predicting its irregular cycles. Researchers are also studying how ENSO will be affected by climate change. In the most fossil fuel-intensive scenario, carbon dioxide emissions more than double by 2099.

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