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Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
Last month, 44 climate scientists from 15 countries wrote an open letter to the Nordic Council of Ministers highlighting the risk of a potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a critical ocean current system in the Atlantic Ocean. Picture Quebec City in Canada and London in the UK.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 19, 2025
Climate models are the main tool climate scientists use to predict how Earth will respond to more heat-trapping pollutants in the atmosphere. But what exactly is a climate model? Lets start off easy by breaking down the phrase climate model.” What causes a circulation? temperature, rainfall, etc.)
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Circle of Blue
DECEMBER 13, 2022
The SWOT mission, as its called, will measure weekly changes in the world’s major rivers, lakes, wetlands, and oceans. For oceans, the satellite will track small-scale currents and eddies that transport nutrients, salt, and heat. Scientists have identified 468 of these transboundary groundwater basins.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 30, 2024
Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are responsible for weather forecasts and severe storm warnings, information we likely take for granted. Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe asserts that talking about climate change is the most important thing we can do.
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!) Figure SPM 8.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 18, 2022
The latest IPCC report even recognizes litigation as a powerful strategy, noting that, “Outside the formal climate policy processes, climate litigation is an important arena for various actors to confront and interact over how climate change should be governed.”
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 20, 2023
This new research found that ExxonMobil’s climate projections from its internally developed models accurately projected the temperature rise that has happened since then and that its calculations were in line with independent research produced at the time by academic and government scientists.
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