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RFK Jr. Joins the War on Climate Scientists

Legal Planet

In one podcast segment titled “The Real Cause of Climate Change, ” he says he’s been trying to convince friends and family that natural “solar cycles” are behind global warming, not greenhouse gas emissions from humans. is on when it comes to the war on scientists.

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The Rate of Global Warming During Next 25 Years Could Be Double What it Was In The Previous 50, a Renowned Climate Scientist Warns

Inside Climate News

Former NASA climate scientist James Hansen urged Congress decades ago to act on climate change. Now he says he expects reduced aerosol pollution to lead to a steep temperature rise.

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Returning Grazing Land to Native Forests Would Yield Big Climate Benefits

Inside Climate News

and western Europe while intensifying production elsewhere could drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions, with little hit to global protein production, a new study shows. Removing cattle from carbon-rich soils in the eastern U.S.

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FSU climate scientists receive Department of Energy funding to study greenhouse gas emissions from peatlands

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But as peatlands are lost to overextraction and affected by a warmer climate, the impact on these natural carbon scrubbers remains … Continue reading FSU climate scientists receive Department of Energy funding to study greenhouse gas emissions from peatlands

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A science-based move to climate change adaptation

Real Climate

It’s also urgent because the oceans act like a flywheel, making sure that cuts in emission of greenhouse gases will have a lagged effect on global warming. Climate change adaptation was addressed in the Paris Agreement from 2015, the Climate Adaptation Summit in January 2021 , and will be one of four key priorities during the upcoming COP26.

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Science denial is still an issue ahead of COP28

Real Climate

It is 33 years now since the IPCC in its first report in 1990 concluded that it is “certain” that greenhouse gas emissions from human activities “will enhance the greenhouse effect, resulting on average in an additional warming of the Earth’s surface.”

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‘A Repair Manual for the Planet’: What Would It Take to Restore Our Atmosphere?

Inside Climate News

“Optimism and hope are muscles we have to exercise,” climate scientist Rob Jackson says. His new book offers a paradigm for how to think about climate change and the health of the planet.