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As its Lone Climate Scientist Board Member Departs, ExxonMobil Still Heads in the Wrong Direction

Union of Concerned Scientists

There has been comparatively less attention to the decision by climate scientist Dr. Susan Avery not to seek re-election to the ExxonMobil board of directors. Yet this shift in corporate leadership is significant, marking the end of a chapter in ExxonMobil’s long and ongoing history of climate deception and disinformation.

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The Long History of Climate Models

Union of Concerned Scientists

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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How Do ‘Future Climate Scenarios’ Shape Climate Science and Inform Policy? 

Union of Concerned Scientists

By examining possible trajectories for global economic development, technology adoption, and policy actions, the driving forces behind emissions, these scenarios help us assess a range of potential climate futures. levels of cooperation or competition among countries, technology adoption, and inequality) in terms of radiative forcing.

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What Do Climate Scientists Tell Their Kids about the Future?

Scientific American

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

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PennFuture 25th Anniversary Celebrations Honor 7 Pennsylvanians For Fighting Climate Change, Industrial Pollution

PA Environment Daily

Michael Mann - Climate Champion Award PennFuture honored Dr. Michael E. Mann, one of the world's best-known climate scientists and author, with the Climate Champion Award for his life's research on climate studies and the impacts of human-caused climate change. from Villanova University School of Law.

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Method used to track ants underground could revolutionize how we measure snow depth from space

Frontiers

Hu worked with other scientists at NASA, the University of Arizona, Stevens Institute of Technology, and Ball Aerospace and hopes climate scientists will increasingly adopt snow properties derived from this robust physics-based technique to make their forecasts. “I This is where this new technique will make a difference.

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Big Oil can’t increase production and pretend it’s part of the climate solution

Enviromental Defense

That was the timeline laid down by the most prestigious body of climate scientists for limiting warming to 1.5 It should be noted that the IEA includes all of these technologies in its net zero scenario…BUT nonetheless finds that oil investment and production should drop dramatically.