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Twenty years of blogging in hindsight

Real Climate

Similarly, there have been increases in other greenhouse gases , which Gavin nicely describes in his recent post Operationalizing Climate Science. In a nutshell, they are responsible for climate change, mainly due to an increased greenhouse effect.

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Advancing Ocean Climate Action at COP27

Ocean Conservancy

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. Green Shipping.

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IPCC report urges for action to limit global warming to 1.5C

Edouard Stenger

It would halve the number of humans that will be exposed to water scarcity; prevent runaway sea level rise that could put many of the world’s islands under water and render uninhabitable the large delta and low-coastal regions that are home to two-thirds of the world’s population. PSEG, a large utility in New Jersey will spend $2.8

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Sabin Center Urges BOEM to Consider Climate Change Risks to Offshore Wind Projects, as Well as Climate Change Impacts to Wildlife if Offshore Wind Projects Are Not Constructed

Law Columbia

As BOEM already acknowledges in the DEIS, “[w]arming and sea level rise could affect marine mammals through increased storm frequency and severity, altered habitat/ecology, altered migration patterns, increased disease incidence, and increased erosion and sediment deposition.”

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What could we do with $120 billion to protect the ocean and fight climate change?

Ocean Conservancy

This is because subsidies increase the amounts of fossil fuels we produce and greenhouse gases we emit, polluting our ocean and making virgin plastic cheaper, all while padding the profits of polluters. Offshore wind power is a key ocean-based climate solution that we need to invest in. That’s not helping our ocean or Americans.

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Report from COP22: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s Call to Action

Law Columbia

As Minister Mitchell noted, “with eighty percent of [The Bahama’s] land within five feet or three meters of the sea, the sea level rise [caused by climate change] threatens our very existence.”. That this is true in a country like The Bahama’s, which has so much to lose from climate change, is both disappointing and concerning.

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July 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Bureau of Land Management failed to take a hard look at the indirect and cumulative impacts of greenhouse gases associated with a coal lease that authorized expansion of a coal mine. ruled in 2019 that BLM had failed to adequately assess the potential impacts of greenhouse gas emissions for certain oil and gas leases in Wyoming.

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