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Why Climate Scientists Are Sounding the Alarm on the Ocean Circulation System AMOC

Union of Concerned Scientists

Because the Earth is a sphere, it receives incoming light (electromagnetic radiation) from the sun at different intensities depending on what latitude you’re located at. degree Celsius target set by the Paris Agreement. However, current estimates from the United Nations Emissions Gap Report predict we’re on track to warm 2.6-3.1

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We are not reaching 1.5ºC earlier than previously thought

Real Climate

Similarly, the 1.5ºC goal in the Paris Agreement is not a betting game of where we will end up with maximum temperatures. Rather, the 1.5ºC goal is underpinned by an international compromise agreement, where the international community considers the projected impact to outweigh the costs of mitigations getting there.

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Upcoming Developments in International Governance of Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal

Law Columbia

to 2 o C in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement. They focused specifically on two marine CDR approaches—ocean alkalinity enhancement and biomass cultivation for carbon removal (including seaweed cultivation and sinking) —and two solar radiation management techniques—marine cloud brightening and surface albedo enhancement.

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A Total Eclipse of the Heat

Legal Planet

target set by the Paris Agreement – and an astonishing 0.17 The NASA account continued that “any significant change in the amount of solar radiation reaching Earth can change the climate” though it stopped short of naming humans— and a few handfuls of large corporate emitters —as the culprit.

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A distraction due to errors, misunderstanding and misguided Norwegian statistics

Real Climate

The most important problem with the sun-climate explanation is that there has been no long-term change in either solar activity or cosmic radiation over the last hundred years that can explain the global warming we are now seeing. It’s urgent to fix our climate problem In August, the global mean temperature was close to 1.5°C

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The Fuss about Methane

Legal Planet

For other gases, the GWP depends on two different properties of the gas: how strongly it absorbs infrared radiation; and how long it stays in the atmosphere after it is emitted. Even the Paris Rulebook specifies 100-year GWPs, although it also authorizes the use of other metrics (i.e., W/m 2 from elevated CO 2.

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Why You Should Care About The Latest IPCC Report | BreezoMeter

Breezometer

Governmental policies established as a result of commitments made in the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement have already successfully prevented the emissions of several Gigatons of CO 2 , targeting deforestation, energy efficiency, new technology deployment, and carbon accounting as their main mitigation efforts.