Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

Fossil fuels, which are central to mitigation discussions but were largely avoided, reflecting ongoing political tensions. Scientists must remain engaged, ensuring the reports reflect the best available evidence, not just what is politically convenient. With AR7 now in motion, the real work begins.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

Fossil fuels, which are central to mitigation discussions but were largely avoided, reflecting ongoing political tensions. Scientists must remain engaged, ensuring the reports reflect the best available evidence, not just what is politically convenient. With AR7 now in motion, the real work begins.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 7, 2023

That brings us to the second argument that companies could make, that any deception claims relate to speech intended to influence the political process and that political speech is exempt from liability even if it is false. The boundary between those two categories is somewhat blurry. Are the lawsuits preempted by federal law?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In contrast to civil, political, and economic rights, cultural rights have been side-lined and neglected in dialogues about climate policy and human rights. Sea level rise, coastal flooding and erosion due to more extreme storms have drastically affected traditional food gardens and plantations, and damaged coconut groves.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 29, 2021

They are often left to deal with climate effects on the ground, from wildfires to sea level rise to drought, and they can provide a political bulwark of sorts even as U.S. federal climate action wavers or underdelivers. That may prove very useful at COP26 and beyond. Download as PDF. The post What do U.S.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

While temperatures provide a measure of the Earth’s climate, it is even better to use the global sea level , which provides a far more reliable measure. The global sea level acts like the mercury in a thermometer because warmer water expands. Hence my friend’s question about COP28.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 21, 2023

The photo went viral and made clear the threat from rising sea levels to low-lying island nations. An archipelago of small islands south of Sri Lanka, Maldives is the flattest country on earth , the average height of land just four feet above sea level.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Total loss of the Greenland ice sheet, for example, would raise sea levels globally by more than 20 feet. The paper sets out an agenda for research into ways to limit glacial ice-sheet deterioration and associated sea level rise. This vision of a space of exception from politics as usual is a legacy of the cold-war era.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A simple statement that masks just how complicated the issues are: mixing politics, economics, livelihoods, fisheries and endangered species in the ocean body that is the Gulf of Maine. Sea levels are rising. The Gulf of Maine Research Institute climate dashboard clearly indicates sea surface temperature anomalies.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In an article about loss of coastal land in Louisiana, Oliver Houck observed that sea level rise might pose a “grim” long-term threat to the coast but had had little effect to date. There were a few more mentions of climate change in 1983. She also called for international consultations and for strategies to deal with deforestation.

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Legal Planet

JULY 10, 2024

billion to combat sea level rise. Proposition 4 would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $10 billion pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance a variety of projects combating climate change, increasing resiliency, and supporting climate solutions. Some of the notable investments include: $3.8

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Inside Climate News

JULY 31, 2023

By Bob Berwyn At the current level of human-caused global warming, extreme rainfall from atmospheric rivers, as well as an extensive network of previously undetected micro-cracks, could degrade large parts of the Greenland Ice Sheet faster than expected and accelerate melting toward worst-case projections for ice loss and sea level rise, recent research (..)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

From rising sea levels and increased flooding to more frequent, severe, and widespread wildfires, the effects of climate change are being felt across the United States. States and local governments are suing for damages So why are states and local governments suing the fossil fuel industry now? But the tide is turning.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 20, 2023

This methodology is similar to my own work combining climate science, political science, and history to reconstruct how UN climate negotiations have played out and what that implies for climate justice. The present is always being created out of past actions that led to where we are today.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Hope for government relief is weaning among Ghanaians displaced by rising sea levels and flooding. “By Seaside towns and cities like Keta have slowly been eroding over the years due to rising sea levels. Proposed regulations in California could fine residents for wasting water. By Sunday at dawn, the water was everywhere.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

While changing consumption is an important part of the climate action conversation, such talking points from the fossil fuel industry obscure its decades-long campaign of disinformation around climate science, not to mention the resources and political power they have amassed to limit consumers’ options for other forms of energy.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

This is not a surprise, particularly after Governor Lamont’s statement that there is no political support for TCI in Connecticut. We’re just incurring the cost in extreme weather and rising sea levels, rather than by paying more for gas at the pump. It’s called an externality. That’s not a good long-term tradeoff.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2022

Danger season, together with ongoing slow-moving disasters like sea level rise, is pushing people and ecosystems to their limits in many places. Moreover, in many parts of the world, poverty and structural inequities rooted in colonialism, unfair economic systems, and discrimination are exposing some people to heightened risks.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 26, 2021

In an opinion by Justice Stevens, the Court held that the threat of sea level rise gave a state government standing to bring the suit. This is my nominee as the most important Supreme Court environmental ruling of all time. It was the first case in which the Court was confronted with the issue of climate change.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Basically, I go back to my freshman year geopolitics class from college and the professor who really got us thinking about political geography, but the layers of geography. Political geography of borders and so on, in a complex interplay. Then there’s politics, civil wars, conflicts and so forth.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

While the Governor signed a number of significant environmental laws, he also vetoed several, including laws intended to address impacts to low-income communities of color from air pollution, water pollution, and sea level rise. A Few Notable Vetoes.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 3, 2022

Saltwater Intrusion, a “Slow Poison” to East Coast Drinking Water — Summer tourism, sea level rise, and storm surges threaten East Coast wells. While the issue has gained political traction in the United States, it has flown under the radar in Britain. New flash flood watches were issued for this week. 140 PEOPLE.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 1, 2022

It is a clear demonstration for how our future depends on society’s choices and the political will of those in leadership positions. This level of warming would lead to devastating losses in habitats, increased risk of sea level rise in extreme heat and other weather impacts that would put many communities at risk.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

that country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. In 2014, a family from Tuvalu sought refugee status in New Zealand because rising sea levels threatened their home. Cruz Galicia v.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

APRIL 11, 2024

I didn’t have the political language,” Resita said. In her film, Resita explains that this is so common that you can predict the sea level of an area based on its racial demographics, known as racial topography. In Princeville, a Black community was built on land that was undesirable to white people at the time.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

APRIL 24, 2022

Name any climate change challenge you can think of ranging from sea level rise, to extreme heat, to increased fire risk and I discuss how capitalism helps us to adapt to the challenge. Climate adaptation optimism is still viewed as politically incorrect stuff.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

What’s more, all of these intersecting and compounding crises reveal similar fundamental flaws in our current social, political and economic systems—including that those who are most marginalized in society suffer disproportionate harms.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Anchoring ourselves in a fuller understanding of the web of global politics, special interests, and principled voices that have been shaping the climate movement for over 30 years is a great step, and I recommend this short video to deliver those goods.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The blue zone at COP27 holds negotiation rooms, along with the official plenary space where political leaders meet and make decisions.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 7, 2022

By restoring degraded ecosystems and effectively and equitably conserving 30 to 50 per cent of Earth’s land, freshwater and ocean habitats, society can benefit from nature’s capacity to absorb and store carbon, and we can accelerate progress towards sustainable development, but adequate finance and political support are essential.”.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

In 2022 floods, driven by rising sea- levels, tidal surges, and extreme and prolonged rainfall have contributed to the increased spread of major killers of children, such as malnutrition, malaria, cholera and diarrhoea. . The outbreak has claimed the lives of 203 people, including 28 children.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

It captures the changes in mortality rates that are going to happen… the changes in crop yields… the changes in sea level rise, and the damages that will cost…”. How fast will sea levels and temperatures rise? What is the cost of living with, versus adapting to, sea level rise?

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Acoel

JANUARY 20, 2023

The term has become politically volatile, yet recognizing a community’s risk level – whether it’s risk of flooding, heat, earthquakes or forest fires – and then deciding how to address it is key to assuring our societal safety. The rich, the poor, the elderly, the disabled, the young? That’s a very tall order.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 7, 2024

The consequences of the climate crisis are already visible and devastating, such as rising temperatures, melting ice caps, sea level rise, extreme weather events, droughts, floods, wildfires, biodiversity loss, food insecurity, water scarcity, displacement, conflict, disease, and death. C by 2030.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

What stands in the way of progress is the need for governments in the G20 to take the political decisions to get the transformation underway,” he said. In addition, finance for loss and damage caused by irreversible impacts, such as sea-level rise and salination of groundwater, is going to be a big theme going forward.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

C, we stand to lose ocean and coastal ecosystems we depend on to sea level rise, warming temperatures, ocean acidification and other climate impacts. The biggest win for this two-week event was the recommitment to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. While not new, this remains a critically important commitment.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Instead, it has been to stem and confuse the flow of information about climate change to the public and political leaders. The California plaintiffs, by contrast, are seeking money damages from fossil fuel companies to offset the costs required to adapt to, among other things, rising sea levels. What is the class of tortfeasors?

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