• Hanson and his collaborators' findings on the severity of warming and the necessity for geoengineering fall largely outside the broad conclusions made by international climate scientists from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. (time.com)
  • The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world's most authoritative voice on climate crisis, was also created in 1988, which, incidentally, was the hottest year on record since the beginning of the century. (commondreams.org)
  • Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - Sea level rise over the next 80 years may have been underestimated by the conservative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), according Scientists Jonathan L. Bamber, Michael Oppenheimer, Robert E. Kopp, Willy P. Aspinall, and Roger M. Cooke writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. (juancole.com)
  • The latest report (5AR) published by the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) created an uproar for all the wrong reasons. (cleartheair.org.hk)
  • Despite growing efforts in many countries to tackle the problem, the global situation is becoming more acute as developing countries join the West in burning huge amounts of fossil fuels, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said here on Sunday. (beniciaindependent.com)
  • The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a scientific body appointed by the world's governments to advise them on the causes and effects of global warming, and potential solutions. (beniciaindependent.com)
  • The Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 o C, published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2018 which includes over 6000 scientific references from over 40 countries stressed the importance of limiting global warming to below 1.5 degrees, as any higher would result in increased risks to "health, livelihoods, food security, water supply, human security, and economic growth. (themeliorist.ca)
  • NEW YORK- Noted climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer, a principal author of a just-released Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report and a professor at Princeton and NYU Law visiting professor, said that further delay in reaching an international agreement to cut global greenhouse gas emissions would amount to a highly dangerous gamble. (guarinicenter.org)
  • Writing in Nature Climate Change , the scientists review the language and graphics used in climate "assessment" reports between 1990 and 2021 by members of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). (rutgers.edu)
  • That would not only have significant reverberations for the Earth's climate, for the circulation in the oceans, but also for the species that live in North Polar regions, like the polar bears. (pulseplanet.com)
  • There is a very robust consensus that humans are warming the planet and changing the Earth's climate. (americanprogress.org)
  • His discoveries were fundamental to interpreting Earth's climate history," said Oppenheimer. (nbcnews.com)
  • But it's a factor that will grow over time," Michael Oppenheimer, climate scientist and professor at Princeton University, told IPS. (globalissues.org)
  • It still hasn't shown up on politicians' agendas," says Princeton climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer, "but scientists are now talking about it as an option. (newsweek.com)
  • As early as 1994, Princeton University climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer saw the danger: 'What they've done is try to take scientific understanding and put it on the same level with political opinion. (scientificamerican.com)
  • As time goes on and on, the interval for recovery is shrinking," said Oppenheimer, a professor of geosciences and international affairs and director at the Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment at Princeton. (tbsnews.net)
  • Wally was unique, brilliant and combative," said Princeton University professor Michael Oppenheimer. (nbcnews.com)
  • Across the world "intense rain storms are getting more intense," said Princeton University climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer. (tiredearth.com)
  • In addition, Lindblad Expeditions arranged to have renowned climate change scientist Dr. Michael Oppenheimer from Princeton University present "Climate Change 101" to all staff at the company's NYC headquarters to facilitate better understanding of this complex issue. (expeditions.com)
  • The world is approaching the point where exceeding the Paris targets and entering a climate danger zone becomes almost inevitable," said Princeton University climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer, who wasn't part of the research. (gnoicc.org)
  • Michael Oppenheimer, a climate scientist at Princeton University claims the Paris Accords deserve a D or an F letter grade "based on whether we have any prospect of meeting a 2 o C target. (themeliorist.ca)
  • There's no doubt that hurricanes will inflict heavier damage due to rising sea levels caused by climate change," says Michael Oppenheimer, a climate scientist and professor of geosciences at Princeton University. (russbanham.com)
  • Kopp led the study with Jessica O'Reilly, an anthropologist at Indiana University Bloomington who studies the IPCC, and Michael Oppenheimer, a Princeton University climate scientist who has served with the IPCC since the First Assessment Report. (rutgers.edu)
  • To follow on from the authors session on Wednesday morning, Michael Oppenheimer , from Princeton, gave the inaugural Stephen Schneider Global Change Lecture, with a talk entitled "Scientists, Expert Judgment, and Public Policy: What is Our Proper Role? (easterbrook.ca)
  • The lead author of the paper is Dr. Ilissa B. Ocko, who received her PhD from Princeton University's Atmospheric and Oceanic Studies Department and is now a senior climate scientist and Barbra Streisand Chair of Environmental Studies at Environmental Defense Fund. (princeton.edu)
  • Co-authors include three Princeton faculty, including Michael Oppenheimer, Denise Mauzerall, and Stephen Pacala. (princeton.edu)
  • In the months leading to the report's release, many climate observers began to speak of how the global mean temperatures have not been rising as drastically as predicted by climate change models that previous IPCC reports have written about. (cleartheair.org.hk)
  • Barbara Hollingsworth of CNS News makes a typical report denying climate change, a prime example of cutting data and jumping on ambiguities in the IPCC report. (cleartheair.org.hk)
  • Pierre Gosselin, an advocate against climate change as hyperbole for distracting the public from poor public policy, translates a report from the conservative Swiss news magazine Weltwoche that makes full use of the rumours of internal disagreements within IPCC members, lack of rigour in the work done by IPCC, and its failed predictions to discredit climate change. (cleartheair.org.hk)
  • The study contrasts the language used to convey ambiguities in the risk of late-century sea level rise in the IPCC reports in 1990, 1995, 2001, 2007, 2013 and 2021, along with the UN's Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate issued in 2019. (rutgers.edu)
  • by Eduardo Zorita , Scientist at the Institute for Coastal Research , specialist in Paleoclimatology , Review Editor of Climate Research and IPCC co-author. (wattsupwiththat.com)
  • For example, the statement "warming of the climate system is unequivocal" was used in the IPCC AR4. (easterbrook.ca)
  • The disaster is hitting a poor country that has contributed relatively little to the world's climate problem, scientists and officials said. (tiredearth.com)
  • The fossil fuel industry is causing the climate crisis, leading to more extreme weather events like Hurricane Sandy," McKibben said. (globalissues.org)
  • Organized by the Sunrise Movement, the 'No Climate, No Deal' marchers demanded a meeting with Biden to insist on an infrastructure package that truly invests in job creation and acts to combat the climate crisis. (commondreams.org)
  • Planet Earth is on fire because of global warming, yet there are still untold numbers of climate deniers in our midst, including over 130 elected officials in the U.S. Congress, and the global community's response to the climate crisis continues to be not merely unacceptably slow, but borders on criminal negligence. (commondreams.org)
  • The Kyoto Protocol, adopted in 1997 and entered into effect in 2005, was the first legally binding agreement (pdf) on the climate crisis. (commondreams.org)
  • Spurred on by the climate crisis, the world has begun moving-unevenly but inexorably-toward a low-carbon future. (deloitte.com)
  • Authors themselves will accordingly be conservative in their predictions, which can result, as with the climate crisis, in understating the dangers we face, in large part as they seek to preserve their own credibility. (disunitedstates.org)
  • But what of the climate crisis? (ucsusa.org)
  • As the accelerating climate crisis so clearly outpaces our efforts, no, what we're doing and saying is not enough. (ucsusa.org)
  • A glass of wine with your climate crisis? (thebulletin.org)
  • We must take action to confront the climate crisis. (greenpolicy360.net)
  • For there is no tomorrow if we fail to decarbonize and thus rescue the planet from a climate catastrophe. (commondreams.org)
  • If people think we face the climate catastrophe, we're Americans! (climatedepot.com)
  • The new study says that if humanity doesn't take the climate catastrophe any more seriously than it is right now, it isn't just the Greenland ice sheet that will be in trouble but also those of the Arctic and Antarctica. (juancole.com)
  • Climate Minister Sherry Rehman said "it's been a catastrophe of unprecedented proportions. (tiredearth.com)
  • The "recent flood in Pakistan is actually an outcome of the climate catastrophe … that was looming very large," said Anjal Prakash, a research director at India's Bharti Institute of Public Policy. (tiredearth.com)
  • Limiting warming to 1.5°C, and at least keeping it well under 2°C, is the goal of the Paris Climate Accord, with international policymakers gathering at yearly COP meetings to negotiate actions to meet that goal. (time.com)
  • Broecker single-handedly popularized the notion that this could lead to a dramatic climate change 'tipping point' and, more generally, Broecker helped communicate to the public and policymakers the potential for abrupt climate changes and unwelcome 'surprises' as a result of climate change," said Penn State professor Michael Mann. (nbcnews.com)
  • Over the last several months, Ive had dozens of conversations with climate scientists and economists and policymakers, advocates and activists and novelists and philosophers about that new world and the ways we might conceptualize it. (climate-news-db.com)
  • If the approach taken in the most recent climate report in 2021 is successful, it will be accurately reflected in future regional assessments and will ultimately be judged by policymakers, along with climate and social scientists. (rutgers.edu)
  • You can't say that Sandy occurred because of climate change, but what you can say is that that such storms are much more likely to happen with contributing factors that include things directly related to climate change," Steven Hamburg, chief scientist at Environmental Defence Fund , told IPS. (globalissues.org)
  • Extreme drought related to climate change holds serious consequences for vulnerable communities, especially those who rely on agriculture for their livelihoods. (princeton.edu)
  • Among all the uncertainties that still surround climate change, one thing has become clear: the scary durability of carbon, which will hang in the air for a thousand years, continuing to warm the planet no matter how drastically future emissions are cut. (newsweek.com)
  • Climate scientists have been underestimating how sensitive the global climate system will be to increased carbon dioxide emissions, according to the new paper. (time.com)
  • Emissions cuts alone will not be enough to ensure a safe climate in future years, according to Hansen and his collaborators. (time.com)
  • As U.S. scientists with substantial expertise on climate change and its impacts on natural ecosystems, our built environment and human well-being, we want to assure policy makers and the public of the integrity of the underlying scientific research and the need for urgent action to reduce heat-trapping emissions. (commondreams.org)
  • If we are to avoid the most severe impacts of climate change, emissions of greenhouse gases must be dramatically reduced. (commondreams.org)
  • COPENHAGEN - The gathering risks of climate change are so profound that they could stall or even reverse generations of progress against poverty and hunger if greenhouse emissions continue at a runaway pace, according to a major new United Nations report. (beniciaindependent.com)
  • Failure to reduce emissions, the group of scientists and other experts found, could threaten society with food shortages, refugee crises, the flooding of major cities and entire island nations, mass extinction of plants and animals, and a climate so drastically altered it might become dangerous for people to work or play outside during the hottest times of the year. (beniciaindependent.com)
  • By contrast, the report found, less than $400 billion a year is being spent around the world to reduce emissions or otherwise cope with climate change. (beniciaindependent.com)
  • More recently, these two stories have been mapped onto climate modeling: Conventional wisdom has dictated that meeting the most ambitious goals of the Paris agreement by limiting warming to 1.5 degrees could allow for some continuing normal, but failing to take rapid action on emissions, and allowing warming above three or even four degrees, spelled doom. (climate-news-db.com)
  • If we want to avoid the worst consequences of climate change, we need to work much harder to cut carbon dioxide emissions and right away. (gnoicc.org)
  • It concluded that unchecked growth in greenhouse gas emissions will impose high risks of flooding of major cities, serious food and water shortages, human health harms, and species extinction as well as a threat of sudden and irreversible changes in the climate system. (guarinicenter.org)
  • In April, President Biden unveiled the United States' most ambitious plan ever to cut emissions that drive climate change, and he urged other nations to follow. (wyomingpublicmedia.org)
  • Whenever presidents or Congress have introduced measures to slash emissions to avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change, they've been repeatedly derailed. (wyomingpublicmedia.org)
  • The same headwinds have stopped nearly every effort, including Biden's, to make systemic cuts to emissions: a powerful fossil fuel lobby that has spent vast sums of money to influence lawmakers while simultaneously sowing public doubt about the science of climate change. (wyomingpublicmedia.org)
  • A growing array of businesses and governments are, indeed, confronting climate change, announcing emissions goals and climate initiatives daily. (deloitte.com)
  • Accelerating progress toward net-zero emissions and tackling our toughest climate challenges will require extraordinary levels of collaboration and coordination across emerging systems. (deloitte.com)
  • Those interpretations are disputed by Michael Mann , a well-known climate scientist at Pennsylvania State University, in a commentary published on Nov. 1. (time.com)
  • Water levels around New York are a nearly a foot higher than they were 100 years ago, said Penn State University climate scientist Michael Mann . (sustainability.org.il)
  • We lost decades of opportunity," says Michael Mann, a geophysicist who heads up Pennsylvania State University's Earth System Science Center. (wyomingpublicmedia.org)
  • Hurricane Sandy has broken the so-called "climate silence" of this year's elections. (globalissues.org)
  • We're driving climate action at year's UN climate talks, COP28. (edf.org)
  • As part of this year's Climate Week NYC, we will hold an event focusing on how delivering on the 1.5°C temperature limit of the Paris Agreement will not only avoid severe risks and damages, especially to the most vulnerable, but will strongly contribute to global prosperity through enhanced food security, energy independence, health and wellbeing, livelihoods and resilience. (climateanalytics.org)
  • At last year's UNFCCC Conference of the Parties in Egypt, UN Secretary General, António Guterres warned , "We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator. (ucsusa.org)
  • This year's Arctic Report Card is the 16th annual volume of original, peer-reviewed environmental observations and analysis that documents rapid and dramatic shifts in weather, climate, terrestrial and oceanic conditions in the circumpolar region. (greenpolicy360.net)
  • Limbaugh's environmental opinions have more in common with science fiction than with science fact," said EDF senior scientist Michael Oppenheimer. (edf.org)
  • Senior scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund Michael Oppenheimer and science journalist Michael Lemonick of Time Magazine report on the developing hole in the ozone layer and the danger it hole poses. (charlierose.com)
  • Journalists James Hoggan and Ross Gelbspan have also done considerable spadework in uncovering the campaigns mounted by fossil fuel special interests to discredit climate science. (scientificamerican.com)
  • 5. Sinclair attempts to discredit the creator of the Oregon petition, Dr. Arthur B. Robinson for being an independent scientist who advocates for homeschooling and suggests nuclear war is survivable, a position also held by Manhattan Project member and father of the hydrogen bomb, Dr. Edward Teller . (populartechnology.net)
  • They have poured millions of dollars into efforts to discredit the science of climate change. (wyomingpublicmedia.org)
  • Michael Oppenheimer is an atmospheric scientist with the Environmental Defense Fund. (pulseplanet.com)
  • We will be joined by a panel of prominent experts: Ban Ki-moon's principal climate change advisor Selwin Hart, prominent climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer, Saint Lucia's climate champion Dr. James Fletcher and National Resources Defense Council's renewable energy director Nathanael Greene. (climateanalytics.org)
  • Continued emission of greenhouse gases will cause further warming and long-lasting changes in all components of the climate system, increasing the likelihood of severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems," the report found. (beniciaindependent.com)
  • Amidst multiple intersecting crises - huge climate impacts, food and energy shortfalls, crippling debt burdens - the old way of delivering development finance is clearly failing everyone, especially the most vulnerable. (princeton.edu)
  • The Arctic Report Card continues to show how the impacts of human-caused climate change are propelling the Arctic region into a dramatically different state than it was in just a few decades ago," said NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad, Ph.D. "The trends are alarming and undeniable. (greenpolicy360.net)
  • Indicative perhaps of how slow politics and societies in general react to scientific discoveries, the cause-and-effect relationship between the greenhouse effect and global warming does not emerge in public consciousness as a major issue--at least in the United States--until NASA scientist James Hansen's seminal testimony in front of a U.S. Senate Committee on June 23, 1988. (commondreams.org)
  • Perhaps the most capacious and galvanizing account is one I heard from Kate Marvel of NASA, a lead chapter author on the fifth National Climate Assessment: The world will be what we make it. (climate-news-db.com)
  • In 2015, after the Paris Climate Accord was adopted, he labeled the agreement "a fraud" because it did not include mandates to tax fossil fuels in order to discourage them from being burned. (time.com)
  • On Earth Day, 175 countries signed the Paris Climate Agreement -- the most countries to ever sign an international accord on a single day. (mediamatters.org)
  • On Earth Day, the United States joined 174 other countries to sign the Paris agreement on climate change, breaking the record for the most signatories of an international agreement on a single day, as USA Today noted. (mediamatters.org)
  • In a blog published by the Heartland Institute, Citizens' Alliance for Responsible Energy (CARE) president Marita Noon urged readers to make this week "Green Energy Poverty Week," because climate policies resembling the Paris agreement and the EPA's Clean Power Plan have supposedly been proven to create "energy poverty," which Noon defined as households that spend more than 10 percent of their income on energy costs. (mediamatters.org)
  • Right-wing website HotAir.com's weekend editor asserted that the Paris climate agreement represents "the prospect of rapidly rising energy costs in America for no discernible payoff," adding that this is why "those in the energy community have chosen to counter Earth Day by naming April 17-23 'Green Energy Poverty Week. (mediamatters.org)
  • Saint Lucia's climate champion who played an important role in the inclusion of the 1.5°C limit in the objective of the Paris Agreement. (climateanalytics.org)
  • The Paris Accords were a legally binding international treaty on climate change signed by 175 parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) including the European Union, China, and the United States. (themeliorist.ca)
  • PARIS, FRANCE - NOVEMBER 04: The Arc de Triomphe is illuminated in green to celebrate the ratification of the COP21 (Conference of the Parties Climate Conference) climate change agreement in Paris, France on November 04, 2016. (themeliorist.ca)
  • The world Climate Clock launched in 2015 in tandem with the Paris Agreement is hosted by the Human Impact Lab at the University of Concordia and is updated each year to reflect the date shown when we will reach a 1.5 o C increase in global averaged temperatures compared to pre-industrialized levels. (themeliorist.ca)
  • According to the world Climate Clock, as of December 1st, 2020, the 1.5 o C threshold will be breached in 7 years, 31 days and 7 hours, much sooner than the Paris Accords' mid-century goal post. (themeliorist.ca)
  • The Climate Ambition Summit reconvened on December 12th, 2020, on the 5th anniversary of the Paris Accords with 75 leaders outlining new commitments in an effort to make climate change a top priority in the global agenda. (themeliorist.ca)
  • In 2017 , President Donald Trump announced the U.S. would withdraw from the 2015 Paris climate accord, the only country to reject the agreement. (wyomingpublicmedia.org)
  • 5 Hundreds of companies have set science-based targets consistent with the Paris Agreement, 6 publicly committed to using 100% renewable energy, 7 or made other climate pledges. (deloitte.com)
  • Hansen, an adjunct professor of earth and environmental sciences at Columbia University, has often been a critic of mainstream climate policy. (time.com)
  • While components of Sandy seem connected to global warming, "mostly it's natural, I'd say it's 80, 90 percent natural," said Gerald North , a climate professor at Texas A&M University. (sustainability.org.il)
  • The window of possible climate futures is narrowing, and as a result, we are getting a clearer sense of whats to come: a new world, full of disruption but also billions of people, well past climate normal and yet mercifully short of true climate apocalypse. (climate-news-db.com)
  • Now, days before Biden prepares for a pivotal climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, the White House's keystone legislative plan to tackle climate disruption appears to be dead, sunk by West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin. (wyomingpublicmedia.org)
  • A young climate activist joins hundreds of fellow marchers as they walk to the White House to demand that U.S. President Joe Biden work to make the Green New Deal into law on June 28, 2021 in Washington, DC. (commondreams.org)
  • In fact, and while as of this writing the Pacific Midwest is experiencing an unprecedented heatwave, with hundreds of deaths, 'there is a 90% likelihood of at least one year between 2021-2025 becoming the warmest on record,' according to the WMO Lead Centre for Annual-to Decadal Climate Prediction. (commondreams.org)
  • Heat-trapping carbon dioxide levels in the air peaked in May 2021, in amounts nearly 50% higher than when the industrial age began and they are growing at a record fast rate, scientists reported Monday, June 7, 2021. (gnoicc.org)
  • In contrast, in the Sixth Assessment Report, published in 2021, scientists warn that higher rates of sea level rise before 2100 could be "caused by earlier-than-projected disintegration of marine ice shelves, the abrupt, widespread onset of marine ice sheet instability and marine ice cliff instability around Antarctica. (rutgers.edu)
  • The Arctic story is a human story," said Twila Moon, an Arctic scientist with the National Snow and Ice Data Center, and one of three editors of the 2021 Arctic Report Card. (greenpolicy360.net)
  • The problem lies in the fact that even though the misinformation and doubt promulgated by the denialists flies directly in the face of the unequivocal evidence produced by scientists over more than 30 years - and wholly accepted within the scientific community - the media has too often taken the misinformation at its face value. (scientificamerican.com)
  • The evidence is unequivocal that the planet is warming, with literally thousands of studies using all sorts of evidence to draw what are pretty rock-solid conclusions," says Richard Black, director of the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit, a U.K.-based nonprofit that publishes on energy and climate change issues. (russbanham.com)
  • Over the past two decades geo-engineering began to include other ways of fixing climate, including new spins on the Pinatubo effect. (newsweek.com)
  • For decades, visions of possible climate futures have been anchored by, on the one hand, Pollyanna-like faith that normality would endure, and on the other, millenarian intuitions of an ecological end of days, during which perhaps billions of lives would be devastated or destroyed. (climate-news-db.com)
  • On Thursday, House Democrats will look into what they describe as the oil industry's decades of disinformation and misrepresentation to delay climate action. (wyomingpublicmedia.org)
  • The industry's coordinated efforts over the previous three decades to stall or stop climate action in the U.S. has worked, thwarting global momentum to cut greenhouse gases. (wyomingpublicmedia.org)
  • The American Petroleum Institute (API), an industry lobby whose opposition to climate change initiatives goes back decades, says its position has "evolved. (wyomingpublicmedia.org)
  • For Michael Oppenheimer, it's been 5 decades studying astrophysics, acid rain, global warming and sea-levels. (journalism.co.uk)
  • In the last few weeks, opponents of taking action on climate change have misrepresented both the content and the significance of stolen emails to obscure public understanding of climate science and the scientific process. (commondreams.org)
  • Yet, we must direct immediately all political energy towards this goal, otherwise complete climate collapse with apocalyptic consequences is inevitable and irreversible. (commondreams.org)
  • The consequences of improving communications are enormous, the scientists said, as civic leaders actively incorporate climate scientists' risk assessments into major planning efforts to counter some of the effects of rising seas. (rutgers.edu)
  • No scientist was more stimulating to engage with: he was an instigator in a good way, willing to press unpopular ideas, like lofting particles to offset climate change. (nbcnews.com)
  • The final component of Lindblad Expeditions' Plan for Climate Action includes outreach initiatives to engage influential leaders from the public and private sector in the battle against global warming. (expeditions.com)
  • The industry has been responsive, especially in more recent years," says Aaron Padilla, API's director of climate, adding that its latest position "mirrors a consensus that we've seen in the scientific community to drive a sense of urgency and focus and mobilizing the private sector to engage constructively on climate. (wyomingpublicmedia.org)
  • Michael's theme was about how (and when) scientists should engage in broader communication in the public arena. (easterbrook.ca)
  • But one should not see any reason in gambling against the likelihood that the climate could stabilize if we reduce our demands on the environment by limiting our activities. (cleartheair.org.hk)
  • Vice President Joe Biden gives remarks at the U.S. - China Climate Leaders Summit, held at the JW Marriott hotel, in Los Angeles, California, Sept. 16, 2015. (themeliorist.ca)
  • Just a few years ago, climate projections for this century looked quite apocalyptic, with most scientists warning that continuing business as usual would bring the world four or even five degrees Celsius of warming a change disruptive enough to call forth not only predictions of food crises and heat stress, state conflict and economic strife, but, from some corners, warnings of civilizational collapse and even a sort of human endgame. (climate-news-db.com)
  • James Hansen first warned Congress of the threat from climate change in 1988 . (time.com)
  • These cracks were set off in 1988, many say, by the seismic-and arguably activist - Congressional testimony of James Hansen, George Woodwell, Suki Manabe, and Michael Oppenheimer, when they told Congress not only that global warming was underway and caused by human activity, but what needed to be done about it. (ucsusa.org)
  • The magnitude of the climate threat, made clear by climate science, has cracked through a longstanding scientific culture that holds that science should exist outside of the political realm. (ucsusa.org)
  • A United Nations released this week ahead of the COP27 climate conference in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, confirmed that range. (climate-news-db.com)
  • A recent report published by the Rainforest Action Network demonstrated that banks that finance and invest in carbon intensive companies are also responsible for the deteriorating global climate. (globalissues.org)
  • So there is a growing urgency behind the geo-engineer's dream: to change the climate by artificial means, either sucking the existing carbon out of the air or cooling the air with solar reflectors. (newsweek.com)
  • As more and more climate specialists come to believe that even current levels of carbon pollution are warming the globe more rapidly than previously thought, the case for developing an emergency earth-rescue plan is getting difficult to resist. (newsweek.com)
  • Then in the late 1850s the Irish scientist John Tyndall provided the explanation for the phenomenon of the 'greenhouse effect' via his discovery that certain gases such as water vapor and carbon dioxide trap heat and warm the atmosphere. (commondreams.org)
  • Still, climatology did not emerge into a major scientific enterprise until after World War II, and it was only in the 1950s when researchers began measuring carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, thanks to David Keeling, a pioneer in modern climate science . (commondreams.org)
  • In an August 3 blog post about the Clean Power Plan, the flagship U.S. climate policy that places the first-ever federal limits on carbon pollution from power plants, EPA administrator Gina McCarthy stated: "[T]he Clean Power Plan is projected to cut the average American's monthly electricity bill by 7 percent in 2030. (mediamatters.org)
  • If they choose not to talk about the carbon budget, they're choosing not to address the problem of climate change," said Myles R. Allen, a climate scientist at Oxford University in Britain who helped write the new report. (beniciaindependent.com)
  • Reaching 50% higher carbon dioxide than preindustrial is really setting a new benchmark and not in a good way," said Cornell University climate scientist Natalie Mahowald, who wasn't part of the research. (gnoicc.org)
  • With funding hinged on proving that carbon controls the climate and therefore that climate science itself is critically important, it's a self-sanctioning circle of vested interests. (wizbangblog.com)
  • I am the rocket scientist who wrote the carbon accounting model (FullCAM) that measures Australia's compliance with the Kyoto Protocol, in the land use change and forestry sector. (wizbangblog.com)
  • FullCAM models carbon flows in plants, mulch, debris, soils and agricultural products, using inputs such as climate data, plant physiology and satellite data. (wizbangblog.com)
  • Geo-engineering labored on the lunatic fringe of climate policy until recently. (newsweek.com)
  • Oppenheimer is working on a team that will produce a National Academies of Science report recommending a geo-engineering option in climate policy. (newsweek.com)
  • A prominent public relations consultant, Frank Luntz, wrote a memo in 2000 that was widely circulated among conservatives seeking to debunk climate science and blunt any public policy progress on the issue. (scientificamerican.com)
  • We urge you to take account of this as you make decisions on climate policy. (commondreams.org)
  • So far this year the rain is running at more than 780% above average levels," said Abid Qaiyum Suleri, executive director of the Sustainable Development Policy Institute and a member of Pakistan's Climate Change Council. (tiredearth.com)
  • In the Science & Public Policy Institute report " Climate Money ", Joanne Nova explains the effect of government grants on those who receive them. (wizbangblog.com)
  • It remains true that Earth has warmed more than 1 degree farenheit degrees over last century largely due to the buildup of human-made greenhouse gases…it remains the case that the projections of future climate change are every bit of discouraging as they were before the recent flap began. (americanprogress.org)
  • Avoiding dangerous climate change requires us promptly to eliminate coal burning and eliminate use of all fossil fuels by the end of the century. (guarinicenter.org)
  • His claim that impending global climate change is not real and that ozone depletion is a hoax flies in the face of conclusions reached by the World Meteorological Organization, the National Academy of Sciences, and thousands of scientists around the world. (edf.org)
  • That's 1.82 parts per million higher than May 2020 and 50% higher than the stable pre-industrial levels of 280 parts per million, said NOAA climate scientist Pieter Tans. (gnoicc.org)
  • Instability driven by climate change could threaten democracies in the future, even though representative governments are best equipped to provide solutions, experts gathered at an annual conference have argued. (tbsnews.net)
  • Limbaugh is correct on one point," said Oppenheimer. (edf.org)
  • While scientists point out these classic climate change fingerprints, they have not yet finished intricate calculations that compare what happened in Pakistan to what would happen in a world without warming. (tiredearth.com)
  • But skeptics of climate change would be foolish to point to data (especially data chopped to their liking) and claim that climate change is a hoax. (cleartheair.org.hk)
  • Many factors account for this dismal report card, but part of the problem lies in many organisations' tendency to approach the climate challenge through a lens focused narrowly on the single business or industry. (deloitte.com)
  • Climate change makes hotter temperatures, changes weather patterns, makes more extreme storms, adds to ocean rise and more. (gnoicc.org)
  • We all know that business-as-usual is over for the climate and so experts face a moral dilemma that deepens each day: If you can see the devastating future of climate change-in the data and evidence and catastrophic events that continue to accelerate- when others cannot, how should you behave? (ucsusa.org)
  • Insights and expert analysis on climate issues. (climateanalytics.org)
  • Some, or many issues, about climate change are still not well known. (wattsupwiththat.com)
  • His aim was to address three issues: the doubts that scientists often have about engaging in public communication, strategies for people who aren't Carl Sagans (or Stephen Schneiders), and some cautionary tales about the difficulties. (easterbrook.ca)
  • It was filed within the federal civil service system with support by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a national nonprofit that defends government scientists on controversial environmental issues. (blogspot.com)
  • The results highlight the critical role of methane in any climate strategy, even as we decarbonize our energy systems. (princeton.edu)
  • Currently, the main debate among the largest body of climate scientists is whether to even begin funding research into geoengineering in case humanity needs it, or if putting the option on the table is too dangerous to consider. (time.com)
  • We are proud to work with a company like Lindblad Expeditions that has a demonstrated track record in conservation and travel philanthropy and is now seeking to become a leader in helping to solve the climate change problem," said Adam Markham, CEO of Clean Air-Cool Planet (CA-CP). (expeditions.com)
  • What rules should scientists be breaking, repercussions be damned, to help solve it? (ucsusa.org)
  • Oppenheimer is on the cautious side, supporting theoretical research only, with no field experiments that might have a lasting impact on the environment. (newsweek.com)
  • Observations throughout the world make it clear that climate change is occurring, and rigorous scientific research demonstrates that the greenhouse gases emitted by human activities are the primary driver. (commondreams.org)
  • He was not a scientist," Seitz said of the executive, but he believed in supporting the University's dedication to basic research -- in a little over a century, Rockefeller University has had 23 Nobel Prize winners affiliated with it, in fields of medicine and chemistry. (populartechnology.net)
  • WASHINGTON (AP) - Climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer stood along the Hudson River and watched his research come to life as Hurricane Sandy blew through New York. (sustainability.org.il)
  • Being from a place that is affected in a specific way by climate change will affect what research is being done [there]. (journalism.co.uk)
  • I belong to the climate-research infantry, publishing a few papers per year, reviewing a few manuscript per year and participating in a few research projects. (wattsupwiththat.com)
  • I may confirm what has been written in other places: research in some areas of climate science has been and is full of machination, conspiracies, and collusion, as any reader can interpret from the CRU-files. (wattsupwiththat.com)
  • They depict a realistic, I would say even harmless, picture of what the real research in the area of the climate of the past millennium has been in the last years. (wattsupwiththat.com)
  • A highly regarded federal scientist filed a whistleblower complaint Wednesday against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), charging that he was punished for publicizing research showing a link between pesticides and the decline in bees and other pollinators. (blogspot.com)
  • Today, in a controversial new peer-reviewed paper published in Oxford Open Climate Change , he brings a new warning: Scientists are underestimating how fast the planet is warming. (time.com)
  • Oreskes looked at 928 - 10 percent - of all the papers published on climate change in peer-reviewed science journals over a ten-year period. (scientificamerican.com)
  • The robust exchange of ideas in the peer-reviewed literature regarding climate science is evidence of the high degree of integrity in this process. (commondreams.org)
  • Leaving aside potential causes, more than 97% of climate scientists in peer-reviewed studies in notable scientific journals concur that the planet is warming. (russbanham.com)
  • Humanity made a Faustian bargain by offsetting a substantial but uncertain fraction of greenhouse gas warming with aerosol cooling," Hansen said alongside other scientists in a webinar introducing his new paper on Nov. 2. (time.com)
  • U.S. greenhouse gases have fallen in the last 15 years , but not to the levels that climate scientists say are needed. (wyomingpublicmedia.org)
  • That's because metrics used by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and others are tied to the 100-year warming potential of greenhouse gases. (princeton.edu)