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Legal Action Against High Emitters Failing to Use Latest Climate Science, Study Finds

DeSmogBlog

Attribution science studies how greenhouse gas emissions contribute to specific extreme events such as storms, droughts, heatwaves or floods as well as slower changes in average temperature and rainfall. It found most did not quantify the extent to which climate change was responsible for the climate-related events affecting the plaintiffs.

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The IPCC report brings the future of the climate into clearer focus

Envirotec Magazine

The report said we are already observing climatic changes without precedent over hundreds of thousands of years, with some of these irreversible over reasonable timescales, such as ocean acidification and sea level rises. And RCP8.5 Taking out the uncertainty.

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Scientists Have Now Linked Worsening Western Wildfires to Top Polluters

DeSmogBlog

The findings offer new insight into corporate actors’ responsibility for the climate impact of worsening wildfires and strengthen the rapidly growing scientific field known as attribution science , which quantifies the influence of climate change on extreme weather events and connects pollution sources to observed climate impacts.

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IPCC report: The 10 key conclusions

Business Green

Perhaps most worrying of all, impacts such as sea level rise, ocean acidification, and permafrost melt are now inevitable and near-irreversible within timespans stretching from hundreds to potentially thousands of years, leaving only their extent open to question. Warming is likely to reach 1.5C

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'Every fraction of warming matters': World careering towards irreversible climate impacts, top scientists warn

Business Green

As a result, climate change is already affecting every inhabited region on Earth, and impacts such as sea level rise, ocean acidification, and permafrost melt are inevitable and near-irreversible, leaving only their extent open to question.

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Climate Litigation Is Increasing as Government Action Falters

DeSmogBlog

But the event was overshadowed by the major polluters who didn’t attend. In one of these cases, small island states are seeking an advisory opinion that defines countries’ legal requirements for protecting the oceans from harmful climate impacts — such as ocean acidification and sea level rise – that threaten their very existence.

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Understanding the Anthropocene, Resilience Thinking, and the Future of Industry

Green Business Bureau

Eras in the Earth’s history are defined by major climactic events and distinguished through the fossil record, carbon dating, and other methods. Ocean acidification – Surface ocean acidity has already increased by 30 percent since pre-industrial times. The Holocene.