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Examines the science and arguments of global warming skepticism. Common objections like global warming is caused by the sun, temperature has changed naturally in the past or other planets are warming too are examined to see what the science really says.

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Drought-stricken Colorado River Basin could see additional 20% drop in water flow by 2050 This is what climate change has brought. “Aridification” is what Bradley Udall formally calls the situation in the western U.S. But perhaps more accurately, he calls it hot drought – heat-induced lack of water due to climate change. That was the core of research released in 2017 by Udall, a senior climate and water scientist at Colorado State University’s Colorado Water Center, and Jonathan Overpec...

January 22, 2021 With its day-one start to rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement, the incoming administration will also need to undo scores of Trump environmental regulatory rule-makings and rollbacks. Some of those steps could involve painstaking years-long processes of developing and proposing new rules and then submitting them for public comment prior to adopting final rules. Court challenges also would likely delay those actions in a number of cases. But a major workaround involves the Congr...

Yves here. This is the sort of post I very much like, since it made me smarter about a government procedure that Trump used actively, the 1996 Congressional Review Act. What surprised me was that Trump was the first President to use it aggressively, and that the Act is vague enough on key points as to be seen as legally grey. Yet Trump’s moves were never challenged in court! So much for Team Dem’s brand commitment to fighting. By Jan Ellen Spiegel. Originally published at Yale Climate Conne...

Biden administration progress on climate change will have to overcome roadblocks left by the Trump administration and some arcane Senate rules. But hope springs eternal. By Dana Nuccitelli | Wednesday, January 20, 2021 President Joseph R.Biden at his January 20, 2021 inauguration, with wife Dr. Jill Biden looking on. Democrats now control the White House, Senate, and House of Representatives for the first time in a decade, albeit with razor thin Congressional majorities. The last time, in the 1...

Yves here. In parts of the West, water rights have long been hotly contested. Potable water is the natural resource that is projected to come into serious shortage first. That makes management of resources like the Colorado River of critical importance, yet the bodies responsible for its stewardship are late to come to grips with the impact of perma-droughts By Jan Ellen Spiegel. Originally published at Yale Climate Connections Colorado is no stranger to drought. The current one is closing in o...