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RCP 8.5 Climate Change Scenario Climate Nexus
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RCP 8.5: Business-as-usual or a worst-case scenario?

In the characterization of climate change projections, there is debate over whether the climate change scenario RCP 8.5 represents a "business as usual” scenario, a “high emissions” scenario, or a "worst-case" scenario. Further, there are questions about whether RCP 8.5 …
Climate Change Polling Climate Nexus
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Climate Change Polling, Toplines & Data | Climate Nexus

Climate Change Polling Partnership Climate Nexus, in partnership with the Yale University Program on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication, conducts polling on climate change, public policy and the energy transition.   View …
Zero Emission Vehicles Climate Nexus
Energy

Job impacts from the shift to electric cars and trucks

The global auto market is undergoing profound changes as technological advances impact everything from the products offered to the factories they are made in. The shift toward electric cars and trucks, just one of the many generational changes hitting the …
Agriculture
Food, The IPCC

Agriculture & Climate

Agriculture plays a unique role in climate change - while it is a driver of emissions, it also has the potential to be a solution to global warming, by drawing down and storing carbon in the soil. There are a …
News, Science

Unexpected Surge in Atmospheric Methane

Summary A dramatic and surprising surge in atmospheric methane has emerged over the past several years. If not mitigated, this new trend could off-set the gains anticipated from the Paris Climate Agreement. In response, scientists have begun ringing alarm bells …
Food

Green New Meal

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Clean Energy
Energy

Where the Clean Energy Jobs Are: 2019

Click here for the most recent data released in March 2020. Over 3 million people currently work in wind, solar, efficiency and other clean energy fields, according to the 2019 US Energy and Employment Report, which uses data from 2018. That's …
Climate Assessment
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4th U.S. National Climate Assessment Vol.II: Main Messages

Trump Administration Climate Report: It’s Real, It’s Here, It’s Because of Fossil Fuels. And The Sooner We Fix It, The Better. The National Climate Assessment (NCA) is a congressionally-mandated report released at least every four years on what the past, …