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Scientists Condemn Last Minute Push to Overturn EU Nature Law

DeSmogBlog

At the eleventh hour, right-wing politicians have launched a bid to block the passing of the EU’s flagship nature protection law, which scientists have described as a “cornerstone of food security and human health”. Scientists have condemned the call, as well as six other amendments that could see the law delayed or weakened.

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Revealed: Ads Urging Canadians to Oppose Climate Laws Paid for by Gas Industry

DeSmogBlog

A national industry group representing gas producers is quietly paying for digital advertisements urging Canadians to “speak up” to their elected officials against laws addressing climate change and public health, DeSmog can reveal. Screencap from ad that doesn’t disclose CGA’s connection.

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Litigation Over California’s Climate Disclosure Laws Continues to Discovery Phase

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

Senate Bill 253, the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act ( SB 253 ), and Senate Bill 261, the Greenhouse Gases: Climate-Related Financial Risk Act ( SB 261 ), were signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom in October 2023 and amended by the more recent Senate Bill 219 ( SB 219 ). ↩︎ See Bolger v.

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When Would Russia's Cyber Warfare Morph Into Real Warfare? Refer To The Tallinn Manual

Jim Conca

The Tallinn Manual attempts to establish how international law governs cyberwarfare, use of force and responses to cyberattacks, which is especially important as our one-sided cyberwar with Russia escalates.

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Top U.S. Law Schools Accused of Creating a Student ‘Pipeline’ into Firms Serving Fossil Fuel Industry

DeSmogBlog

Elite law schools in the United States are disproportionately funneling their students into jobs serving fossil fuel clients, according to a new report published Thursday. LSCA, an organization of law students working to hold the legal sector accountable for its role in the climate crisis, has previously scrutinized the top ranked U.S.

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To understand the physics relating to supposed greenhouse gas warming you need to understand the Stefan-Boltzmann Law.

Energy Central

The Stefan-Boltzmann Law in physics enables us to determine not only the outward radiative flux from a body at a certain temperature, but also the maximum equilibrium temperature that any given single source of radiation could achieve in a target. There are online calculators such as here to which you may wish to refer.

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The correct understanding of the Second Law of Thermodynamics enables a compelling refutation of the Radiative Forcing Greenhouse Gas Hypothesis

Energy Central

The Second Law of Thermodynamics correctly stated reads: "In a natural thermodynamic process the sum of the entropies of the interacting thermodynamic systems never decreases."

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