Can Babies File Climate Lawsuits? World's Most Important Climate News 5/21/24

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In its new “State of World’s Human Rights, April 2024”, produced by Amnesty International, authors wrote, “Extreme weather events and slow onset crises made more likely and more intense by climate change have affected countries at all levels of income, but disproportionately affected lower income ones. Governments and corporate actors have failed to tackle these adequately or to prevent acute environmental degradation.”. The research covers human rights in 155 nations. The evaluation was only a modest part of the research and its major conclusions. Climatecrisis247 believes that this is yet another major study by a large, well-respected organization that shows that climate change has hit every nation in the world and that the poor suffer disproportionally because their countries do not have the capital to cut emissions or provide help to those ravaged by drought, heat, and major storms. It is also another study that blames the world’s largest nations, which are also the largest polluters, and the huge companies that make money as their practices continue to worsen climate change.

Climate Emergency –Mexico Water

Climate Haven –Detroit?

The climate crisis is changing the color of the world’s oceans. Many scientists believe that the cause is a rise in the amount of phytoplankton, which is food for several ocean species. Among the conclusions, according to the BBC is that “This will lead to changes in the distribution of zooplankton – the tiny animals that feed on the phytoplankton – too, with species richness expected to decline in the tropics and increase dramatically in temperate and subpolar waters, leading to further knock on effects in the interconnected food webs and fish that rely upon these creatures.” The study’s work is in its early stages. Climatecisis247 believes that warming ocean waters are now understood to have a number of important effects on the Earth’s environment which include changes in weather, which causes larger hurricanes, to the future of thousands of species.

Korea Climate Lawsuits

Several lawsuits have been brought worldwide, which say the government or companies have not done enough to prevent climate change. One of the suits, brought in South Korea’s Constitutional Court, includes representatives of 60 children. Amnesty International Korea’s Climate Justice Campaigner, Jiyoun Yoo said, “Strategic litigation is a powerful tool which is being increasingly used to enforce states’ binding duty to protect people’s rights from the adverse impacts of the climate crisis and ensure there is no backsliding on the international commitments they made in 2015 to prevent average global temperatures from rising above 1.5°C this century.” Climatecrisis247 believes many of the suits have been started by states and cities in the US. They have been compared to the successful suits brought against Big Tobacco a generation ago. The challenge is to show how people were directly and specifically harmed by organizational decisions.

How Fast Is Antarctic Sea Ice Melting?

A new study links global warming to the melting ice in the Antarctic Sea. A new paper titled “CMIP6 Models Rarely Simulate Antarctic Winter Sea-Ice Anomalies as Large as Observed in 2023” states that Antarctic Sea ice fell to its lowest level since 1978.” Global climate models are tools used to study past and predict future global change. We show that, without climate change, the latest generation of these models are extremely unlikely to simulate a sea-ice reduction from the mean as large as observed in winter 2023,” the authors wrote. Climatecrisis247 believes that, although there may be other reasons for the ice to melt, it is most likely that the cause is climate change.