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Late 2018 — Bits and Pieces

Smith Enviorment

Back to North Carolina developments in late 2018: Executive Order on Climate Change and Clean Energy: On October 29, 2018, N.C. Reduce energy use per square foot in state-owned buildings by 40% from 2002-2003 levels. Governor Roy Cooper issued an executive order on climate change and clean energy.

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As Soon as Possible

Real Climate

Purported updates to these series were themselves plagued by arithmetic errors which negated their conclusions ( Laut, 2003 ). Zhang, "The Detection and Attribution of Northern Hemisphere Land Surface Warming (1850–2018) in Terms of Human and Natural Factors: Challenges of Inadequate Data", Climate , vol. 801-812, 2003.

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Summertime on Neptune is cooler than expected

Physics World

To their surprise, they observed the opposite: global average stratospheric temperatures in fact decreased by roughly 8°C between 2003 and 2018. C between 2018 and 2020. This amounted to multiple spectra and over 95 images spanning 17 years (2003-2020).”. A clearer and fuller picture.

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Rapid attribution of PNW heatwave

Real Climate

In many previous extreme heat events, such as the 2003 European heatwave, rainfall deficits and dry soils the prior spring were shown to have made an important contribution to the temperature extremes, and so it’s worth looking at the same phenomena here. eaat3272, 2018. Rainfall and soil moisture deficits as a precursor?

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Retired Environmental Hearing Board Chief Judge Thomas W. Renwand To Receive PA Bar Assn. Environmental & Energy Law Section Lifetime Achievement Award

PA Environment Daily

Judge Renwand served on the Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board from 1995 until his retirement in February 2003. In 2018, he received the PBA Administrative Law Section James S. In 2007, he was named acting chairman and chief judge by former Pennsylvania Gov. Rendell, who later appointed him chairman and chief judge in 2009.

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Climate Change Threatens Already Poor Air Quality in California’s Central Valley

Union of Concerned Scientists

While agricultural burning declined between 2003 and 2011, reducing particulate pollution by more than 50%, California’s record-breaking drought has led to a tripling of the amount of waste burned , with some fearing further escalation of burning as drought persists.

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Brazil Advances in Climate Change Litigation

Legal Planet

Lula, who served as President of Brazil from 2003 to 2010 (and is the first President in the country to return for a third term), is known for supporting policies to protect the environment and disenfranchised social groups. In Future Generations v.