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A 10 per cent increase in global land evapotranspiration from 2003 to 2019

Nature

Nature, Published online: 26 May 2021; doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03503-5 Using a global mass-balance approach to calculate evapotranspiration, it is shown that global land evapotranspiration increased by 10% between 2003 and 2019, driven mainly by warming land temperatures.

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When Women Lead: Women’s Environmental Voting Records in Congress, 1972-2021

Environmental News Bits

In previous iterations of our report When Women Lead (in 2003 and 2011), we analyzed the voting records of federal legislators going back to 1983 using League of Conservation Voters (LCV) Environmental Scorecard data. Read the full story from Rachel’s Network.

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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 ). 2015 ; Connolly et al, 2021 ). 801-812, 2003. correlation was marred by an unreported shift in the smoothing method towards the end of the series ( Laut and Gundermann, 2000 ). Rendiconti Lincei.

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Top 20 Leading Weather & Climate Voices to Follow in 2021

Breezometer

Stephanie Abrams has worked as an on-air meteorologist for The Weather Channel since 2003. Nate Johnson is 2021’s president of the National Weather Association and serves as Director of Weather Operations for TV stations owned and operated by NBC Universal. Nate Johnson.

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Replacing California’s Oldest and Dirtiest Cars Will Save Money and Lives

Union of Concerned Scientists

pollution from the use of older passenger vehicles (defined as model year 1976 through 2003) and newer ones (model year 2004 through 2021). For example, in rural Modoc, Trinity, and Sierra counties, more than 40% of vehicles are model year 2003 or older. Combining the PM 2.5

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ExxonMobil Accurately Projected Rising Temperatures While Publicly Disparaging Climate Science

Union of Concerned Scientists

The lightest lines are from the earliest projections, the lightest grey being from 1977, and the darker colors are later with the black line being from 2003. Let’s dig into what Supran et al.’s Source: Supran et al., With unchecked fossil fuel production we follow the extremely dangerous red paths shown here (labeled SSP5-8.5 and SSP1-2.6).

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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. This amounted to multiple spectra and over 95 images spanning 17 years (2003-2020).”. C between 2018 and 2020. A clearer and fuller picture.