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What Firefighters Can Teach Us about Preparing the Grid for Extreme Weather

Union of Concerned Scientists

It was only after the 2003 Northeast blackout that federal law required reliability standards to be mandatory and carry inescapable penalties. For much of the 120-year history of electric power companies, regional reliability standards and coordinated operations have been voluntary.

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ExxonMobil Accurately Projected Rising Temperatures While Publicly Disparaging Climate Science

Union of Concerned Scientists

To understand what Exxon (which merged with Mobil in 1999 to become ExxonMobil, which I’ll use for simplicity) knew about climate projections, researchers from the physical and social sciences came together to produce interdisciplinary research. Let’s dig into what Supran et al.’s Source: Supran et al.,

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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 ). 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. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali , vol.

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

To learn more about who in the state is exposed to this harmful exhaust, UCS partnered with The Greenlining Institute to analyze the location of these vehicles and their emissions. pollution from the use of older passenger vehicles (defined as model year 1976 through 2003) and newer ones (model year 2004 through 2021).

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US survey reveals harassment faced by early-career astronomers

Physics World

Harassing behaviour is pervasive in astronomy, with about a third experiencing discrimination at college or at work. The report is based on a longitudinal survey about harassment and discrimination experienced by early-career astronomers that began in 2003.

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World Heritage Committee Ignores UNESCO Recommendation to List Venice as Endangered

Union of Concerned Scientists

A discussion about whether to list Australia’s Great Barrier Reef as “in danger” will be on the agenda for the 2024 meeting of the committee. Projections from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) scenarios suggest a further rise of between 32 and 110 centimetres (about 12 to 43 inches) by the end of this century.

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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. Things we don’t know about Uranus (and Neptune). This amounted to multiple spectra and over 95 images spanning 17 years (2003-2020).”. C between 2018 and 2020. ” Read more.