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2022 updates to the temperature records

Real Climate

El Niño events enhance global warming (as in 1998, 2010, 2016 etc.) and La Niña events (2011, 2018, 2021, 2022 etc.) For instance, the trends from 2016 to 2022 are -0.12±0.37ºC/dec The baseline of 1880-1900 can be calculated for all the long temperature series, and with respect to that 2022 (or the last five years) is between 1.1

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AP: Drilling Under Pennsylvania's 'Gasland' Town Has Been Banned Since 2010, It's Coming Back

PA Environment Daily

Cabot was banned from Dimock in 2010 after regulators accused the company of failing to keep its promise to restore or replace the water supply. A state investigation concluded that faulty gas wells drilled by Coterra’s corporate predecessor, Cabot Oil & Gas, had allowed methane to leak uncontrolled into the community’s aquifer.

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The CO2 problem in six easy steps (2022 Update)

Real Climate

For some parts of the spectrum, the IR can be either absorbed by CO 2 or by water vapour or by clouds, but taking those overlaps into account we find that 50% of the greenhouse effect is from water vapour, 25% from clouds, and about 20% from CO 2 and the rest absorbed by ozone, aerosols, and other trace gases ( Schmidt et al, 2010 ).

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What’s Up With Water — August 16, 2022

Circle of Blue

The Guardian reports that the Thames Water Plant opened in 2010, intending to provide drinking water for up to 1 million people during water shortages. The post What’s Up With Water — August 16, 2022 appeared first on Circle of Blue. And that’s “What’s Up With Water” from Circle of Blue, where water speaks.

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What’s Up With Water — April 26, 2022

Circle of Blue

The spike in global food prices coincides with an existing hunger crisis in the Horn of Africa that recalls a severe drought in 2010-11 in which more than a quarter of a million people died. The post What’s Up With Water — April 26, 2022 appeared first on Circle of Blue. This is Eileen Wray-McCann – thanks for being here.

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Have We Begun the Third Age of Climate Law?

Legal Planet

Waiting for Congress: 2000-2010. That hope died in 2010, however. The Fallback Plan: 2010 to 2021. Accelerating the Transition: 2022 to ?? In 2022, the Supreme Court made it clear that it would not tolerate really innovative regulations like Obama’s Clean Power Plan.

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Climate Policy and the Audacity of Hope

Legal Planet

Rooftop solar costs in 2020 were a third of what they had been in 2010. In 2020, the cost of single-axis utility scale solar was only a fifth of what it was in 2010. The Department of Energy estimates the cost of an electric vehicle lithium-ion battery pack declined 89% between 2008 and 2022.