Physics World

JUNE 3, 2021

NASA has announced it will send two missions to Venus to study the planet’s atmosphere and geological features. The Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging Plus (DAVINCI+), meanwhile, will be a probe that will dive through Venus’ atmosphere to precisely measure its composition down to the surface.

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APRIL 4, 2023

The Montreal Protocol, which banned most uses of ozone-destroying chemicals known as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and called for their global phase-out by 2010, has been a great success story: Earth’s ozone layer is projected to recover by the 2060s.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 16, 2021

On the back of the dark and sombre Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) cli mate report released last week, the US government agency National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has confirmed that this July was the warmest month ever experienced on Earth. By Anders Lorenzen. Disturbing and disruptive climate path.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The data are from the independent open-source Berkeley Earth project – a project by the formerly outspoken climate skeptic physicist Richard Muller, which in 2010 set out to do better than the traditional climate institutes and in the end obtained almost exactly the same results, just a slightly faster global warming. Image: Prof.

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Physics World

JUNE 28, 2021

Artificial intelligence can be used to detect coronal holes in the Sun’s upper atmosphere, an international research team has shown. When observed at extreme ultraviolet (EUV) wavelengths, holes can appear in the Sun’s corona – its upper atmosphere. Coronal holes are indicated by red contour lines. Courtesy: Jarolim et al.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 1, 2022

Burning fossil fuels, cutting down forests, raising livestock, making cement, and using synthetic fertilizers are among the actions that have increased the amount of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere to the point that the planet’s basic functions are coming undone. Those discrepancies can be illustrated in numbers.

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OCTOBER 20, 2014

The Alaska Supreme Court suggested Alaskans might have a right to atmosphere, but declined to provide a remedy. Atmospheric public trust plaintiffs are running out of options. The Alaska Supreme Court denies relief, but signals that Alaskans may have a public trust right to preservation of the atmosphere. By Adam Patrick Murray.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

That 2013 headline resulted from the first effort to quantify emissions from the ‘carbon majors’ —fossil fuel companies and cement manufacturers whose businesses have contributed an outsized amount of heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 1, 2023

That’s the snow cover reflecting back into the atmosphere as much as 90 percent of the sun’s energy — instead of its being absorbed into the ground as heat. It overlies so much ground, in fact, that snow cover controls Earth’s patterns of heating and cooling more than any other surface feature on the planet.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 24, 2022

In June 1979, atmospheric carbon stood at 339ppm, just below the 350ppm level scientists believe to be safe. In 2010, just months before I turned 31, British oil giant BP came under heavy scrutiny as one of its drilling operations was the cause of the world’s worst-ever oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. . billion tonnes of CO2.

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 25, 2024

The report describes SC-GHG as “the monetary value of the net harm to society from emitting one metric ton of that GHG into the atmosphere in a given year.” [1] 2010), [link] ; and IWG “Technical Support Document: Technical Update of the Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact Analysis Under Executive Order 12866” (Aug.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

China’s emissions are about 30%) and that CO 2 , the most important greenhouse gas, accumulates in the atmosphere, the defendant’s emissions are not determinative. This reports that a net 45% reduction in 2030, relative to 2010, would be consistent with a 50% chance of keeping warming within 1.5°C C and an 85% chance for 2°C.

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APRIL 7, 2023

PA Bulletin, page 2010 ) -- MarkWest Liberty Midstream & Resources, LLC -Timberlake Compressor Station Flaring Equipment: DEP issued Air Quality Plan Approval for a “de minimis” air emission increase related to natural gas flaring equipment in Buffalo Twp., PA Bulletin, page 2010 ) -- National Fuel Gas Supply Corp. Tioga County. (

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2023

The 2021 New Hampshire Climate Assessment states unequivocally: “Without significant reduction in atmospheric greenhouse gases (GHG), extreme precipitation events are projected to increase a minimum of 20%, leading to an increase in freshwater flooding regionally.”

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HumanNature

APRIL 10, 2023

Student in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University Most people remember the water cycle they learned in school: water evaporates from lakes, rivers, and the ocean, air carrying this moisture rises, cools, condenses, and forms clouds, and these clouds precipitate water back down to the surface.

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

When fuels are burned to create energy in a process called combustion, black carbon along with carbon monoxide and other compounds are created because there is not enough oxygen in the atmosphere for the reaction to go to completion. Whenever there are combustion processes, of which there are many in our industrial society (e.g.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Additionally, the Uniform Partition of Heirs’ Property Act was passed in 2010 to prevent the kinds of forced sales described above from happening, but it has been enacted in only 23 states. Much of their land is forested, sequestering carbon that would otherwise be in the atmosphere.

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Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

The greenhouse effect is a popular name for the earth’s warming effect which occurs naturally when gasses in the atmosphere trap heat from the sun and prevent it from escaping back into space. The rate of emissions growth year on year slowed between 2010-2019 in comparison to the previous decade. C by the end of the century.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In addition, the same practices that turn farm soils into sponges also pull more carbon from the atmosphere into the soil, making farmers part of the solution to worsening climate change. This, in turn, can help lessen the price shocks that can result when crop and livestock losses occur. This is good for all of us, of course.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Lo first became interested in this area while studying physics and astronomy at Durham University , UK, where her final-year project looked at how to calibrate telescopes to correct for atmospheric effects on the radiation they detect. To pursue this further, Lo did a PhD in atmosphere, oceans and climate at the University of Reading , UK.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

2010 – 2013 Shell Oil Company Inc.: 2009 – 2010 TC Energy Corporation: 2002 – 2008 Villain Career Profile Climate Villain Susannah Pierce works hard to raise global temperatures on behalf of the oil and gas industry, with two decades of experience marketing, developing, and lobbying the government for further expansion of fossil fuels.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

from Rogelj et al (2018) – note how the red dot marked 2010 moves to the purple dot marked 2010, once historical modelling uncertainties are corrected for. This is best illustrated by this technical figure from SR1.5. Source: Figure 2.3 Between SR1.5

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A Greener Life

APRIL 30, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen The US government agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Coral Reef Watch is the world’s top coral reef monitoring body. Graphic credit: NOAA. It has been judged as global, as it impacts all three ocean basins – the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian – within a 365-day period.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

That report, in the technical language of probabilities and scenarios, underscored the urgency of the moment and the need not only to reduce the release of heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere and limit global warming to 1.5 Money promised, however, does not always translate into money delivered. Available funds can be difficult to access.

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Physics World

JULY 8, 2021

There was no clear dividing line between the two regimes, however, and several factors such as the wind speed in the upper atmosphere and, curiously, the latitude of the wind farm affecting the calculations. Charles Meneveau of Johns Hopkins University in Maryland welcomes the research. “In

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

This meant that these neutrinos – created when cosmic rays interact with nuclei in the upper atmosphere – were changing flavour as they passed through the Earth. Construction of KAGRA, which is based 200 m underground, began in 2010 and became operational in 2020. Kajita is currently the project’s principal investigator.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

above 2010 levels, instead of the sharp downward trajectory we need. The UN NDC Synthesis Report , which finds that if countries implement their current emission reduction pledges, or nationally determined contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement, global emissions will increase approximately 8.8%

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Physics World

JUNE 2, 2022

I’m a geochemist by training and after I did my PhD at the University of Bordeaux, France, in 2010, my supervisor inspired me to study materials from space. How did you get into space science? I went to Paris for my first postdoc position where I analysed the composition of particles returned from a comet by NASA’s Stardust mission.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 8, 2022

11) Global warming, in part, is a result of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. 15) Although Methane’s presence in the atmosphere is less than Carbon dioxide, during a 100-year timeframe, according to the EPA, Methane holds twenty-five times the heat in the atmosphere than Carbon dioxide. (16)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

billion (in 2010 dollars) in federal tax breaks and subsidies for nearly 100 years. Last year, the United States suffered an unprecedented number of climate change-related billion-dollar disasters, including record heat waves, drought, wildfires and floods, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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Physics World

APRIL 22, 2021

Preliminary estimates from satellite data indicate that global atmospheric carbon dioxide level increased by 0.6%, a slightly lower rate of increase than in recent years. C above the 1981–2010 reference period, almost two degrees higher than the previous record.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 14, 2023

More than 60 percent of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists felt the same way about their scientific workforces (61 percent) and senior leadership (63 percent). In fiscal year 2010, during President Obama’s first term, it had a staff of more than 17,000 and an annual budget of $10.3 billion —$13.8

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 3, 2022

With support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the GGGI partnered with the Rozalia Project to organize a sailing expedition to remove thousands of pounds of ghost gear and other debris from remote islands in the Gulf of Maine. In late June 2022, the crew set out on our four-day journey.

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HumanNature

MAY 22, 2024

Npj Climate and Atmospheric Science , 1 (1), 2. link] Siirila-Woodburn, E. Rhoades, A. Hatchett, B. Huning, L. Tague, C., … & Kaatz, L. A low-to-no snow future and its impacts on water resources in the western United States. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment , 2 (11), 800-819. link] Clow, D.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 29, 2021

But the United Nations has just said that the latest commitments of the 192 parties of the 2015 Paris agreement will equate to a 16% rise in global greenhouse-gas emissions in 2030 compared to 2010. Steven Sherwood, atmospheric physicist, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. That trend may lead to a warming of about 2.7 °C

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Dutch airline KLM has been viewed as a trailblazer for its use of cooking oil as fuel on a commercial flight in 2010. If the hydrogen is generated using renewable electricity (known as green hydrogen) and the carbon dioxide is captured from the atmosphere, models have shown it to have zero, or very close to zero, carbon emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2023

These annual marine heatwaves (MHWs) have increased by 54% during the last century, and eight of the ten worst MHWs have occurred since 2010. In the oceans, prolonged periods of unusually high sea surface temperatures are having a major impact.

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