PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2022

On January 5, the Department of Environmental Protection reported their inspections found 4,386 violations of environmental regulations at conventional oil and gas operations during 2021 -- nearly two and a half times the violations reported just two years ago in 2019 and 337 more than in 2020. Click Here for a copy of the 2021 report.

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HumanNature

APRIL 14, 2022

Guest Post by Leena Vilonen , 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. A scientific study measured the severity of drought across the western US from 2000 to 2022 and found that in 2021 almost 80% of the western part of the US experienced exceptional or extreme drought (Williams et al. Last modified 12 Dec 2019.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The UN body the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) explained that the economic downturn brought on by nationwide lockdowns only caused a temporary downturn in emissions and was not enough to reverse the rising levels of greenhouse gasses (GHG) in the atmosphere. Not going in the right direction. It now looks like a distant pipedream. .”

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

are used all over the world, based on calculations that quantify the effects of physical mechanisms and the way different parts of the atmosphere are connected to each other. The physics-based models describe how energy flows through the atmosphere and ocean, as well as how the forces from different air masses push against each other.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 13, 2024

I moved to Merced in 2015 to study for my PhD, and I found a place I could call home. The air quality for this report was calculated using data reviewed by EPA from 2020, 2021, and 2022. That means it includes the extreme wildfires exacerbated by the fossil fuel industry that burned more than 4% of California in 2021 and 2022.

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

Guest Post By Erin Boedicker , 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. 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.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

10 from IPCC (2021). 2 from IPCC (2021). in Canadell et al (2021). Source: Data from IPCC (2014), Rogelj et al (2018), and IPCC (2021). Source: Data from IPCC (2014), Rogelj et al (2018), and IPCC (2021). C warming estimate between 1850-1900 and 2006-2015. in the underlying chapter; Canadell et al (2021)).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

However, during half that time, from 2015-2021, the direct costs to federal government for disasters was $315 billion. Louisiana’s damages from Hurricane Ida and other storms in 2021 represented an eye-popping 15-20 percent of the state’s GSP.

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Real Climate

JANUARY 15, 2022

Depending on the product, 2021 was either the 5th, 6th or 7th warmest year, but in all cases, it is part of the string of warm years (since 2015) that have all been more than 1ºC warmer than the late 19th C. Zyss, "Improvements in the GISTEMP Uncertainty Model", Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres , vol. Lenssen, G.A.

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Real Climate

APRIL 28, 2022

There appear to be three strands to the digital twin concept as conceived by the EU (see also Bauer et al (2021) ). The connection between higher resolution and better weather forecasts lies in the decrease in numerical diffusion, and better ability to track the large scale synoptic situation, including the fronts and atmospheric rivers etc.

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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 2021 the world emitted 36.4 I had to wait 37 years of my life until the world finally agreed to a global climate deal with the Paris Agreement in 2015. Today that number is 420ppm and rising. billion tonnes of CO2.

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Candidate in the Department of Atmospheric Science and Trainee in the CSU InTERFEWS Program Figure 1: Cover art for The War of the Worlds novel by H.G. Large ash particles that rain down and blanket nearby communities are only a fraction of what wildfires billow into the atmosphere. in the atmosphere over the western U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

US ratepayers very likely will pay even more for electricity and heating this winter compared to the already-expensive winter of 2021-2022. Between 2015 and 2021, 274 North American oil and gas producers filed for bankruptcy with a debt load of $177 billion. The bankruptcies were set in motion even before 2020.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 20, 2023

4) ExxonMobil calculated constraints on the ‘carbon budget’ if nations addressed global warming A subset of the ExxonMobil research calculated what the remaining “carbon budget” would be if the international community moved to halt the rising concentrations of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere. and SSP1-2.6).

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 11, 2021

By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – August 11, 2021. A relentless interval of hot, dry weather, made worse by heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere, has turned this section of the state into a cauldron of flame, dust, and smoke. Now it is slated to be planted with almond trees, Maralee said. Photo courtesy of Maralee Childs.

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HumanNature

MARCH 24, 2022

Guest Post by Holly Roth , 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. When forests burn, that carbon is released into the atmosphere and contributes to greenhouse gases (mostly as carbon dioxide). International Journal of Wildland Fire 2015 , 24 (7), 892–899. Nature Sustainability 2021 , 4 (3), 252–260.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – September 1, 2021. The 24-month study process begins with the Colorado Basin River Forecast Center, a team of scientists operating within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The problem: there are more wet years in the 1981 to 2015 period than dry ones.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The act of forest bathing is to take in the atmosphere with all of your senses and truly connect with the forest. Spending time in nature can also be beneficial to our communities, a 2015 study found that an increased exposure to nature among 2,000 people resulted in community cohesion and a lower crime rate. Follow them on Facebook.

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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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Earthava

APRIL 13, 2021

Continued efforts by environmentalists to reduce the impact of humans on the planet can improve life for the blue whale and other endangered animals.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 2, 2023

Washington County Plan In 2015 Washington County adopted a Hazard Mitigation Plan (HMP) which included language identifying environmental hazards due to Marcellus gas drilling. Environmental hazards include spills, fires and explosions leading to polluting streams and drinking water.

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Physics World

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Earning her PhD in 2021, Sheikh was just the 10th person to finish a dissertation in SETI in the physical sciences, says Wright. This $100m privately funded programme was launch in 2015 by Russian billionaires Julia and Yuri Milner. 10th PhD in SETI.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 13, 2024

Notices of violation were also issued for failure to restore the well site and failure to submit production and waste reports for 2020, 2021 and 2022 (Rimeer 4). Whitmore 1 conventional gas well in North Fayette Township, Allegheny County operated by Rocksauce Opr LLC and found it was venting gas to the atmosphere.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Peterman, York College Of Pennsylvania This guest essay first appeared in the York Daily Record on December 8, 2021 -- I recently returned from the COP26 UN climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland. The climate crisis cannot be solved unless we halt the transfer of carbon from its terrestrial tomb to the atmosphere. By Dr. Keith E.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Lawrence Beth Ann Adams 2 conventional gas well operated by STK Investments LLC in Washington Township, Lawrence County and found the well was still venting gas to the atmosphere and abandoned by the operator. Violations issued at this well site by DEP on March 2, 2021 are still ongoing. operates 110 conventional wells. Read more here.

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Real Climate

MAY 12, 2021

Meanwhile, note that the factors listed above involve the whole Earth system: the oceans, the cryosphere, the atmosphere, the solid earth and lithosphere, and a full range of scales, from the city block and shoreline, to ice dynamics that change over kilometers, to GRD footprints, to the whole global ocean. Recent advances.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Because methane has 28 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide and a shorter atmospheric life of only 12 years, immediate action to reduce methane emissions —including from agriculture—is critical to slow our warming climate, especially in light of expanding global populations and food demand. 2015 , Williams et al.,

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Physics World

MAY 4, 2022

“If I look at the next 50 years, next hundred years maybe, nobody will be able to set up a telescope that’s powerful enough to resolve surface features,” says Jonathan Jiang , an atmospheric scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, who uses Earth as a laboratory to model exoplanets.

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 8, 2021

In early 2021, Governor Jared Polis’ office in Colorado released a roadmap for the State’s ambitions of reducing GHG production and increasing carbon sequestration and storage 10. Denver Colorado (2015). Reuters (2021). 16 , 044018 (2021). SOIL 1 , 331–339 (2015). Journal of Cleaner Production 278 , 123333 (2021).

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In the 2015 Paris Agreement , Article 8 acknowledged the importance of L&D and the accompanying decision 1/CP.21 Arguments for a separate L&D financial vehicle gained strength in Glasgow (COP26, 2021), but disagreement persisted until the last-minute agreement to establish one at the end of last month’s COP27.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

They claim to embrace the Paris Agreement goals, yet their plans point to faraway 2050 goals and invoke technologies to capture and store carbon (CCS or CCUS) or to remove carbon from the atmosphere (CDR) as escape hatches that would allow them to continue to expand fossil fuel production and long-lived infrastructure. billion in 2021.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

In May 2021, Canada listed plastic manufactured items as toxic under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA), consistent with previously announced plans for a ban on common harmful and unnecessary plastic items.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 28, 2021

The Global Witness data found that 40 percent of all victims in 2019 were Indigenous, and more than a third of the attacks between 2015 and 2019 targeted Indigenous peoples. ———. The post What’s Up With Water – June 28, 2021 appeared first on Circle of Blue. Indigenous groups suffer more than others.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Methane is a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide in the short term — 86 times more effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere when measured over a 20-year period. Between 1987 and 2015, stray methane gas from abandoned wells was known to contaminate 55 public or private water supplies, according to the DEP.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The Year in Water, 2021. Water Crises Take Center Stage By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – December 9, 2021. Communities rich and poor bore witness to horrific devastation in 2021. Too little. Too polluted. For years these compact phrases, mantra-like in their repetition, have come to define the world’s water problems.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

And since 2015, they have claimed that their company supports the goals of the Paris climate agreement, which was brokered that year. “I’m not aware of anything the fossil fuel industry gets that I would characterize as a subsidy.” ExxonMobil wants to be seen as a good corporate citizen.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

It was granted inactive status on April 24, 2015 which expired on April 24, 2019 without a request for extension. The DEP inspection report noted the casing was open to the atmosphere, but no venting of natural gas was detected at the time of the inspection. The well was plugged on October 7, 2021.

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