Inside Climate News

APRIL 13, 2022

New research shows vulnerable communities need to prepare for more years like 2017-2020, with devastating storms like Harvey, Irma, Maria and Laura.

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Real Climate

MAY 30, 2024

W/m 2 over the ocean (which translates to 0.14 2024) Looked at the impact of Chinese aerosol emission decreases from 2010 to 2020 and saw increases in North Pacific ocean temperatures. They find a radiative forcing 0.2±0.11 W/m 2 globally). Though see Zeke’s comments as well. Impacts of other aerosols Wang et al.

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Real Climate

DECEMBER 17, 2023

The curve presented above is an update of the analysis presented in 2020 and posted here on RealClimate. It’s an interesting situation if there are different trends for all tropical cyclones on the one hand and the most intense ones on the other, or if there are trends that point in different directions over different ocean basins.

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Scientific American

JANUARY 12, 2022

2021 broke the record from 2020 by about 14 zettajoules, or 20 times the world’s annual energy consumption. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 17, 2023

The unrelenting heat has caused a dizzying number of air and ocean temperature records to be broken in recent weeks. June 2023 was the hottest June on record, with the majority of locations around the world experiencing temperatures much higher than in recent decades (1991-2020). High ocean temperatures also fuel tropical storms.

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Real Climate

JUNE 25, 2022

Ocean eddy visualization ( Karsten Schnieder ). This follows from the need to run for much longer simulation periods (centuries, as opposed to days) (a factor of ~5000 more computation), and to include more components of the climate system (the full ocean, atmospheric chemistry, aerosols, bio-geochemistry, ice sheets etc.)

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Inside Climate News

JULY 17, 2023

By Lydia Larsen In 2020, an international rule went into effect that sharply reduced the amount of sulfur allowed in ship fuel. When large ships use scrubbers to meet international air pollution limits, the treated fuel exhaust gets dumped into the sea along with other contaminants.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The 2020 Maine Fishermen’s Forum was the last conference I and many others attended before the pandemic shutdown. A simple statement that masks just how complicated the issues are: mixing politics, economics, livelihoods, fisheries and endangered species in the ocean body that is the Gulf of Maine. Sea levels are rising.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Manabe’s subsequent work led to the development of the GFDL GCM, initially just including the atmosphere, but eventually with an ocean, and then the transient results shown in Manabe and Stouffer (1993). The basic issue stems from the different timescales of the ocean and atmosphere. 1975) , and Bryan et al. Not too shabby!

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 31, 2023

These little bits of “stuff” in ocean waters are made up of salts, fats, proteins, algae, plankton, bacteria and more. Imagine if your local barista were to froth a bit of ocean water, instead of milk, for your cappuccino. Love ocean content? In May 2020, five surfers in the Netherlands lost their lives during such conditions.

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 31, 2023

This blog post was co-written by Black Surf Santa Cruz founder Esabella Bonner and board secretary Rachel Kippen whose organization has partnered with Ocean Conservancy over the past two years. Bonner founded Black Surf Santa Cruz in 2020 to make ocean spaces more inclusive and welcoming to BILPOC community members.

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Inside Climate News

MAY 10, 2023

New research implicates emissions from the 2019-2020 Australian fires in the emergence of a three-year super La Niña that fueled droughts in Africa and hurricanes in the Atlantic.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

Biases in the Southern Ocean are less, similarly with sea ice extent or rainfall etc. 2020) and downweight models with ECS values outside the assessed range: AR6 Figure SPM 8a. eaaz9549, 2020. but also the models as a whole are doing better in representing key modes of variability and their teleconnections. This is good news.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

But because land isn’t quite as dark as the surface of the ocean, it doesn’t cause as much additional heating. This is partly why the South Pole (which is covered by the Antarctic continent) isn’t warming as fast as the North Pole (which is surrounded by ocean). 2020) and boundary layers (Bintanja et al., 2659-2673, 2011.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 13, 2024

With more than 90% of global trade moving by ocean transport, maritime shipping is a major driver of the world economy. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. The post The Problems with Liquefied Natural Gas appeared first on Ocean Conservancy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 27, 2022

Still, both the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) forecast , released on May 24, and the Colorado State University (CSU) forecast , released on April 7, predict a season with above-normal activity— for the seventh consecutive year. Can we expect more seasons like 2020 and 2021? Of course, we have questions!

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 31, 2023

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) forecast , released on May 25, calls for similar numbers: 12 to 17 total named storms, of which 5 to 9 could become hurricanes, with 1 to 4 being major. 2022 fortunately kept to the lower end of the forecast range with 14 named storms, eight hurricanes, and two major hurricanes.

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New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

About 80 per cent of the carbon dioxide released by Australia’s huge wildfires of 2019-2020 was captured by ocean algal blooms that grew due to the iron-rich ash

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 10, 2023

It was March 2020. Two YouTubers by the names of MrBeast and Mark Rober approached Ocean Conservancy to talk about their idea to create a major social movement for the ocean, based on their incredibly successful campaign, #TeamTrees. It was the biggest thing to put ocean conservation into the public conversation ever!

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Real Climate

APRIL 2, 2021

By Jim Kossin, Tim Hall, Mike Mann, and Stefan Rahmstorf The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season broke a number of records , with the formation of an unprecedented 30 “named storms” (storms that reach wind-speed intensity of at least 18 m/s and are then given an official name). 2020 ), many others do not. 2021 ; Knutson et al.

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A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2023

In addition, due to the effect of El Nino , the weather phenomenon that suppresses Atlantic hurricane activity, this year has been offset by very hot ocean waters. Scientists have become increasingly concerned about the scale at which the world’s oceans have warmed and what that means for irreversible climate tipping points.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

A new report finds water and energy use from Oahu hotels did not decrease in 2020 despite lockdown orders. United Nations experts will assess plans to release treated radioactive water into the ocean from a closed nuclear power plant in Japan. A study from the S. The neighborhood of Waikiki reportedly consumed 2.5 369 LAKES .

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Frontiers

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Albano, now the Internship Program Coordinator at the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation, NOAA Ocean Exploration, caught up with Frontiers to tell us a little about her career and her research, as part of our Frontiers Scientist series. Currently, I support NOAA Ocean Exploration’s outreach and education division.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 17, 2023

Cyclone Mocha, which made landfall in Myanmar earlier this week, is tied for the strongest storm ever recorded in the North Indian Ocean. In 2020, the country announced a 30-year National Water Plan to address its ongoing crisis. Mocha is tied for the strongest storm ever recorded in the North Indian Ocean.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 7, 2023

In addition, it stores vast quantities of freshwater that if released to the ocean would rise sea level by tens of meters and interfere with saline-driven ocean currents that transfer heat around the planet. The greatest temperature ever recorded on Antarctica occurred in February 2020, when the mercury hit 18.3C.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 10, 2022

There are systematic differences in the Southern Ocean in recent decades between the observed and modeled SST trends. Fasullo et al, 2021) ; Are there processes missing in all these CMIP6 models that can explain the southern ocean discrepancy? Rye et al, 2020) ; Is cloud phase in some models being inappropriately tuned?

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Circle of Blue

MAY 18, 2022

In context: In Texas , Austin, El Paso, and San Antonio have pursued achieving long-term water security with uncommon focus, Circle of Blue reported in 2020. California Board Vetoes Ocean-Front Desalination Plant Proposal. The moratorium, that initially took place in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, was lifted in June of 2021.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2022

They are also marine outfalls, which means the only treatment the sewage receives before being pumped into the ocean is maceration through a three millimeter sieve to remove solids and grit. Further studies found some of these chemical compounds accumulating in fish in False Bay, on the Indian Ocean side of the city.

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Manning Law

JUNE 8, 2020

In celebration of Environment Day 2020 on June 5, we publish here in full the speech given by Inger Andersen, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme. Our oceans and forests sustain billions of people and provide green jobs – 86 million green jobs from forests alone.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2022

In 2020, the lake level hit a record high, after having hit a record low in 2013. Then in May 2020, another record, 9.51 Now, though, climate is changing rivers, lakes and oceans, forcing a renegotiation of our relationships to those bodies of water. inches, was spectacularly eclipsed in May 2018 when a record 8.21

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In 2020, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, an environmental agency created under NAFTA, confirmed the tar sands tailings ponds were leaking toxic chemicals into groundwater and that these leaks violate Canada’s Fisheries Act. Jesse Cardinal, Keepers of the Water, ed@keepersofthewater.ca

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PBS Nature

APRIL 3, 2023

In the waters of Belize and Guatemala, a desperate fisherman takes his small boat into the open ocean in search of fish. The Cayman Crown was given protected status in 2020 by Belize and Guatemala, but there is still much to be done to ensure its conservation. The year is 2013.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In Australia , many of the same areas that endured brutal bushfires in 2019 and 2020 are now drowning in record-setting rainfall. Australia smoldered during the epic “Black Summer” bush fires of 2019 and 2020. The island nation has always been at the mercy of climate patterns such as La Niña in the oceans that surround it.

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 1, 2023

For many marine mammals, ocean noise (also known as noise pollution) can disturb feeding, resting and breeding behaviors, and can cause hearing loss, physical injury and chronic stress. Ocean Conservancy is increasingly concerned about underwater noise pollution and is calling for the implementation of known solutions.

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Real Climate

MARCH 4, 2021

Two decades ago, in an interview with science journalist Richard Kerr for the journal Science, I coined the term the “Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation” (AMO) to describe an internal oscillation in the climate system resulting from interactions between North Atlantic ocean currents and wind patterns.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 4, 2024

His mom, Jane, went on that the Lackawanna flows into the Susquehanna River and then into the ocean. “So She explained it goes down a drain pipe into their basement then into a sewer pipe under the street. Eventually, the water makes its way to the Lackawanna River.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The most prominent of these was a “30×30” commitment: to conserve thirty percent of the earth’s lands, oceans, coastal areas, and inland waters by 2030. Currently, about 17 percent of the planet’s land and 8 percent of its oceans are protected, according to the New York Times. California showed up at COP15 in more ways than one.

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