Legal Planet

OCTOBER 16, 2021

First, after carbon dioxide emissions cease, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels begin to decrease, as they are absorbed by natural processes and sinks in the oceans and on land.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 27, 2023

We’ve heard so much about the effects of climate change on our ocean. Carbon pollution from fossil fuel use and land development have heated the atmosphere and ocean, leading to sea level rise, stronger storms, fisheries’ moving poleward, and widespread loss of sea ice and glaciers.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen On the eve of the COP28 UN climate summit, The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a United Nations (UN) body, has warned that the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases (GHG) is forecast to continue the trend that resulted in record-high CO2 measurements last year. Photo credit: iStock.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

Another clue indicating a shortcoming is if you look at the atmospheric CO 2 -concentrations over time to see how much impact the IPCC reports have had on the real policy-makers in the world (Figure below). The cause of our changing climate is the increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations that we have released into the air.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

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. He was on to something And the lobsterman was correct: we can blame carbon emissions for ocean acidification and warming in the Gulf of Maine.

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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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A Greener Life

JUNE 3, 2022

The ocean retains heat for much longer than land does. If people everywhere stopped burning fossil fuels tomorrow, stored heat would still continue to warm the atmosphere. But that doesn’t mean the planet returns to its preindustrial climate or that we avoid disruptive effects such as sea-level rise. By Richard B.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Sea levels were quickly rising, and the rapid waters kept sediment from settling. However, when combined with climate change impacts like rising sea levels, the intensity of these threats becomes magnified.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 22, 2022

Despite promising adaptation strategies, sea level rise is projected to drown tens of thousands of acres of farmland within the century. He makes his living on the Turnbridge Plantation in his hometown of Hardeeville, South Carolina, 30 minutes from the Atlantic Ocean. Storm events are getting steadily more intense.

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 20, 2021

The significance of the ocean to humanity cannot be overstated, whether it is regulating Earth’s climate, providing food to billions or helping society transition to renewable, fossil fuel-free energy. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. © Daniel Sebastian Padilla Ochoa/Ocean Conservancy.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 24, 2023

Each IPCC report gives us more insights into how our ocean is changing, how those changes might impact the wildlife and communities that depend on it, and the options for ocean-based climate solutions. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

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Real Climate

MAY 12, 2021

Three new papers in the last couple of weeks have each made separate claims about whether sea level rise from the loss of ice in West Antarctica is more or less than you might have thought last month and with more or less certainty.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2023

Some marine species also experience boundaries to movement, including ocean currents, thermoclines, and shipping lanes, but they are generally more able to track changes in sea temperatures. In the oceans, prolonged periods of unusually high sea surface temperatures are having a major impact.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 5, 2022

Atmosphere The gaseous envelope surrounding the Earth. The dry atmosphere consists almost entirely of nitrogen (78.1% The dry atmosphere consists almost entirely of nitrogen (78.1% In addition, the atmosphere contains water vapor, whose amount is highly variable but typically 1% volume mixing ratio.

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Acoel

AUGUST 10, 2021

Here are a number of the lowlights: It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land. Widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred. My emphasis.).

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Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2023

Consequently, the response to this advisory opinion request should consider the climate change regime set by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Paris Agreement (Paris Agreement) concerning the ocean. However, ITLOS is not responsible for implementing the UNFCCC or the Paris Agreement.

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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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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In particular, he said, “reliance upon coal, on the other hand, could aggravate the ‘greenhouse effect,’ whereby excess carbon dioxide (which accompanies coal burning) traps heat inside the earth’s atmosphere, thus possibly melting the icecaps and raising the level of the oceans.”

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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. In the ocean, 19 marine heatwaves have been recorded between 2002 and 2018.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2023

Today the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released its annual report on billion-dollar weather and climate-related disasters in the United States, which tells a grimly familiar story. Wherever you live in the United States, you were undoubtedly affected by these disasters, directly or indirectly.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

Rising sea levels and increased intensity of storm surges are playing a considerable role in the degradation of coastal regions in the Pacific Islands. Illustrating the variation in sea levels from 1993 – 2018. Photo credit. Written by: Jack McCulloch. Shows a generally increasing trend. Source: NASA (August 2018).

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JANUARY 17, 2024

Sea level rise is also important in the region, causing saltwater intrusion and salinization. from Chapter 21 of NCA5 Changes like sea level rise are resulting in the loss of culturally significant locations for subsistence harvesting. Other risks include increasing tropical cyclones and sea level rise.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

As the risks of sea-level rise, stronger tropical storms and seawater intrusion grow due to climate change , Indonesia is ramping up efforts to protect mangrove ecosystems across the archipelago as part of both its COVID-19 recovery efforts and climate change commitments. Photo credit: Andry Denisah / Alamy. By Nithin Coca.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The consequences of climate change aren’t reserved for the oceans and atmosphere: Diseases have secured a larger presence in recent years thanks to global warming. By Jenessa Duncombe. Global warming has, in certain instances, amped up some of the world’s most deadly diseases. Climate’s Contagion.

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Physics World

APRIL 27, 2021

Part of this movement is an oscillation on a timescale of about a year – caused by short-term fluctuations such as changes in ocean currents and atmospheric pressure. This allowed GRACE to determine the shape of the Earth and monitor changes in sea level, glaciers and groundwater.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 2, 2022

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. As the CEO of Ocean Conservancy, I naturally look to our ocean. We can decrease production of virgin plastic that comes from fossil fuels and pollutes our ocean as well. If we continue on our current path, we will see our ocean deteriorate before our eyes.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 20, 2023

Research produced by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has shown that rising temperatures, sea level rise , and ocean acidification have all been made worse by fossil fuel companies’ activities and products.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2022

For 2022, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicted a season with above normal activity on its August 4 updated forecast , calling for 14-20 named storms. .” After all, we hardly had storms or hurricanes in the news for the past 3 months.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Being the predicted outcome of burning fossil fuels, our best and only plan to limit warming is to reduce CO 2 emissions from human activities to ‘net zero’ – where the amount of CO 2 we emit into the atmosphere is equal to the amount we remove from it. To keep within the 1.5°C By urgently cutting emissions we can prevent future risks.”

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Wild-caught seafood from our ocean is no exception. Climate change is making the ocean warmer, more acidic and lower in oxygen. It’s also causing marine heatwaves, storms, sea ice loss and sea level rise. Cod live in colder ocean waters, which can make them vulnerable as waters warm.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

To meet these goals, the state is facilitating burgeoning carbon capture and sequestration (or storage) (CCS) technologies that capture carbon from point sources to store, as well as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), which removes carbon from the atmosphere. A Few Notable Vetoes.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The climate system is connected largely through atmospheric waves that carry temperature, pressure, and wind signals which impact weather thousands of miles away. On longer timescales, the ocean connects global patterns through ocean circulation and sea level pressure. What is a forecast of opportunity?

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Law Columbia

JUNE 16, 2022

In addition to extreme weather, electric utilities and system operators must also prepare for shifts in baseline weather and environmental conditions, such as higher average temperatures and sea levels, when planning and operating the electric grid. storms) and ignored more gradual changes (e.g.,

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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. Warmer temperatures will encourage the melting of glaciers, ice fields, summer Arctic sea ice, and permafrost, some of which may be irreversible.

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Washington Nature

MAY 26, 2023

If we're trying to conserve salmon populations, climate change is likely to affect our ability to do that: warming ocean and stream temperatures affect salmon, for example, and other changes associated with climate change, such as shifts in growing conditions for riparian forest trees, may also affect salmon habitat.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

Sea level rise is a big deal Use, abuse and misuse of the CMIP6 ensemble The radiative forcing bar chart has gone full circle Droughts and floods are complicated Don’t mention the hiatus. Sea Level Rise: The previous IPCC reports, notably AR4 and AR5 (to a lesser extent) , have had a hard time dealing with SLR.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 16, 2023

found that the companies—down to 88 due to mergers—were responsible for about 55 percent of ocean acidification between 1880 and 2015. As a result, he was able to nail down the magnitude of what has been going into the atmosphere and its origin. Licker et al.

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