Circle of Blue

AUGUST 2, 2022

House of Representatives passes a wildfire and drought package to address declining water levels and dry conditions. A city in northern Texas expects to run out of water for its residents as drought conditions persist. . More than 121 million people live in areas experiencing moderate drought conditions or worse. THE NUMBERS.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2022

On hot days, while many of us have the option to retreat indoors, switch on our air conditioning units or fans, and sip cold beverages, farmworkers all over the country do not. This number is likely undercounted and misattributed because heat-induced illnesses and conditions are often not traced correctly to their source.

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Real Climate

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Note we are interested in the longer-term temperature trend over decades over the region with the meltwater properly mixed in, not at some temporary patches of meltwater floating locally at the surface. 17,000,000 m 3 /s x 15 K x 1025 kg/m 3 x 4 kJ/kgK = 1 PW (1). Here, 1 PW = 10 15 Watt and 4 kJ/kgK is the heat capacity of water.).

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2024

Pennsylvania has received adequate precipitation over the past 6 months to return many of the drought indicators to normal and reduce long-term precipitation deficits. Varying localized conditions may lead water suppliers or municipalities to ask residents for more stringent conservation actions.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2024

Under extreme conditions, the tension may break the flow of sap and cause winter dieback of branches,” says Smith. In early warming conditions, the first big flush of sap at a newly tapped tree might be all that the tree yields,” explains Smith. “In According to Kevin T.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The Bureau of Reclamation’s 24-month study, in the simplest terms, projects water levels for the next two years at 12 federal reservoirs in the Colorado River basin, including Lakes Mead and Powell, the countries largest reservoirs. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – September 1, 2021.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2023

During climate disasters and extreme weather events like hurricanes, wildfires, or winter storms, people with underlying health conditions and disabilities face global mortality rates that are four times higher than those without disabilities. This can include things like oxygen tanks, ventilators, and wheelchairs for mobility.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 14, 2022

The dry conditions blanketing much of the American West are setting records nearly every week. Water cuts that were once nearly unthinkable even in the long term in the Colorado River basin are now being implemented in a matter of months, not years or decades. Photo © Brett Walton/Circle of Blue. Harsh and unrelenting.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Smoky days are also more dangerous for those who live with no air conditioning or inadequate air filtration. The Union of Concerned Scientists has declared summer “ Danger Season ” because of the increasingly destructive and extreme weather events worsened by a changing climate. Whose health is at greatest risk from wildfire smoke?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2024

Fires typically need a combination of high winds and dry conditions to grow to the size of a fire like the Smokehouse Creek Fire, and climate change is making those dry conditions more common. With the hotter, drier conditions climate change is enabling, wildfires are able to burn larger areas. Wait, wildfires in February?!

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Drought conditions slow agricultural production for the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe. Drought Monitor, dry conditions are present across 232 million acres of cropland. . The Houston area is experiencing considerable drought relief, at least in the short term. The American West is experiencing its most severe drought in 1,200 years.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The Climate Overshoot Commission recently completed its work, releasing its report at the United Nations last Thursday, September 14. This report comes in conjunction with the U.N. Chaired by Pascal Lamy, former Director-General of the World Trade Organization, it was convened by the Paris Peace Forum. They can speak and discuss freely.

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New Scientist

MARCH 1, 2023

Growing evidence that long-term conditions like myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and fibromyalgia are caused, wholly or in part, by viral infections is good news for millions of people

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NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Addressing lease terms and Castex. Relying on the lease terms and Terrebonne Parish School Board v. Relying on the lease terms and Terrebonne Parish School Board v. Therefore, Chevron was obligated to remove the lines as part of its obligation to restore the land to its original condition minus normal “wear and tear.”

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MARCH 16, 2023

The TCR Screened ensemble (only including the 15 models that have 1.4ºC < TCR < 2.2ºC) is in red and is closer to the observations in terms of trends, but only 7 simulations (from 6 models) out of 53 simulations have trends within the uncertainties of the observations. Two things are clear. are matched. are matched.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 5, 2024

Science from the early 20 th century was clear: smoking was linked to lung cancer Before the widespread availability of cigarettes, lung cancer was once a very rare condition. See in particular Doll and Hill’s famous 1954 paper on the British Doctors’ Study , a long-term prospective cohort study that lasted from 1951 to 2001.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The current test procedures don’t consider operation at low speeds or under low loads, despite these being precisely the operating conditions around ports and warehouses, some of the areas worst impacted by freight pollution. Such conditions are not part of the current federal test procedure. g NO X /bhp-hr). g NO X /bhp-hr).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 15, 2023

Emissions from the major 88 fossil fuel producers also contributed roughly half the increase in drought- and fire-danger conditions across western North America since 1901. That’s an area roughly the size of the state of Maine. What the report and study don’t tell you, though, is why we undertook this research.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

On September 2, the Susquehanna River Basin Commission released an update on drought conditions within the Susquehanna River Basin-- SRBC monitors hydrologic conditions throughout the Susquehanna River Basin to ensure water users take appropriate operational actions as conditions change. Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 11, 2023

” News reports noted that dust storms are rare in Illinois, but drier, hotter conditions in many farming communities could make such events more frequent and deadly. .” This disaster should serve as a sobering reminder that policymakers and the agriculture industry need to do more to adapt to our changing climate.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2022

Drought conditions look similar to last week’s numbers. Drought Monitor, dry conditions are present across 234 million acres of cropland. . The agency awarded grants to cities in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico and Oregon to create “comprehensive” drought plans and build long-term drought resiliency. . THE NUMBERS.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2023

First the good news: The “abnormally” wet winter has improved the extensive drought conditions across the country and helped to replenish many of the reservoirs in California, the Great Basin and the Colorado River Basin. But drought conditions will not disappear altogether. Here are a few key takeaways.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 26, 2022

This type of pollutant is particularly dangerous, since it can pass into the bloodstream and has been linked to health conditions from asthma to stroke to premature death. California’s Central Valley consistently experiences the country’s worst air quality, and climate change is poised to make air quality even worse. Annual average PM2.5

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Legal Planet

JULY 13, 2023

And then there are the equity benefits. Simply put, they can’t afford to take the same precautions as the more affluent, whether in moving to higher ground or maxing out on air conditioning during heat waves. To begin with, there are the health benefits of the energy transition away from fossil fuels.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

But this discussion paper is problematic for sure. It was, authored by Dagsvik and Moen, and already in its introduction it claims that it is difficult to explain and predict weather and temperature (giving the false impression that it’s more or less impossible). Today, the warnings conveyed via YR.no See for instance Benestad (2016).

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Real Climate

JANUARY 13, 2023

Far more predictive are the long term trends which are consistently (now) above 0.2ºC/dec (and with much smaller uncertainties ±0.02ºC/dec for the last 40 years). But there are a few things that don’t get covered much in the mainstream stories, and so we can dig into them a bit here. What influence does ENSO really have?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2023

Extreme heat has hit hard lately from coast to coast and beyond, and it’s a major way Danger Season has shown up this year. Even as I write this, communities from the Northwest to the Southwest to the Southeast and Puerto Rico are under heat alerts. The direct health impact of heat stress is bad enough, and dangerous. Here’s how.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 28, 2023

(Credit: Bet Hannon Business) While there’s a great deal that’s dysfunctional and downright wrong about water law and policy in California, occasionally there are positive developments to report. So it’s most satisfying to end 2023 with some good news regarding water in the Golden State.

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Corp Watch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Big pharmaceutical companies like Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer signed lucrative contracts with governments around the world to provide COVID-19 vaccines under the condition that the prices and contract terms were kept confidential.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JULY 16, 2021

This simple Becker example of Leisure production that uses one's time and local weather conditions as complements is the key logic of my Climatopolis book and my Adapting to Climate Change book. As I discuss in my 2010 Climatopolis book, Singapore in recent decades has been highly productive despite the nation's heat and humidity.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 24, 2023

Reconfiguring water sharing agreements, technological innovations in water access and treatment, and tools for assessing the near-term and long-term impacts of climate change on water supplies are just a sampling. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue Sun-baked fields and dusty reservoirs dot the landscape of southern Spain.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 10, 2022

The Guardian reports that conditions are brutal in Turbat, a Pakistani city of about 200,000 people. Electricity use also set a monthly record, due to demand for air conditioning. The hot and dry conditions have triggered thousands of forest fires. Transcript. I’m Eileen Wray-McCann.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 19, 2024

In Canada, we aren’t even able to use the term ‘just transition’. At COP28, countries agreed to transition away from fossil fuels and accelerate action within the decade to achieve our global climate goals. Instead, they continue to bet our future on expanding oil and gas production. Returning from COP28, I felt anxious.

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Law Columbia

MAY 4, 2023

Efforts to incorporate climate risk through activities like scenario analysis and target-setting have tended to focus on long-term time horizons, focusing on emissions trajectories and climate impacts that resolve later in the century. Efforts must shift to helping regulators and financial actors appreciate “medium-term” climate risks.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JULY 28, 2023

On a personal level, of course the city needs access to strong air conditioning. Such efforts will be messy as there will be fights over who pays for such local public goods but the end result will be a more resilient Houston where the high heat causes less economic damage in the short term and medium term. Please join me there.

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Legal Planet

MAY 23, 2023

Standard permit terms and conditions are necessary safeguards in traditional contexts. Read our recent article. Public water and wastewater utilities are increasingly struggling to meet society’s expectations. For example: increasing water supply reliability, enhancing wildlife habitat, or meeting community energy needs.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 30, 2024

The companies failed to comply with the terms and conditions of the NPDES permit they were issued for the earth disturbance activities. On November 27, 2023, the Department of Environmental Protection signed a consent assessment with M&G Realty, Inc. and Curry Excavating, Inc. Click Here for a copy of the consent assessment.

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