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Solar energy output of India is reduced significantly by air pollution

Physics World

That is the conclusion of researchers who have modelled the effects of particulate pollution on solar irradiance in 2001–2018. First, particulates in the air block sunlight, reducing the amount that reaches panels in a process called atmospheric attenuation.

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A Nobel pursuit

Real Climate

The key aspects were the inclusion of water vapour feedback as temperatures increased, and the use of ‘convective adjustment’ to maintain stability of the lower atmospheric column. The basic issue stems from the different timescales of the ocean and atmosphere. Fred Singer, before his turn to the dark side).

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Innovators in 2023 Carbon Removal Landscape

Ivy Protocol

On the other hand, soil carbon capture methods involve conservation agriculture techniques such as reduced tillage, cover cropping, and agroforestry (Robert, 2001). These innovators are creating technology to extract CO2 directly from the atmosphere or prevent its release in the first place. Mulligan, J., Ellison, G., Lebling, K.,

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Port Susan Bay Visit from Deputy Secretary of Commerce Don Graves

Washington Nature

TNC has owned and managed nearly 4,000 acres of estuarine habitat at the Port Susan Bay Preserve since 2001 and continually works with partners throughout the basin to advance salmon recovery, migratory bird, and floodplain projects that benefit people and nature.

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Back in Black: Creating positive changes by focusing on a short-lived pollutant

HumanNature

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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A CERES of fortunate events…

Real Climate

The CERES estimates of the top-of-atmosphere radiative fluxes are available from 2001 to the present. that you remember that post, but the simple model has an albedo and an atmospheric absorption that together control the surface temperature. The simplest model for the greenhouse effect. Two layers, albedo, and one LW absorber.

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A NOAA-STAR dataset is born…

Real Climate

Readers will recall that the TLT product is nominally a weighted average of atmospheric temperature anomalies from the surface up to 5km or so. ºC/dec, for UAH, RSS and NOAA-STAR respectively) and after 2001 (0.14/0.20/0.17 The trends prior to 1995 (0.07/0.14/0.16 ºC/dec) vary across the products too. Hao, and Q.