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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. 2021) show that the trends in the EEI derived from CERES match what you get from the changes in ocean heat content. Satellite-derived trends in EEI compared to estimates from changes in ocean heat (Loeb et al.,

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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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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. But why should this be so?

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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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ESA Policy News: February 6, 2023

ESA

Matt Cartwright (D-PA) will be ranking member of the House Commerce, Justice and Science Subcommittee, which funds the National Science Foundation, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, among other agencies. The rule reinstates protections created by the Forest Service’s 2001 Roadless Rule.

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Policy News: December 6, 2021

ESA

The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee advanced the nomination of Jainey Bavishi to be the assistant secretary of oceans and atmosphere at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the second-most senior position at NOAA. Bavishi most recently led the New York City Office of Resiliency.

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