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A Nobel pursuit

Real Climate

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. But let’s go back to the beginning.

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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) also reported on a two decade estimate of Earthshine measurements which appear to confirm a small decrease in albedo (and decrease in reflected short wave (SW) radiation). A paper last year (Goode et al., Similarly, Loeb et al.

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

HumanNature

Net atmospheric warming is problematic for a number of reasons – it leads to crop and vegetation stress which threatens our food security, it causes more intense dry seasons which lead to bigger wildfires that cause severe economic and environmental damage, and it leads to rising oceans levels which threaten existing infrastructure.

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

Acidification : Reducing the pH rating of a substance making it more acidic in nature, for example, increased carbon emissions lead to the oceans absorbing more of it, increasing acidification and damaging ecology such as coral bleaching. Radiation : The transmission of energy through space. Fishing rights are one of these issues.

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17 Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Operators Under Review By DEP To Determine If They Comply With Program Allowing Road Dumping Of Drilling Wastewater

PA Environment Daily

Staff from DEP’s Bureau of Radiation Protection last week told a Senate Committee-- “The potential environmental impact from spills or leaks of TENORM [naturally occurring radiation] contaminated material [from oil and gas drilling operations] is real.” Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. “I Read more here. “We