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CMIP6: Not-so-sudden stratospheric cooling

Real Climate

CMIP6 model spread and mean compared to the NOAA-STAR observations for three SSU channels (using the historical simulations continued by SSP5-85 after 2014). 9919-9933, 2018. 13,180-13,205, 2014. Thompson et al. We are using the NOAA-STAR version 3.0 of these products (Zou et al., The anomalies have been offset by 1.5

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An abnormally dry subject: drought

HumanNature

Candidate in the Department of Biology and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology at Colorado State University Over the past two decades, the United States has seen a high increase of dry periods without rain otherwise known as drought across the entire country (IPCC 2014). Climate change 2014. Nature Climate Change 2002.

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The Stream, July 23, 2021: Drought Threatens Rural Farmers In San Joaquin Valley

Circle of Blue

Since 2002, millions of pastoral communities have been forced from their homes to make room for commercial cattle ranches, leaving parts of the region food insecure. The Environmental Protection Agency ordered more than 3,400 drinking water providers nationwide to look for the toxins between 2018 and 2020.

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General Assembly Diverted $3.602 Billion From Environmental Infrastructure Projects And Programs Into State Budget Black Hole

PA Environment Daily

million from the Alternative Fuels Incentive Grant Fund to balance the state budget; -- FY 2014-15 budget continues the $102.8 million from the Alternative Fuels Incentive Grant Fund to balance the state budget; -- FY 2014-15 budget continues the $102.8 million from DEP, $1.5 million; DCNR: $1.5 million; and DEP: $4.2

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These Attorneys General Are Defending the Fossil Fuel Industry, Not Their States

Union of Concerned Scientists

million to his campaigns since 2002, according to OpenSecrets’ compilation of contribution data. When Moody ran for attorney general in 2018, she promised she wouldn’t politicize the office. billion in damage in September 2018. The main beneficiary of Paxton’s efforts? The oil and gas industry, of course.

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Solving the proton puzzle

Physics World

That much seemed true when the task group first published an official value of the proton radius – or, more specifically, the average radius of the proton’s electric charge – in 2002. The figure CODATA settled on in 2002 was 0.8750 ± 0.0068 fm, which changed only slightly four years later, remaining a little under 0.88

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Toyota SUV adverts banned in UK on environmental grounds

Corp Watch

billion in 2014 to the U.S. In 2018, Toyota was ordered to pay out $21.9 lawsuit over vehicle metal quality Tina Bellon, Yuka Obayashi | Reuters | March 6, 2018 U.S. Toyota workers urged to reject union Grace Macaluso | Windsor Star | February 19, 2014 The head of a U.S. It paid out a fine of $1.2 China fines Toyota 87.6