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CMIP6: Not-so-sudden stratospheric cooling

Real Climate

As predicted in 1967 by Manabe and Wetherald , the stratosphere has been cooling. The dominant factors are changes in CO2 (a cooling), ozone depletion (a cooling), warming from big volcanoes, and oscillations related to the solar cycle. So the net effect is less absorption and more emittence, and thus they give a cooling.

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Risky Drinking Water Pathogen Has Outsized Effect on Black Americans

Circle of Blue

Rooftop cooling towers play a major role in fostering and spreading Legionella bacteria. Legionella bacteria live in lakes and rivers, but they become a public health problem in buildings, where they multiply in the nooks and crannies of plumbing, heating, and cooling systems. An aerial view of New York City.

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DOE Recognizes Allegheny College For Energy Savings As A Better Buildings Challenge Partner

PA Environment Daily

In 2002, Allegheny adopted its Environmental Guiding Principles and was a charter signatory with the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment. For over 20 years, Allegheny College has held sustainability as a core value.

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Antarctic extreme events: ‘All-time records are being shattered not from decades ago, but from the last few years and months’

Frontiers

For example, Antarctica acts to cool our planet by reflecting solar radiation back to space by virtue of the brightness of its snow surface. In the ocean, 19 marine heatwaves have been recorded between 2002 and 2018.

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How dancing honey bees could help us save pollinators

Frontiers

In 2002, I was an unhappy graduate student in neurobiology without the vocabulary to understand why. That was when I stumbled across a paper by Ben-Shahar et al (2002) describing the effect of gene expression on the age-related transition of worker honey bees from nurses to foragers. What inspired you to become a researcher?

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Climate Change and Me

Academy of Natural Sciences

With the Philadelphia area trending towards warmer average temperatures as a result of climate change, it will be important to have ample opportunities for people to stay cool and recreate safely. Kayakers journey down the Cooper River at Cooper River Park near Collingswood, N.J. The ’80s took the subject of global warming to the next level.

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Where Is The Water Going?

Circle of Blue

From 2002 to 2017, the most recent USDA farm census, the number of farms in Kings County declined 16.6%. It’s really, really not cool,” Vidovich said. . But he fears family ownership is already being priced out of farming and predicts the business will be consolidated into fewer and fewer hands. The data show that’s already happening.

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