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Predicted Arctic sea ice trends over time

Real Climate

One of the most high profile ‘misses’ in coupled modeling over the last few decades was the failure of the model projections in CMIP3 (circa 2003/4 vintage) to match the rapid losses in Arctic sea ice that started to become apparent in the middle of that decade (Stroeve et al., Did that make any difference?

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Murray Edwards: The Fossil Fuel Fanatic

Enviromental Defense

In 2013 he organized a fundraising dinner at Calgary’s Petroleum Club to help raise political donations to former BC Premier Christy Clark’s re-election campaign. Will you join the call? But Edward’s is not just an owner, he’s a giver.

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As Soon as Possible

Real Climate

Purported updates to these series were themselves plagued by arithmetic errors which negated their conclusions ( Laut, 2003 ). 4171-4176, 2013. 801-812, 2003. However, the searching for (and finding!) Love, "On the insignificance of Herschel's sunspot correlation", Geophysical Research Letters , vol. Laut, and J. 11-21, 2022.

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ExxonMobil Accurately Projected Rising Temperatures While Publicly Disparaging Climate Science

Union of Concerned Scientists

The lightest lines are from the earliest projections, the lightest grey being from 1977, and the darker colors are later with the black line being from 2003. The new paper in Science summarizes key statements by ExxonMobil executives between 2000 and 2013 that cast doubt on the science. Let’s dig into what Supran et al.’s

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Amid Dire Colorado River Outlook, States Plan to Tap Their Lake Mead Savings Accounts

Circle of Blue

Met needed the flexibility of extra Lake Mead storage for two reasons: a court decision limited California’s use of Colorado River starting in 2003 and its supply from reservoirs in northern California’s Sierra Nevada mountains is quite variable. Taking into account the system cuts, the Bureau of Reclamation counts just over 2.8

2007 363
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PA Assn. Of Environmental Professionals Recognize Kristina Thompson & PennDOT District 5-0 With Walter Lyon Award; Former DEP Secretary David Hess With Karl Mason Award

PA Environment Daily

From 1983 to 2013, Walter went on to teach and consult in the areas of environmental engineering and water policy. Public Health Service in Washington D.C. serving as Assistant Chief of the Planning and Development Branch, Division of Engineering Resources from 1950-1954.

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Penn State Master Watershed Steward Coordinator Erin Frederick Honored By Lehigh Valley Business Council

PA Environment Daily

When she first met Erin Frederick in 2003 when she was interning at the Lehigh County Conservation District , she was earning a degree in Environmental Resource Management at Penn State University. Fast forward to 2023: there are MWS programs now in 42 Pennsylvania counties, with a total of 947 volunteers and counting.