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The AMOC is slowing, it’s stable, it’s slowing, no, yes, …

Real Climate

The background to this discussion is familiar to our regular readers (else just enter ‘AMOC’ in the RealClimate search field): proper measurements of the AMOC flow are only available since 2004 in the RAPID project , thus for earlier times we need to use indirect clues. 2018 (Fig.

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DEP: 768 Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells May Be Plugged In Next Year; Over 27,000 New Abandoned Wells May Have Been Found; Alternatives To Well Plugging Bonds

PA Environment Daily

“When you consider the USTIF model, the rates have not [been] raised since 2004 I believe [1.1 You find me an insurance company that hasn't raised your rates since 2004, and I'll be very eager to sign up to get my homeowners and auto insurance policy from that company.” cents per gallon of gasoline].

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Vibrio Bacteria in Beach Water Can Make You Seriously Ill

Scientific American

But climate change is warming once cool waters, and vibriosis cases have been relentlessly spreading northward. alginolyticus illnesses first appeared outside the Gulf Coast region in 1999, in North Carolina, and were reported as far north as Maine by the end of 2004. coastlines, particularly the Gulf Coast. fluvialis and V.

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PJM Electric Auction Impacts: 1 In 5 PA Households Report Problems Now Paying Energy Bills; Electric Utility Shutoffs Up 38.1% So Far This Year

PA Environment Daily

The other one is increased enhanced tools for utilities to terminate service that passed the General Assembly in 2004, 2005." “That big spike in 2006, 2007 really as a result of a couple of functions, one of which is the economy at the time and the recession that occurred. Obviously to use more than this.

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Two-dimensional metals make their debut

Physics World

Since the discovery of graphene – a 2D sheet of carbon just one atom thick – in 2004, hundreds of other 2D materials have been fabricated and studied. They then continued this “vdW squeezing” until the opposite sides of the anvils cooled to room temperature and 2D sheets of metal formed. The thinnest, at around 5.8 Å), lead (~7.5

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Some new CMIP6 MSU comparisons

Real Climate

2004 ) which is a better representation of the mid-troposphere than the classic TMT diagnostic through an adjustment using the lower stratosphere record (i.e. ). Seidel, "Contribution of stratospheric cooling to satellite-inferred tropospheric temperature trends", Nature , vol. 55-58, 2004. 2022) courtesy of Ben Santer.

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The Rise and Fall of the “Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation”

Real Climate

These interactions were thought to lead to alternating decades-long intervals of warming and cooling centered in the extra-tropical North Atlantic that play out on 40-60 year timescales (hence the name). Background.