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Should the official Atlantic hurricane season be lengthened?

Real Climate

By Jim Kossin, Tim Hall, Mike Mann, and Stefan Rahmstorf The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season broke a number of records , with the formation of an unprecedented 30 “named storms” (storms that reach wind-speed intensity of at least 18 m/s and are then given an official name). 2020 ), many others do not. 2021 ; Knutson et al.

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California Air Resources Board Releases Draft Scoping Plan Update (Part 4)

Clean Energy Law

Assembly Bill 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, requires CARB to develop and update every five years a scoping plan that describes the approach California will take to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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Orange glow and plants below: Wildfire smoke’s impact on crops

HumanNature

Candidate in the Department of Atmospheric Science and Trainee in the CSU InTERFEWS Program Figure 1: Cover art for The War of the Worlds novel by H.G. Wells’ classic The War of the Worlds, first published in 1897, to the scenes of comet debris raining down in the 2020 disaster film Greenland. in the atmosphere over the western U.S.

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

HumanNature

Guest Post By Erin Boedicker , 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. When fuels are burned to create energy in a process called combustion, black carbon along with carbon monoxide and other compounds are created because there is not enough oxygen in the atmosphere for the reaction to go to completion.

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Struggle To Plug Tatonka Oil Co. LLC’s Nancy 13 Conventional Well Leaking Gas, Production Wastewater Since 2018; Citizen Complaint Finds ‘Bubbling’ Gas Well

PA Environment Daily

LLC conventional well site known as Nancy 13 in Deerfield Township, Warren County found it to be still venting natural gas to the atmosphere. [ Tatonka Oil was also issued notices of violation in March 2020 and again in December 2022 for failing to submit annual production and waste generation and well integrity reports for multiple wells.

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New method predicts ‘stealth’ solar storms before they wreak geomagnetic havoc on Earth

Frontiers

Unusually for stealth CMEs, their origin on the Sun was approximately known only because NASA’s twin STEREO spacecraft, launched in 2006, had happened to capture them ‘off-limb’. nm) captured by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly instrument on board NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. Read original article ?

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Environmental activism in Latin America

Our Environment

Replacing these massive carbon sink forests with machinery which continuously pumps vast amounts of carbon dioxide into the Earth’s atmosphere is increasing the rate of global warming. Reference list: (1) Steiger Carlos (2006), Modern Beef Production in Brazil and Argentina, Vol. 2 pp 105-110. (2) 2) Geraldo B. 110, pages 173-177. (3)