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Sea Level Rise is Already Threatening Communities

Union of Concerned Scientists

And since 2006, it has been even faster: as high as 4.2 The primary cause of accelerating sea level rise is human activity As people burn fossil fuels and emit heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide, our atmosphere and our oceans warm up. As the ocean warms, it expands.

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Why is future sea level rise still so uncertain?

Real Climate

Meanwhile, note that the factors listed above involve the whole Earth system: the oceans, the cryosphere, the atmosphere, the solid earth and lithosphere, and a full range of scales, from the city block and shoreline, to ice dynamics that change over kilometers, to GRD footprints, to the whole global ocean. 2020) or Sadai et al.

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Should the official Atlantic hurricane season be lengthened?

Real Climate

The difference is due largely to the differences in the regional atmospheric response that occurs in concert with the SST warming. In particular, they don’t just respond to SST changes, but also how the atmosphere changes as the SSTs change. The key to understanding this lies in understanding what tropical storms respond to.

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As Soon as Possible

Real Climate

If the land data was contaminated by urban heating effects, we wouldn’t see similar warming in the ocean. Laut, "Solar activity and terrestrial climate: an analysis of some purported correlations", Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics , vol. 27489-27492, 2000. 801-812, 2003. Rendiconti Lincei. 8370-8377, 1997.

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

HumanNature

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. Whenever there are combustion processes, of which there are many in our industrial society (e.g.,

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Ripe for Disaster Declarations: Heat, Wildfire Smoke…and Death Data

Union of Concerned Scientists

In 2020, a study in the journal Environmental Epidemiology determined that 5,600 deaths a year were attributable to heat from 1997 to 2006, eight times higher than federal figures. University scientists and health and safety groups are filling in the gaps as best they can.

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New California Legislation Would Be a Major Step Forward for Climate Disclosure

Law Columbia

3] California has long led the nation in adoption of environmental rules, including the first motor vehicle emission standards in 1966, energy efficiency standards for appliances in the 1970s, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, and many others. [4] 4] The new corporate climate disclosure bills may well continue that tradition.