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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. Large ash particles that rain down and blanket nearby communities are only a fraction of what wildfires billow into the atmosphere. Guest Post by Kimberley Corwin , Ph.D.

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A deep dive into the IPCC’s updated carbon budget numbers

Real Climate

C warming estimate between 1850-1900 and 2006-2015. Let’s dive into each piece of this puzzle to understand what has changed between SR1.5 Warming to date – SR1.5 used a 0.97°C AR6 uses deep mitigation pathways assessed by SR1.5 AR6 updates this assessment entirely and includes this contribution in its main estimates.

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

Frontiers

This could help put measures in place that limit damage to technology and energy grids on Earth from the electromagnetic radiation. 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’. Read original article ?

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Bad science and bad ethics in Peter Gleick’s Review of “Apocalypse Never” at Yale Climate Connections

Environmental Progress

Between 1996 and 2006, United Nations family planning spending declined 50 percent. That talk helped the [National Center for Atmospheric Research] scientists to see the big picture clearly and early on.” But the atmospheric equivalent of garbage dumps.” Seven years later, the U.N. held its last Family Planning meeting.

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A Call for Government Agencies to Fill Research Gaps on Women’s Health 

Union of Concerned Scientists

For example, NASEM has published landmark reports on the health effects of exposure to low levels of ionizing radiation. This was proven by showing the health harms that can be caused by ionizing radiation disproportionately increased among these vulnerable groups after similar exposures in their counterpart peers. 2006 , NCI 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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Policy News: June 28, 2021

ESA

The full Committee also approved amendments adding solar radiation management and wildfire science to the list of climate change research topics funded by the bill. Senators confirmed Richard Spinrad to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration by a voice vote. Another amendment from Rep. An amendment from Rep.

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