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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 This loss of land ice has been the dominant contributor to sea level rise since 2006. Cool, right?) As if that weren’t worrisome enough, studies show that it has been accelerating since the 1960s. Since 1993, sea level has risen by an average rate of 3.1

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DEP Invites Comments On New Air Pollution Permit For Revolution Natural Gas Cryogenic Processing Plant In Washington County; Plant Suffered Major Explosion, Fire In 2022

PA Environment Daily

Natural gas cryogenic plants take natural gas and cool it to sub-zero temperatures-- minus 120 degrees Fahrenheit-- in order to condense and separate out liquids like butane, ethane and propane from the gas. PA Bulletin, page 7239 ) The facility has previously been permitted under a GP-5 and GP-1 Air Quality General Permits.

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Should the official Atlantic hurricane season be lengthened?

Real Climate

and European Clean Air Acts and Amendments of the 1970s ( Mann and Emanuel 2006 ; Dunstone et al. This would have a cooling effect on Atlantic SST, as well as a stabilizing effect on the regional atmosphere ( Dunion and Velden 2004 ), and would be expected to reduce tropical storm formation frequency for some (possibly prolonged) period.

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What is happening in the Atlantic Ocean to the AMOC?

Real Climate

A recent study by Qasmi 2023 has combined observations and models to isolate the drivers and concludes for the ‘cold blob’ region: “Consistent with the observations, an anthropogenic cooling is diagnosed by the method over the last decades (1951–2021) compared to the preindustrial period.”

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As Soon as Possible

Real Climate

If the sun was driving the warming, we’d see it in the stratospheric temperatures (which are cooling in line with expectations from the impact of CO2, not warming due to the supposed increase in solar activity). But we have mega-oodles (the SI unit) of additional data that tell us this conclusion cannot be correct. 8370-8377, 1997.

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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. estimate of no further CO 2 -induced warming or cooling once global CO 2 emissions reach and stay at next zero. 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 The AR6 estimate confirms the SR1.5

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Why is future sea level rise still so uncertain?

Real Climate

The CPDW is thought to be affected by the shift in the westerly winds around Antarctica which have increased in recent decades due to a combination of greenhouse gas forcing and the polar ozone hole ( Miller et al, 2006 ). 2020) or Sadai et al. Marshall, M. Russell, L.S. Nazarenko, Y. Kostov, G.A. Schmidt, and J. 47, 2020.

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