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Should the official Atlantic hurricane season be lengthened?

Real Climate

In 2008, after a series of Atlantic hurricane seasons that began earlier than normal, a study was published that explored whether the anomalously early starts may be part of a larger trend ( Kossin 2008 ). The difference is due largely to the differences in the regional atmospheric response that occurs in concert with the SST warming.

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As Soon as Possible

Real Climate

And by the 2007 IPCC AR4 report, or in Lean and Rind (2008) ), at best, scientists had concluded that solar activity wasn’t likely to be responsible for more than 10% or so of the long term rise in global temperature. 27489-27492, 2000. 801-812, 2003. Rendiconti Lincei. 8370-8377, 1997. Lean, and D.H. 32, 2005.

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Too extreme to be true? The links between extreme weather and climate change

HumanNature

The increasing greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere are warming the global temperature, shifting precipitation patterns, raising global sea levels, melting glaciers, and more [5]. 2008): Temporal and spatial changes in social vulnerability to natural hazards. As society evolves, extreme weather also changes. L., & Finch, C.

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WHO WILL STOP THE RAIN?

Acoel

Through the TMDL the Ohio EPA seeks to achieve a 40 percent reduction in total phosphorus loading, based on a 2008 baseline, with a three percent margin of safety. This reduction is calculated to achieve a target severity index that has been exceeded most years by varying amounts since 2008.

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The Human Right to a Stable Climate

Union of Concerned Scientists

It acknowledges that “the global nature of climate change calls for the widest possible cooperation by all countries” and outlines the objective of stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that prevents dangerous interference with the climate system.

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Life beyond the Nobel: Takaaki Kajita and the hunt for gravitational waves

Physics World

This meant that these neutrinos – created when cosmic rays interact with nuclei in the upper atmosphere – were changing flavour as they passed through the Earth. Despite adding to Japan’s rich legacy in neutrino physics, in 2008 – before Kajita was awarded the Nobel prize – he made a bold decision to switch research fields.

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Viewpoint: Forty-three years of the environmental movement?

A Greener Life

In June 1979, atmospheric carbon stood at 339ppm, just below the 350ppm level scientists believe to be safe. In 2008, the year before I turned 30, the UK government introduced the world’s first legally binding climate change legislation the Climate Change Act. Today that number is 420ppm and rising. billion tonnes of CO2.