Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2023

Some marine species also experience boundaries to movement, including ocean currents, thermoclines, and shipping lanes, but they are generally more able to track changes in sea temperatures. In the oceans, prolonged periods of unusually high sea surface temperatures are having a major impact.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 22, 2022

He makes his living on the Turnbridge Plantation in his hometown of Hardeeville, South Carolina, 30 minutes from the Atlantic Ocean. Atlantic sea levels are rising three to four times faster than the global ocean average. mile dike has protected 11,000 acres and $64 million of property from salt since its completion in 2010.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

That report, in the technical language of probabilities and scenarios, underscored the urgency of the moment and the need not only to reduce the release of heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere and limit global warming to 1.5 Money promised, however, does not always translate into money delivered. Available funds can be difficult to access.

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

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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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Moreno : On November 15, 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a memorandum providing States with guidance on how to address ocean acidification in their Clean Water Act 303(d) impairment listings. For example, Puerto Rico’s 2010 303(d) list already includes five coastal water segments impaired by marine pH.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Lo first became interested in this area while studying physics and astronomy at Durham University , UK, where her final-year project looked at how to calibrate telescopes to correct for atmospheric effects on the radiation they detect. To pursue this further, Lo did a PhD in atmosphere, oceans and climate at the University of Reading , UK.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JANUARY 17, 2024

Droughts are a particular challenge, as in Kansas where there were droughts in 56 of 156 months from 2010 to 2022. Extreme events in the Northwest will include storms resulting from atmospheric rivers over the Pacific Ocean. With rising sea levels and warming ocean temperatures, heatwaves and high-temperature toxins (e.g.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 16, 2023

found that the companies—down to 88 due to mergers—were responsible for about 55 percent of ocean acidification between 1880 and 2015. But how was Richard Heede able to calculate that, at the time, 90 companies were responsible for nearly two-thirds of the carbon emissions between 1854 and 2010? percent of total emissions.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 30, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen The US government agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Coral Reef Watch is the world’s top coral reef monitoring body. According to Coral Reef Watch, more than 54% of the reef areas in the global oceans are experiencing bleaching-level heat stress.

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HumanNature

APRIL 10, 2023

Student in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University Most people remember the water cycle they learned in school: water evaporates from lakes, rivers, and the ocean, air carrying this moisture rises, cools, condenses, and forms clouds, and these clouds precipitate water back down to the surface.

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 3, 2022

This is why I was so excited to have the opportunity to join Ocean Conservancy’s Global Ghost Gear Initiative® (GGGI) and the Rozalia Project for a cleanup of ghost gear in Maine aboard their 60-foot sailing vessel, the American Promise. The post Setting Sail to Collect Ghost Gear in Maine appeared first on Ocean Conservancy.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 1, 2023

That’s the snow cover reflecting back into the atmosphere as much as 90 percent of the sun’s energy — instead of its being absorbed into the ground as heat. It overlies so much ground, in fact, that snow cover controls Earth’s patterns of heating and cooling more than any other surface feature on the planet.

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

6180 ) to incentivize removing invasive lionfish from the oceans. Other report highlights include the cascading impacts of warming on Arctic ecosystems: The Arctic is experiencing high rates of ocean acidification, with implications for marine food chains. Ocean CDR is a set of strategies to sequester carbon dioxide in ocean waters.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

6] Scientists are alarmed that this year the temperature of the surface of the oceans has reached levels that are much higher, [7] and the extent of Antarctic sea ice is much lower, [8] than ever previously recorded. It’s long past time to stop relegating the climate problem to a narrowly conceived field of “environmental law.”

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 14, 2023

In North Carolina, where many hog CAFOs lie within 100 miles of the Atlantic Ocean, several hurricanes have struck and caused lagoons to overflow, including Hurricane Florence in 2018, Hurricane Matthew in 2016 and Hurricane Floyd in 1999. Despite these protective measures, animal waste often escapes and contaminates local water.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

billion (in 2010 dollars) in federal tax breaks and subsidies for nearly 100 years. Last year, the United States suffered an unprecedented number of climate change-related billion-dollar disasters, including record heat waves, drought, wildfires and floods, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Scientists estimate that emissions must be reduced by 45% by 2030, compared with 2010 levels, and from there to net zero emissions by 2050, if the world is to have a good chance of remaining within the 1.5C All countries are now being urged to revise their NDCs before Cop26 in line with a 1.5C target, the lower of the two Paris goals.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 8, 2022

4) The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) oversees the administration of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). (5) 11) Global warming, in part, is a result of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. 23) Since 2010, natural gas flaring and venting have increased 1.52 Turner, Jr.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2023

Bernhardt’s reasoning was that it would be impossible to establish the requisite causal link between GHG emissions, global climate change, and specific localized effects on species and their habitat due to the “complex and independent processes active in the atmosphere and the ocean acting on GHGs.” See, e.g., IPCC AR6 WGI Ch.3

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 14, 2023

More than 60 percent of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists felt the same way about their scientific workforces (61 percent) and senior leadership (63 percent). In fiscal year 2010, during President Obama’s first term, it had a staff of more than 17,000 and an annual budget of $10.3 billion —$13.8

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

The federal district court for the Northern District of Texas dismissed for lack of standing a lawsuit against the EPA in which an individual pro se plaintiff asserted that EPA restrictions since 1990 on aerosols in the atmosphere had caused global warming. Federal Court Rejected NEPA Claims in Challenge to Gulf of Mexico Leases.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

With respect to the analysis of climate change impacts, the appellate court said the City of Brea had appropriately selected a significance threshold for project greenhouse gas emissions that was higher than one used for a similar residential project in 2010. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , No. filed Oct.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

Some 1 million Florida homes will be at risk by the end of the century, largely because the state sits on porous limestone and the sea level around the state, which has gone up 8 inches since 1950, could rise another 14 to 16 inches by 2050, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Legislators provide $200 million to NOAA for weather, coasts, oceans and climate research, $100 million for NOAA competitive climate research grants and provides $100 million to NOAA for development and dissemination of climate science information products and services. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gets $1.5

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said it anticipates issuing a proposed rule in September updating its regulations for renewable energy generation. In 2019, the Trump administration rolled back standards put in place under the Obama administration following the 2010 BP oil catastrophe that killed 11 people and spewed oil for five months.

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ESA

JANUARY 9, 2023

Appropriators increase the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s budget $6.2 Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) served as the committee’s top Democrat from 2010 to 2023 before retiring at the end of the previous session of Congress. million, a $94.5 million increase. billion, a nearly 5.5%

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ESA

DECEMBER 5, 2022

National Committee for the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. The US Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Interior and the heads of the US Forest Service, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the US Agency for International Development would serve as ex-oficio members of the foundation’s board.

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