PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2023

People should be celebrating, not demonizing, modern increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). Rare, exotic exceptions are anaerobic life forms dwelling at out-of-the-way places like ocean-bottom volcanic vents. Read more here.] We cannot overstate the importance of the gas. Without it, life doesn’t exist.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Manabe’s early focus was on radiative-convective equilibrium, and his seminal 1967 paper (with his longtime collaborator Richard Wetherald, who passed in 2011 ). The basic issue stems from the different timescales of the ocean and atmosphere. But let’s go back to the beginning. 1975) , and Bryan et al.

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

Direct Environmental Effects Did you know that black carbon is the second most important warming agent in our atmosphere behind carbon dioxide (CO 2 )? This is because of black carbon’s enhanced ability to absorb visible light; it actually absorbs nearly a million times more energy per unit mass than CO 2. April 27, 2020.

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ESA

MARCH 6, 2023

States Washington state holds carbon allowance auction. International United Nations report cautions against solar radiation management and calls for international regulations for the use of this technology. Executive Branch USFWS proposes listing two populations of California spotted owl under the Endangered Species Act.

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