Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 7, 2024
What role is climate change playing? As climate change increases the frequency or intensity of extreme events such as wildfires, heat waves, and heavy downpours, there is an increase in the potential for different types of risks to coincide or for a climate-related event to trigger a cascade of non-climatic consequences.
HumanNature
MARCH 8, 2022
Candidate in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology at Colorado State University If you read about climate change in the news, you’re probably familiar with the element carbon. But carbon isn’t the only element associated with climate change. 1 Wieder, W.
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Real Climate
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
That is long enough to see that there has been a noticeable trend in the Earth’s Energy Imbalance (EEI), mostly driven by a reduction in the solar radiation reflected by the planet, while the outgoing long wave radiation does not appear to contribute much. A paper last year (Goode et al., The total radiative forcing is.
PA Environment Daily
MAY 10, 2023
The shale gas wells were drilled and fracked between September 2011 and August 2012. Johnson said DEP’s letter of determination does not say whether DEP directly asked if Chevron used PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ at the drilling site in 2011-2012, but the Department instead stated it relied on a “review of documents related to the well site.”
Real Climate
OCTOBER 12, 2021
Last week, the Nobel physics prize was (half) awarded to Suki Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann for their work on climate prediction and the detection and attribution of climate change. This came as quite a surprise to the climate community – though it was welcomed warmly. But let’s go back to the beginning.
Vermont Law
JANUARY 18, 2016
Summary: Green-roof zoning laws may provide a solution to the Urban Heat Island Effect, which contributes to anthropogenic climate change through heat pollution originating from large cities. Green-roofs are an overlooked solution to the complex problem of heat pollution, which contributes to anthropogenic climate change.
Real Climate
AUGUST 9, 2021
Of all the troubling headlines emerging from the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) WG1 report, one warning will surely dominate headlines in the next days and weeks: Earth is likely to reach the crucial 1.5? Guest commentary by Malte Meinshausen, Zebedee Nicholls, and Piers Forster. Some background.
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