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A Nobel pursuit

Real Climate

Manabe’s early focus was on radiative-convective equilibrium, and his seminal 1967 paper (with his longtime collaborator Richard Wetherald, who passed in 2011 ). As you will recall, Hansen had declared in 1988 that “the greenhouse effect is here!”, But let’s go back to the beginning. Hegerl et al., References.

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A CERES of fortunate events…

Real Climate

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. The simplest model for the greenhouse effect.

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Guest Essay: PA Conventional Oil/Gas Operators Blog: More Carbon Dioxide Is Good, Less Is Bad

PA Environment Daily

Data reported in a recent paper by Dr. Indur Goklany, and published by the CO2 Coalition, indicates that up to 50 percent of Earth’s vegetated areas became greener between 1982-2011. This is one reason why there was no runaway greenhouse warming when CO2 concentrations approached 20 times that of today.

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Getting physical with the climate crisis

Physics World

This figure will increase to nearly half of the world’s population by the end of the century, the authors say, even with drastic reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions. On balance, clouds nearer the stratosphere warm us, whereas low-lying clouds tend to cool us because their greenhouse effect is smaller. Limiting warming to 2?°C

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Green on Top: Zoning Against Climate Change with Green-Roof Legislation

Vermont Law

As Catherine Malina wrote in a Georgetown International Environmental Law Review article in 2011, however, green-roof zoning laws could be effective and cost-efficient options to mitigate heat pollution from urban microclimates known as. for example, allows both open-air and greenhouse rooftop farming. gency (EPA). ,

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RePlanet Nederland’s review of the draft Delegated Regulation on nuclear energy and gaseous fossil fuels in the sustainable finance taxonomy

Environmental Progress

The Regulation’s proposed criteria for gaseous fossil fuels (which includes both conventional natural gas, and synthetic gas derived from coal gasification) allow investment in their consumption without restriction in function, scale, or time period, as long as greenhouse gas emissions are no higher than 100 gCO2eq/kWh (see §4.29-31

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We are not reaching 1.5ºC earlier than previously thought

Real Climate

According to the AR6 findings, Earth’s average temperature in the last decade (2011-2020) was 1.09? On their own, our greenhouse gas emissions would have caused a much higher warming, were it not for the masking effect of aerosol pollution. warmer than pre-industrial times (here defined as 1850-1900).