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Detroit Flooding Previews Risks from a Warming Climate

Circle of Blue

Warmer global temperatures cause more water to evaporate from Earth’s surface and oceans, meaning that there is more fuel for storms. It’s hard to pin individual storms on climate change, but the science is clear that atmospheric warming leads to more events like last weekend’s rainfall. Notorious4life.

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Analysis: Moving the dial on ocean-based CO2 removal

A Greener Life

Two reports published in the US look seriously at the practicalities and responsibilities of altering the ocean to tackle the climate crisis. It’s now widely acknowledged that to avoid catastrophic climate change we’ll need to physically remove CO2 from the atmosphere. The ocean as a carbon sink.

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Luzerne County Native Dr. Kate Moran Honored For Ocean Science And Planet Sustainability Leadership By Canada

PA Environment Daily

On June 30, Ocean Networks Canada's CEO Dr. Kate Moran was recognized for her contributions to support ocean and planet sustainability with her appointment as Officer of the Order of Canada by Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada.

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Old habits

Real Climate

But because land isn’t quite as dark as the surface of the ocean, it doesn’t cause as much additional heating. This is partly why the South Pole (which is covered by the Antarctic continent) isn’t warming as fast as the North Pole (which is surrounded by ocean). 2012) , as well as heat transport from lower latitudes. Aue, and A.

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Webinar: Illinois’ Coastal Management Program – working to sustain our many resources

Environmental News Bits

The Illinois Coastal Management Program (CMP) was established in 2012 as part of the National Coastal Zone Management Program, administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Oct 28, 2021 noon-1:00 pmRegister here.

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The world just experienced its warmest month ever

A Greener Life

On the back of the dark and sombre Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) cli mate report released last week, the US government agency National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has confirmed that this July was the warmest month ever experienced on Earth. By Anders Lorenzen. Photo credit: NOAA NCEI.

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Back in Black: Creating positive changes by focusing on a short-lived pollutant

HumanNature

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.,