Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 4, 2024
That 2013 headline resulted from the first effort to quantify emissions from the ‘carbon majors’ —fossil fuel companies and cement manufacturers whose businesses have contributed an outsized amount of heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere. Nearly two-thirds of industrial heat-trapping emissions can be traced to just 90 entities.
Real Climate
MAY 12, 2021
Three new papers in the last couple of weeks have each made separate claims about whether sea level rise from the loss of ice in West Antarctica is more or less than you might have thought last month and with more or less certainty. The last major revision (BedMap2) was in 2013 ( Fretwell et al., But there is more.
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Real Climate
NOVEMBER 11, 2023
While temperatures provide a measure of the Earth’s climate, it is even better to use the global sea level , which provides a far more reliable measure. The global sea level acts like the mercury in a thermometer because warmer water expands.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 20, 2023
The new paper in Science summarizes key statements by ExxonMobil executives between 2000 and 2013 that cast doubt on the science. Research produced by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has shown that rising temperatures, sea level rise , and ocean acidification have all been made worse by fossil fuel companies’ activities and products.
Circle of Blue
JULY 20, 2022
The report recorded 62 serious pollution incidents last year, the highest total since 2013. Although total pollution incidents declined, the EA wrote that trends had not improved since 2015 and compliance with permits to discharge wastewater had worsened since 2020. Jane Johnston, Stream Editor. Recent WaterNews from Circle of Blue.
Academy of Natural Sciences
APRIL 26, 2021
© GIDEON MENDEL, Vilian Sousa da Silva,Taquari District, Rio Branco, Brazil, March 2015 C-print. Haiti (2008), Pakistan (2010), Australia and Thailand (2011), Nigeria (2012), Germany and The Philippines (2013),?England?and and India (2014), Brazil and Bangladesh (2015) and France (2016 and 2018). Courtesy of the artist.
Circle of Blue
JUNE 2, 2021
The first of these shortage tiers — at 1,075 feet above sea level — is expected to be breached next year. Mead is currently at 1,073 feet, but for shortage determinations, it is the projected level in the following January that matters. million acre-feet of ICS in Mead today. About half belongs to Met.
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