Circle of Blue

JULY 9, 2025

It declared 2013 the year the world’s operating coal mines had reached peak production of 8 billion metric tons. Since 2013, the U.S. Not so terribly long ago the International Energy Agency issued one of the early century’s most optimistic projections for the environment, human health, and water quality.

Clean Energy

Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In 2022, the amount of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions nationwide was over one billion tons , making Japan the 5 th largest GHG emitter in the world. The earthquake and tsunami had a great impact on Japanese energy policy, leading to the shutdown of nuclear power plants for safety reasons.

2025

PA Environment Daily

JULY 31, 2025

The well sites, which were generally developed between 2011 and 2013, include-- -- Big Beaver Borough: Wall BEA 3H -- Chippewa Township: MAGA BEA 8H; Roberts BEA 6H -- Greene Township: Kirkwood BEA 8H -- Industry Borough: Cody Trust BEA 3H -- Ohioville Borough: David Burdick 3H; Fedorchak BEA 3H; James Tharp 3H -- South Beaver Township: David.

2023

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Flaring, demonstrated in the photo on the right, is the uncontrolled burning of excess or unwanted petroleum pools such as, excuse me, flaring can be a significant source of air pollution such as nitrogen oxides and greenhouse gas emissions. It is also an additional source of noise and light pollution.

Natural Gas

Environment + Energy Leader

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Japan's Sekisui Chemical set a target to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 26% by 2030 from a 2013 baseline. It is replacing aging facilities and buying more renewable energy to get there. The post Sekisui Chemical Is Upping The Ante on Its GHC Reduction Goals appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

Renewable Energy

Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

The problems with the SPM are similar those from the previous fifth assessment report which prompted me to write a post in 2013. I think in hindsight that my concerns from 2013 to some extent were supported by the fact that the IPCC organised an Expert Meeting on Communication, Oslo, Norway, 9–10 February 2016.

Atmosphere

Real Climate

MARCH 5, 2023

Instead, they chose to hide the structural uncertainty in the MSU retrievals (the TMT trends for 1979-2013 in UAH v5.5 TLT trends for 1979-2013 were 0.14± 0.05 McNider, "Satellite greenhouse signal", Nature , vol. But McNider and Christy chose not to do that. and RSS v3.3 and 0.08 +/- 0.05 For contrast, the UAH v5.5

2014

Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

And since the first IPCC estimates published in 2013, we have learned a lot and have gotten much better at estimating remaining carbon budgets. IPCC reported carbon budgets for the first time in 2013. in 2018, but they represent a significant update since AR5 in 2013. In the 2018 IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C

2018

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

22 degrees by 2050 because of both the reduced emissions and the dissipation of methane in the atmosphere, potentially allowing the world a bit more time to reduce and sequester other greenhouse gases. A worldwide methane emission reduction of 30 percent by 2030 could reduce global warming by.22

2030

Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

A friend asked me if a discussion paper published on Statistics Norway’s website, ‘ To what extent are temperature levels changing due to greenhouse gas emissions? ’, was purposely timed for the next climate summit ( COP28 ). I don’t know the answer to his question. But this discussion paper is problematic for sure.

Sea Level

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Number of cars are up, but gasoline use is down The number of passenger cars, trucks, and SUVs in California has continued to increase over the last ten years, from less than 23 million in 2013 to almost 29 million in 2023. Only around 50,000 EVs were on the road in 2013, but there are now over 1.5

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2023

But while greenhouse gas emissions may be reduced, a delivery fulfilled by a diesel-burning truck may lead to increases in emissions of smog-forming nitrogen oxides and lung-damaging particulate matter. While the latter part of this conclusion is obvious, the former part isn’t as much.

Nitrogen Oxides

Enviromental Defense

MARCH 5, 2024

There were fewer buses in service in peak periods across Canada in 2022 than there were in 2013, a year when transit systems served 2.7 Read the full report here The post How Canada Can Unlock the Power of Public Transit to Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions appeared first on Environmental Defence. million fewer people.

Greenhouse

Real Climate

AUGUST 13, 2021

The IPCC has introduced a new high-end risk scenario, stating that a global rise “approaching 2 m by 2100 and 5 m by 2150 under a very high greenhouse gas emissions scenario cannot be ruled out due to deep uncertainty in ice sheet processes.”. The IPCC gives more consideration to the large long-term sea-level rise beyond the year 2100.

Sea Level

Real Climate

APRIL 2, 2021

But this also raises other questions: 1) Can we expect the season to continue to lengthen as global warming from increasing concentration of globally well mixed greenhouse gas (GWM-GHG) continues to warm the Atlantic SSTs? 2013 ; Sobel et al. 447-458, 2013. 534-539, 2013. 390-393, 2017. Dunstone, D.M. Smith, B.B.B.

2020

Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

4171-4176, 2013. However, the searching for (and finding!) of solar correlations in all manner of climate records ( and non-climate records ) has been a staple of the ABC (‘Anything-but-CO 2 ‘) crowd since the 1980s. Love, "On the insignificance of Herschel's sunspot correlation", Geophysical Research Letters , vol. Laut, and J.

2005

Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

The radiative forcing bar chart has gone full circle: Almost every IPCC report has a version of the radiative bar chart showing the contributions over the historical period of all the different forcings (greenhouse gases, aerosols, solar, etc.). Work here will continue to advance, but the picture is clear only in a few regions so far.

Sea Level

Real Climate

MAY 12, 2021

The CPDW is thought to be affected by the shift in the westerly winds around Antarctica which have increased in recent decades due to a combination of greenhouse gas forcing and the polar ozone hole ( Miller et al, 2006 ). The last major revision (BedMap2) was in 2013 ( Fretwell et al., 375-393, 2013. 2020) or Sadai et al.

Sea Level

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The global climate crisis requires immediate action, and we can start here at home in our Commonwealth, where we produce more than one percent of global greenhouse gases annually. Thankfully, in Pennsylvania, we have a superpower in our Environmental Rights Amendment (ERA), stronger than in any other state in the country.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

AUGUST 31, 2021

United States case, plaintiffs sought an order directing the federal government to slash the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions. The plaintiffs had asked the court to issue a “remedial plan” that would require Montana to take many steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fossil fuel production in the state.

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Just days before the conference she was featured in an article where she attempted to shift blame away from the fossil fuel industry by saying that oil companies can only decarbonize as fast as the rest of the economy – a comment that completely ignores the fact that the oil and gas industry is Canada’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions.

Fossil Fuels

Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

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). Obviously, this goes most of the way to 1.5? of warming and human influence is pretty much the sole contributor to this observed warming.

Paris Agreement

Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The Alberta government is opposing any meaningful policy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that the federal government is attempting to implement. Of course, these are just three examples that happened to cross my desk within an hour of each other. Unfortunately, there are more.

Clean Energy

Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

One is strengthening commitments to reduce heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions in order to keep the planet from dangerously overheating. Dernbach said that Pennsylvania’s courts did not take the environmental rights amendment seriously until 2013, when they invalidated parts of a state law that encouraged oil and gas development.

2021

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The state of California uses these combinations of indicators to identify “disadvantaged communities” and prioritizes funds such as the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and the Sustainable Communities Planning Grants and Incentive Programs to benefit these communities that have historically been under-resourced.

Air Pollution

The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

By Jillian Marullo House Bill 788, signed into law on June 14, 2013, authorizes the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (“TCEQ”) to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases (“GHG”) “[t]o the extent that greenhouse gas emissions require authorization under federal law.” In July 2013, the D.C.

Greenhouse

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Ontario Power Generation has been quietly selling off Clean Energy Credits from its hydro and nuclear power to businesses in the United States since about 2013. But it actually just gives the company an excuse to continue its regular operations, without decreasing its own greenhouse gas emissions. The secrecy of the scheme.

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

AUGUST 17, 2022

Senate Bill 743 , originally enacted in 2013, called for a new transportation impact measure that promotes greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction and multimodal transportation. Traditionally, transportation impacts were evaluated in terms of level of service, which focuses on roadway congestion.

2013

A Greener Life

MAY 23, 2022

The heat trapped by human-induced greenhouse gases will warm the planet for many generations to come.” The annual increase from 2013 to 2021 is more than double the increase between 1993 to 2002. In a statement, WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas said “Our climate is changing before our eyes.

Ocean

Enviromental Defense

APRIL 3, 2023

As a result, between 2005 and 2017 greenhouse gas pollution from Ontario’s electricity system dropped by 93 per cent. Ontario Power Generation, a Crown corporation that generates a chunk of the province’s electricity, has been secretly selling clean energy credits since about 2013 and has made billions in profit from the sales.

Clean Energy

Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Since 2007, only 2009, 2013 and 2014 had more ice at the end of the melt season. One way to do that is to tell the Coast Guard to lead the way on reducing greenhouse gas emissions from ship traffic at the International Maritime Organization and to better prepare for climate-related changes here at home. But you can help turn the tide.

2021

Law Columbia

JUNE 26, 2023

In April 2013, the Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry developed the ‘Director-General Meeting Agreement’ that substantially loosened the assessment standards for building new coal-fired power plants. This led to the increased use of other energy sources, especially coal, for electricity generation.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 24, 2022

Fact: DCNR testified at the Senate’s March 4 budget hearing, 65 percent of the prime natural gas leases on State Forest land in 2008-2013 have not been developed. Fact: The PA Supreme Court issued a decision in 2013 declaring a similar provision in the Act 13 state law regulating oil and gas drilling unconstitutional. Read more here.

Natural Gas

Physics World

DECEMBER 10, 2021

It’s been a rosy picture to date, with management consultants Anchored-In reporting that 41 quantum-tech companies have been created in the UK since 2013, together raising over £245m in investment and employing 590 people. They can monitor leaks of methane – a potent greenhouse gas – from gas and oil wells. Having raised £3.1m

Technology

CEQA Developments

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Exposition Metro Line Construction Authority (2013) 57 Cal.4th My August 9, 2013 post on the case can be found here. 4th 204, taught that a project’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (and related climate change impacts) are cumulative impacts and constitute a rather “different animal” for CEQA analysis purposes.

2015

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2023

In 2013, it piloted a stormwater management project on the campus, planting over 600 trees and thousands of native plants, creating a woodland path, establishing a pollinator meadow, constructing a trail that links these elements together, and filling these spaces with environmental education signage.

Waste

HumanNature

OCTOBER 8, 2021

In recent history, we have witnessed LUC exacerbating climate change due to disturbed soils, development of greenhouse gas (GHG) producing land uses, and more 4. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 5 , 72–77 (2013). Colorado Greenhouse Gas Pollution Reduction Roadmap. Adhikari, B. & & Boag, G. Alexander, P.,

Climate Change