Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

of the observed rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide and 52 percent of the rise in global average temperatures between 1880 and 2015. Data on the major carbon producers’ emissions have been published since 2014. The technology to keep the planet under 1.5 The database is transparent and available for all to see.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 20, 2021

While neither idea was ever implemented, both were examples of a “technosignature” or a “technomarker” – a tell-tale indication of past or present technological activity, pointing out the existence of an advanced planetary civilization. On average each star has one planet, but many host a family similar to our solar system.

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HumanNature

MARCH 24, 2022

When forests burn, that carbon is released into the atmosphere and contributes to greenhouse gases (mostly as carbon dioxide). Environmental Science and Technology 2014 , 48 (16), 8936–8943. This may result in previously forested areas shifting into other types of ecosystems, such as grasslands. link] (5) Bladon, K.

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Real Climate

MARCH 5, 2023

I had reason to be reviewing the history of MSU satellite retrievals for atmospheric temperatures recently. It’s a fascinating story of technology, creativity, hubris, error, imagination, rivalry, politics, and (for some) a search for scientific consilience – worthy of movie script perhaps? But it gets worse.

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A Greener Life

MAY 20, 2022

Corrales claims that since it has been in service, the Oruro plant has produced approximately 237-gigawatt hours (GWh) of energy, preventing more than 188,627 tonnes of CO2 from being emitted into the atmosphere, according to his calculations. The Bolivian government intends to install new plants of this type in the Altiplano region.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Several members of the Emmett Institute team are at COP28, where we are hosting a side event on methane in conjunction with the release of our new discussion paper, “ Advancing Methane Regulation: Implications of New Monitoring Technologies. ” Emitters can adopt many methane abatement practices and technologies at low-to-negative net cost.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Their collective trauma dates back to August 2, 2014, when she and half a million other Toledoans woke to alarming news: the water coming out of their taps was toxic. After the 2014 Toledo water crisis, the binational International Joint Commission tried to put a price tag on the event. Carl Ganter, Circle of Blue. September 20, 2022

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Vermont Law

APRIL 20, 2014

At the end of March 2014, Working Group II (WGII) unleashed upon the global community their contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). The scientific information presented in WGI highlights regions that may be affected by certain atmospheric phenomena. Kristin Campbell.

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HumanNature

JANUARY 26, 2024

Thankfully, our understanding of these interactions is expanding rapidly as technology, experimental assessments, and synthesis efforts are improving. They are the processes that allow our food to grow, clean the air we breathe, and attempt to keep atmospheric temperatures in check. Nature 610 : 693–698. Geisseler, D. Vilonen, L.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 30, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen The US government agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Coral Reef Watch is the world’s top coral reef monitoring body. Graphic credit: NOAA. It has been judged as global, as it impacts all three ocean basins – the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian – within a 365-day period.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

And though it lasts in the atmosphere for shorter period than CO 2 , cutting methane and other short-lived climate pollutants are critical for bending the curve of warming towards a more livable planet. Unabated fossil fuel projects mean those not mitigated with carbon capture technologies.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

million km2 and its result were published in a report in 2014. In China, cadmium in soil mainly comes from atmospheric deposition of the metal after it has been emitted from coal-burning, metallurgical facilities and animal-source fertilisers. Research has estimated that the soil could keep from the atmosphere the equivalent of 23.8

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

atmospheric CO2 levels. Since my 2012 “Fiddling as the World Floods and Burns” warnings, . cean acidity. levels continue to increase faster than at any know. n time in Earth’s past; . sea level rise. has accelerated with. a 233% increase in tidal flooding in the U.S.; . peaked in 2022 at 421 ppm, a first in millions of years; since Ja.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 9, 2015

Most focus on land-based initiatives such as The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s regional action plans that coordinate cleanups around the U.S. Humans rely on that food chain for survival, so plastics (and the hazardous chemicals they contain) can eventually damage our dinners and poison our ecosystems. through their .

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

EPA’s final rule leverages the latest cost-effective, innovative technologies and proven solutions to prevent an estimated 58 million tons of methane emissions from 2024 to 2038, the equivalent of 1.5 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide – nearly as much as all the carbon dioxide emitted by the power sector in 2021.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The way to do this that now looks most promising would be to spray a fine mist of reflective aerosols in the upper atmosphere. Concerns of this type have arisen in many areas of research and technology, notably going back to the first Asilomar conference on recombinant DNA experiments in 1973. to 1%) of incoming sunlight.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 1, 2022

The federal agencies responsible for more than 200 hatchery programs — including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. According to our analysis, salmon populations released from 2014 to 2018, the most recent years for which complete data was available, had some of the worst survival rates on record.

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 25, 2024

The report describes SC-GHG as “the monetary value of the net harm to society from emitting one metric ton of that GHG into the atmosphere in a given year.” [1] 2014), [link]. [14] The “central” discount rate refers to the discount rate in between a report’s low and high discount rates.) [5] 2016), [link]. [6] 2017), [link]. [7]

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

How this occurred is a story of law, policy, technology, and public investment that converged to improve Lake Erie’s water quality in the 1970s and 1980s, but began to falter starting in the late 1990s. . The technology measures plant growth and soil conditions.

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Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Technological change and agricultural modernization will significantly outweigh climate change in the U.S. Technological change and agricultural modernization will significantly outweigh climate change in the U.S. I will make four points in my testimony: 1. and around the world. and around the world.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2023

Tom Corbett lifted it briefly in 2014. And technological advances, along with more accurate geological information, have driven up the estimates of gas available in Marcellus Shale states. The moratorium remained until Republican Gov. Two years later, his Democratic successor, Gov. Tom Wolf, reinstated the ban. 27 Released 1.1

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Arati Prabhakar confirmed to be the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Rapid Ohia Death is a fungal pathogen that kills an average of 10% of native Ohia trees each year and has killed over a million Ohia trees since it was first found in Hawaii in 2014. Executive Branch. International.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Trump, the fact that each month is warmer than the same month the previous year has nothing to do with the adverse consequences associated with spewing obscene amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. 2, 2014). [8]. into the atmosphere each year, with no end in sight. Commercial technologies do not exist for removing CO.

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ESA

JUNE 28, 2021

Senators confirmed Richard Spinrad to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration by a voice vote. He served as NOAA’s chief scientist from 2014 and 2016 and has also led both NOAA’s Office of Atmospheric Research and the National Ocean Service. Spinrad is a professor of oceanography at Oregon State University.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration receives $1.24 The memo names pandemic readiness and prevention, tackling climate change, critical and emerging technologies, innovation for equity and national security and economic resilience as priority areas. NSF also receives $3.43

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ESA

MAY 6, 2021

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently announced the expansion of the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, nearly tripling the size of the sanctuary. 1213 ) that would direct the National Academies to identify the “top 10 emerging science and technology challenges” faced by the U.S.

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