Physics World

JUNE 3, 2021

NASA has announced it will send two missions to Venus to study the planet’s atmosphere and geological features. The Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging Plus (DAVINCI+), meanwhile, will be a probe that will dive through Venus’ atmosphere to precisely measure its composition down to the surface.

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AUGUST 31, 2015

On May 24, 2015 Pope Francis used his. Francis has outlined a three-pronged climate change fix: remove greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, restore ecosystems, and help the people who are most vulnerable to climate change with resources to adapt to our changing climate. He linked science, morality and church doctrine to do so.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The UN body the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) explained that the economic downturn brought on by nationwide lockdowns only caused a temporary downturn in emissions and was not enough to reverse the rising levels of greenhouse gasses (GHG) in the atmosphere. Not going in the right direction. It now looks like a distant pipedream. .”

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Updated analysis from 2020 shows that emissions traced to the 88 largest carbon producers contributed approximately 60 percent?of of the observed rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide and 52 percent of the rise in global average temperatures between 1880 and 2015. The transition to 100-percent renewables is possible.

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Candidate in the Department of Atmospheric Science and Trainee in the CSU InTERFEWS Program Figure 1: Cover art for The War of the Worlds novel by H.G. Wells’ classic The War of the Worlds, first published in 1897, to the scenes of comet debris raining down in the 2020 disaster film Greenland. in the atmosphere over the western U.S.

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HumanNature

APRIL 14, 2022

Alarmingly, a drought in 2012 cost the agricultural industry $30 billion (Rippey 2015). Losses of water from the soil and plants will lead to immediate losses of moisture to the atmosphere. 2020) and drought-resistant soil microorganisms that can be added to soil to help aid crops in their growth (Niu et al. Rippey, BR.

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Real Climate

APRIL 28, 2022

The connection between higher resolution and better weather forecasts lies in the decrease in numerical diffusion, and better ability to track the large scale synoptic situation, including the fronts and atmospheric rivers etc. before the chaotic nature of the weather renders forecasts unreliable. Myers, D.T. Chedley, P.M. Caldwell, P.

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Physics World

JUNE 16, 2021

to an unprecedented magnitude +1.64 – three times fainter – by February 2020. Their conclusion builds on work done in 2020, when a team led by Graham Harper of the University of Colorado, Boulder used photometry to observe light emitted by molecules of titanium oxide in the atmosphere of Betelgeuse.

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

This meant that these neutrinos – created when cosmic rays interact with nuclei in the upper atmosphere – were changing flavour as they passed through the Earth. Construction of KAGRA, which is based 200 m underground, began in 2010 and became operational in 2020. In 2020 he was nominated by the other SCJ members as its president. “I

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 13, 2024

I moved to Merced in 2015 to study for my PhD, and I found a place I could call home. The air quality for this report was calculated using data reviewed by EPA from 2020, 2021, and 2022. Ozone plays a dual role in our atmosphere. Why do I choose to stay in a place with such bad air quality?

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Physics World

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

It wasn’t until 2015, however, that the maximum critical temperature took a major leap forward with the discovery that hydrogen sulphide has a T c of 203 K when compressed to pressures of 150 GPa. And in 2020, another group reported observing a T c of 288 K in the C-S-H system at around 275 GPa. Superconductivity in cerium hydrides.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

degrees Fahrenheit) is a target to limit global-average heating that was adopted by nations in the 2015 Paris Agreement. So, I asked him what we should make of this alarming but confusing development in the study of global temperatures. Q: What exactly is the 1.5 C threshold? Celsius (or 2.7 C,” and “pursue efforts” to limit heating to 1.5

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

King calls for immediate testing and deployment of often-controversial carbon removal techniques to begin drawing down atmospheric greenhouse gases by tens of billions of tonnes per year. Human-caused climate change has run down the clock and soon there will be no time left to meet the goals set under the 2015 Paris agreement,” he writes.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The bankruptcies were set in motion even before 2020. Between 2015 and 2021, 274 North American oil and gas producers filed for bankruptcy with a debt load of $177 billion. In any case, it turned out that all of this fracked gas didn’t need to be profitable on the so-called “upstream” side to reach its dominant position today.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2022

However, during half that time, from 2015-2021, the direct costs to federal government for disasters was $315 billion. Over a decade, from 2007-2017 , the direct costs of extreme weather events to the federal government was $350 billion.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The 24-month study process begins with the Colorado Basin River Forecast Center, a team of scientists operating within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. From that baseline hydrologists feed their model, one by one, with historical weather observations from the years 1981 to 2015.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 13, 2024

The inspection report notes at least 13 violations at this well go back to an inspection on March 6, 2020 and at least three other inspections after that. Notices of violation were also issued for failure to restore the well site and failure to submit production and waste reports for 2020, 2021 and 2022 (Rimeer 4).

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The act of forest bathing is to take in the atmosphere with all of your senses and truly connect with the forest. Spending time in nature can also be beneficial to our communities, a 2015 study found that an increased exposure to nature among 2,000 people resulted in community cohesion and a lower crime rate.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 29, 2021

But the United Nations has just said that the latest commitments of the 192 parties of the 2015 Paris agreement will equate to a 16% rise in global greenhouse-gas emissions in 2030 compared to 2010. Steven Sherwood, atmospheric physicist, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. That trend may lead to a warming of about 2.7 °C

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HumanNature

MARCH 24, 2022

1,2 In 2020 alone, 46 million acres burned in Australia, and over 10 million acres burned in the United States. When forests burn, that carbon is released into the atmosphere and contributes to greenhouse gases (mostly as carbon dioxide). International Journal of Wildland Fire 2015 , 24 (7), 892–899. Larkin, N. Kolden, C.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

C warming estimate between 1850-1900 and 2006-2015. C is now 500 GtCO 2 starting from the beginning of 2020, with a 66% uncertainty range of 300–900 GtCO 2. Let’s dive into each piece of this puzzle to understand what has changed between SR1.5 Warming to date – SR1.5 used a 0.97°C These values can be used in a variety of ways.

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Physics World

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The work was published in the Astrophysical Journal in 2020 with Sheikh as the lead author ( 160 29 ). This $100m privately funded programme was launch in 2015 by Russian billionaires Julia and Yuri Milner. The whole team worked very hard, she says, even meeting on Christmas day, 2020. Sofia Sheikh.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 18, 2023

In this instance, 16 young people from across Montana, who were between 2 and 18 years old when the case was filed in 2020, brought their constitutional climate lawsuit, Held v. Globally, the cumulative number of climate change related cases has more than doubled since 2015, bringing the total number of cases to over 2,000.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 26, 2022

SS: My climate change research journey began in 2015 when I started my Ph.D. My research evolved over time, but initially focused on trying to understand how ice sheet collapse—specifically Antarctic ice sheet collapse—could impact climate change around the world through changes in the oceans, sea ice and atmosphere. at UMass Amherst.

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Physics World

APRIL 22, 2021

The report confirms, among other things, 2020 as the warmest year, winter and autumn on record for Europe with temperatures in winter 3.4 °C Preliminary estimates from satellite data indicate that global atmospheric carbon dioxide level increased by 0.6%, a slightly lower rate of increase than in recent years.

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Environmental Progress

MAY 28, 2020

According to the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2020 that was released this year, more than half of the world’s total GDP is moderately or highly dependent on nature. Food and agriculture, and buildings and construction accounted for nearly 70% of the world’s total material footprint in 2015. Footprints must fall.

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Real Climate

MAY 12, 2021

Meanwhile, note that the factors listed above involve the whole Earth system: the oceans, the cryosphere, the atmosphere, the solid earth and lithosphere, and a full range of scales, from the city block and shoreline, to ice dynamics that change over kilometers, to GRD footprints, to the whole global ocean. 2020) or Sadai et al.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 15, 2020

On January 10, 2020, the New York Attorney General’s Office stated that it will not appeal the trial court’s decision. Update: On January 17, 2020, the Ninth Circuit reversed the district court’s findings in Juliana in a 2-1 decision, holding that the plaintiffs did not have standing. United States is at the forefront.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 16, 2023

found that the companies—down to 88 due to mergers—were responsible for about 55 percent of ocean acidification between 1880 and 2015. Phillips, who has a doctorate degree in ecology from the University of Georgia, was a Kendall fellow at UCS from 2018 to 2020 and then a researcher at the University of Victoria in British Columbia.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Because methane has 28 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide and a shorter atmospheric life of only 12 years, immediate action to reduce methane emissions —including from agriculture—is critical to slow our warming climate, especially in light of expanding global populations and food demand. 2020 , Haque, 2018 , Vijn et al.,

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Physics World

OCTOBER 20, 2021

They do this by analysing the electromagnetic absorption spectra of an exoplanet’s atmosphere as it transits its sun, seeking the presence of gases such as oxygen, methane, water vapour and ozone (a proxy for oxygen). Analogous to technosignatures, these are the signs of life on alien worlds, intelligent or otherwise. Possible signal?

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HumanNature

APRIL 10, 2023

Student in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University Most people remember the water cycle they learned in school: water evaporates from lakes, rivers, and the ocean, air carrying this moisture rises, cools, condenses, and forms clouds, and these clouds precipitate water back down to the surface.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

Now however, the updates to the historical warming , the use of four datasets instead of one, and of course, the series of record breaking years subsequently (2014, 2015, 2016/2020), the issue of variability in decadal trends is no longer so salient. Russell, "Climate Impact of Increasing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide", Science , vol.

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OCTOBER 8, 2021

Denver Colorado (2015). SOIL 1 , 331–339 (2015). How to measure, report and verify soil carbon change to realize the potential of soil carbon sequestration for atmospheric greenhouse gas removal. Glob Change Biol 26 , 219–241 (2020). Nature News 525 , 179 (2015). 54 , 16086–16096 (2020). United Nations, D.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

His ‘three runs’ were the ensemble means from three scenarios (the different SSPs from 2015 to 2020), which a) barely differ from each other in forcing because of the minor differences in GHG concentrations over a mere five years and, b) are the ensemble means (at least for the runs with multiple ensemble members)!

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

They claim to embrace the Paris Agreement goals, yet their plans point to faraway 2050 goals and invoke technologies to capture and store carbon (CCS or CCUS) or to remove carbon from the atmosphere (CDR) as escape hatches that would allow them to continue to expand fossil fuel production and long-lived infrastructure. billion in 2021.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 5, 2023

BLM maintains that it cannot “pinpoint” the location of those effects; however, GHG emissions are well-mixed in the atmosphere, and thus the emissions from Willow will foreseeably contribute to a portion of sea ice loss across all regions where it is occurring. See, e.g., Ferguson et al. 2017) ; Laidre et al. Walsh , 467 F.

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