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Wind Industry Activity Strongly Correlated With Whale Deaths, New Study Finds

Environmental Progress

Since 2015.” LISA LINOWES and ERIC TURNER on behalf of the SAVE RIGHT WHALES COALITION Since 2016, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has declared three Unusual Mortality Events (UME) involving large whale species in the Atlantic Ocean. The change in vessel activity after 2015 coincided with the U.S.

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New misguided interpretations of the greenhouse effect from William Kininmonth

Real Climate

When looking at the effect of changes in greenhouse gases, one must look at how their forcing corresponds to the energy balance at the top of the atmosphere. 2015) , and this is also applies to Kininmonth’s calculations. 699-703, 2015. References. 679-688, 2016. Nuccitelli, S. Lewandowsky, K. Hayhoe, H.O. van Dorland, and J.

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As Soon as Possible

Real Climate

2015 ; Connolly et al, 2021 ). And also, let’s be clear, this mysteriously justified temperature series has been created explicitly to demonstrate a connection to the HS93 solar reconstruction – that was the case in the Soon et al (2015) paper, the Connolloy et al (2021) paper and now in this new Soon et al paper.

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What Is Vapor Pressure Deficit (VPD) and What Is Its Connection to Wildfires?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Foundations of vapor pressure deficit Two principles of physics are key to understanding VPD and how it interacts with our ecosystems and atmosphere, which ultimately affect fire risk. Over multiple weeks and months, a consistently thirsty atmosphere , pulling water out of plants, can lead to dead or, at a minimum, really dry vegetation.

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2023 confirmed as the warmest year ever recorded

A Greener Life

degrees Celsius warmer than in the 1850-1900 pre-industrial period, when humans began burning fossil fuels on an industrial scale, pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. target, which all countries agreed to in 2015, had been breached on nearly half of the days in 2023. The data demonstrated that on average 2023 was a whole 1.48

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How can the world combat the climate crisis?

Inhabitant

In order to avoid the risks brought about by climate change, we must control greenhouse gases (GHGs) from being released into the atmosphere and boost the means of sequestering them. This figure was chosen in the 2015 Paris Agreement, the world's first holistic climate-related treaty.

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The world crosses the crucial 1.5 degrees C threshold over 12 months for the first time as the first month of 2024 is the warmest January ever recorded

A Greener Life

During the 2015 UN climate summit, COP19, held in Paris – the world’s nations agreed to set a target to keep temperatures from rising above 1.5 The previous warmest January was recorded three years ago, January 2020, showing that extreme weather events and temperature records are being broken on a more and more frequent basis.

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