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.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

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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NOVEMBER 11, 2023

are used all over the world, based on calculations that quantify the effects of physical mechanisms and the way different parts of the atmosphere are connected to each other. The physics-based models describe how energy flows through the atmosphere and ocean, as well as how the forces from different air masses push against each other.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 31, 2023

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) forecast , released on May 25, calls for similar numbers: 12 to 17 total named storms, of which 5 to 9 could become hurricanes, with 1 to 4 being major.

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Real Climate

APRIL 2, 2021

The difference is due largely to the differences in the regional atmospheric response that occurs in concert with the SST warming. In particular, they don’t just respond to SST changes, but also how the atmosphere changes as the SSTs change. 2015 ) are not clearly supported. 2016 ), could increase again in concentration.

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Physics World

MAY 4, 2022

Accompanied by artists’ impressions of volcanic landscapes or storms raging above shimmering oceans, such work makes distant planets feel somehow more real. One is transmission spectroscopy, which looks at the spectrum of starlight that has passed through an exoplanet’s atmosphere. Transmission spectroscopy is limited too.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 1, 2022

Hatcheries like the Carson National Fish Hatchery, pictured here, breed millions of salmon and let them grow until they are mature enough to be released so they can try to swim to the ocean. Nearly 250 million young salmon, most of them from hatcheries, head to the ocean each year — roughly three times as many as before any dams were built.

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

When fuels are burned to create energy in a process called combustion, black carbon along with carbon monoxide and other compounds are created because there is not enough oxygen in the atmosphere for the reaction to go to completion. Whenever there are combustion processes, of which there are many in our industrial society (e.g.,

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 20, 2023

Some of the highest risks can be found in the candidates’ home states: the ocean off of Florida has hit 98 degrees— hot tub temp s! In 2015 Senator Kelly Ayotte supported the EPA Clean Power Plan. Vermont is recovering from catastrophic floods, as is New Hampshire, also on the heels of a weather-related agricultural wipeout.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 14, 2022

Already, the cost of “billion-dollar” weather and climate events as defined by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has mushroomed to around $150 billion a year over the last five years (adjusted for inflation).

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Being the predicted outcome of burning fossil fuels, our best and only plan to limit warming is to reduce CO 2 emissions from human activities to ‘net zero’ – where the amount of CO 2 we emit into the atmosphere is equal to the amount we remove from it. C limit of the 2015 Paris Agreement, this needs to happen as soon as possible.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 30, 2023

At least nine atmospheric rivers blasted California between December 20th and January 15th, causing flooding and extensive damage, while also delivering much needed precipitation to our parched state. But during extreme events, like the recent atmospheric rivers, larger infrastructure investments are necessary. Measure W is working.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 20, 2023

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. The company’s own research estimated that to prevent the average temperature from rising beyond 2 degrees Centigrade (3.6

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

Projections of (a) temperature (constrained), (b) Arctic sea ice area (raw CMIP6), (c) ocean pH (constrained), and sea level (d)to 2100, and (e) to 2300 (constrained). Russell, "Climate Impact of Increasing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide", Science , vol. Figure SPM 8. 1, SPM, AR5. Johnson, A. Lebedeff, P. Rind, and G. 957-966, 1981.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

In 2015, when he took office as AG after stints in the Texas Legislature, he sued the Environmental Protection Agency for strengthening a standard for ground-level ozone, better known as smog. How has Paxton responded? Meanwhile, the state has suffered 79 tropical or subtropical cyclones since 2000.

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A Greener Life

MAY 9, 2022

This tropical Pacific Ocean phenomenon affects weather in South America, Australia, Asia, and beyond. During an El Niño event, the sea surface temperature of the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean warms, and trade winds weaken. Modelling a future of more frequent extremes.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 1, 2023

For instance, at the US Fish and Wildlife Service, 72 percent (140 respondents) said they felt they had been adequately trained on scientific integrity policies, an increase of 16 percent compared to our 2018 results (56 percent, 189 respondents), and an increase of 40 percent compared to results from 2015 (32 percent, 250 respondents).

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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.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Its predecessor, the Peatland Restoration Agency (PRA), was formed in 2015 after Indonesia experienced historical forest fires connected to peatland degradation. Managing the oceans sustainably is a global issue, and as the world’s largest archipelago nation, Indonesia can play a leading role,” said Pengestu.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 28, 2021

The Global Witness data found that 40 percent of all victims in 2019 were Indigenous, and more than a third of the attacks between 2015 and 2019 targeted Indigenous peoples. ———. Indigenous groups suffer more than others. In the United States, farmers in Arkansas continue to deplete their groundwater reserves. Consider this chain of events.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 9, 2023

Biden could, they say, reinstate a relatively popular ban that was in place for years until 2015 by unilaterally banning all crude oil exports. has already experienced 12 separate one-billion-dollar climate-related disasters this year, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

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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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.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 19, 2023

Products that bear the label “carbon neutral” are supposed to be produced with no added emissions to the atmosphere. The National Forests Foundation advertises that for every $2 donation, they’ll plant two trees that will remove or offset 1 metric ton of CO2e from the atmosphere for the life of those trees. But can you trust it?

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Circle of Blue

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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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Plastics are harmful pollutants that burden our economy and threaten the health of our environment including our wildlife, rivers, lakes and oceans. The CEPA listing is the first step in Canada’s efforts to curb the fatal flow of plastic into our oceans, and one we’re pleased to support in court.”. Background.

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Earthava

APRIL 13, 2021

Blue whales, Balaenoptera musculus, make their homes in the planet’s vast open oceans where most migrate thousands of miles annually to feed, mate, and raise calves. There is also the Indian Ocean blue whale, Northern blue whale, and Pygmy blue whale. How Big Is A Blue Whale? One blue whale is approximately the weight of.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said it anticipates issuing a proposed rule in September updating its regulations for renewable energy generation. She also voiced support for the Obama administration’s 2015 sage grouse conservation plans and the Trump administration’s plans to remove wild horses and burros from public lands.

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ESA

MARCH 14, 2022

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration receives $5.88 under the Clean Water Act to the pre-2015 standard. In 2015, the Obama administration implemented the Clean Water Rule and in 2019, the Trump administration replaced the Clean Water Rule with the Navigable Waters Protection Rule. increase to $9.56

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ESA

MAY 15, 2023

Chellie Pingree (D-ME)’s Coastal Communities Ocean Acidification Act ( H.R. This bill requires the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to collaborate with state and local governments and Indian Tribes on vulnerability assessments related to ocean acidification. Legislative updates: The full House approved Rep.

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ESA

JULY 1, 2022

In the past, ESA and other science societies have supported the 2015 definition of WOTUS that is based in sound science including endorsing an amicus brief in a former court case. Top line agency numbers in the spending bills include: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration receives $6.8 billion, a $908.6

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Cop stands for conference of the parties under the UNFCCC, and the annual meetings have swung between fractious and soporific, interspersed with moments of high drama and the occasional triumph ( the Paris agreement in 2015 ) and disaster (Copenhagen in 2009). Why do we need a Cop – don’t we already have the Paris agreement?

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The climate crisis cannot be solved unless we halt the transfer of carbon from its terrestrial tomb to the atmosphere. They also finalized the Paris Agreement Rulebook which means that carbon trading and carbon market aspirations outlined in the 2015 Paris Agreement are now operational and implementable. BOGA attacks the source.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 2, 2016

A dentist from the United States, Dr. Walter Palmer, paid to go on a trophy hunt in July, 2015. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Ed Hetherington Photography. Zimbabwe on the Hwange National Park and was part of an Oxford University study. During the hunt, Dr. Palmer. shot and killed Cecil. FWS) and the.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Acidification : Reducing the pH rating of a substance making it more acidic in nature, for example, increased carbon emissions lead to the oceans absorbing more of it, increasing acidification and damaging ecology such as coral bleaching. Air emissions : Any gas emitted into the atmosphere from industrial or commercial activity.

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