Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Last week, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) released a new report with a clear message: The United States is a major contributor to the ocean plastic crisis, and we have no time to waste if we want to protect our ocean. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Love our content?

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 6, 2021

From implementing extended producer responsibility schemes to banning harmful single-use plastic items, governments at all levels have the ability to make a big difference on all forms of ocean plastic pollution. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. But as we all know, our ocean has no borders.

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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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Environmental News Bits

JULY 15, 2022

Source: Ocean Conservancy In February 2015, a groundbreaking paper was published in the journal Science that estimated, for the first time, how much plastic was entering the ocean from land due to mismanaged waste.

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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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Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

While more than 200,000 people flock to New York Fashion Week shows to get ahead of the curve on the next fashion trends, at Ocean Conservancy we have been doing some fashion analysis of our own. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Note that the short period 2015-2021 is not long enough to have the differences in emissions make a big dent in the concentrations or, subsequently, the climate). There are systematic differences in the Southern Ocean in recent decades between the observed and modeled SST trends. Maybe ( Cesana et al, subm ). Marshall, M. Russell, L.S.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The planet has accumulated as much heat in the past 15 years as it did in the previous 45 years; the ocean has absorbed the majority of this excess heat. Scientists have consistently warned that the continued burning of fossil fuels is heating the planet, including the ocean.

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Role in Global Ocean Plastic Waste ” by the National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine demonstrate just how prescient Mr. Maguire was. . Reckoning states that from 1966, one year before the Graduate was released, to 2015, global plastic production increased from 20 million metric tons to 381 million metric tons.

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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). Literally, the sea level projection runs off the page… (Stefan will have a more detailed assessment later). Figure SPM 8. 1, SPM, AR5.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 27, 2021

It’s also urgent because the oceans act like a flywheel, making sure that cuts in emission of greenhouse gases will have a lagged effect on global warming. This fact is underscored by recent weather-related calamities , such as flooding in Central Europe and heatwaves over North America.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Lead author Adam Gold , a watershed researcher for the Environmental Defense Fund, said the wild uncertainty is because the court arbitrarily created a new standard for federal protection divorced from the science of how wetlands support larger streams, rivers, lakes and the ocean.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

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. Furthermore, the volume of the oceans increases from the melting of land ice. The global sea level acts like the mercury in a thermometer because warmer water expands.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

These midden heaps left by our ancestors are evidence of the ocean food we cherish and yet, are now under threat from climate change, harmful algal blooms and ocean acidification. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. The post When The Tide is Out, The Table is Set appeared first on Ocean Conservancy.

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Real Climate

APRIL 2, 2021

2015 ) are not clearly supported. Bennartz, "The Role of Aerosols in the Evolution of Tropical North Atlantic Ocean Temperature Anomalies", Science , vol. Yeager, "Comment on "The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation without a role for ocean circulation"", Science , vol. 737-738, 2015. Klotzbach et al. 242-246, 2016.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 10, 2022

See more wonderful ocean animals! Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. The first description of this shark dubbed it an “ elusive creature, the serpent-like monster of the oceans.” In 2015 an Australian fisherman caught one and described the experience as something out of a horror movie.

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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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Physics World

JUNE 3, 2021

It will analyse Venus’ atmosphere to understand how it formed and evolved and determine whether Venus had an ocean. A hothouse. The last dedicated NASA mission to Venus was the Magellan spacecraft that launched on 4 May 1989 to map the surface of Venus. The post NASA selects two Venus missions for launch appeared first on Physics World.

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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

APRIL 28, 2022

Take the CMIP6 models that we have written about before ( #NotAllModels , Sensitive but Unclassified , Part II ): the biggest causes of diverging climate projections relates to Southern Ocean cloud feedbacks (Zelinka et al , 2020) , which is unconnected to resolution.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 1, 2022

That plant, approved by the Coastal Commission 15 years ago, commenced operation in 2015 and now provides a significant fraction of the San Diego metropolitan area’s freshwater supply. It’s also the largest desalination plant in the United States.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

My colleague Courtney Carmichael and I will represent Ocean Conservancy during these negotiating proceedings informing and advising negotiators and interested parties on policy for adoption in this agreement. What are Ocean Conservancy’s priorities for this agreement? There is no time to waste to tackle the ocean plastics crisis.

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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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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 29, 2022

When you think of water, you might imagine deep blue ocean waves crashing against a shoreline or perhaps the still calm of a forested lake, but on an August morning in the summer of 2015, the lockmaster at the Pike Island Lock and Dam saw something much different. Read the full story from U.S.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Each lantern shark comes equipped with big eyes to help them see in the darkness of the deep ocean, sharp spines behind their fins and photophores, which are bioluminescent organs that help light up their sides, fins and bellies. It’s why I feel called to protect our ocean, and you can join me by taking action and becoming an ocean advocate.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 28, 2021

Abandoned, lost or discarded fishing gear—also known as ghost gear—is one of the most visually arresting forms of ocean plastic pollution. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. The post A Proactive Approach to Preventing Ghost Gear appeared first on Ocean Conservancy. Never miss an update. Enter Your Email.loading.

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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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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Many are located along the San Francisco Bay, which is connected to the ocean via the Golden Gate. House Bill 5093, introduced in 2015, would have required water and sewer utilities to report annually on water rates, average monthly bills, and the number of water shutoffs by ZIP code and census tract.

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 23, 2022

Here at Ocean Conservancy, we know the ocean provides powerful solutions to the climate crisis. Waves are created when wind blows over the ocean, moving water molecules at its surface, creating ripples and, eventually, waves. Since 2015, the U.S. What is wave energy? Now, let’s dive in. What does wave energy look like?

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. From 2015 to 2017, Pacific cod abundance declined by over 70%. © Ocean Conservancy. © Ocean Conservancy. For fisheries to survive the challenges of climate change, we need more research to understand how they will respond to changing ocean conditions.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 11, 2024

target, which all countries agreed to in 2015, had been breached on nearly half of the days in 2023. This warms the surface waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean and contributes to higher global temperatures. The data demonstrated that on average 2023 was a whole 1.48 Extraordinarily, the data also showed that the 1.5C

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Candidate in the Department of Chemistry at Colorado State University Every minute, one garbage truck worth of plastic is dumped into our ocean. Between plastics and the health of our oceans? Between 1950 and 2015, humankind produced an estimated 8.3 Why is that a problem? Well, plastics were built to last.

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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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Law Columbia

MAY 24, 2024

There was little discussion, either in the written statements or at the oral hearing, of so-called “marine geoengineering” activities that seek to use the ocean to combat climate change. The hope is that the carbon will end up in the deep ocean, where it will remain stored for long periods, but that has not yet been proven.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 12, 2023

The interplay between the ocean and climate change is in the scientific literature , including recent reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The ocean is both a ‘victim’ of climate change (e.g., absorption of GHG by the oceans is the upstream cause of ocean acidification) and ‘part of the solution’ (e.g.,

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 13, 2021

degrees C threshold in the next decades which countries had agreed as the desirable target in 2015’s Paris Agreement. The report states that a warming climate does not just impact temperatures but other settled weather patterns in different regions such as changes to wetness and dryness, to winds, snow and ice, coastal areas and oceans.

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Legal Planet

JULY 5, 2023

Wildfire in Canada , smoke in NYC , heat domes in Texas , massive heat in the Atlantic ocean are just some of this month’s news. The world’s scientists warn of massive disruption to the planet in report after report. The leading edge of that disruption is already here.

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