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A distraction due to errors, misunderstanding and misguided Norwegian statistics

Real Climate

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. See for instance Benestad (2016). Furthermore, the volume of the oceans increases from the melting of land ice.

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Emergency?

Legal Planet

Wildfire in Canada , smoke in NYC , heat domes in Texas , massive heat in the Atlantic ocean are just some of this month’s news. Citi, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America are also among the top five fossil financiers since 2016, the report found.” The leading edge of that disruption is already here.

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Using Clouds to Fight Climate Change

HumanNature

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. C temperature target.

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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The district court ruled that EPA was required to conduct such evaluations in October 2016 and set an expedited schedule for EPA’s compliance. 451962/2016 (N.Y. at its theme park in Jackson Township in Ocean County. at its theme park in Jackson Township in Ocean County. State of New Jersey v North Beach 1003, LLC , Nos.

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The Fuss about Methane

Legal Planet

First, underwater – in the sediments on the bottom of swamps, lakes, and the ocean. The most important recent change was a new measurement of methane’s infrared absorption in 2016. Even the Paris Rulebook specifies 100-year GWPs, although it also authorizes the use of other metrics (i.e., shorter time-horizon GWPs).

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5 Ocean Victories of 2021

Ocean Conservancy

But when I look back on this year, I am so energized by what we have accomplished for our ocean. Through a changing administration, an ongoing global pandemic and a tumultuous political environment, we at Ocean Conservancy have never lost sight of our goal of a healthy and resilient ocean that supports us all.

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October 2019 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The plaintiffs contended that environmental impact statements (EISs) from 2014 and 2016 should have been supplemented with new information about the forest’s natural regeneration and that the biomass plant should have been considered in the same EISs as the logging project. National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration , No.

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