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A distraction due to errors, misunderstanding and misguided Norwegian statistics

Real Climate

See for instance Benestad (2016). While temperatures provide a measure of the Earth’s climate, it is even better to use the global sea level , which provides a far more reliable measure. The global sea level acts like the mercury in a thermometer because warmer water expands. 679-688, 2016.

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“Fighting for Inches” in the Southeast’s Struggle With Salt

Circle of Blue

Despite promising adaptation strategies, sea level rise is projected to drown tens of thousands of acres of farmland within the century. Atlantic sea levels are rising three to four times faster than the global ocean average. in September 2016. Storm events are getting steadily more intense.

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AR6 of the best

Real Climate

Sea level rise is a big deal Use, abuse and misuse of the CMIP6 ensemble The radiative forcing bar chart has gone full circle Droughts and floods are complicated Don’t mention the hiatus. Sea Level Rise: The previous IPCC reports, notably AR4 and AR5 (to a lesser extent) , have had a hard time dealing with SLR.

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Cosmic challenge: protecting supercomputers from an extraterrestrial threat

Physics World

The impact of cosmic radiation is not always as trivial as determining who wins a Super Mario game, or as positive in its outcome. The culprit, again, was most likely cosmic radiation. An SEU bit flip was also held responsible for errors in an electronic voting machine in Belgium in 2003 that added 4096 extra votes to one candidate.

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Michael Shellenberger talks with Nick O’Malley, National Editor of Climate and the Environment, Sydney Morning Herald

Environmental Progress

And then I said — this was 2010, I came out as pro-nuclear, which was great timing because Fukushima happened next year, so just a bit for popularity — and then I decided to campaign for nuclear in 2016, because nuclear plants were being closed, mostly for political reasons, you know, and yes, there's cheap gas. Michael: No. It's all there.

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1,198 New Stories In 2021 - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA - Is Your Story Being Told?

PA Environment Daily

Wolf, AG Shapiro To Support A Total Ban On Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater; 240.4

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Policy News: June 28, 2021

ESA

The full Committee also approved amendments adding solar radiation management and wildfire science to the list of climate change research topics funded by the bill. He served as NOAA’s chief scientist from 2014 and 2016 and has also led both NOAA’s Office of Atmospheric Research and the National Ocean Service. An amendment from Rep.

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