Real Climate

APRIL 2, 2021

But this also raises other questions: 1) Can we expect the season to continue to lengthen as global warming from increasing concentration of globally well mixed greenhouse gas (GWM-GHG) continues to warm the Atlantic SSTs? In particular, they don’t just respond to SST changes, but also how the atmosphere changes as the SSTs change.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 5, 2023

The recent boost for CDR is linked to an emerging trend in climate policy which understands CDR as supplemental to urgent action on decarbonization and overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions (rather than a replacement for those activities). The IPCC, in the 2018 Glossary to their Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5º

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Frontiers

AUGUST 7, 2023

Writing as part of Frontiers’ guest editorials series, the study’s lead author – Prof Martin Siegert, deputy vice chancellor of the University of Exeter (Cornwall) – discusses how without there being a rapid shift to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, the Antarctic environment will experience ever more drastic changes.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

Illustrating the variation in sea levels from 1993 – 2018. Source: NASA (August 2018). Ideally, the best way to save these islands is to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions. Increased levels of greenhouse gases from human industry and agriculture are the root cause of the erosion occurring within the Pacific Islands.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Under the LCFS each fuel pathway gets a unique carbon intensity (CI) based on a lifecycle analysis of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production and use of the fuel. dairy herds fell by more than half between 2002 and 2019, with an accelerating rate of decline in 2018 and 2019, even as milk production continued to grow.”

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Just days before the conference she was featured in an article where she attempted to shift blame away from the fossil fuel industry by saying that oil companies can only decarbonize as fast as the rest of the economy – a comment that completely ignores the fact that the oil and gas industry is Canada’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

As air sunk through the atmosphere, it got squeezed and heated. This figure will increase to nearly half of the world’s population by the end of the century, the authors say, even with drastic reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions. Taken together, however, clouds in today’s atmosphere have an overall net cooling effect.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 10, 2023

This will be a game changer,” said Daniel Zavala-Araiza, Senior Scientist at Environmental Defense Fund, which created the MethaneSAT mission in 2018. MethaneAIR was developed jointly by MethaneSAT, Environmental Defense Fund, Harvard University and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.

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HumanNature

MARCH 24, 2022

In 2018 alone, it’s estimated that California’s wildfire damages amounted to nearly $149 billion. When forests burn, that carbon is released into the atmosphere and contributes to greenhouse gases (mostly as carbon dioxide). Forest Ecology and Management 2019 , 432 (October 2018), 694–706. link] (5) Bladon, K.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 1, 2022

It’s now widely acknowledged that to avoid catastrophic climate change we’ll need to physically remove CO2 from the atmosphere. By mid-century onwards, as much as 1 billion tonnes of carbon will need to be removed from the atmosphere each year.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

Recent studies have shown that there has been more than an eight-fold increase in summer forest fires in California over the years 1972 to 2018.[3]. 4] As our climate is warming due to rising emissions of greenhouse gases into our atmosphere, extreme weather events and intense variations in temperature are becoming more frequent. [5].

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

In a previous blog post , I briefly reviewed some of the innovative strategies to reduce methane emissions from agricultural livestock and rice operations, which have the potential to combat a significant source of global greenhouse gas emissions. Current AMMP projects are anticipated to reduce GHG emissions by about 1.1

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 20, 2023

Even atmospheric deposition — exhaust from cars, buildings, factories — can be sources of contaminants.” In 2018, Washington D.C. I often spend my time maintaining the mesocosms in the greenhouse,” Brown said. Fertilizers wash off lawns and end up in the drain,” she said. Brakes shed different types of metal.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 5, 2023

The increase regional VPD is mostly attributed to human-cause climate change (68%) and the rest (32%) is attributed to variations in the atmospheric circulation. High atmospheric “thirst” over multiple seasons or years can lead to drought conditions as vegetation dries out, and water flow in streams and rivers decreases.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JANUARY 17, 2024

As those paying attention to agriculture know, climate impacts have become increasingly apparent since the last assessment was published in 2018. Extreme events in the Northwest will include storms resulting from atmospheric rivers over the Pacific Ocean. Summer streamflows will be lower, and glaciers will continue to recede.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Methane is essential to control, since stabilizing climate requires reducing all anthropogenic greenhouse-gas emissions to net-zero. Atmospheric concentrations. That small concentration of methane in the atmosphere makes an outsized contribution to global heating. And more methane initiatives are surely on the way.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

For example, the ongoing debate over the impact of certain pesticides in agriculture , greenhouse gas emissions are often a battle between the science and industry's attempts to muddy the science and government lobbying to roll back legislation (2). Air emissions : Any gas emitted into the atmosphere from industrial or commercial activity.

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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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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the raising of livestock and growth of crops for human consumption represent 14% of global GHG emissions. While burning methane to generate energy releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, the overall climate impact is reduced and the gas could potentially replace fossil fuel sources.)

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Physics World

MARCH 16, 2022

Together with colleagues, he has analysed Australian astronomers’ total greenhouse-gas emissions over 2018–2019 from “regular activities” such as travelling, using supercomputers and working at large observatories. In 2018 each researcher at the institute emitted around 18 tCO 2 e ( Nat. Source of the problem.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

A second bill would require annual reporting of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by a covered firm’s operations. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has adopted a Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rule [25] requiring facilities that emit more than 25,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent to report their direct GHG emissions. [26]

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 8, 2021

In recent history, we have witnessed LUC exacerbating climate change due to disturbed soils, development of greenhouse gas (GHG) producing land uses, and more 4. World urbanization prospects: The 2018 revision, online edition. Department of Economic and Social Affairs PD New York, NY, 2018). PLoS ONE 13 , e0192822 (2018).

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

In 2018, results were published from the survey of pollution of agricultural land, which again warned of pollution risks in some soil. In China, cadmium in soil mainly comes from atmospheric deposition of the metal after it has been emitted from coal-burning, metallurgical facilities and animal-source fertilisers. Photo credit: Alamy.

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 20, 2023

The horrible impacts of Matthew’s rainfall would soon be repeated by others, like Harvey (2017) and Florence (2018). How are the folks at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) helping with all this extreme weather? Ultimately, Hurricane Matthew caused more than $16.5 This is not a coincidence or simply bad luck.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Second, there is robust scientific evidence of the link between greenhouse gas emissions, rising temperatures, and declining sea ice. 2018) ; Tartu et al. 2018) ; Aars et al. Less sea ice also means that bears must swim longer distances, which poses a drowning risk to young cubs. See, e.g., IPCC AR6 WGI Ch.3 3 ; Laidre et al.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

The California Supreme Court declined to review an intermediate appellate court’s decision upholding the statewide greenhouse gas cap-and-trade program. The magistrate judge’s order also set the trial to begin on February 5, 2018. California Supreme Court Denied Petitions to Review Ruling That Upheld Cap-and-Trade Program.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

But their plans to fill some of this gap with renewables, energy conservation, and other programs were derailed in 2018. Ontario Electricity Sector Greenhouse Gas Emissions Historical and Forecast. In fact, 2020 brought the largest single increase in methane in the atmosphere since we started measuring this in the 1980s.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 14, 2023

As the 2018 Farm Bill is set to expire on September 30, 2023, we believe this report is timely. CAFOs — specifically their large manure lagoons — are also a huge source of methane , a potent greenhouse gas, as well as ammonia, hydrogen sulfide and particulate matter, 3 all of which pose risks to human health. water resources.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

When I coauthored a 2018 peer-reviewed study in Science , for instance, I predicted where a particularly hazardous pesticide called chlorpyrifos could pollute waterways that manatees use to migrate in Florida. EN: You played a role in a 2018 lawsuit against the city of Flint, Michigan, over lead in its drinking water supply.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Minority Report Conclusion “The bottom line is, there is simply no suitable location for an LNG facility in Philadelphia or Southeastern Pennsylvania.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The court stated: “Plaintiffs’ claims for public nuisance, though pled as state-law claims, depend on a global complex of geophysical cause and effect involving all nations of the planet (and the oceans and atmosphere). 1, 2018; order denying remand and notice re tutorial Feb. 27, 2018; request for supplemental briefing Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

In June 2018, DEP finalized an Air Quality General Permit to reduce methane emissions from new unconventional oil and gas operations. Methane pollution not only harms those living locally but also has a significant global impact as a potent greenhouse gas responsible for nearly one-third of climate warming since the Industrial Revolution.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Circuit Court of Appeals granted motions seeking to dismiss as moot the proceedings challenging the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, which established emission guidelines for greenhouse gases from existing power plants. The court dismissed the proceedings 11 days after the effective date of the U.S. 15-1363 et al.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

The developing science of climatology with its understanding of the need for chemistry made scientists concerned for the future on seeing masses amounts of carbon released into the atmosphere (8) , but also (as it was previously) regarding trees as a resource and the potential for depletion. Southern White Rhino.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 1, 2022

In terms of ecosystem solutions to limit climate change, management of privately held forests in the United States is second only to reforestation in reducing the carbon dioxide piling up in the atmosphere, according to a 2018 study funded by NASA and private foundations. Reprinted from Chesapeake Bay Journal.)

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 25, 2024

By Joshua Bledsoe , Kevin Homrighausen , and John Detrich On December 2, 2023, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a final report that substantially increases estimates of the social cost of greenhouse gases (GHG), including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide (collectively, SC-GHG). 3d 1172 (9th Cir. 2016), [link].

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Plaintiffs aim to hold the federal government accountable for worsening the dangers of climate change through increased reliance on fossil fuels and for breach of its fiduciary obligation to protect the atmosphere and oceans under the public trust doctrine. In 2018, the Colombian Supreme Court. Win or lose, Juliana. over a dozen.

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