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Deciphering the ‘SPM AR6 WG1’ code

Real Climate

There is no doubt that we have changed Earth’s climate through our activities on a broad range of aspects that includes consequences for the atmosphere, the oceans, snow, ice, Earth’s fauna and ecosystems. In addition, ozone depletion higher up in the stratosphere has caused a cooling high up in the atmosphere. mm increase every year.

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Why is future sea level rise still so uncertain?

Real Climate

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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The CO2 problem in six easy steps (2022 Update)

Real Climate

For some parts of the spectrum, the IR can be either absorbed by CO 2 or by water vapour or by clouds, but taking those overlaps into account we find that 50% of the greenhouse effect is from water vapour, 25% from clouds, and about 20% from CO 2 and the rest absorbed by ozone, aerosols, and other trace gases ( Schmidt et al, 2010 ).

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Bike to Work!

Academy of Natural Sciences

Motor vehicle exhaust is one big source of ground-level ozone or smog, fine particulate matter, carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide. Because harmful emissions can make their way into the ground and water systems, these pollutants also contribute to ocean acidification, agricultural troubles and ecological destruction.

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Decarbonizing California Transportation by 2045

Science & Climate

The state funded the two studies through the 2019 Budget Act. Particulate matter harms lungs and hearts, while nitrogen oxide compounds contribute to ozone pollution and other health impacts. ← Previous Article: Seagrasses Turn Back the Clock on Ocean Acidification.

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Seeing the Earth through alien eyes: an extraterrestrial view of our planet

Physics World

Accompanied by artists’ impressions of volcanic landscapes or storms raging above shimmering oceans, such work makes distant planets feel somehow more real. The lines form a chemical fingerprint that could be used to find “biosignatures” such as oxygen or ozone. Transmission spectroscopy is limited too.

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ESA Policy News: October 24, 2022

ESA

She is a founding member of ESA’s Traditional Ecological Knowledge section and was a plenary speaker at the 2019 Annual Meeting. EPA – Public Meeting of the Chartered Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) and CASAC Ozone Review Panel (Nov. NOAA – Public Comment of the Interagency Working Group on Ocean Acidification (IWG-OA).

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