Legal Planet
MARCH 8, 2024
As we wrote in part 1 , a Swiss-led proposal to the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA) to establish an expert group on solar radiation management (SRM) proved divisive and was eventually withdrawn. As in 2019, when the Swiss brought forward a similar draft, the proposals this year were dramatically watered down over a series of negotiations.
Real Climate
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
But the effect of greenhouse gases is not even investigated in the paper – which suggests the title is politically motivated. The energy balance of our planet , the radiation arriving and leaving, is continually monitored by a global radiation network at the surface and by dedicated satellites. It is a scandal.
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Legal Planet
MARCH 7, 2024
In amongst proposals regarding plastic pollution, air quality, pesticides and circular economies, to mention but a few, the most controversial was a Swiss-led proposal to establish an expert group on solar radiation modification (SRM). As in 2019, many emphasised not only gaps in knowledge, but also the dominance of Northern ways of knowing.
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
If elimination is not politically feasible, they recommended canceling the Sentinel ICBM replacement program and extending the life of the current Minuteman ICBMs for at least another 20 years. The ICBMs are, at best, extra insurance that we do not need; at worst, they are a nuclear catastrophe waiting to happen.”
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 28, 2024
Unit 1 at Three Mile Island continued to operate until it was shut down in September, 2019 as a result of competition with natural gas-fired electric generation. Our information from the radiation protection staff on the island indicated otherwise. Read more here. Read more here. William Scranton, and then Gov.
Real Climate
NOVEMBER 11, 2023
We have examined the effect of the geographical distribution of measurements in a study that was cited by New Scientist in 2019 , and we found that the uneven distribution of thermometer measurements can give a misleading impression that the perceived warming rate has been slower than the actual global warming.
PA Environment Daily
AUGUST 16, 2023
Q/A begins about the 39:58 mark with former Post-Gazette reporter David Templeton, who with Don Hopey, reported on multiple rare cancers in a Washington County school district in 2019. They were venting raw [natural] gas along with radiation coming up from the ground. We wanted you to look into radiation, Dr. Levine said, "No." “We
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