Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The 2020 Maine Fishermen’s Forum was the last conference I and many others attended before the pandemic shutdown. A simple statement that masks just how complicated the issues are: mixing politics, economics, livelihoods, fisheries and endangered species in the ocean body that is the Gulf of Maine. Sea levels are rising.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 27, 2022

Still, both the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) forecast , released on May 24, and the Colorado State University (CSU) forecast , released on April 7, predict a season with above-normal activity— for the seventh consecutive year. Can we expect more seasons like 2020 and 2021? Of course, we have questions!

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 31, 2023

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) forecast , released on May 25, calls for similar numbers: 12 to 17 total named storms, of which 5 to 9 could become hurricanes, with 1 to 4 being major.

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Real Climate

APRIL 2, 2021

By Jim Kossin, Tim Hall, Mike Mann, and Stefan Rahmstorf The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season broke a number of records , with the formation of an unprecedented 30 “named storms” (storms that reach wind-speed intensity of at least 18 m/s and are then given an official name). 2020 ), many others do not. 2021 ; Knutson et al.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The group’s annual report for 2020 found that 227 environmental advocates were killed for their activism, a new record high. The report’s authors say that although 2020 broke the record as the deadliest year for environmental activists, the numbers are likely even higher, since many attacks are not reported. degrees Celsius.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In Australia , many of the same areas that endured brutal bushfires in 2019 and 2020 are now drowning in record-setting rainfall. Australia smoldered during the epic “Black Summer” bush fires of 2019 and 2020. The island nation has always been at the mercy of climate patterns such as La Niña in the oceans that surround it.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 16, 2021

On the back of the dark and sombre Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) cli mate report released last week, the US government agency National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has confirmed that this July was the warmest month ever experienced on Earth. Photo credit: Photo: Josh Edelson / AFP.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The suit claims that BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, Shell, and the American Petroleum Institute misled the public despite clear knowledge that their products cause climate change. For more than 50 years , the fossil fuel industry has obstructed meaningful climate action. at UMass Amherst.

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Real Climate

MARCH 4, 2021

Two decades ago, in an interview with science journalist Richard Kerr for the journal Science, I coined the term the “Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation” (AMO) to describe an internal oscillation in the climate system resulting from interactions between North Atlantic ocean currents and wind patterns.

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Global Green

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Ultimately, the message conveyed by Moore is renewable technology is not enough to save our planet from climate change and the only way forward is for the human race to slow down. Over the quarter of 2020, up to 47% of the electricity demand in the UK was met by renewable energy sources. Ocean energy. Solar and wind.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

For almost a decade the watchdog for the federal government, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), has raised concerns over the need for the federal government to reduce its fiscal exposure by better managing climate change risks.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In every direction, climate change impacts are the destination. For 2022, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicted a season with above normal activity on its August 4 updated forecast , calling for 14-20 named storms. To make matters worse, some of these alerts can (and did!)

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JANUARY 17, 2024

from Chapter 4 of the Fifth National Climate Assessment The Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) was released on November 14, 2023. As those paying attention to agriculture know, climate impacts have become increasingly apparent since the last assessment was published in 2018.

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 25, 2021

Coast Guard icebreaker Healy will travel from the Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska through Arctic waters to the northern Atlantic Ocean. In the past, the Arctic Ocean–and the Northwest Passage in particular—was often choked with thick sea ice that made maritime voyages risky and arduous, even at the most favorable times of the year.

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Manning Law

JUNE 8, 2020

In celebration of Environment Day 2020 on June 5, we publish here in full the speech given by Inger Andersen, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme. Meanwhile, the climate emergency has not gone away. CO 2 levels in the atmosphere hit an all-time high in early May.

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Real Climate

APRIL 28, 2022

The connection between higher resolution and better weather forecasts lies in the decrease in numerical diffusion, and better ability to track the large scale synoptic situation, including the fronts and atmospheric rivers etc. Hazeleger, "A digital twin of Earth for the green transition", Nature Climate Change , vol.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 7, 2023

In addition, it stores vast quantities of freshwater that if released to the ocean would rise sea level by tens of meters and interfere with saline-driven ocean currents that transfer heat around the planet. The greatest temperature ever recorded on Antarctica occurred in February 2020, when the mercury hit 18.3C.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The climate system is connected largely through atmospheric waves that carry temperature, pressure, and wind signals which impact weather thousands of miles away. On longer timescales, the ocean connects global patterns through ocean circulation and sea level pressure. What is a forecast of opportunity?

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

Guest Post By Erin Boedicker , 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. When fuels are burned to create energy in a process called combustion, black carbon along with carbon monoxide and other compounds are created because there is not enough oxygen in the atmosphere for the reaction to go to completion.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

People in some places in the northern hemisphere might welcome a warmer climate, though probably not people in the US, Canada, Russia and many people in the Arctic, who have all suffered extreme heat and its tragic consequences such as huge wildfires this year alone. It beat a five-year-long record that had stood been measured since 2016.

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Breezometer

JANUARY 10, 2022

The jury is still out on the year’s total weather disaster-related economic costs, but according to NOAA (The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration), the first 9 months of 2021 alone saw 18 extreme weather events in the USA, making it the second-largest year on record. This is where climate tech comes in.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 16, 2022

Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), and the Initiative on Climate Risk and Resilience Law today released an Electric Resilience Toolkit to support policymakers and stakeholders working on issues around electric sector regulation and climate resilience planning.

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Washington Nature

JANUARY 18, 2023

On the Stillaguamish River, outmigration—when salmon leave their home stream to mature in the ocean—was less than 5% of normal April numbers. In November 2021, a series of back to back atmospheric rivers slammed into the region with record rainfall, inundating floodplain communities and catastrophically crumbling infrastructure.

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Physics World

APRIL 27, 2021

The rotation of the Earth has been affected over the past 25 years by the rapid melting of glaciers caused by climate change, according to a study done by scientists in China and Denmark. While significant, the shift is too small to be noticed in our daily lives.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Under this agreement, governments have committed to conserving at least 30% of land and of ocean globally, respecting the rights of Indigenous Peoples and recognizing contributions of Indigenous and traditional territories towards this goal. Canada must also take this ambition and leadership to international ocean fora.

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Breezometer

MAY 23, 2022

Is climate change making ‘firenadoes’ more likely? Can climate resilience technology help businesses protect people and property from such devastating wildfire events? This environmental spectacle occurs when a large region of extremely hot air, created by a wildfire interacts with cooler air higher up in the atmosphere.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

In the last few months he has given two interviews in which he goes into to detail about what he describes as a ‘missing element’ in climate science and what he imagines the consequences are for climate change. The second was a podcast with the somewhat troubled Chris Smith , an Australian journalist. .

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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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Environmental Progress

MAY 28, 2020

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is an intergovernmental body of 195 member states that is unequivocal on the science of climate change. It plays a critical role in providing regular assessments of the scientific basis of climate change, its impact and risks, and options for adaptation and mitigation.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The CERES estimates of the top-of-atmosphere radiative fluxes are available from 2001 to the present. Comparison of CERES SWup trends (blue) with inferred changes in Earthshine (black). 2021) show that the trends in the EEI derived from CERES match what you get from the changes in ocean heat content. It’s unlikely(?)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 16, 2023

But another major culprit is climate change, which has intensified the heat and drought that have always been factors in western North America. That climate change obviously didn’t just happen on its own. As a result, he was able to nail down the magnitude of what has been going into the atmosphere and its origin.

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Real Climate

MAY 12, 2021

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.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 30, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen The US government agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Coral Reef Watch is the world’s top coral reef monitoring body. According to Coral Reef Watch, more than 54% of the reef areas in the global oceans are experiencing bleaching-level heat stress.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Applications were evaluated for their degree of environmental protection, innovation, partnership, economic impact, consideration of climate change and sustainability, and outcomes achieved. In 2020, the project provided workforce development and safe, socially distant outdoor volunteer opportunities for the community.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

This post is an introduction to methane in climate change: where it comes from, how it’s different from CO 2 , how those differences matter, and what that all means for controls. First, underwater – in the sediments on the bottom of swamps, lakes, and the ocean. Atmospheric concentrations. Climate impact.

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

It also directs the Department of Defense to ensure that its core processes fully consider and make adjustments to account for climate change and ensure the climate resilience of DoD assets. A similar bill passed the Senate in 2020 but did not advance in the House of Representatives. The bill includes $514.3

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Breezometer

AUGUST 16, 2021

California's summer of 2021 has seen record-breaking wildfire outbreaks, surpassing 2020 by over 500 fire events by mid-July. Over the period of 2020 and 2021, California has also experienced its two largest wildfires ever , the Dixie and August Complex fires. 2020 Godzilla Sahara Dust Plume: Captured by BreezoMeter.

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