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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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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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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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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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. CO 2 levels in the atmosphere hit an all-time high in early May. “World Environment Day is a day of celebration.

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Breezometer

MAY 26, 2022

So far during 2022, Southeast Asia has experienced relatively less haze due to an ongoing La Niña event, an oceanic weather pattern in the Pacific that ushered wetter weather to the region since late 2020. Air pollution knows no national borders and can drift across countries and even oceans. What Exactly Causes the Haze Smoke?

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Wild-caught seafood from our ocean is no exception. Climate change is making the ocean warmer, more acidic and lower in oxygen. We need to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases to head off the most severe impacts of climate change, but we also need to take additional steps to help fisheries adapt.

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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. 2021) show that the trends in the EEI derived from CERES match what you get from the changes in ocean heat content. Satellite-derived trends in EEI compared to estimates from changes in ocean heat (Loeb et al.,

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JANUARY 17, 2024

On the other hand, the chapter’s assessment of alternative plant proteins is more measured, noting their potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions but also identifying the clear downsides in terms of increased needs for infrastructure and energy. The ocean trends affect the species composition of the seas.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 16, 2022

The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) estimates that the frequency of “major” high tide flooding events—i.e., when coastal water levels exceed four feet above the mean high water level—will increase by 400% between 2020 and 2050. Such planning has been endorsed by the U.S. You can access the toolkit here.

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Global Green

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Over the quarter of 2020, up to 47% of the electricity demand in the UK was met by renewable energy sources. Since then, gallons of water flowed under the bridge and the H 2 O-derived renewable energy evolved into two major outputs: hydropower and ocean energy. Ocean energy. Solar and wind. Hydropower. So, what?”. Geothermal.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

“It’s [the albedo is] kept the same” [False – for instance here is a paper (Loeb et al, 2020) comparing the changes in albedo in models to the CERES observations]. It is still the case that variations in cloud feedbacks are the dominant source of variability of climate sensitivity in models (Zelinka et al, 2020).

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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. 2020) or Sadai et al.

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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Methane is essential to control, since stabilizing climate requires reducing all anthropogenic greenhouse-gas emissions to net-zero. First, underwater – in the sediments on the bottom of swamps, lakes, and the ocean. Atmospheric concentrations. And more methane initiatives are surely on the way. Climate impact.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

Projections of (a) temperature (constrained), (b) Arctic sea ice area (raw CMIP6), (c) ocean pH (constrained), and sea level (d)to 2100, and (e) to 2300 (constrained). Since 2012, global surface temperature has warmed strongly, with the past five years (2016–2020) being the hottest five-year period between 1850 and 2020 ( high confidence ).

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

A similar bill passed the Senate in 2020 but did not advance in the House of Representatives. 6180 ) to incentivize removing invasive lionfish from the oceans. The October-December 2020 period was the warmest Arctic autumn on record dating back to 1900 and 2021 was the Arctic’s seventh warmest year on record. Executive Branch.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 14, 2023

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. Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad and Marcin Pietrzykowski (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Elsevier, 2020), 751.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Under the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), every country on Earth is treaty-bound to “avoid dangerous climate change”, and find ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions globally in an equitable way. Those five years were up on 31 December 2020, but the pandemic prevented many countries coming forward.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. May 1, 2020). Circuit’s partial vacatur in Mexichem Fluor, Inc. In Mexichem , the D.C. Natural Resources Defense Council v. Wheeler , No. 18-1172 (D.C. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. 4:18-cv-00073 (D.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

It has been a busy year for climate litigation and 2020 promises even more fireworks. 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.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 8, 2022

4) The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) oversees the administration of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). (5) 11) Global warming, in part, is a result of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. Greenhouse gases—such as carbon dioxide and methane—have a heat-trapping impact on climate. (12) Turner, Jr.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

On April 15, 2021, federal defendants, defendant-intervenors, and environmental groups filed a stipulation for dismissal of appeals of a district court’s November 2020 decision finding that the U.S. The federal defendants, the States of Wyoming and Utah, and several trade groups appealed the district court’s November 2020 decision.

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ESA

AUGUST 29, 2022

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration receives $500 million for climate and weather research and forecasting. Piloting Ecosystem Accounts for the Southeastern United States (May 21, 2020). NOAA – Notice of Matching Fund Opportunity for Ocean and Coastal Mapping and Request for Partnership Proposals.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 14, 2022

Already, the cost of “billion-dollar” weather and climate events as defined by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has mushroomed to around $150 billion a year over the last five years (adjusted for inflation). Future damages could dwarf current damages if greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated,” the OMB said.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

World leaders have made several major commitments at the meeting to date: Almost 90 countries joined an agreement to cut their methane emissions by 30% by 2030 from 2020 levels. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gets $1.5 Barton is a forest and fire ecologist at the University of Maine at Farmington.

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ESA

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Ahead of COP, ESA issued a statement calling on world leaders attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP26) in Glasgow to pledge immediate action to reduce carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and other greenhouse gas emissions that limits rising temperatures to 1.5? National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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ESA

MARCH 14, 2022

Maryland State Senate Committee advances a bill to reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions. The government has been operating under a series of stop-gap measures since October 2021 and Congress has not passed a full-year budget since December 2020. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration receives $5.88

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The SCC is a metric that seeks to capture all of the costs that emitting a ton of carbon dioxide (or equivalent amounts of other greenhouse gases such as methane) imposes on society by contributing to climate change over the hundreds of years it remains in the atmosphere. What Are the Key Variables Affecting the SCC Amount?

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

CEQ is also planning to revive guidance on how to factor greenhouse gas emissions and climate change into NEPA reviews, after Obama-era guidance was yanked by the Trump administration. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said it anticipates issuing a proposed rule in September updating its regulations for renewable energy generation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

It stops the government from factoring in the social cost of greenhouse gases in budgets and environmental reviews. The United States currently emits at least three times more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than all 54 nations in Africa combined. It blocks funding for state net zero programs and tighter building energy codes.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

HFCs are coolant gases which are used in heating, refrigeration, air condition and refrigeration and emit potent greenhouse gases. Improved satellite capabilities will benefit climate adaptation and mitigation, healthy oceans and resilient coastal communities. universities from 2011 to 2020 Sept. granting U.S. 28 at 1:00pm.

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ESA

JULY 26, 2021

This includes research about atmospheric composition, water and carbon cycles, computational modeling of climate systems, renewable energy technologies, materials sciences, and social, behavior and economic research on human responses to climate change. A similar bill passed the House in January 2020. NOAA receives $6.46 Michigan Reps.

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ESA

DECEMBER 5, 2022

National Committee for the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. The US Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Interior and the heads of the US Forest Service, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the US Agency for International Development would serve as ex-oficio members of the foundation’s board.

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ESA

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

1002 ) preventing any position in the federal competitive service, created after September 30, 2020, from being reclassified outside of merit system principles without the express consent of Congress. EPA : The draft annual greenhouse gas emissions inventory finds that U.S. emissions increased 5.5%

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ESA

APRIL 19, 2021

Among other things, the task force will review how to apply the social cost of greenhouse gas to environmental reviews of projects on Interior-managed land, according to the order. Carbon dioxide levels in atmosphere reach record high – The Guardian. New Mexico issues 2020 Forest Action Plan – Santa Fe New Mexican. 29 & 30).

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ESA

MAY 6, 2021

Climate change is reshaping our lands and our oceans and our coasts. We cannot confront climate change without doing a far better job to protect our forests, our oceans, our wetlands and our grasslands,” Gina McCarthy, the White House national climate adviser, said during the call. House in September 2020. Conservation: Reps.

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