Physics World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The labs – including CERN, the European Space Agency, Fermilab and the Los Alamos National Laboratory – have announced that they will step up their scientific collaboration on carbon-neutral energy and climate change as well as share best practices to improve the carbon footprint of big-science facilities. Eager to learn.

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Inhabitant

AUGUST 17, 2021

Data released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows that July 2021 was the hottest month in recorded history. Due to climate change, the average monthly temperatures for July have risen in recent years.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 1, 2021

Urban infrastructure in many cities was not built for current and future climate pressures. By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — July 1, 2021. It’s hard to pin individual storms on climate change, but the science is clear that atmospheric warming leads to more events like last weekend’s rainfall.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Two recent papers by researchers at Penn State University point to significant changes in flood risk due to climate change. FEMA does a good job in mapping flood hazards, but the part we are incorporating is the future climate so we can understand the impact of climate on flood hazards and exposure," said Mejia.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

Many factors play a role including climate change, human development and forest management. Climate change as a threat multiplier The consequences of past forest management continue to reverberate today and are magnified as climate change heats up and dries out western North America’s forests.

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A Greener Life

JULY 15, 2022

Climate change threatens not just the amount of food that Indian farmers can grow, but also its nutritional quality. This thing, this climate change which everyone talks about, is very real. Photo credit: Alamy. By Fateh Veer Singh Guram. Scientists and researchers project that a 2.5

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

A recent atmospheric river in British Columbia leaves nearly 20,000 people stranded and thousands of animals dead. Human civilization is moving and with climate change and shifting water supplies, we face the greatest migration in human history. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. IN RECENT WATER NEWS. With Parag Khanna. 18,000 PEOPLE.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Climate Change Mitigation. The Governor approved a notable slate of climate legislation with a package that includes more stringent greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets and measures designed to reduce the state’s reliance on fossil fuels. A Few Notable Vetoes.

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Breezometer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

She leads numerous initiatives that promote a better understanding of our planet’s dynamic weather and climate changes. BreezoMeter’s own Paul Walsh is a data science leader in the realm of weather & climate sustainability strategy for small-medium enterprises (SMEs). Paul Walsh. Dr. Marshall Shepherd. Eric Blake.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The island nation has always been at the mercy of climate patterns such as La Niña in the oceans that surround it. But climate change and land use decisions have intensified these trends, plunging the country into one natural disaster after another. Why it matters: Across the world, the cycle of disaster is accelerating.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Take Action for Climate-Ready Fisheries. The ocean has buffered our planet from the impacts of climate change, absorbing much of the carbon dioxide we’ve emitted and a substantial amount of the heat from our warming atmosphere. We know these changes are happening, and we know they will get worse. 1] Cheung, W.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

One strategy is to counterbalance carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions that contribute to climate change by drawing an equal amount of carbon out of the atmosphere, such as through planting trees.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 7, 2021

One is climate change. Heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere are spiking not only global air temperatures, but also water temperatures. The post What’s Up With Water – June 7, 2021 appeared first on Circle of Blue. The study was published in the journal Nature. Warmer water absorbs less oxygen.

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Acoel

AUGUST 10, 2021

Posted on August 10, 2021 by Seth Jaffe. The IPCC has released its Sixth Assessment Report on the physical science basis of climate change. Here are a number of the lowlights: It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

That 2013 headline resulted from the first effort to quantify emissions from the ‘carbon majors’ —fossil fuel companies and cement manufacturers whose businesses have contributed an outsized amount of heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 1, 2022

The August newsletter from the Pike County Conservation District includes articles on riparian buffers and climate change and forests as part of the District's Forestry month education initiative. While these shifts can have a major impact on the planet’s forests, the forests can also have a major impact on climate change.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 12, 2021

A relentless interval of hot, dry weather, made worse by heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere, has turned this section of the state into a cauldron of flame, dust, and smoke. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of the world’s leading climate scientists, released its sixth climate assessment on Monday.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Over the past 20 years, the majority of flood losses have occurred in Asia, where climate change-induced rainfall is expected to hit the hardest. Climate change is poised to thrust billions more into water insecurity. Climate change is poised to thrust billions more into water insecurity. billion in 2018.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 23, 2023

decrease was due to other states enacting their own climate policy, so the U.S. figure is not necessarily the right benchmark for where California would be if it and other states hadn’t tackled climate change. Some of the U.S. California Has Done Especially Well at Reducing Power Sector emissions. Note on data.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Heavy rainfall is becoming more frequent across South Sudan as climate change worsens. HotSpots H2O: Unusually Powerful ‘Atmospheric River’ Pummels British Columbia and Pacific Northwest – This summer’s heat wave and wildfires weakened the landscape’s ability to absorb rainfall, further contributing to the destruction.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Scientists attribute the drought’s severity to climate change, deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, and the La Niña weather pattern. By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — October 4, 2021. By the end of this century, the region’s annual rainfall is expected to drop by up to 30 percent due to climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2023

The onslaught has led to another round of media headlines and press releases from environmental and public health groups asking whether the nation is at a tipping point of urgency to fight climate change. A Vox headline on the orange skies from Canadian wildfires said, “Wildfire smoke reminded people about climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Harvesting The Sun For Climate Change program at the Hershey Gardens Conservatory , 170 Hotel Road in Hershey, Dauphin County starting at 7:00 p.m. Biological processes are important in reaching a carbon-negative future that reduces greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. Posted: October 12, 2021] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Penn State Extension will host another in its Water Cooler Talk series December 29 on Pennsylvania Flood Risk With Climate Change from Noon to 1:00 p.m. They also say that as time and climate change progress, the 100-year flood maps change as well. Click Here to register for the webinar.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

I followed with great interest the launch of the sixth assessment report Working Group 1 (The Physical Science Basis) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on August 9th. In my opinion the press conference on 9 August 2021 didn’t do justice to the vast effort that went into it.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2022

Here is a summary of the findings-- Americans continue to favor reducing greenhouse gas emissions as their preferred approach for staving off the worst impacts of climate change, according to new public opinion findings. At the same time, increasing evidence mounted of intensifying climate impacts in America and beyond.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

Likely climate change impacts in New Zealand | Ministry for the Environment, 2019). The science behind climate change. Climate change, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is the noticeable change in the climate across time (decades or longer).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 11, 2023

This disaster should serve as a sobering reminder that policymakers and the agriculture industry need to do more to adapt to our changing climate. A 2021 UCS study quantified the impact of nitrates—a by-product of nitrogen-based fertilizers—in drinking water in Iowa, a state heavily impacted by farm runoff. A new Dust Bowl?

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

are used all over the world, based on calculations that quantify the effects of physical mechanisms and the way different parts of the atmosphere are connected to each other. The physics-based models describe how energy flows through the atmosphere and ocean, as well as how the forces from different air masses push against each other.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 2, 2023

Over the past 30-40 years, wildfire data show a clear signal from climate change: As global temperatures have warmed over the past several decades, western wildfires have worsened by nearly every metric, from the number, size, and severity of fires to the length of wildfire season.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 10, 2023

This year has brought new evidence of what major fossil fuel companies knew and when about the role their products play in climate change, as well as what they did in spite of what they knew. I is for Intensity Targets Reducing global warming emissions intensity alone is not sufficient to slow the pace of climate change.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Climate change has made rainfall in the Sahel more variable, straining Cameroon’s agriculture industry and sparking ethnic tensions. The deadly clashes reflect heightened competition over natural resources in an area experiencing rapid environmental change. By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — December 20, 2021.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

10 from IPCC (2021). 2 from IPCC (2021). How have these estimates changed since previous reports? in Canadell et al (2021). Source: Data from IPCC (2014), Rogelj et al (2018), and IPCC (2021). Source: Data from IPCC (2014), Rogelj et al (2018), and IPCC (2021). in Canadell et al (2021).

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Media awareness about global warming and climate change has grown fairly steadily since 2004. My impression is that journalists today tend to possess a higher climate literacy than before. Hazeleger, "Boundary layer stability and Arctic climate change: a feedback study using EC-Earth", Climate Dynamics , vol.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

While climate adaptation planning is more widespread than ever, the U.N. T here is a huge gulf between what communities are spending to prepare for climate change and what they ought to spend, a new U.N. This gap is widening, as the costs of climate adaptation increase due to rising global temperatures. report found.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 18, 2022

Each year, summer-like temperatures arrive all too soon during spring, thanks to human-induced climate change. Because as we know, climate change has become a climate crisis. Congress must also pass the Preventing HEAT Illness and Deaths Act of 2021 ( S.2510 Photo is author’s own. Think about that.”.

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Inside Climate News

DECEMBER 29, 2022

—At a sprawling 3M chemical manufacturing complex here, where the company makes adhesives for Post-it notes, golf clubs and LCD displays, several hundred pounds of a potent climate killer are vented into the atmosphere each day.

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