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What’s Up With Water – September 20, 2021

Circle of Blue

It stressed the need to reduce the release of heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere, and to limit global warming to 1.5 He explained, “We’re trying to think of this as a development priority as opposed to a nature conservation priority.”. Muruven said “We’ve taken the conservation benefit and put that secondary.

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What’s Up With Water – June 7, 2021

Circle of Blue

Heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere are spiking not only global air temperatures, but also water temperatures. It was designed to incentivize water conservation, prevent waste, and boost storage in a waning Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the U.S. The study was published in the journal Nature. One is climate change.

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A CERES of fortunate events…

Real Climate

The CERES estimates of the top-of-atmosphere radiative fluxes are available from 2001 to the present. 2021) also reported on a two decade estimate of Earthshine measurements which appear to confirm a small decrease in albedo (and decrease in reflected short wave (SW) radiation). But what can be causing this? Similarly, Loeb et al.

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Policy News: June 28, 2021

ESA

Congress funded the DOE Office of Science at $7 billion in FY 2021. The Senate voted to overturn this rule in April 2021. Senators confirmed Richard Spinrad to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration by a voice vote. billion by 2026. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) decreases authorized topline NSF funding to $17.9

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2021-2022 California Environmental Legislation: What’s Been Enacted?

Legal Planet

To meet these goals, the state is facilitating burgeoning carbon capture and sequestration (or storage) (CCS) technologies that capture carbon from point sources to store, as well as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), which removes carbon from the atmosphere. Lawmakers have accordingly sought ways to conserve water, particularly in urban areas.

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Policy News: December 6, 2021

ESA

The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee advanced the nomination of Jainey Bavishi to be the assistant secretary of oceans and atmosphere at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the second-most senior position at NOAA. 2750 ) in June 2021. In this issue: Apply for the 2022 Katherine S.

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Policy News: November 22, 2021

ESA

million for conserving pollinators, freshwater mussels, desert fish and Hawaiian Islands plants. The bill repeals section 20001 of the 2017 Tax Act, which required the Bureau of Land Management to offer oil and gas lease sales in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and cancels the leases sold in January 2021. Applications are due Dec.

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