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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Environment, Law, and History

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

A little while back Environmental Politics carried a review by Katarina Eckerberg of The Untold Story of the World’s Leading Environmental Institution: UNEP at Fifty by Maria Ivanova (MIT Press, 2021). But why has progress been so slow?

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 14, 2021

We can turn in the direction of healthier air quality and slow down climate change by switching to electric vehicles, whether we're government officials, business owners, school administrators, community leaders, or individual consumers.

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Breezometer

JUNE 12, 2022

To mark the occasion, the Global Action Plan charity has published the Clean Air Day 2021 Celebration and Insights Report , which revealed significant progress in bringing awareness to air pollution. Pregnant Woman Nearly 13% More Likely to Have a Miscarriage Due to PM & Ozone Pollution. More info here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 20, 2022

Reducing Air Pollution DEP Air Quality Engineer Vince Pascucci was recognized for his work to fight climate change and protect and improve air quality throughout Pennsylvania. This work has resulted in lower proposed emissions limits and decreased chances of ground level ozone pollution that can harm people’s health.

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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. Clauser however takes that number, removes 80 and 20 W/m 2 for atmospheric absorption by ozone (!!)

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2023

The House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing May 1 on cryptocurrency and climate change. At the hearing, Robert Altenburg, PennFuture’s Senior Director for Energy and Climate presented an overview of cryptocurrency mining in Pennsylvania and its environmental impacts.

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Science & Climate

APRIL 22, 2021

by UC Davis News and Media Relations | April 21, 2021. In order to achieve the state’s goals of carbon neutrality by 2045 and avoid the worst impacts of climate change, decarbonizing this sector is essential. Health: Transportation is a major cause of local air pollution, as well as climate change.

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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. Levels of Ground-level Ozone Pollution Can Increase in Summer.

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

Guest Post By Erin Boedicker , 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Figure 1) These properties are a double-edged sword: while they are the root of the problems that black carbon causes, they also make mitigating black carbon one of the most actionable ways to fight climate change. Arctic Council. June 25, 2020.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

Gas plants proposed as of the close of 2021 were estimated to result in up to $74 billion in health costs over their lifetime, and that’s just from the burning of gas at the power plant, ignoring all of the polluting upstream impacts from drilling and transporting gas.

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Real Climate

MAY 12, 2021

The CPDW is thought to be affected by the shift in the westerly winds around Antarctica which have increased in recent decades due to a combination of greenhouse gas forcing and the polar ozone hole ( Miller et al, 2006 ). Antarctic contributions to sea Level scenarios from DeConto et al (2021). 2020) or Sadai et al. Recent advances.

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Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The Basin does not meet the state or federal ambient air quality standards for ozone and particulate matter, and existing regulations have to date proved insufficient to bring the Basin into compliance. The SCAQMD is the local agency responsible for attaining these clean air standards in the Basin. Facility-Based Mobile Source Measures.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2022

Transportation generates 47 percent of nitrogen oxide emissions in Pennsylvania, contributing to the formation of ground-level ozone. Vehicles alone release 21 percent of carbon dioxide emissions in the state, a known greenhouse gas and direct contributor to climate change.

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Capaccio

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) were developed and introduced in the late 1980s to serve as replacements for ozone-depleting substances (ODS) primarily used in the air conditioning, refrigeration, aerosols, fire suppression, and foam blowing industries.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The US Fish and Wildlife Service lists the Emperor Penguin as a threatened species, citing climate change as the primary threat to the species. State Attorneys General’ races could impact climate and energy policy. Discussions of climate ‘loss and damage’ are expected to dominate the conference. Executive Branch.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The book has some positive pictures too, such as one showing the dramatic global reduction in consumption of substances that damage the ozone layer as a result of the Montreal Protocol that was implemented in the 1980s. But this just leaves me wondering why climate change hasn’t been treated with similar urgency.

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ESA

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference of Parties, or COP27, in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt in November 2022, ESA seeks ecological experts to include in a media advisory highlighting our members’ expertise in climate change and biodiversity. from 12,549 in 2020 to 11,814 in 2021. in 2016 to 30.2%

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And just three years ago, Reviving the Dead Zone provided the first comprehensive assessment of the Gulf of Mexico dead zone’s economic impact, and warned the root problem—agricultural runoff pollution—will likely worsen due to climate change. But nitrous oxide is even more insidiously efficient at disrupting the climate.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 149. With respect to climate change, the D.C.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2022

They experience truck traffic and their diesel exhaust emissions, transient workforces, air pollution, including volatile organic compounds, particulate matter, ozone, oxides of nitrogen and fugitive methane emissions. And so all of these have very significant impacts on climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The updates, which supplement proposed standards EPA released in November 2021, reflect input and feedback from a broad range of stakeholders and nearly half a million public comments. can take in the short term to slow the rate of climate change. Sharp cuts in methane emissions are among the most critical actions the U.S.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

In 2021 the Biden Administration reversed the Trump-era rollbacks and instituted the strictest-ever vehicle GHG emissions standards in a move aimed at preventing 3.1 Bush had already “established a comprehensive global climate change policy.” billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. Conference of Mayors (USCOM).

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

As background, I am an invited expert reviewer of the next assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and a Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment.” My name is Michael Shellenberger, and I am Founder and President of Environmental Progress, an independent and nonprofit research organization.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Bill includes $668 million for National Science Foundation (NSF) research and training grants and $500 million for NSF climate research. Nations Agree to “Phase Down” Use of Coal at UN Climate Conference. NOAA also receives $20 million for climate change education activities. In this issue: Apply for the 2022 Katherine S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

Attorneys general (AGs) in the five states most vulnerable to climate change, however, are doing the exact opposite: Instead of defending their constituents, they are defending the fossil fuel industry. As for hurricanes, Texas suffered no fewer than 81 tropical or subtropical cyclones from 1980 through 2021.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

Nobel Prize recipients urge G7 leaders to take transformative action to address climate change. The final bill includes just eight additional amendments, each of which added language to the bill but did not modify any of the initial provisions of the bill introduced by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in mid-May 2021.

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ESA

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals used Kennedy’s “significant nexus” test when they sided with the EPA in a 2021 ruling in this case. The climate adaptation plans and progress reports were created a result of a climate executive order issued by President Joe Biden in February 2021. International. 14 to 21, 2022.

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ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

report on how world can still stop climate change. report on how world can still stop climate change. BRUSSELS — The world can avoid the worst consequences of climate change, but emissions need to peak by 2025, the U.N.’s s climate science panel said in a major new report on Monday. “We

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ESA

MAY 23, 2022

ESA is accepting expression of interest from members to receive an ESA “observer status” badge to attend the Conference of Parties (COP) 27 Climate Change Conference, which will take place from Nov. Biden signed an executive order in September 2021 expanding the size of the PCAST to 32 members from 26.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

March 8, 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. [[N: Missouri v. Biden , Civ.

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ESA

JANUARY 31, 2022

UN seeks input about possible topics for the Ocean and Climate Change Dialogue. 1260 ), which passed the full Senate during summer 2021. ESA endorsed the NSF for the Future Act in May 2021. This body will review the EPA’s scientific review of current ozone pollution standards. International. Scientific Community.

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ESA

MAY 17, 2021

Twenty-four ESA members and graduate students in ecology participated in virtual Hill visits, as a part of the 2021 Katherine S. By Ryan McCrimmon, PoliticoPro, 5-13-2021. Sean Casten (D-IL) ‘s Climate Risk Disclosure Act ( H.R. Biden trade chief wants to put Paris Climate Accord in Trump’s USMCA deal. 2 position at USDA.

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ESA

APRIL 5, 2021

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and other Senate Democrats are most likely preparing to reintroduce the Endless Frontiers Act as part of a larger legislation package ( see ESA Policy News, March 22, 2021 ). 151 ) in the House of Representatives in February 2021. Grace Meng (D-NY) introduced a similar resolution ( H.Res.

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ESA

JUNE 1, 2021

billion for the National Institute of Agriculture, including $700 million for the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative, which represents a $265 million increase over FY 2021 levels. billion increase over FY 2021 levels. billion, a $400 million increase over FY 2021 levels. billion increase over FY 2021.

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ESA

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

More News: The 2023 farm bill should be a climate bill, Democrats say – The Washington Post Executive Branch Interior: The Invasive Species Advisory Committee (ISAC) will hold its first meeting since 2019 March 6-8, 2023. Still, the inventory finds that emissions were almost 4% lower in 2021 than they were in 2019.

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