Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

“And what’s really becoming clear is that these very extreme precipitation events are occurring more frequently than they used to and the main reason for that is human-caused climate change.” – Daniel Swain, a UCLA climate scientist.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Thankfully, plenty of physicists are already doing their bit to tackle the climate crisis, as we report in the October issue of Physics World magazine. The cover feature by James Dacey includes interviews with many of the climate scientists speaking at IOP Publishing’s forthcoming Environmental Research 2021 online conference.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 12, 2021

Climate Change Is Intensifying the Water Cycle, New IPCC Report Finds – The climate crisis will jeopardize key sources of fresh water and make extreme weather events more severe. 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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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Researcher Abbie Richards found that “between December 2021 and July 2022, there were an average 30,000 climate denial tweets per week. Graph showing Tweets featuring climate denial terms, by volume and average engagement by week, from December 1, 2021 through February, 2023.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 30, 2023

A climate scientist is appointed to a White House intelligence advisory board. President Biden delivered an executive order in January 2021 stating that climate change is “an essential element of United States foreign policy and national security.” Studies and Reports Natural Capital Accounting.

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Breezometer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Nate Johnson is 2021’s president of the National Weather Association and serves as Director of Weather Operations for TV stations owned and operated by NBC Universal. Zack Labe is a climate scientist working as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Atmospheric Science of Colorado State University. Nate Johnson.

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Real Climate

JANUARY 1, 2022

The film producers are making the climate change connections explicit, directing viewers to a climate platform to promote activism on the issue (though it’s mostly focused on individual actions as opposed to tackling more systematic problems). ayanaeliza) December 27, 2021. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson ??

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

16, 2021 ). climate change and biodiversity conservation policies, including the 2050 net-zero emissions goal and the “30 by 30” conservation goal. Gonzalez is a forest ecologist who is adjunct faculty at the University of California, Berkeley and the leading climate scientist for the National Park Service.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 6, 2021

By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — December 6, 2021. Friederike Otto, one of the study’s co-authors, said that the ongoing famine highlights the risks faced by vulnerable nations, even without climate breakdown. And so [climate change] will only make things more difficult for these regions in the world.”.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2023

Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Superstorm Sandy in 2012, Hurricanes Harvey and Irma in 2017, and Hurricane Irma in 2021 were all accompanied by the same question. Lost in the haze: new poll highlights a stunning public disconnect on climate reality The overall scientific consensus on global warming cannot get more robust.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 15, 2023

1 – People and places are struggling with wildfire As a climate scientist living in California and witnessing the consequences of decades of unchecked climate change, my personal and professional lives often overlap. Last summer, my family and I went on a long, winding road trip through California and Oregon.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

According to the Emissions Gap report, released annually and which looks at the pledges made by countries to tackle climate change, the world faces between 2.5C The point of no return Climate scientists warn that facing a scenario where the world warms by 3 degrees C, we would pass a point of no-return tipping points.

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Breezometer

JULY 12, 2021

This summer has already brought extreme heat waves, oil spills caused by thawing permafrost, and raging forest fires – what next before we finally act on climate? What’s Been Happening in 2021? Experts predict a historic increase in global wildfire events and record-breaking heat waves due to climate change.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Atmospheric rivers are projected to intensify as the climate continues to warm. By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — November 22, 2021. There are three main factors why, climate scientist Simon Donnor explained to the Globe and Mail. Thousands of feet above British Columbia, disaster was brewing.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2022

In their 2021 book , Lakefront: Public Trust and Private Rights in Chicago , Joseph Kearney and Tom Merrill plumb the social and legal history of the lakeshore. That seems like a plausible scenario under climate change but seemingly hasn’t been established yet. Chicago has long fascinated environmental historians.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 6, 2023

Scientific evidence is clear that climate change is affecting winter storms, making extreme events happen more frequently. I lived through one of these storms recently in Texas: Winter Storm Uri in February 2021, which had me juggling microwaving food and charging devices as the local utility imposed rolling blackouts during the freeze.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 3, 2022

While it can be tricky to immediately link one extreme weather event to climate change, scientists have consistently said that we can link the frequency and the severity of extreme weather events to climate change , hence why we successively continue to break weather records. .

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A Greener Life

MARCH 10, 2022

I wrote about it in 2020 and in 2021 , and some themes emerge – Africa dominates, and so does climate change and conflict. With this in mind, I featured Zambia in my recent article for BBC Future , and I asked the Zambian climate scientist Mulako Kabisa about how climate change is affecting the country.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2022

Then there’s the heat—Phoenix endured 53 days of 110° temperatures in 2020 and logged more than 300 heat-related deaths that year; the 2021 Pacific Northwest heatwave would have been virtually impossible without the “help” of climate change. And, of course, the fires. During a pandemic.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Tied To LNG Shipments and international markets setting our natural gas prices?] -- Williamsport Sun Guest Essay: How PA’s Government Can Prevent Deadly Blackouts - By Commonwealth Foundation -- DEP Sets Feb. 13 Hearing On Hazardous Sites Cleanup Plan For Newberry Twp. 30, 2022 -- AAA Gasoline Prices: PA- $3.40 National- $3.11

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Edouard Stenger

APRIL 25, 2023

Michael E Mann is a climate scientist who is famous for the hockey stick theory. He has been for a long time a target of attacks from conservatives and climate deniers. Orignally published in 2020, I read the paperback version that was published in 2021, with mention to the pandemic and how it was uppending our lives.

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A Greener Life

JULY 6, 2022

A dent in climate diplomacy. This is set to have serious implications for US’s global role in climate leadership which only resumed when Joe Biden took over in January 2021. Four years of climate denial and delay during Donald Trump’s four years as US President has significantly set the US back.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 10, 2023

In 2021, an ExxonMobil lobbyist described API as a “ whipping boy ” that takes the heat for bad policy positions while allowing the oil and gas giant to appear reasonable. From attribution science to following the lead of Gen Z , climate scientists and activists are employing an A to Z of tactics to thwart this A to Z of corporate deception.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2022

To get an assessment of the progress thus far, as well as an idea if what has to happen next, I turned to two of my colleagues in the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) Climate & Energy Program: Principal Climate Scientist Rachel Licker and Transmission Policy Manager Sam Gomberg. percent; natural gas, 38.3

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Real Climate

JULY 25, 2021

Climate adaptation steams forward with an accelerated speed that can be seen through the Climate Adaptation Summit in January (see previous post ), the ECCA 2021 in May/June, and the upcoming COP26. One example is the ECCA 2021 Climate Adaptation solutions on YouTube provided by ERA4CS.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 20, 2023

We should expect to hear more, as climate impacts are only going to get worse. As a climate scientist recently said on CNN, “Until we stop pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere we have no idea what the future looks like.” Nevertheless, today in New Hampshire we hear crickets from candidates despite history and polls.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 1, 2022

“Save land with trees, for the air we breathe, to protect watersheds and for future timber," Joseph Rothrock, 1892 House returns to session Jan. 4, 10, 11, 12, 24, 25, 26 -- Committee Schedule Senate returns to session Jan.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 11, 2021

By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — August 10, 2021. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of the world’s leading climate scientists, released its sixth climate assessment on Monday. With swift, drastic action, warming could still be limited to 1.5

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 5, 2021

Climate scientists have long predicted that the Mediterranean will be hit hard by rising temperatures and changes in rainfall, driven by human emissions. Future wildfire risk is projected to increase in southern Europe , according to the last report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 18, 2024

27 6th Oil/Natural Gas Spike: True Energy Independence Means Renewables [ There Is No Limit To What Oil/Natural Gas Industry Can Make You Pay ] -- Reuters: Severe US Cold Snap Prompts Peak Power, Natural Gas Demand, Drop In Gas Production [Freeze-offs Caused 17 Billion Cubic Foot Reduction In Gas Production; 19.6 Bcfd Reduction In Feb.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 20, 2023

Corporate leadership was informed about advances in climate science and incorporated those advances when its scientists built their own models. Regardless, the company publicly cast doubt on the reality of global warming, attempted to discredit climate scientists and climate models, and tried to block climate action.

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A Greener Life

MAY 23, 2021

Leading climate scientists, policy-makers, industry professionals and activists have lined up to criticise the US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry after he appeared on the UK’s BBC Andrew Marr Show saying that 50% of all emissions cuts will need to come from technologies we don’t yet have. Photo credit: BBC.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 5, 2023

Wildfires in 2021 temporarily closed Sequoia National Park and a popular part of Big Bend National Park in Texas. It makes them ripe for disproportional impacts from climate change, relative to the nation in general. An unsettling haze in Yosemite Valley. Photo is the author’s own.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 24, 2021

. -- Interfaith Partners For The Chesapeake Bay: Hosting Faithful Green Leaders Online Training Starting Oct. 26 With Ely Farm Visit In Bucks County [PaEN] -- SunburyDI Guest Essay: Methane Emissions From Low Producing Wells Must Be Regulated - Responsible Drilling Alliance -- Washington Examiner Guest Essay: Strengthen U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

And the rigorous teaching of climate science does not inculcate anyone with anything except a greater understanding of the physical world and how humans are altering it. I’d bet a climate scientist would have been glad to make the short trip to talk to Senator Cirino. Source: Google maps.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Gas Rate Hikes -- Peoples Gas: Seeks Base Rate Changes To Support Pipeline Modernization Program -- Times Leader Guest Essay: Powering Up Consumer Savings With Natural Gas - By Gas & Oil Association Of West Virginia [Forgot About 2021-22 Price Spikes Already ?

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