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Mmm-k scale climate models

Real Climate

and a supportive Nature Climate Change editorial were published this week, extolling the prospects for what they call “k-scale” climate modeling. For standard climate models to get to ~1 km resolution then, we need at least a 10 6 increase in computation. Ocean eddy visualization ( Karsten Schnieder ). and Hewitt et al. )

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Gas Has Reliability Issues. Why Is the Tennessee Valley Authority Doubling Down on It?

Union of Concerned Scientists

The TVA is the public power provider to about 10 million people in seven southeastern states. Unfortunately, the very source of the TVA’s grid failure during Winter Storm Elliott in the winter of 2022 is the same source of energy that the TVA is now doubling down on : gas. Muse believes more transparency is needed.

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The AMOC: tipping this century, or not?

Real Climate

A few weeks ago, a study by Copenhagen University researchers Peter and Susanne Ditlevsen concluded that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is likely to pass a tipping point already this century, most probably around mid-century. The following chart which I made 25 years ago illustrates this. the zonal mean). From Caesar et al.

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Amid Dire Colorado River Outlook, States Plan to Tap Their Lake Mead Savings Accounts

Circle of Blue

The program has already proved its worth, lifting Lake Mead dozens of feet higher than it otherwise would have been and nurturing collaboration among states that will need to work together to surmount daunting challenges of water availability. It is a tool that they will soon call upon.

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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - October 21 to 27 -- Plugging 100th Well Tough Going; 30 Abandoned Conventional Wells Confirmed To 1 Operator

PA Environment Daily

I don’t know how they’re going to pump this [oil, water] out of there or what they’re going to do with this,” said Michalski. “I DEP inspections in April found several of these wells venting natural gas. There's just so much going on and it's a catastrophe unfortunately out there. They lost the rods, they lost the tubing.

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Center For Coalfield Justice: Nearly 11 Months Since An EQT Shale Gas Well Frac-Out Left Residents Near New Freeport, Greene County Without Clean Water; DEP’s Investigation Not Complete

PA Environment Daily

This occurred on June 19, 2022, and it did not take long for people who live nearby to notice the possible effects from this incident. On June 22, 2022, the PA DEP began testing residents’ well water and EQT shut down operations at the Lumber Well Pad, where the shale gas well that communicated with the abandoned one is located.

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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 30 to Jan. 3 - Saga Of Plugging Nancy 13; Conventional Well Emission Offsets; Venting Since June; Still No Well Integrity Reports

PA Environment Daily

DEP did similar inspections for 11 conventional wells on December 6 and 7, 2023 ; 10 conventional wells on December 15, 2023 ; 7 conventional wells on December 27, 2023 ; 54 conventional wells on November 14, 2022 ; 34 conventional wells on November 21, 2022. Note: DEP’s database is having trouble again. 30 to Jan.