Real Climate

MAY 30, 2024

Impacts of Hunga-Tonga Hunga Ha’apai (HTHH) The eruption of HTHH in January 2022, reached 56km high in the stratosphere and increased stratospheric water vapor by ~10% while also depositing SO 2 in the stratosphere. W/m 2 over 2022-2023″ (i.e. Let us know in the comments if there are relevant papers we’ve missed.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Workers in facilities that produce and use EtO as well as people living near facilities that release it into the atmosphere are at risk of unsafe exposures even when the facilities are using the best available technologies to handle and contain it. Have I been exposed to ethylene oxide?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2022

On December 5, 2022, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California focused the power of a stadium-sized laser at a target no larger than a thimble, vaporizing it within a few billionths of a second. A bumpy road to fusion.

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Physics World

JUNE 16, 2021

Their conclusion builds on work done in 2020, when a team led by Graham Harper of the University of Colorado, Boulder used photometry to observe light emitted by molecules of titanium oxide in the atmosphere of Betelgeuse. They found that whatever instigated the dimming did indeed manifest as a cold patch in the star’s atmosphere.

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Frontiers

APRIL 5, 2022

Research published to Frontiers in Forests and Global Change offers the most comprehensive and detailed evidence to date that forests are more important to the climate – both globally and locally – than we think due to the way in which they physically transform the atmosphere. Article link: [link]. Priority Micronutrient Density in Foods.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 7, 2023

For example, Antarctica acts to cool our planet by reflecting solar radiation back to space by virtue of the brightness of its snow surface. The danger is that the Antarctic sea ice is starting to behave like the Arctic, with sustained loss of ocean cover and consequent absorption of solar radiation.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

To put these numbers in context, DEP just issued its 2022 Oil and Gas Annual Report that said 5,416 notices of violation were issued to conventional operators during all of 2022. Click Here to read the 2022 compliance report summary. Culture Of Non-Compliance’ On December 29, 2022. Read more here. Read more here.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Guest Post by Julieta Juncosa Calahorrano , 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University Growing up in Latin America, food was at the center of many family gatherings. Food can also mean so much more than just nutrients and vitamins to each of us.

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Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

The greenhouse effect is a popular name for the earth’s warming effect which occurs naturally when gasses in the atmosphere trap heat from the sun and prevent it from escaping back into space. 2022: What Does the Latest IPCC Report Say? Understanding Climate Change & Greenhouse Gas Emissions. C above pre-industrial levels.

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HumanNature

APRIL 10, 2023

Guest Post by Kathryn Moore , 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Cloud formation in the atmosphere requires aerosols To form a water droplet in the atmosphere, water vapor molecules, floating around as a gas, need to stick together. So how do we have clouds if water isn’t condensing?

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2022

million of their product not leaking into the atmosphere, at current natural gas prices. If the Board were to provide notice of proposed rulemaking, and an additional public comment period and public hearings, the Commonwealth would be unable to submit this rulemaking to the EPA as a SIP revision by December 16, 2022.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

more than in 2022 and 569.9% DEP’s 2022 Oil and Gas Annual Report said 5,416 notices of violation were issued to conventional operators in 2022 and 4,514 violations in 2021 and in 2015, DEP issued just 1,024 violations to conventional operators. Click Here to read the 2022 compliance report summary. more than in 2015.

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Law Columbia

MAY 24, 2024

The opinion was requested in 2022 by the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law, which asked ITLOS to opine on States’ obligations to address climate change under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

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Acoel

JANUARY 18, 2022

Posted on January 18, 2022 by Daniel C. When the history of the global shift toward a clean energy economy and a sustainable future gets written decades from now, it may well be that the COP26 Climate Change Conference will be seen as a watershed moment.

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HumanNature

MAY 22, 2024

9 These changes are in part due to char, the blackened debris from burned trees, which lands on the snowpack surface and increases how much solar radiation the snowpack absorbs. Npj Climate and Atmospheric Science , 1 (1), 2. Water Resources Research , 55 (11), 9748-9764. link] Mote, P. Lettenmaier, D. Xiao, M., & Engel, R.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 13, 2024

DEP’s inspection report contained photos of the well in the same condition dated September 3, 2022. Notices of violation were also issued for failure to restore the well site and failure to submit production and waste reports for 2020, 2021 and 2022 (Rimeer 4). On January 4, 2024 , DEP inspected the W. Allshouse, Jr.,

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The energy balance of our planet , the radiation arriving and leaving, is continually monitored by a global radiation network at the surface and by dedicated satellites. And yes, also the increase in back-radiation towards the Earth surface from the CO2 greenhouse effect is a measured fact. Image: Prof.

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HumanNature

JANUARY 30, 2025

Candidate in the Department of Chemistry at Colorado State University Earths atmosphere is one of our greatest shared resources and provides many ingredients required for life. We breathe oxygen from the atmosphere, weather systems distribute water, and the ozone in the upper atmosphere protects us from harmful radiation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 12, 2022

Global warming is causing there to be more cloud cover over land areas because a warmer atmosphere can essentially hold more moisture. At night, clouds absorb and re-emit heat that radiates out from Earth, which has a warming effect on temperatures. Across the United States, average minimum and maximum temperatures are 1.4°F

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

The 250 mg/l limit of chlorides in groundwater contamination limit DEP established for the Moody study is significant because a Penn State study released in May 2022 found water runoff from conventional oil and gas wastewater dumping on dirt and gravel roads contained from 7,550 to 10,000 mg/l of chlorides. Read more here - page 50.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 15, 2023

Highlights include: A tiny startup firm, “Make Sunsets,” launched a couple of weather balloons with a few grams of SO 2 in late 2022 from a private property in Baja California, Mexico. The current spike of news coverage spans a wide range from the serious to the silly.

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Physics World

MAY 4, 2022

“If I look at the next 50 years, next hundred years maybe, nobody will be able to set up a telescope that’s powerful enough to resolve surface features,” says Jonathan Jiang , an atmospheric scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, who uses Earth as a laboratory to model exoplanets.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 22, 2022

By Hannah Richter, Circle of Blue – August 22, 2022. Crop damage radiates inward gradually from the edges of a field, where the salt hits first. Lighter green areas are fallow/abandoned sections of the fields with salt concentrations too high to plant. Photo © Dr. Matthew Ricker / NCSU.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 11, 2023

Atencio writes, “Since the mid-1940s villagers had recognized the dangers of radiation, as men pushing wheelbarrows full of waste in the Los Alamos National Laboratories (LANL) suddenly turned ashen, went home, and died. In January 2022, the Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, John C.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In 2022, the transportation sector was responsible for 28 percent of global warming pollution in the country. It has been estimated that globally oil processing is responsible for about 15 percent of all VOCs released into the atmosphere. which is formed in the atmosphere from precursor gases such as NOx.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 14, 2024

For example, NASEM has published landmark reports on the health effects of exposure to low levels of ionizing radiation. This was proven by showing the health harms that can be caused by ionizing radiation disproportionately increased among these vulnerable groups after similar exposures in their counterpart peers. 2006 , NCI 1997 ).

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Among the issues raised by the appellants in their original appeal were-- concerns the landfill’s operation would attract birds and interfere with the operation of the nearby Grove City Airport; that the oil and gas drilling wastes the landfill was allowed to accept presented a radiation hazard; and the landfill’s compliance history.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Riyan Farm & Gas LLC - Violations - Abandoned Well (2022) November 1, 2024 follow-up inspection of the Yahner 1 conventional well in Allegheny Township, Cambria County found the owner failed to plug this abandoned well or submit production, waste generation and well integrity reports for at least 5 years. No violations issued.

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ESA

MARCH 6, 2023

International United Nations report cautions against solar radiation management and calls for international regulations for the use of this technology. Federal Register Comment Period for the National Nature Assessment Closes March 31, 2023 In April 2022, the Biden administration announced the launch of the first-ever U.S.

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ESA

JUNE 28, 2021

The House NSF bill creates a new Science and Engineering Solutions Directorate within NSF and authorizes funding for this directorate at $1 billion in fiscal year (FY) 2022. The full Committee also approved amendments adding solar radiation management and wildfire science to the list of climate change research topics funded by the bill.

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