Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2023

To date in 2023, the United States has already suffered nine climate and weather disasters resulting in at least a billion dollars of damage, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. A harsh new normal Whether we wake up or not, a harsh climate is the new normal.

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Vermont Law

OCTOBER 1, 2023

VJEL Newsroom Call for Student Presenters for VJEL's 2023 Symposium: We're Bringing Nature Back (Nov. 18th) By VJEL October 1, 2023 VLGS Students: Do you have past experiences or interests in Nature-Based Solutions (NBS)? This event will be held on campus on Saturday, November 18th, 2023. Come present your NBS projects!

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 29, 2023

Forecasts for 2023 show little reprieve as the extreme weather, compounded by intense food insecurity, is likely to persist with devastating consequences: “Up to 34,000 further deaths have been forecast for the first six months of this year,” according to the Guardian.

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Real Climate

MAY 21, 2023

So SSU me Like MSU trends, these records reflected a weighted average of atmospheric temperatures, and the three SSU channels progressively weight higher levels in the stratosphere, roughly centered on 30km, 40km and 45km above the surface but with quite a bit of overlap. 2023 ) and also in the “Climate Drivers” animation.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2023

During an April 4 routine inspection, the Department of Environmental Protection found two Repsol Oil and Gas USA LLC shale gas wells in Apolacon Township, Susquehanna County venting natural gas to the atmosphere through the well annulus at the Kropp Well Pad. There are 12 shale gas wells producing natural gas on the Kropp Well Pad.

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Real Climate

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Satellite comparisons The weighted atmospheric temperatures that are retrieved from the MSU/SSU, and now AMSU , instruments are not standard CMIP diagnostics (though they should be!). For those simulations, the MSU/SSU data is archived and available and was discussed recently in Casas et al (2023). Tsigaridis, L.S. Nazarenko, S.E.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The Department of Environmental Protection has issued a record 5,653 notices of violation to conventional oil and gas operators in 2023, with two months left in the year, according to DEP’s November 3, 2023 Weekly Workload Report. The weekly reports posted during 2023 are below. That’s 25% more than in 2021. 28 to Nov.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection issued a record 6,860 notices of violation to conventional oil and gas operators in 2023, according to DEP’s December 29, 2023 Weekly Workload Report. more than in 2021 and 26.6% more than in 2022 and 569.9% more than in 2015. Read more here. Just one conventional operator-- John B.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 10, 2023

August 16, 2023, is the 7th annual #WeAreLakeErie Day – an event to highlight people’s support for Lake Erie. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced its 2023 Lake Erie algae bloom forecast. WHEN: Wednesday, August 16, 2023, All day. Earlier this summer, the U.S. WHERE: Online.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 22, 2023

Mushroom Boom: In California, the string of recent atmospheric river storm systems have created the perfect wet conditions for mushroom and fungal growth in the state, sparking a “once-in-a-generation shroom boom” for foragers and scientists alike, the Guardian reports.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 29, 2023

NOAA scientists made it clear today that despite a mild 2023 forecast, there is still an urgent need for action to address all sources of phosphorus losses and runoff on both sides of the border. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has announced its 2023 Lake Erie algae bloom forecast.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In 2023, the U.S. The increasing greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere are warming the global temperature, shifting precipitation patterns, raising global sea levels, melting glaciers, and more [5]. 2023, November 15). 2023, November 15). 2023, November 17). 2023, October 31). News and World Report.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 31, 2023

2023, the planning team once again needed to look creatively at an issue. A variety of vendors, including Kellar Farms Nursery, had beautiful plants for sale and live music added to the festive atmosphere throughout the day. 2023 turned out to be quite successful. With storms looming for Celebrate the Bloom! Celebrate the Bloom!

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Real Climate

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The paper results from a major computational effort, based on running a state-of-the-art climate model (the CESM model with horizontal resolution 1° for the ocean/sea ice and 2° for the atmosphere/land component) for 4,400 model years. We will continue to ignore this risk at our peril.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 20, 2024

and found it to be abandoned and not plugged properly and was venting natural gas into the atmosphere. DEP’s report notes an NOV for abandonment was issued originally on December 7, 2023 with a separate report on the gas venting. DEP originally issued notices of violations to these wells on September 14, 2023 for abandonment.

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Real Climate

MARCH 16, 2023

Shindell, "Understanding Model‐Observation Discrepancies in Satellite Retrievals of Atmospheric Temperature Using GISS ModelE", Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres , vol. The above selection of CMIP6 models does not include the range of configurations of the GISS coupled models that we looked at in Casas et al. Nazarenko, S.E.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

When it retreats, it opens up for more heat and moisture exchange between the ocean and the atmosphere, and the strongest warming can be found where the sea-ice has retreated (Isaksen, et al., Another factor may be a slowdown of moving rain-generating systems (Kahraman et al, 2023). S1-S516, 2023. Blunden, T. Boyer, and E.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 28, 2023

Widespread heat alerts cover parts of the US South and Midwest regions on June 28, 2023. High daily maximum temperatures on June 28, 2023 are attributable to climate change. The current heat dome hovering over North America has been increasingly exposing millions of people in the US to extreme heat since June 23, 2023.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 29, 2024

link] Abstract Current human-induced climate change arises primarily from the heating of the planet mainly from changes in atmospheric composition, and temperature change is one manifestation. Trenberth, K. “Characterizing Climate Change from Heating, Not Merely Temperature.”

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Guest Post by Sam Leuthold , 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Department of Soil and Crop Sciences and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology at Colorado State University Over the course of the last two decades, there has been a shift in the general popularity of agricultural soils. So why the hype around agricultural soils?

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

2023 was already the warmest year ever recorded, based on data since records began, dating back to 1850. ” Matt Patterson, an atmospheric physicist at the University of Oxford responded to the extraordinary news with this view: “It is a significant milestone to see the global mean temperature for a 12-month period exceed 1.5C

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 12, 2023

Conventional Well Spills On August 7, 2023 , Red Jacket Energy LLC notified DEP of a crude oil and production wastewater release at its conventional 52A 18 CNGC3 oil well in Keating Township, McKean County. On August 7, 2023, DEP inspected the site and found an area 30 by 40 feet had been impacted by the spill. Read more here.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The fifth international conference on regional climate ( ICRC 2023 ), organised by World Climate Research Programme’s ( WCRP ) coordinated downscaling experiment ( CORDEX ), has just completed. It worked impressively well, and the CORDEX ICRC 2023 streaming is available from the WCRP CORDEX YouTube channel.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Q: So, what happened with global temperatures in 2023? Measured by this longer-term trend, the most recent IPCC report, released in March 2023, projected that we would pass 1.5 Remember, 2023 was a shocker. That’s right, 2023 on average was 1.48 Because the Earth warmed a lot through 2023 – December was 0.5

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

link] [open access] Abstract Stringent climate change mitigation scenarios rely on large-scale drawdown of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Goldstein, H. J., & Sanchez, D. Leveraging the bioeconomy for carbon drawdown. Green Chemistry 25(8), 2930–2957.

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Physics World

MAY 15, 2022

The atmosphere of the planet Neptune has undergone significant and “frankly unexpected” changes to its atmospheric temperature over the past two decades, say scientists at the University of Leicester, UK. This is contrary to theoretical expectations.”. ” Read more. A clearer and fuller picture.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 14, 2023

DEP issued notices of violation and gave the operator until November 12, 2023 to submit a written report on how they will bring the well back into compliance. [ The October 6, 2023 DEP inspection report said-- “there was no evidence observed indicating that the release was not properly remediated.” and found they were both abandoned.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 11, 2023

Atmospheric conditions produced unusually strong winds in the area that day, but the wind alone couldn’t have caused the catastrophe without the combined effects of exceptional dryness and newly disturbed bare soil. Enter the Agriculture Resilience Act, or ARA.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2023

This is a great event that provides students the opportunity to highlight their environmental projects, research, and artistic talent in a supportive atmosphere. Posted: October 30, 2023] PA Environment Digest From December 4 to 6, there will also be a virtual showcase for video, art and photo submissions.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2024

reduce its carbon dioxide (CO2) atmospheric levels. The Center was established in 2023 to jumpstart DAC technologies and accelerate the commercialization of DAC technologies beyond the conceptual stage. The captured CO2 is then stored deep underground in geologic formations or used to make other products.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The latest contrarian crowd pleaser from Soon et al (2023) is just the latest repetition of the old “it was the sun wot done it” trope[1] that Willie Soon and his colleagues have been pushing for decades. Figure 5a from Chatzistergos (2023) showing the total lack of correlation of SCL to the modern warming. 4171-4176, 2013.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 18, 2024

LISA LINOWES and ERIC TURNER on behalf of the SAVE RIGHT WHALES COALITION Since 2016, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has declared three Unusual Mortality Events (UME) involving large whale species in the Atlantic Ocean. Since 2015.” The change in vessel activity after 2015 coincided with the U.S.

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Law and Environment

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

On September 21, 2023, the Biden administration outlined plans to expand federal agencies’ consideration of the social cost of carbon—a metric for the economic cost of each additional ton of carbon dioxide emitted to the atmosphere.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 7, 2023

In a recently filed September 21, 2023 inspection report , DEP said-- “Repsol restricted the Department’s ability to document the condition of the damaged casing during an inspection conducted on 9/21/2023.” DEP requested the operator to submit a written report by November 4, 2023 on how they will bring the wells into compliance.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 28, 2023

Soil health management practices can increase water-holding capacity , create carbon sinks that store atmospheric carbon, and improve crops’ ability to recycle nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus, reducing reliance on chemical fertilizers while sustaining the nation’s agricultural capacity.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 7, 2023

by Keith Musselman, University of Colorado Boulder Another round of powerful atmospheric rivers is hitting California, following storms in January and February 2023 that dumped record amounts of snow. … Continue reading Why rain on snow in the California mountains worries scientists

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 1, 2024

Three comparative maps of snow water equivalent (SWE) across California on April 1 in 2015, 2023, and 2024, based on data from the National Snow Analysis by the Office of Water Prediction. Last year, in April 2023, the manual survey recorded 10.5 This was part of Tulare Lake last year (2023) after intense rains and snowmelt.

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