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Why You Should Care About The Latest IPCC Report | BreezoMeter

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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. Recent findings from the World Meteorological Organization predict a 50:50 chance at least one year between 2022 and 2026 will exceed 1.5°C

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2021-2022 California Environmental Legislation: What’s Been Enacted?

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To meet these goals, the state is facilitating burgeoning carbon capture and sequestration (or storage) (CCS) technologies that capture carbon from point sources to store, as well as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), which removes carbon from the atmosphere. Two new laws address this issue on different fronts. A Few Notable Vetoes.

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The European Commission’s industrial carbon management strategy: ambitious and risky plans to achieve net-zero

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Specific technological solutions are therefore needed to reduce these process emissions. While natural carbon sinks such as trees and oceans will account for a large proportion of the required carbon removals, additional technological solutions will also be needed. Both BECCS and DACCS can achieve permanent carbon removals.

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Seeing the Earth through alien eyes: an extraterrestrial view of our planet

Physics World

Accompanied by artists’ impressions of volcanic landscapes or storms raging above shimmering oceans, such work makes distant planets feel somehow more real. By predicting our planet’s appearance across interstellar space, we can tease out the tell-tale signatures of habitability, biology and even technology. New eyes on alien worlds.

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Policy News: December 20, 2021

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Geological Survey for grants and other financial assistance to water resources research and technology institutes and centers. 6180 ) to incentivize removing invasive lionfish from the oceans. The National Academies will hold a webinar about Ocean Carbon Dioxide Removal (Ocean CDR) Jan 20 as part of a monthly climate webinar series.

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Policy News: April 11, 2022

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This latest report looks at mitigation — or what the world can do to stop pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Its coal consumption is only planned to begin to drop after 2026. Countries will also have to extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to keep global warming in check. The EU, the U.S. and the U.K.

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ESA Policy News: November 8, 2021

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Over 40 countries pledged to rapidly scale up technologies and policies to achieve a transition away from unabated coal power generation in the 2030s for major economies and in the 2040s globally. billion to the National Science Foundation to start a Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP). The bill provides $1.52

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