Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 13, 2024
I’m deeply committed to socioenvironmental justice and agricultural sustainability, and I want to help people who need it the most. The American Lung Association’s State of the Air report measures three of the major types of pollutants in the San Joaquin Valley: long-term particle matter, short-term particle matter, and ozone.
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 12, 2023
But those laws primarily focused on the industrial sector, leaving agriculture largely alone. The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has been ringing the alarm bell about agricultural pollution for years. That was—and still is—a major oversight. Big Ag is a major polluter. EN: First, welcome to UCS.
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Real Climate
AUGUST 12, 2021
Another clue indicating a shortcoming is if you look at the atmospheric CO 2 -concentrations over time to see how much impact the IPCC reports have had on the real policy-makers in the world (Figure below). The cause of our changing climate is the increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations that we have released into the air.
Real Climate
JULY 10, 2022
The fact that there is a natural greenhouse effect (that the atmosphere restricts the passage of infra-red (IR) radiation from the Earth’s surface to space) is easily deducible from; i) the mean temperature of the surface (around 15ºC) and, ii) knowing that the planet is normally close to radiative equilibrium. in IPCC TAR).
Greenbuilding Law
JULY 9, 2023
Over a 20 year period, methane is estimated to be more than 80 times as potent as carbon dioxide in terms of trapping heat in the atmosphere. Quick Acting Impact : Unlike carbon dioxide, which can persist in the atmosphere for centuries or maybe millennia, methane has a relatively short atmospheric lifespan of approximately 12 years.
Greenbuilding Law
JUNE 5, 2022
Atmosphere The gaseous envelope surrounding the Earth. The dry atmosphere consists almost entirely of nitrogen (78.1% volume mixing ratio), together with a number of trace gases, such as argon (0.93% volume mixing ratio), helium, radiatively active greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (0.035% volume mixing ratio), and ozone.
A Greener Life
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
The boundary for ozone depletion, for example, while not transgressed globally, was headed for increasing regional transgressions. The researchers add that for the first time, there’s now also scientific evidence that makes it possible to quantify the boundary of atmospheric aerosol loading. C planetary climate boundary.
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