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Carbon dioxide as an air pollutant

Environment, Law, and History

The abstract: In the late 1960s, New Zealand and the United States collaborated to establish a southern hemispheric carbon dioxide (CO2) monitoring station on New Zealand’s coastal cliffs. The New Zealand CO2 Project, as it came to be known, is an underappreciated landmark in the history of environmental monitoring.

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Carbon removal using ‘blue carbon’ habitats “uncertain and unreliable”

Frontiers

The findings of their review, published today in the journal Frontiers in Climate , identify seven reasons why carbon accounting for coastal ecosystems is not only extremely challenging but risky. The expected climate benefits from blue carbon ecosystem restoration may be achieved, yet it seems more likely they will fall seriously short.

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A Dangerous Disruption

Legal Planet

The “for one year” part is crucial: stratospheric aerosols stay in the atmosphere roughly a year, so one gram offsets the heating effect of one ton only for the first year after the ton is emitted. SAI can offset the effects of greenhouse gases on global-average temperature, but not their total climatic and environmental effects.

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Algorithm Helps Unlock Connections Between Stream Chemistry, Environment At NSF Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory In State College

PA Environment Daily

In a study, the researchers report on the novel application of a machine learning algorithm to analyze how the chemical makeup of streams changes over time, particularly focusing on the fluctuations of carbon dioxide in the delicate and complex stream chemistry. Reprinted from Penn State News.)

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Speaking Truth to Corporate Power

Legal Planet

Management approved her shift in emphasis, hoping that she would prove that aerosols in the atmosphere (including those from auto exhaust) would completely offset the greenhouse gas effect. Black, had participated in a National Academy of Sciences report that said CO 2 increases might eventually require reducing the use of fossil fuels.

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Another Historic Climate Court Ruling in the Netherlands

Legal Planet

Now the same district court has gone further, again in favor of environmental groups but now against Royal Dutch Shell (“Shell”) , the world’s largest non-state-owned fossil fuel company. C with limited or no overshoot project the use of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) on the order of 100–1000 GtCO2 over the 21st century.

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Let’s Talk about Climate Anxiety 

Academy of Natural Sciences

My research focuses on coastal water quality changes over space and time and using environmental data to measure changes in coastal ecosystems. I am interested in using artwork in outreach to teach environmental science topics to students and families. LC : Jeremy and I were excited to work on a collaborative project together.