Inside Climate News

MARCH 13, 2024

The climate benefits of trees storing carbon dioxide is partially offset by dark forests’ absorption of more heat from the sun, and compounds they release that slow the destruction of methane in the atmosphere, the research shows.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Someone’s bound to hack the atmosphere to cool the planet. So we urgently need more research on the consequences, says climate scientist Kate Ricke. Read the full story in Wired. Read more →

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

First, the cooling from the reflective materials they will inject, for which they are already selling carbon credits, charging $10 per gram of SO 2 released (!) Those following debates on active climate interventions have been expecting – and worrying about – something like this for a few years. Could this activity change the climate?

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In an unchanging climate, the random fluctuations would lead to warming in some parts of the world and cooling in others. In a world with just random local fluctuations but no climate change, about half the weather stations would show a (more or less significant) warming, the other half a cooling. Image: Prof.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Last week, the Nobel physics prize was (half) awarded to Suki Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann for their work on climate prediction and the detection and attribution of climate change. This came as quite a surprise to the climate community – though it was welcomed warmly. Fred Singer, before his turn to the dark side).

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 1, 2022

The August newsletter from the Pike County Conservation District includes articles on riparian buffers and climate change and forests as part of the District's Forestry month education initiative. While these shifts can have a major impact on the planet’s forests, the forests can also have a major impact on climate change.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

I followed with great interest the launch of the sixth assessment report Working Group 1 (The Physical Science Basis) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on August 9th. The cause of our changing climate is the increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations that we have released into the air.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

DECEMBER 8, 2023

As Doug puts it, “Climate change is bringing more variability, not a consistent change toward a new pattern.” Keeping nitrous oxide out of the atmosphere is not the only conservation contribution of practices like these, though. One crop thrives in some years and others in another year.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

To give the Commission credit where due — and it is due in many places — on one point closely related to these projections, they were uncommonly and admirably frank: Noting the risks and the stark tradeoffs posed by aerosol pollution in the lower atmosphere. Current and coming advances in carbon-free technology will help, of course.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

“We found that trees in warmer, drier climates are essentially coughing instead of breathing,” said Max Lloyd , assistant professor of geosciences at Penn State and lead author on the study recently published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Plants and climate are inextricably linked.

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Yale E360

AUGUST 12, 2021

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2023

Heightened flood risk The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said in a recent outlook that about 44 percent of the United States is at risk of floods this spring, equating to about 146 million people. The link to climate change is clearer, however, with floods.

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Real Climate

MARCH 4, 2021

Two decades ago, in an interview with science journalist Richard Kerr for the journal Science, I coined the term the “Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation” (AMO) to describe an internal oscillation in the climate system resulting from interactions between North Atlantic ocean currents and wind patterns. Background.

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Inside Climate News

JUNE 12, 2023

Grazing livestock to mimic how wildlife forages can prevent the erosion of topsoil, protect water quality and keep carbon out of the atmosphere, but it requires big changes in how the beef industry operates. By Emma Peterson WICKENBURG, Ariz.—“Hop Hop up, Jo,” said Savannah Barteau.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 3, 2022

If people everywhere stopped burning fossil fuels tomorrow, stored heat would still continue to warm the atmosphere. The radiators are, in fact, cooling down, but their stored heat is still warming the air in the room. Emerging research is refining scientists’ understanding of how Earth’s committed warming will affect the climate.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

But it’s a political target that’s based on a reasonable assessment of science that suggests that harms from climate change are likely to get worse faster after passing 1.5 language was added at the insistence of the highly climate-vulnerable small island states, who recognized that the previous target of 2.0 In fact, the 1.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 2, 2023

Over the past 30-40 years, wildfire data show a clear signal from climate change: As global temperatures have warmed over the past several decades, western wildfires have worsened by nearly every metric, from the number, size, and severity of fires to the length of wildfire season. Carly Phillips contributed to this post.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Up to this point, the ocean has been our greatest guardian against extreme heat and catastrophic climate changes. In comparison, the land has absorbed only 6% of that excess heat, and the atmosphere has absorbed only 1%. In comparison, the land has absorbed only 6% of that excess heat, and the atmosphere has absorbed only 1%.

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Real Climate

APRIL 2, 2021

The difference is due largely to the differences in the regional atmospheric response that occurs in concert with the SST warming. In particular, they don’t just respond to SST changes, but also how the atmosphere changes as the SSTs change. 2016 ), could increase again in concentration. Mann et al. Knutson, S.J.

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

As the Arctic is 30 degrees Celsius (50 F) warmer than what it should be right now, finding local solutions to cool down the poles suddenly doesn’t seem this far-fetched anymore. . Years ago I read a short article on how bringing more ice to the poles could help slow down climate change.

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Legal Planet

JULY 18, 2023

We give lots of lip service describing climate change as an emergency or existential threat. According to the Climate Emergency Declaration Organization, 2336 jurisdictions around the world have declared it to be an emergency, but we are not really acting like it. There are many possible emergency actions.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 5, 2022

Human activity adds more than 50 gigatons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere each year. New Solid Carbon technology might be able to lock climate-warming carbon dioxide below ocean bedrock. Photo credit: Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions. Basalt is a porous rock formed from cooling lava. By Dr Kate Moran.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Responsible for 12 percent of all US global warming emissions from human activities, methane traps significantly more heat per molecule than carbon dioxide, making it 86 times more harmful for the first 20 years after it is released into the atmosphere.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Natural gas”, also known as methane gas or fracked fossil gas, is a potent greenhouse gas that pollutes the environment and causes climate change when it is burned and when it escapes into the atmosphere during extraction, production, and transportation. It’s shameful and should be brought to a stop.”

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

estimate of no further CO 2 -induced warming or cooling once global CO 2 emissions reach and stay at next zero. ZEC therefore causes no changes between SR1.5 Nature Climate Change. In: Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. IPCC (2014) Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Long term, climate change is a greater threat than the COVID-19 pandemic. As air sunk through the atmosphere, it got squeezed and heated. Without human-induced climate change, that heat would be at least 150 times rarer. Taken together, however, clouds in today’s atmosphere have an overall net cooling effect.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 19, 2023

These cool, clear streams support aquatic life and help contribute to safe drinking water for everyone in the watershed. Related Article: -- Brandywine Conservancy Launches New Climate Resiliency Initiative To Help Local Municipalities, Landowners Address Climate Change [PaEN] [Posted: April 19, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 5, 2022

Atmosphere The gaseous envelope surrounding the Earth. The dry atmosphere consists almost entirely of nitrogen (78.1% The dry atmosphere consists almost entirely of nitrogen (78.1% In addition, the atmosphere contains water vapor, whose amount is highly variable but typically 1% volume mixing ratio. See, Weather.

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 25, 2023

There are currently estimated to be at least 72,500 algal species on Earth, and scientists have calculated that these organisms have produced about half of all of the oxygen in the Earth’s atmosphere via photosynthesis. Built-in sunscreen sounds pretty cool, doesn’t it? Algae and climate change can be a bad combination.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Climate Change Grips Trout Streams Across the Nation: How Anglers Are Responding Across the country, anglers have watched as droughts, floods, and high temperatures batter the rivers they depend on. The issue has begun changing minds about climate change among recreational fishermen, a demographic that leans politically conservative.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

If the sun was driving the warming, we’d see it in the stratospheric temperatures (which are cooling in line with expectations from the impact of CO2, not warming due to the supposed increase in solar activity). Gundermann, "Solar cycle lengths and climate: A reference revisited", Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics , vol.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

People in some places in the northern hemisphere might welcome a warmer climate, though probably not people in the US, Canada, Russia and many people in the Arctic, who have all suffered extreme heat and its tragic consequences such as huge wildfires this year alone. It beat a five-year-long record that had stood been measured since 2016.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

APRIL 26, 2022

This summer the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University will lead a campaign to map heat and air quality in Philadelphia, working with community scientists so that residents have a stronger voice in the planning and implementation of climate change-preparedness strategies. . than any other type of extreme weather.

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Breezometer

MAY 23, 2022

Is climate change making ‘firenadoes’ more likely? Can climate resilience technology help businesses protect people and property from such devastating wildfire events? This environmental spectacle occurs when a large region of extremely hot air, created by a wildfire interacts with cooler air higher up in the atmosphere.

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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. Antarctica is such a place – remote from society yet influentially connected to the world’s environment that it relies on for survival. The world’s largest ever heatwave (38.5C

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HumanNature

APRIL 10, 2023

Student in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University Most people remember the water cycle they learned in school: water evaporates from lakes, rivers, and the ocean, air carrying this moisture rises, cools, condenses, and forms clouds, and these clouds precipitate water back down to the surface.

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Science & Climate

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

As climate change accelerates, low-income districts in the Southwestern United States are 4 to 7 degrees hotter in Fahrenheit — on average — than wealthy neighborhoods in the same metro regions, University of California, Davis, researchers have found in a new analysis. . Becoming Arizona: Heat and Climate Change Series.

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