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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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 1, 2022

With the federal government and state of Maryland each having announced within days of each other, the mandated disclosure of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, we have received, maybe not surprising, many calls in the last two weeks inquiring “what are GHGs?” Simply put, gases that trap heat in the atmosphere (.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Through interviews with farmers, this post highlights both the climate-related challenges farmers are facing and how the IRA investments are building farmers’ resilience. As Doug puts it, “Climate change is bringing more variability, not a consistent change toward a new pattern.”

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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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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

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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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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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. What if scientists could turn back the clock on greenhouse-gas emissions – just a little? Basalt is a porous rock formed from cooling lava.

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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. It has absorbed roughly 90% of the excess heat caused by carbon pollution and other greenhouse gases that humans have emitted. The top few meters of the ocean store as much heat as Earth’s entire 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. Enbridge should be made to stop deliberately misleading the public.”

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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. Image credits: NASA.

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Real Climate

APRIL 2, 2021

But this also raises other questions: 1) Can we expect the season to continue to lengthen as global warming from increasing concentration of globally well mixed greenhouse gas (GWM-GHG) continues to warm the Atlantic SSTs? In particular, they don’t just respond to SST changes, but also how the atmosphere changes as the SSTs change.

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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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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 are powerhouses when it comes to removing greenhouse gases.

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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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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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Frontiers

AUGUST 7, 2023

Writing as part of Frontiers’ guest editorials series, the study’s lead author – Prof Martin Siegert, deputy vice chancellor of the University of Exeter (Cornwall) – discusses how without there being a rapid shift to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, the Antarctic environment will experience ever more drastic changes.

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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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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Among these, climate change is becoming more dire every month and global biodiversity is collapsing right in front of our eyes. It details 80 (+ 20) ways to slash global greenhouse gases emissions and achieve emissions levels that can be absorbed by Nature. Eventually, CO2 levels in the atmosphere would return to 350 ppm.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 5, 2023

California is no stranger to the impacts of climate change. From droughts to wildfires to rising sea levels and torrential rains, the state has felt the effects of a changing climate in a variety of ways. Vapor pressure deficit is closely related to temperature and climate change is causing temperatures to rise.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

In the last few months he has given two interviews in which he goes into to detail about what he describes as a ‘missing element’ in climate science and what he imagines the consequences are for climate change. Clauser however takes that number, removes 80 and 20 W/m 2 for atmospheric absorption by ozone (!!)

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Manning Law

JUNE 8, 2020

As ecosystems and biodiversity fall to cities, agriculture, infrastructure, climate change and pollution, nature’s ability to provide food, oxygen, clean water and climate regulation plummets. Meanwhile, the climate emergency has not gone away. CO 2 levels in the atmosphere hit an all-time high in early May.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

True, methane is a potent greenhouse gas. But it’s also a short-lived one, which only stays in the atmosphere for twenty years or so. Before we can take those steps, institutions and public attitudes will themselves have to adapt to the realities of climate change.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Methane is essential to control, since stabilizing climate requires reducing all anthropogenic greenhouse-gas emissions to net-zero. This post is an introduction to methane in climate change: where it comes from, how it’s different from CO 2 , how those differences matter, and what that all means for controls.

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Real Climate

MARCH 5, 2023

I had reason to be reviewing the history of MSU satellite retrievals for atmospheric temperatures recently. Remember ‘satellite cooling’?]. This was before Wentz and Schabel (1998) pointed out that orbital decay in the NOAA satellites was imparting a strong cooling bias (about 0.12 Climatic Change , vol.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 1, 2024

Due to a warming climate and warmer ocean waters, bomb cyclones are increasing in frequency and severity during our winters. Atmospheric rivers Similarly, atmospheric rivers are carrying more moisture due to climate change. The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Reduce emissions.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

One bill would mandate that firms assess and disclose on an annual basis the financially related climate risks they face and how they are managing these risks. A second bill would require annual reporting of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by a covered firm’s operations. 24] SB 253 does not require materiality.

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Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

But since it became clear that human actions are damaging the environment and changing the climate, it has become much more prominent nationally and internationally with most government departments in most countries having responsibilities to mitigate or prepare for climate change scenario. Oscillations.

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Real Climate

MAY 12, 2021

Meanwhile, note that the factors listed above involve the whole Earth system: the oceans, the cryosphere, the atmosphere, the solid earth and lithosphere, and a full range of scales, from the city block and shoreline, to ice dynamics that change over kilometers, to GRD footprints, to the whole global ocean. 2020) or Sadai et al.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

Extremes : Back in 2012, the literature assessed by AR5 connecting changes in extremes to climate change was scant. There may also be a contribution from forcing inadequacies and, in some models, an overestimate of the response to increasing greenhouse gas and other anthropogenic forcing (dominated by the effects of aerosols).

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Onya

JULY 19, 2017

Iameco manufactures some pretty cool environmentally friendly gadgets. This environmentally friendly laptop from Iameco was manufactured while decreasing greenhouse gas emissions by 30%, re-using 70% of the material, and reducing fresh water utilisation by 75%. The single most important issue facing modern humanity is climate change.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 14, 2021

SG would cool the Earth, temporarily and imperfectly offsetting some of the climate effects of elevated greenhouse gases, by reflecting a bit (around 0.5% The way to do this that now looks most promising would be to spray a fine mist of reflective aerosols in the upper atmosphere. to 1%) of incoming sunlight.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Climate Change Brings Water Risks. Is Michigan Ready for Climate Change? Climate Change Grips Trout Streams Across the Nation: 2 Comments / November 2, 2021 Across the country, anglers have watched as droughts, floods, and high temperatures batter the rivers they depend on. Climate Change Brings Water Risks.

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Acoel

JULY 5, 2022

EPA as a decision depriving EPA of an important tool to address climate change under the Clean Air Act. The decision is better viewed as steering EPA away from a flawed regulatory strategy and toward strategies that will be far more effective in addressing the existential threat of climate disruption. McKinstry, Jr.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

Do my colleagues who oppose RGGI have a plan, a new plan to address climate change, rising energy costs, the decline of coal fired power plants, and impact to their workers and communities? Let us remember, we're not here to debate the issue of climate change. I am not aware of one.

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ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

report on how world can still stop climate change. report on how world can still stop climate change. BRUSSELS — The world can avoid the worst consequences of climate change, but emissions need to peak by 2025, the U.N.’s s climate science panel said in a major new report on Monday. “We

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