PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

The 2010 DCNR study also found "radium values are high enough that a possible radiation hazard exists, especially where radium could be adsorbed on iron oxides and accumulate in brine tanks." [ Read more here.] Read more here. These 4,359 owners own 34,455 wells-- 34% of the conventional wells required to file these reports.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2025

The 2010 DCNR study also found "radium values are high enough that a possible radiation hazard exists, especially where radium could be adsorbed on iron oxides and accumulate in brine tanks." [ Read more here.] Read more here. These 4,359 owners own 34,455 wells-- 34% of the conventional wells required to file these reports.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

APRIL 30, 2025

First, some background drawing from my previous posts: Solar geoengineering (SG) is a set of technological interventions in the climate system being discussed, which could provide quick, temporary, imperfect relief for severe near-term climate change impacts. OMG, climate change must be even worse than I thought.

Politics

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

A former member of Congress from Long Island, New York, with scant regulatory experience, Zeldin promised to defer to the research of the scientists on whether climate change made oceans more acidic. Holding high-level positions in the Office of Air and Radiation are Abigale Tardif and Alex Dominguez.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 14, 2025

By bypassing regulatory processes and silencing scientific expertise, the Trump administration is seeking to gut efforts to address the impacts and economic damage caused by climate change, and the impacts of toxics exposures to the American people. Are you planning on taking EPAs Office of Air and Radiation back to the 1970s?

Clean Air Act

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Proposals for geoengineering — reducing warming after carbon emissions are already in the atmosphere — range from being almost literally garden variety to the realm of science fiction. loss of stratospheric ozone); important aspects of regional climate (e.g.,

2024

Legal Planet

JULY 10, 2025

She’s President of AFGE Local 1236, one of the unions that represent workers in EPA Region 9 (California and 4 other Western states) and EPA’s National Center for Radiation Field Operations. “I It is not too soon to be explaining that storms like this are becoming more intense as a result of climate change.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 21, 2025

And as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) faced unprecedented budget cuts and mass firings that hindered their crucial work keeping the public safe from extreme weather events, UCS helped organize and send a letter to Congress signed by over 3,300 scientists from around the world in defense of the agency.

Radiation

Scientific American

JULY 4, 2025

This warming is mostly from natural greenhouse gases, mind you, but we’re adding approximately 40 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year , significantly increasing the warming effect. But the sun’s production of energy does change noticeably—over hundreds of millions of years.

Carbon Dioxide

Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The CERES estimates of the top-of-atmosphere radiative fluxes are available from 2001 to the present. 2021) also reported on a two decade estimate of Earthshine measurements which appear to confirm a small decrease in albedo (and decrease in reflected short wave (SW) radiation). A paper last year (Goode et al., It’s unlikely(?)

Radiation

Real Climate

OCTOBER 1, 2022

I have a feeling that we are seeing the start of a new wave of climate change denial and misrepresentation of science. What he hasn’t understood is that the IPCC merely assesses published climate research, much of which is conducted with global climate models that indeed treat the earth as a sphere. References.

Greenhouse

Real Climate

MAY 21, 2023

A new paper by Ben Santer and colleagues has appeared in PNAS where they extend their previous work on the detection and attribution of anthropogenic climate change to include the upper stratosphere, using observations from the Stratospheric Sounding Units (SSUs) (and their successors, the AMSU instruments) that have flown since 1979.

Cooling

Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

are used all over the world, based on calculations that quantify the effects of physical mechanisms and the way different parts of the atmosphere are connected to each other. The physics-based models describe how energy flows through the atmosphere and ocean, as well as how the forces from different air masses push against each other.

Sea Level

Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

Here are a few things that mark this report out from previous versions that relate to issues we’ve discussed here before: Extreme events are increasingly connected to climate (duh!) Extremes : Back in 2012, the literature assessed by AR5 connecting changes in extremes to climate change was scant.

Sea Level

Real Climate

JULY 25, 2021

Chris Lennard from the University of Cape Town takes us through different aspects of climate change adaptation. The good news is that there are some initiatives on climate change adaptation which involve climate scientists such as the Infrastructure and Climate Network ( ICNet Global ).

Climate Change

Physics World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The labs – including CERN, the European Space Agency, Fermilab and the Los Alamos National Laboratory – have announced that they will step up their scientific collaboration on carbon-neutral energy and climate change as well as share best practices to improve the carbon footprint of big-science facilities. Eager to learn.

Climate Change

Inside Climate News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

By Bob Berwyn A scientific showdown over whether dispersing massive amounts of reflective particles high into the atmosphere could temporarily and safely mask global warming intensified this week, as a group of more than 60 researchers published a letter Monday calling for accelerated research and small-scale field experiments into what is called solar (..)

Radiation

Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

Rogelj et al, 2018; Huppmann et al, 2018), but with climate projections updated entirely with dedicated climate emulators that integrate the scientific information across chapter. Nature Climate Change. In: Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. IPCC (2014) Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report.

2018

Real Climate

MARCH 4, 2021

Since it was a control simulation with no external “forcing” (no greenhouse gas changes, no variations in solar output, no volcanic eruptions, etc.), any oscillation that was produced has to be internally generated. It turns out that they are the exception (indeed the rare exception), rather than the rule.

Cooling

Inside Climate News

JUNE 23, 2021

Warming of the surface of the Arctic is matched by a colder polar vortex high in the atmosphere, which is speeding the breakdown of the Earth’s shield against ultraviolet rays.

Ozone

Legal Planet

APRIL 7, 2024

I hope we can collectively reckon with another terrifyingly awesome atmospheric event: the hottest year. Read out of context, that description fits climate change too, of course. So why do so many ignore scientists’ predictions about climate change?!!” But that doesn’t mean the sun is causing climate change.”

Climate Change

A Greener Life

JUNE 3, 2022

If people everywhere stopped burning fossil fuels tomorrow, stored heat would still continue to warm the atmosphere. Picture how a radiator heats a home. Water is heated by a boiler, and the hot water circulates through pipes and radiators in the house. The radiators warm up and heat the air in the room.

Carbon Dioxide

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 7, 2021

It turns out — I’ll bet even most AIs don’t know this — the oxidized carbon byproduct of our fuels has a nasty tendency to pile up in the atmosphere. Even more surprisingly, that changes the atmosphere’s radiation profile. What with various feedback loops, the results were pretty startling.

Radiation

HumanNature

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Candidate in the Department of Atmospheric Science and Trainee in the CSU InTERFEWS Program Figure 1: Cover art for The War of the Worlds novel by H.G. Large ash particles that rain down and blanket nearby communities are only a fraction of what wildfires billow into the atmosphere. Guest Post by Kimberley Corwin , Ph.D.

Radiation

Environmental News Bits

APRIL 15, 2022

If people everywhere stopped burning fossil fuels tomorrow, stored heat would still continue to warm the atmosphere. Picture how a radiator heats a home. Water is heated by a boiler, and the hot water circulates through pipes and radiators in … Continue reading How fast can we stop Earth from warming?

Radiation

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2022

NIF can also be used to generate x-rays and gamma-rays which are used to study radiation hardness of weapons components and assemblies. Thus, this result should not distract us from the fact that urgent action to develop clean energy sources and combat climate change is required in this decade. A bumpy road to fusion.

Technology

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.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2024

The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) issued an advisory opinion on April 21, 2024 in response to a request submitted by the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law (COSIS). 52-54) and acknowledged the critical role the ocean plays in regulating the climate system (para.

Law

Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Recent science doesn’t support this optimism, as new studies show that the increased release of Black Carbon, one of the most potent climate change forcers—as well as soot, carbon dioxide, methane and ozone from more traffic in the Arctic—could lead to a 20% increase in the global heating that is causing warmer ocean temperatures.

Ocean

Physics World

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Indeed, it is understandable why people might fear radiation given that you can’t see it – yet the same can be said of the air that we breathe. As physicists we are well equipped to drive the conversation on climate change from the problem to solutions – one that nuclear needs to be a part of. Young support.

Nuclear Power

Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

We’re already experiencing the impact of climate change across the world; now an update from the IPCC suggests weather extremes could become the norm in the near future. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2023

TODAY 3:00 : Webinar Features Panel Discussion On Radioactivity And Oil & Gas Development, University Of Pittsburgh Radiation Oncologist 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. TODAY 7:30: Beaver County Marcellus Awareness Community Monthly Eyes On Shell Meeting.

Natural Gas

A Greener Life

MAY 20, 2022

The Altiplano plateau in western Bolivia has some of the world’s highest and most consistent levels of solar radiation, creating a high potential for solar photovoltaic power in the region, but structural challenges may prevent scaling. Photo credit: Anyisa / Alamy. By Santiago Espinoza. More small plants and storage. What are we doing?

Solar Power

Law Columbia

MAY 24, 2024

On May 21, 2024, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) released its long-awaited advisory opinion on climate change. There was little discussion, either in the written statements or at the oral hearing, of so-called “marine geoengineering” activities that seek to use the ocean to combat climate change.

Carbon Dioxide

Physics World

MAY 8, 2025

We also have a remit to monitor the atmosphere and the environment – globally and regionally – within the context of a changing climate. Our task is to get the best representation, in a 3D sense, of the current state of the atmosphere versus key metrics like wind, temperature, humidity and cloud cover.

Atmosphere

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.

2018

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. The danger is that the Antarctic sea ice is starting to behave like the Arctic, with sustained loss of ocean cover and consequent absorption of solar radiation.

Ocean