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A Dangerous Disruption

Legal Planet

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 (!) And in all likelihood, they are not breaking any current law or regulation. They assert that their activity will provide two benefits. Could this activity change the climate?

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How much should we worry about climate tipping points?

Legal Planet

And a multilateral regime to regulate research and experimentation. The report also notes explorations of local (geo)engineering responses that might be of value at the scale of specific tipping elements, such as reef cooling by cloud brightening, or draining glacial meltwater to slow glacier advance.

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The Fuss about Methane

Legal Planet

Several new regulations controlling methane emissions have been adopted recently, including two new rules for the US oil and gas sector announced last week. Atmospheric concentrations. That small concentration of methane in the atmosphere makes an outsized contribution to global heating. Climate impact. W/m 2 from elevated CO 2.

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Ask a Scientist: Gas Plants Disproportionately Harm Marginalized Communities

Union of Concerned Scientists

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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Getting physical with the climate crisis

Physics World

As air sunk through the atmosphere, it got squeezed and heated. Extreme heat is not just an abstract notion: if we can’t cool our bodies enough, we’re in danger of neurological failure, organ failure and even death, with the risks highest for children and the elderly. Courtesy: Canadian Press/Shutterstock). Where are they most likely?

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Glossary of Greenhouse Gas Terms

Greenbuilding Law

With proposed federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions by the Securities and Exchange Commission requiring GHG disclosure and new state statutes, including a new Maryland law that requires not only disclosure, but also a mandated reduction in GHG emissions, a greater appreciation of the subject of GHG appears in order.

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A Quick Science Refresher on Greenhouse Gas

Greenbuilding Law

But make no mistake, the larger issue is the regulation for the first time of GHGs (including carbon) which will literally change the structure of the global economy, our political order, market capitalism and even our biological selves.”. Simply put, gases that trap heat in the atmosphere (.