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. VY: Clean energy sources will be absolutely pivotal for an equitable and reliable grid.

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Physics World

JANUARY 30, 2022

Specifically, we found that photovoltaics can significantly warm the urban environment during the day, but typically cool the urban environment at night. Other studies, particularly modelling studies, had previously suggested a daytime cooling effect of photovoltaics. What research did you include in your study?

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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. But Enbridge is misleading these people, and trying to lock in more Ontarians to gas.

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Physics World

MARCH 1, 2022

This is equivalent to nearly 8% of the mass of all water vapour in Earth’s atmosphere. The models show that afforestation and a more reflective surface cools the land, which dampens sea breezes and reduces the movement of water vapour from sea to land. Changing albedo. Strengthening sea breezes.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

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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Legal Planet

JULY 18, 2023

All of that is changing – the price is dropping as the technology improves, cheaper and more efficient catalysts and processes are being invented, and efficiency and size are improving. Governments are providing incentives, and the industry is progressing. Here’s my argument: Scientists now agree that we can’t stay anywhere near 1.5°C

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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.

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Physics World

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Many materials display superconductivity when they are cooled to low temperatures, and the phenomenon was first observed in 1911 in solid mercury, which has a superconducting transition temperature T c of 4.2 million atmospheres) than other so-called “superhydrides”. Superconductivity in cerium hydrides.

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 1, 2022

Simply put, gases that trap heat in the atmosphere (. Yes, water vapor is the most abundant GHG in the atmosphere, but it is a different animal and water vapor does control Earth’s temperature but, there is never a change in the amount of water on Earth.). In 2020, carbon dioxide accounted for about 79% of all U.S. emission trends.

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Breezometer

JULY 27, 2021

Our atmospheric scientist Dr. Yvonne Boose recently hosted a unique webinar session to explore the air quality reporting challenges presented by wildfires, alongside practical solutions for businesses looking to protect themselves and people from wildfire impact. When everything is dry, there is less evaporation which means less cooling.

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

When fuels are burned to create energy in a process called combustion, black carbon along with carbon monoxide and other compounds are created because there is not enough oxygen in the atmosphere for the reaction to go to completion. Whenever there are combustion processes, of which there are many in our industrial society (e.g.,

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Environmental Professionals Radio

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In research, Tracy has developed water treatment technology, strategies for sustainable design, aquaponics for space travel, and citizen science programs with over 1.6million users to obtain publicly available environmental data.

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Breezometer

MAY 23, 2022

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. Is climate change making ‘firenadoes’ more likely?

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Eventually, CO2 levels in the atmosphere would return to 350 ppm. No, current technologies and future inventions will be needed and welcomed. Back to 2017, I had loved listening to famous environmentalist Paul Hawken present his book Drawdown. Solar and wind are already replacing coal and fossil gas for electricity generation.

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Water Research & Technology

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

This article focused on PFAS remediation but we also have some cool funded efforts to develop instrumentation to improve the speed at which the DoD can conduct site characterization and determine if and how much remediation needs to be done. What are the sources of PFAS in the atmosphere.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Mill 19 not only boasts a record-setting rooftop solar array and numerous energy- and water-saving features, but also houses companies that are leading the way in developing transformative technologies that are redefining our region,” said Dr. Donald F. Smith, president of Regional Industrial Development Corporation.

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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. It’s a fascinating story of technology, creativity, hubris, error, imagination, rivalry, politics, and (for some) a search for scientific consilience – worthy of movie script perhaps?

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 12, 2023

From freezer upgrades in labs to geothermal heating and cooling at Johnstown, the winner will move the University of Pittsburgh toward its carbon neutrality goal. Excessive food waste and dying soils are having a profoundly negative global impact, notably in creating extreme atmospheric carbon levels. Lenz, who both hire Pitt alumni.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

OK, on to methane in the environment: The headline here – whether you’re talking about atmospheric concentrations, climate impacts, or emissions – is that there is a lot less methane than CO 2 , but it’s a more potent climate heater and it’s increasing faster. Atmospheric concentrations. Climate impact. W/m 2 from elevated CO 2.

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Physics World

JANUARY 7, 2022

That is because before it can push the envelope of what science and space technology can achieve, it had to first overcome a dangerous deep-space unpacking: its 6.5 If it continues to succeed without a hitch, it should transform astronomy – all thanks to several technological marvels that make the JWST a unique and powerful instrument.

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Ivy Protocol

AUGUST 23, 2023

UNDO ’s focus on enhanced rock weathering developed from the realization that conventional strategies, like mass tree planting, could not alone counter the massive amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Basalt is formed by cooling lava, so wherever you have volcanic activity, you find basalt. It is also common.

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Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

Satellites, for example, are used in meteorology to track weather systems and to monitor atmospheric fronts to predict what the weather will do next. Known as ENSO, they are opposite effects of the same process and are defined as an oscillation (a variation in magnitude) between the temperature of the atmosphere and the ocean.

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Environmental Science

AUGUST 7, 2018

vital for new technologies that all of us use every day from solar panel technology to wind turbine, engineering design, and the creation of new alloys and polymers. Satellite Technology : Without satellites, we would not know as much about our planet as we would have done (16). This is both a theoretical and an applied science.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In particular, should we be preparing to deploy climate geoengineering technologies? 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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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Energy conservation can take a lot of different forms, starting with retrofitting existing structures with insulation and more efficient heating and cooling. Commercial buildings could benefit from new technologies using artificial intelligence to control their heating and cooling systems.

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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

Technology and Adaptation. The Colorado River water that cooled the plant is part of a broader legal impasse. Technology and Adaptation. utilities have been slower to adopt the energy- and emissions-saving technologies than those in other parts of the world. Colorado River Basin Reaches Pivotal Moment. Covid and WASH.

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Acoel

JULY 5, 2022

The Trump EPA had invoked the major questions doctrine and the Agency’s past interpretation of technology-based standards under section 111 of the Clean Air to find that EPA could not rely upon switching methods of power generation to establish an emissions reduction budget under a cap-and-trade program.

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ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

This latest report looks at mitigation — or what the world can do to stop pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Countries will also have to extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to keep global warming in check. degrees or try to cool the planet back down through the massive use of CDR. Capturing carbon is a must.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

In 1970 in the Boston Globe newspaper, there was a scientist from the atmospheric research in Boulder, Colorado predicted that an ice age would be upon us by the 21st century. He also predicted that in the electric generation demands for cooling water will boil dry the entire flow of rivers and streams in the continental United States.

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ESA

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee advanced the nomination of Jainey Bavishi to be the assistant secretary of oceans and atmosphere at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the second-most senior position at NOAA. The United States needs a department of technology and science policy – Nature.

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