A Greener Life

AUGUST 16, 2021

On the back of the dark and sombre Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) cli mate report released last week, the US government agency National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has confirmed that this July was the warmest month ever experienced on Earth. By Anders Lorenzen. Photo credit: NOAA NCEI.

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Washington Nature

AUGUST 29, 2023

Last week, TNC Washington, the Stillaguamish Tribe and the Tulalip Tribes hosted Dr. Richard Spinrad, Undersecretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and NOAA Administrator, for a tour of TNC’s Port Susan Bay Preserve and the Stillaguamish Tribe’s zis a ba II site.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 3, 2023

The Sacramento River is one of the big salmon rivers off the West Coast.” — Micheal Milstein, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration spokesman, speaking to the Sacramento Bee about the cancellation of the state’s salmon fishing season. The last new facility to come online was in 2012.

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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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Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2023

Additionally, ITLOS can also apply rules of reference , referred to as “generally recognized international rules and standards” or “global rules and standards,” which exist in other sources of law incorporated into UNCLOS by reference ( see, e.g., Articles 207-2012 UNCLOS ). These rules are, in effect, binding norms incorporated into UNCLOS.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2023

Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Superstorm Sandy in 2012, Hurricanes Harvey and Irma in 2017, and Hurricane Irma in 2021 were all accompanied by the same question. A 2021 analysis of more than 88,000 studies since 2012 now finds 99.9 A Philadelphia Inquirer column carried the headline, “America sleepwalks through a climate crisis.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Funding is provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Penn State University, and matching funds from participating investigator institutions. Since 2012, Pennsylvania Sea Grant has invested $4.7 students.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 30, 2023

At least nine atmospheric rivers blasted California between December 20th and January 15th, causing flooding and extensive damage, while also delivering much needed precipitation to our parched state. But during extreme events, like the recent atmospheric rivers, larger infrastructure investments are necessary. Measure W is working.

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Breezometer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

A leading global expert on weather and climate, Dr. Shepherd is the Director of the Atmospheric Sciences Program and Full Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Georgia. Zack Labe is a climate scientist working as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Atmospheric Science of Colorado State University.

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Real Climate

APRIL 28, 2022

The connection between higher resolution and better weather forecasts lies in the decrease in numerical diffusion, and better ability to track the large scale synoptic situation, including the fronts and atmospheric rivers etc. 775-779, 2012. before the chaotic nature of the weather renders forecasts unreliable. Solomon, and A.S.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Wild-caught seafood from our ocean is no exception. Climate change is making the ocean warmer, more acidic and lower in oxygen. Northern shrimp, found in the northeast, are highly vulnerable to climate change, according to a climate vulnerability assessment done by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Over the last 12 years, I wrote eight columns on the Koch network’s escapades, including: Its attempt in 2012 to scare consumers about the cost of state renewable energy standards, which require utilities to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels by increasing their use of wind and solar power.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

Some 1 million Florida homes will be at risk by the end of the century, largely because the state sits on porous limestone and the sea level around the state, which has gone up 8 inches since 1950, could rise another 14 to 16 inches by 2050, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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ESA

APRIL 12, 2021

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. between 2012 and 2019. ARPA-E funds high-risk, high-reward energy research and development projects that the private sector would not fund. The Trump administration repeatedly proposed eliminating ARPA-E in its budget requests. Overall, President Biden requested $6.9

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Vermont Law

MARCH 9, 2015

Junk can be found everywhere—from the bellies of animals and the tissues of our own bodies to the world’s vast oceans. . The first step toward keeping trash from entering the ocean is to reduce the amount created on land and repurpose what we chuck into trash bins. invented by Cesar Harada—could one day scour the ocean for trash.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In the last decade, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. In 2012 Canada and the U.S.

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ESA

MAY 6, 2021

Climate change is reshaping our lands and our oceans and our coasts. We cannot confront climate change without doing a far better job to protect our forests, our oceans, our wetlands and our grasslands,” Gina McCarthy, the White House national climate adviser, said during the call.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Legislators provide $200 million to NOAA for weather, coasts, oceans and climate research, $100 million for NOAA competitive climate research grants and provides $100 million to NOAA for development and dissemination of climate science information products and services. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gets $1.5

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

A magistrate judge in the federal district court for the District of Oregon granted motions by three trade groups to withdraw from the lawsuit seeking to hold the United States liable for its actions and inaction leading to the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. at its theme park in Jackson Township in Ocean County.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The court found that a 2012 no-jeopardy determination was unsupported, arbitrary, and capricious because it did not account for the owl’s recovery. 2012 CA 008263 B (D.C. National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration , No. The court also declined to “create a new tort named abusive litigation.” 1:19-cv-02751 (D.D.C.,

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Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2023

2012) ; Cal. Bernhardt’s reasoning was that it would be impossible to establish the requisite causal link between GHG emissions, global climate change, and specific localized effects on species and their habitat due to the “complex and independent processes active in the atmosphere and the ocean acting on GHGs.” USFS (9th Cir.

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