Circle of Blue

JULY 14, 2022

A thirsty atmosphere evaporates or sublimates its share. With increasing temperatures, “we’re seeing places that do have drought, the intensification is more rapid,” says Roger Pulwarty, a senior scientist in the physical sciences laboratory at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Clunky, perhaps.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

If the land data was contaminated by urban heating effects, we wouldn’t see similar warming in the ocean. Zhang, "The Detection and Attribution of Northern Hemisphere Land Surface Warming (1850–2018) in Terms of Human and Natural Factors: Challenges of Inadequate Data", Climate , vol. Szarka, H.L. Tanaka, M.K. Vahrenholt, V.M.

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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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Real Climate

APRIL 2, 2021

The difference is due largely to the differences in the regional atmospheric response that occurs in concert with the SST warming. In particular, they don’t just respond to SST changes, but also how the atmosphere changes as the SSTs change. 191-196, 2018. 2016 ), could increase again in concentration. Zhang et al. Vimont, A.K.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 14, 2021

Industrial sites are likely the source of PFAS in the atmosphere. Though essential to ocean life, they produce plenty of drawbacks, too. Global aquaculture production increased 16-fold between 1985 and 2018, which is the study’s period of analysis. This week Circle of Blue reports on a toxic threat to the world’s coastlines.

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Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 19, 2022

In less than two months, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will release its outlook of the number of hurricanes making landfall in the United States in 2022. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. The post Forecasting Seasonal Red Tide appeared first on Ocean Conservancy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 18, 2022

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 2021 followed the distressing trend of excessive heat, as the sixth hottest year on record (a tie with 2018). Last year brought the dangers of extreme heat to the forefront.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The ocean has buffered our planet from the impacts of climate change, absorbing much of the carbon dioxide we’ve emitted and a substantial amount of the heat from our warming atmosphere. The ocean is getting higher and hotter; it holds less oxygen; and it’s becoming more acidic. We know the ocean will keep changing.

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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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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. In 2018, Los Angeles County voters approved Measure W , a special parcel tax funding the Safe Clean Water Program. Measure W is working.

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Environment, Law, and History

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Pittsburgh Press, 2018). To answer this question, Sabol Spezio analyzes how the oil spill influenced the CWA and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), as well as the formation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 30, 2022

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has announced its 2022 Lake Erie algae bloom forecast. Ontario and Canada signed the Canada-Ontario Lake Erie Action Plan in 2018 as part of the binational efforts to address Lake Erie algae blooms and keep them from spiraling out of control.

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Physics World

APRIL 27, 2021

Part of this movement is an oscillation on a timescale of about a year – caused by short-term fluctuations such as changes in ocean currents and atmospheric pressure. Other observations of glacier melting, and estimations of groundwater extraction were also used in the analysis.

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Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. So far, 18 countries have joined the GGGI to contribute to a cleaner, safer and more resilient ocean. Martha Delgado, Undersecretary for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Sherpa of Mexico before the High-Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 5, 2023

billion over the next five years to support the development of four regional direct air capture (DAC) hubs, designed to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and permanently store or utilize it in long-life products (e.g., The IPCC, in the 2018 Glossary to their Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5º

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 29, 2023

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has announced its 2023 Lake Erie algae bloom forecast. Ontario and Canada signed the Canada-Ontario Lake Erie Action Plan in 2018 as part of the binational efforts to address Lake Erie’s algae blooms and keep them from spiralling out of control.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

Illustrating the variation in sea levels from 1993 – 2018. Source: NASA (August 2018). 4] An increase in global temperature leads to melting of the ice caps which causes the ocean to expand and sea level to rise. Shows a generally increasing trend. Many islands within the Pacific are surrounded by coral reefs. should be.

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Law Columbia

MAY 29, 2024

This applies to any source of pollution, whether land-based, vessel-based, and atmospheric. ITLOS refers to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 2018 1.5 4) of UNCLOS. o C Warming Report which stated that “[l]imiting warming to 1.5°C C … or less than 2°C … by the end of century (high confidence). 2023 Synthesis Report, p.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2023

To date in 2023, the United States has already suffered nine climate and weather disasters resulting in at least a billion dollars of damage, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Smoke from California’s 2018 Camp Fire contained high levels of lead and metals from burning buildings.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

An area of high pressure above the Pacific Ocean was driven eastwards through the jet stream by a “Rossby wave” – a planetary-scale fluctuation arising from the Coriolis force. The Rossby wave eventually “broke”, dumping its energy – like an ocean wave hitting the shore – to create an area of high pressure locked over western Canada and US.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 15, 2022

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced its 2022 Lake Erie algae bloom forecast. Ontario and Canada signed the Canada-Ontario Lake Erie Action Plan in 2018 as part of the binational efforts to address Lake Erie algae blooms and keep them from spiraling out of control. Earlier this summer, the U.S.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JANUARY 17, 2024

As those paying attention to agriculture know, climate impacts have become increasingly apparent since the last assessment was published in 2018. Extreme events in the Northwest will include storms resulting from atmospheric rivers over the Pacific Ocean. The ocean trends affect the species composition of the seas.

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Breezometer

MAY 23, 2022

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. The combination of updrafts and downdrafts leads to atmospheric instability similar to the one that creates other whirling air phenomena like ‘ dust devils ’.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 16, 2023

In just five years, from 2018 through 2022, wildfires scorched 38.3 found that the companies—down to 88 due to mergers—were responsible for about 55 percent of ocean acidification between 1880 and 2015. As a result, he was able to nail down the magnitude of what has been going into the atmosphere and its origin. Licker et al.

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Physics World

JUNE 5, 2021

In the past few years, physicists have begun to realize that it could have a major role in fluid dynamics – the Earth’s oceans, for example, or plasmas, or the biological cells in fluid-like “active” matter. First of all, the slim layers of the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans can be approximated as 2D. But how many waves?

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Acidification : Reducing the pH rating of a substance making it more acidic in nature, for example, increased carbon emissions lead to the oceans absorbing more of it, increasing acidification and damaging ecology such as coral bleaching. Air emissions : Any gas emitted into the atmosphere from industrial or commercial activity.

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Environmental Progress

MAY 28, 2020

million in 2018. It gives us the food we eat, the water we drink, the materials with which we build our homes, and the mechanisms that regulate our weather patterns, our ocean currents, and much more. In 2019 for example, WMO reported that more than 6.7 This number is forecast to reach close to 22 million in 2019, up from 17.2

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A study from Harvard found that in 2018, eight million people died from fossil fuel pollution—that’s 1 in every 5 deaths. According to the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), in 2023 alone there have been 25 confirmed climate disaster events affecting the United States with costs exceeding $1 billion each.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

First, underwater – in the sediments on the bottom of swamps, lakes, and the ocean. 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.

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 20, 2023

The horrible impacts of Matthew’s rainfall would soon be repeated by others, like Harvey (2017) and Florence (2018). Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Coastal flooding : Sea levels are rising as the ocean heats up and polar ice melts.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 7, 2022

Last year, there were 20 extreme weather events exceeding a billion dollars, each at a total cost of $148 billion , according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Extreme weather and climate change-related disasters are costing lives and billions of dollars every year.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

6] Scientists are alarmed that this year the temperature of the surface of the oceans has reached levels that are much higher, [7] and the extent of Antarctic sea ice is much lower, [8] than ever previously recorded. 4] David Vogel, California Greenin’: How the Golden State Became an Environmental Leader (2018). [5]

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 14, 2023

As the 2018 Farm Bill is set to expire on September 30, 2023, we believe this report is timely. In North Carolina, where many hog CAFOs lie within 100 miles of the Atlantic Ocean, several hurricanes have struck and caused lagoons to overflow, including Hurricane Florence in 2018, Hurricane Matthew in 2016 and Hurricane Floyd in 1999.

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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 and Environment

JUNE 24, 2022

This week, the Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a rule rescinding the rule issued in 2020 defining “habitat” for the purposes of determining what constitutes “critical habitat” under the Endangered Species Act. This came to a head in 2018 in Weyerhaeuser v.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

The developing science of climatology with its understanding of the need for chemistry made scientists concerned for the future on seeing masses amounts of carbon released into the atmosphere (8) , but also (as it was previously) regarding trees as a resource and the potential for depletion. Oceans and seas cover around 2/3 of our planet.

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