Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 21, 2025

We’re clear-eyed about what we’re up against: the dismantling of federal agencies whose work protects the public, widespread rollbacks of health and safety protections, political cronyism, illegal power grabs, and withholding federal funds, among many other attacks.

Radiation

Scientific American

JUNE 19, 2025

What effect would this have on our atmosphere? To find the answers, she set out to study atmospheric science, just as the field of meteorology was coming of age. She had her sight set squarely on understanding the atmospheric dynamics of the mushroom cloud and all of its poisonous particles. And so, June enrolled in UCLA.

Atmosphere

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

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. The politics are almost as unstable as the climate system.

Radiation

Inside Climate News

JULY 21, 2023

Some scientists worry that studying how to shade the Earth from some of the sun’s heat is a slippery slope toward deployment of ‘solar radiation management’ without fully understanding the risks.

Technology

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. A tool for science (and politics). A bumpy road to fusion. The ability to drive matter to unprecedented densities and temperatures also makes NIF a unique tool for fusion research.

Technology

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

Physics World

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Intriguingly, these scientific studies took on a wider political importance during the Second World War. Many space missions since SKYLAB have extended our measurements of the corona beyond EUV and X-ray wavelengths, yielding details of the even-higher-energy gamma radiation it emits. million kelvin (green).

Electricity

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.

Atmosphere

Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Air emissions : Any gas emitted into the atmosphere from industrial or commercial activity. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) : A group of inert chemical used in many industrial and everyday processes such as our refrigerators that are not broken down at lower atmospheric levels and rise to the upper levels, destroying ozone.

Government

Vermont Law

APRIL 13, 2020

The environmental issue addressed here is that certain agricultural practices, like converting forests to ranchland, release large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere and severely disrupt ecosystems. which results in a land surface that reflects more solar radiation and disrupts the natural temperature cycling provided by forest cover.

Deforestation

Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

But the effect of greenhouse gases is not even investigated in the paper – which suggests the title is politically motivated. The energy balance of our planet , the radiation arriving and leaving, is continually monitored by a global radiation network at the surface and by dedicated satellites. Image: Prof.

Greenhouse

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

There are even indications that near-term cuts might be easier to achieve for methane than for CO 2 , for a mix of technical, economic, and political reasons. Atmospheric concentrations. That small concentration of methane in the atmosphere makes an outsized contribution to global heating. Climate impact.

Atmosphere

Environmental Progress

AUGUST 3, 2020

Gleick claims I contradict myself by writing, “When it comes to protecting the environment by moving to superior alternatives, public attitudes and political action matter,” to which Gleick adds, “exactly the point of environmental advocacy groups like Greenpeace that worked to change public opinion.”

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

According to the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), it would take as little as 6 to 10 months of preparation to conduct a simple test for “ political purposes ,” should the president order one. The United States already maintains the ability to conduct new tests at the Nevada Nuclear Security Site.

Radiation

ESA

JUNE 28, 2021

The full Committee also approved amendments adding solar radiation management and wildfire science to the list of climate change research topics funded by the bill. Senators confirmed Richard Spinrad to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration by a voice vote. Another amendment from Rep. An amendment from Rep.

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