National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

DECEMBER 8, 2023

As Doug puts it, “Climate change is bringing more variability, not a consistent change toward a new pattern.” Practices That Sequester Carbon and Increase Resilience Within EQIP and CSP in particular, the practices that receive funding through the IRA tend to accomplish multiple ecological goals.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

They say they have thus far launched two small weather balloons, which each released a few grams of sulfur dioxide gas (SO 2 ) in the stratosphere. 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 (!)

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 25, 2023

Algae are known as phototrophs, meaning they utilize (you guessed it) the process of photosynthesis, harnessing the power of sunlight, carbon dioxide and water to provide themselves with essential nutrition. Built-in sunscreen sounds pretty cool, doesn’t it? Algae and climate change can be a bad combination.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Burning fossil fuels is a main contributor to climate change. It is mostly made up of methane which is even worse than carbon dioxide. It will increase the impacts of climate change for everyone in the near future, especially people with respiratory illnesses.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 25, 2023

If the AMOC weakens, this region will cool. And in fact it is cooling – it’s the only region on Earth which has cooled since preindustrial times. that the sea surface temperature there in winter is a good index of AMOC strength, based on a high-resolution climate model. From Rahmstorf and Ganopolski 1999.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 5, 2022

volume mixing ratio), together with a number of trace gases, such as argon (0.93% volume mixing ratio), helium, radiatively active greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (0.035% volume mixing ratio), and ozone. Climate in a wider sense is the state, including a statistical description, of the climate system.

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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. Its primary component is methane.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 14, 2024

They are proposing a major carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in northeast Alberta. The project will capture carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from 13 oil sands facilities in the Fort McMurray, Christina Lake, and Cold Lake regions and transport the CO 2 to the Cold Lake area where it will be injected underground (just south of St.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

By Adrienne Berard, Penn State News Trees are struggling to sequester heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO2) in warmer, drier climates, meaning that they may no longer serve as a solution for offsetting humanity’s carbon footprint as the planet continues to warm, according to a new study led by Penn State researchers. “We

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Furthermore, it’s also clear that with the increase in extreme weather driven by climate change, gas plants are threatened by the very conditions they’ve helped contribute to. She knows methane emissions have as much as 80 times the heat-trapping effect over a 20-year period as carbon dioxide. Muse isn’t buying it.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Last week, the Nobel physics prize was (half) awarded to Suki Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann for their work on climate prediction and the detection and attribution of climate change. This came as quite a surprise to the climate community – though it was welcomed warmly. Klaus Hasselmann (1997). References.

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A Greener Life

JULY 30, 2023

It transports warm surface water from the tropics to the North Atlantic, where it cools down and sinks to deeper layers. The AMOC also plays a vital role in regulating the global climate by controlling the distribution of heat and carbon dioxide.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

I followed with great interest the launch of the sixth assessment report Working Group 1 (The Physical Science Basis) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on August 9th. The cause of our changing climate is the increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations that we have released into the air.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

As the impacts of climate change are felt more acutely with each passing year, new research suggests that the future costs of emitting CO2 today may be much higher than previously calculated. What is the social cost of carbon? How is the social cost of carbon calculated? Photo credit: Isabel Infantes / Alamy.

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 1, 2022

EPA tells us succinctly, Carbon dioxide is the primary greenhouse gas emitted through human activities. In 2020, carbon dioxide accounted for about 79% of all U.S. Surprising to some, carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. Simply put, gases that trap heat in the atmosphere (. emission trends.

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A Greener Life

MAY 12, 2023

A woman pours water over her head to cool off during soaring temperatures in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 11 April 2023. With our children already paying a terrible price for climate change, we must act to protect their future, urges an IPCC scientist. I am writing this as a climate scientist and a mother of two young children.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

Another reliability benefit of grid regionalization is that a western RTO would be much better positioned to coordinate the response to extreme weather conditions, which are becoming much more frequent as the West increasingly feels the impacts of climate change. billion dollars since the market began.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Nearly a third of our current carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions come from burning fossil gas for electricity, home heating and other uses! BONUS – COOL TECH ALERT! A new report explains how the provincial government can do just that, while also creating jobs and growing the economy.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 23, 2022

The proposed rule defines “climate-related risks” to mean “the actual or potential negative impacts of climate-related conditions and events on a registrant’s consolidated financial statements, business operations, or value chains, as a whole.” Scope 1 emissions are “direct. Scope 1 emissions are “direct.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The trees and vegetation removed when these mining sites were cleared would have aided with the erosion problem while also helping to combat global warming and climate change. DEP’s Mining Program utilizes the Forestry Reclamation Approach and works closely with OSMRE in mine land reforestation efforts here in Pennsylvania.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2022

Every time a company or organization installs an energy-efficient heating, cooling, or lighting system, it’s another step for Pennsylvania and the nation toward independence from fossil fuels. And it helps lower greenhouse gas emissions to slow climate change and its negative effects.”

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 1, 2023

Heat pumps, a simple but effective technology, use electricity to remove heat from inside your home to cool it in the summer and pull heat in from outside to heat your home in the winter. And, kicking gas out of your home is good for your health and the climate.

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

(Figure 1) These properties are a double-edged sword: while they are the root of the problems that black carbon causes, they also make mitigating black carbon one of the most actionable ways to fight climate change.

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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. Even ubiquitous tree planting would leave us with an excess of carbon dioxide.’ It is also common.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

And to zoom out a bit, burning fossil fuels is the primary contributor to global climate change, which is driving and exacerbating the once-rare extreme weather events that are impacting people across every part of the country—and across the world.

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Washington Nature

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

While dry forests experience more severe wildfires and drought, coastal wet forests must contend with a unique set of circumstances, such as changes in land use, increasing insects and disease, and extreme weather events. With climate change compounding these stressors, there is an urgent need to prepare our forests for the future.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

Although not a silver bullet, it is likely to have positive consequences of decreasing GHGs, advancing work to prepare for the worsening physical impacts of climate change, and encouraging climate friendly innovations. [10] 12] Here are some details about the proposed California legislation. The vote on it was 24-9.

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Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

But since it became clear that human actions are damaging the environment and changing the climate, it has become much more prominent nationally and internationally with most government departments in most countries having responsibilities to mitigate or prepare for climate change scenario. The Human Impacts on Climate.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

Extremes : Back in 2012, the literature assessed by AR5 connecting changes in extremes to climate change was scant. Russell, "Climate Impact of Increasing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide", Science , vol. As we wrote at the time , attribution of single events was difficult and experimental. Johnson, A.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

This post is an introduction to methane in climate change: where it comes from, how it’s different from CO 2 , how those differences matter, and what that all means for controls. In the early days of the climate issue, when discussions were mainly scientific, normal practice was to measure CO 2. Rice farm, Williams, California.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 28, 2022

Supreme Court could transform federal climate regulation. The Chicago City Council makes new cooling rules after a heat wave killed three people in an apartment building. The expansions to the cooling requirements will help keep our most vulnerable residents safe as we continue to see the impacts of climate change.”.

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Greenbuilding Law

MARCH 26, 2023

There is a move toward all electric buildings as a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change. This means that buildings must use electric heating, cooling, and hot water systems instead of natural gas or oil.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 24, 2024

Of Environmental Professionals Now Accepting Applications For Science Scholarships; Call For Conference Presentations [PaEN] -- Penn State Extension Ag Conservation Currents: Funding for Sustainable Farming; Managing Pastured Lands; Soil Erosion Threat Increasing With Climate Change -- DCNR Grants Newsletter: Last Minute Tips For Grant Applicants; (..)

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 11, 2022

This electricity must include “24/7 carbon pollution-free electricity” that matches “actual electricity consumption on an hourly basis” and is “produced within the same regional grid where the energy is consumed.”

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

A Year After Norfolks Southern Train Derailment -- The Allegheny Front: A Year Later, A PA Resident Impacted By Norfolk Southern Train Derailment Pushes For Answers -- PA Solar Center: 2 Get Solar Projects Move Forward In Lawrence, Centre Counties; Get Solar Webinar Feb. Chapter Host 20th Washington Cherry Pike Hike Feb.

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Acoel

JULY 5, 2022

EPA as a decision depriving EPA of an important tool to address climate change under the Clean Air Act. The decision is better viewed as steering EPA away from a flawed regulatory strategy and toward strategies that will be far more effective in addressing the existential threat of climate disruption. McKinstry, Jr.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

Do my colleagues who oppose RGGI have a plan, a new plan to address climate change, rising energy costs, the decline of coal fired power plants, and impact to their workers and communities? Let us remember, we're not here to debate the issue of climate change. I am not aware of one.

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