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Glossary of Greenhouse Gas Terms

Greenbuilding Law

With proposed federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions by the Securities and Exchange Commission requiring GHG disclosure and new state statutes, including a new Maryland law that requires not only disclosure, but also a mandated reduction in GHG emissions, a greater appreciation of the subject of GHG appears in order.

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How is Ocean Warming Impacting the Shipping Industry?

Ocean Conservancy

As deeply troubling reports continue to come in about ocean waters hitting historic hot temperatures, sectors like global shipping are trying to understand the consequences of a warmer ocean and what can be done to stop the heating. Warmer water also expands and raises sea levels as well as holds less oxygen.

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The world’s oceans are heading towards peak acidity?

A Greener Life

Our oceans are acidifying. A new report has warned that the level of acidity in the world’s oceans is higher now than it has been for the past 26,000 years. The heat trapped by human-induced greenhouse gases will warm the planet for many generations to come.” ” How the oceans absorb carbon and store the heat.

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Delayed harm and the politics of climate change, reconsidered

Legal Planet

The world is gathering soon in Glasgow to debate how to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions over the coming decades. But what happens when we achieve the goal of zero carbon dioxide emissions from human actions? Does the climate keep warming, stay the same, or even cool? Some models show a potential for a rise of up to 0.3

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Analysis: How fast can we stop Earth from warming??

A Greener Life

The ocean retains heat for much longer than land does. But that doesn’t mean the planet returns to its preindustrial climate or that we avoid disruptive effects such as sea-level rise. Over the years, scientists added oceans , land, ice sheets, chemistry and biology. Oceans in the future. By Richard B. Ricky) Rood.

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The Origins of Climate Awareness in the Legal Academy

Legal Planet

Westlaw searches for “global warming” and “greenhouse effect” pick up only a handful of citations before 1985. The other article about nuclear power also observed in passing that “coal combustion may disrupt global weather patterns by increasing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, creating a ‘greenhouse effect.’”.

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Deciphering the ‘SPM AR6 WG1’ code

Real Climate

There is no doubt that we have changed Earth’s climate through our activities on a broad range of aspects that includes consequences for the atmosphere, the oceans, snow, ice, Earth’s fauna and ecosystems. The cause of our changing climate is the increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations that we have released into the air.