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Why Climate Scientists Are Sounding the Alarm on the Ocean Circulation System AMOC

Union of Concerned Scientists

Last month, 44 climate scientists from 15 countries wrote an open letter to the Nordic Council of Ministers highlighting the risk of a potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a critical ocean current system in the Atlantic Ocean. But what exactly would cause the AMOC to collapse?

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Why Were 2023 and 2024 So Hot?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Albedo is the total reflection of incoming solar radiation by Earth. You might be thinking, if the burning of fossil fuels increases Earths albedo due to additional aerosols in the atmosphere, shouldnt this offset any impact from the effects of increased heat-trapping emissions like carbon dioxide? What is albedo?

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Upcoming Developments in International Governance of Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal

Law Columbia

The next week has the potential to bring important developments for international governance of marine carbon dioxide removal (CDR). seaweed) for carbon storage. Some are land-based, while others use the ocean. In order to answer these questions, further research, including in-ocean research, is needed.

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President Trump’s Cabinet of Polluters, Frackers and Climate Crisis Deniers Rushes to Gut Protections

Union of Concerned Scientists

A former member of Congress from Long Island, New York, with scant regulatory experience, Zeldin promised to defer to the research of the scientists on whether climate change made oceans more acidic. Holding high-level positions in the Office of Air and Radiation are Abigale Tardif and Alex Dominguez.

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Can Life Survive the Death of the Sun?

Scientific American

This warming is mostly from natural greenhouse gases, mind you, but we’re adding approximately 40 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year , significantly increasing the warming effect. Our oceans will evaporate. This global desiccation pretty firmly plants a stop sign for all life on Earth.

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The definitive CO2/CH4 comparison post

Real Climate

but it inevitably brings forth a mish-mash of half-remembered, inappropriate or out-of-date comparisons between the impacts of carbon dioxide and methane. Thus despite the smaller concentrations and changes in methane compared to carbon dioxide, the impacts are comparable. ppm, a factor of more than 200 smaller).

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The CO2 problem in six easy steps (2022 Update)

Real Climate

The fact that there is a natural greenhouse effect (that the atmosphere restricts the passage of infra-red (IR) radiation from the Earth’s surface to space) is easily deducible from; i) the mean temperature of the surface (around 15ºC) and, ii) knowing that the planet is normally close to radiative equilibrium. in IPCC TAR).