Environmental News Bits

JUNE 21, 2023

A new study reaffirming that global climate change is human-made also found the upper atmosphere is cooling dramatically because of rising CO2 levels. Scientists are worried about the effect this cooling could have on orbiting satellites, the ozone layer, and Earth’s weather. Read the full story from e360.

Cooling

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

China is intent on using the Winter Olympics to showcase how they’re at the forefront of implementing low-carbon technologies and thereby tackling climate change. Cooling ice rinks. Cooling ice rinks. This is replacing the traditional hydrofluorocarbons which have been found to damage the ozone layer.

Renewable Energy

Real Climate

MAY 12, 2021

The CPDW is thought to be affected by the shift in the westerly winds around Antarctica which have increased in recent decades due to a combination of greenhouse gas forcing and the polar ozone hole ( Miller et al, 2006 ). 2020) or Sadai et al. Until then, the most productive way to reduce uncertainties might just be to reduce emissions.

Sea Level

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Mitigation – deep rapid cuts to worldwide emissions – is the first, essential element of effective climate response. I don’t think there’s anyone thinking seriously about climate change who disagrees with this. First, what the Earth system sees and what actually matters for climate change is net emissions.

Fossil Fuels

ESA

JULY 11, 2022

They might be learning about climate change and all this doom-and-gloom stuff, just a wall of negative—true, but negative—information about the planet, and I don’t think it’s often accompanied by this sort of secondary, supplemental message that, actually, there are things we can do. We closed the hole in the ozone.

Climate Change

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.

Atmosphere

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 26, 2022

California’s Central Valley consistently experiences the country’s worst air quality, and climate change is poised to make air quality even worse. In a region known for its exceptional agricultural productivity, climate change is quickly amplifying a dangerous type of climate risk in California’s Central Valley: air pollution.

Climate Change

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. It must not respond by watering the protections down based on industry disinformation.

Fossil Fuels

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. See, Weather.

Greenhouse

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 27, 2023

21 For Pittsburgh Region -- PUC Stresses Ways To Stay Cool During Late-Summer Surge In Temperatures -- The Center Square: Solar Power Comes To University Of Pittsburgh Campus -- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: What Can One Person Do About Climate Change?

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

Because methane contributes to ozone pollution, emissions cause immediate health effects as well as warming effects. Before we can take those steps, institutions and public attitudes will themselves have to adapt to the realities of climate change. According to the U.N., “a

Politics

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. AMAP Assessment 2015: Black Carbon and Ozone as Arctic Climate Forcers.” Arctic Council. June 25, 2020.

Atmosphere

ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

report on how world can still stop climate change. report on how world can still stop climate change. BRUSSELS — The world can avoid the worst consequences of climate change, but emissions need to peak by 2025, the U.N.’s s climate science panel said in a major new report on Monday. “We

2022

Real Climate

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

In the last few months he has given two interviews in which he goes into to detail about what he describes as a ‘missing element’ in climate science and what he imagines the consequences are for climate change. Clauser however takes that number, removes 80 and 20 W/m 2 for atmospheric absorption by ozone (!!)

Radiation