Real Climate

MARCH 4, 2021

Two decades ago, in an interview with science journalist Richard Kerr for the journal Science, I coined the term the “Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation” (AMO) to describe an internal oscillation in the climate system resulting from interactions between North Atlantic ocean currents and wind patterns. Background.

Cooling

Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

Here are a few things that mark this report out from previous versions that relate to issues we’ve discussed here before: Extreme events are increasingly connected to climate (duh!) Extremes : Back in 2012, the literature assessed by AR5 connecting changes in extremes to climate change was scant.

Sea Level

Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

estimate of no further CO 2 -induced warming or cooling once global CO 2 emissions reach and stay at next zero. ZEC therefore causes no changes between SR1.5 Rogelj et al, 2018; Huppmann et al, 2018), but with climate projections updated entirely with dedicated climate emulators that integrate the scientific information across chapter.

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Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This knowledge can help with solar radiation management in marine ecosystems, including the Great Barrier Reef. As frequency and severity of mass bleaching events are expected to increase in the future, researchers are looking for ways to protect corals from excessive radiation and temperatures.

Cooling

A Greener Life

JUNE 3, 2022

Picture how a radiator heats a home. Water is heated by a boiler, and the hot water circulates through pipes and radiators in the house. The radiators warm up and heat the air in the room. The radiators are, in fact, cooling down, but their stored heat is still warming the air in the room.

Carbon Dioxide

HumanNature

APRIL 10, 2023

Student in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University Most people remember the water cycle they learned in school: water evaporates from lakes, rivers, and the ocean, air carrying this moisture rises, cools, condenses, and forms clouds, and these clouds precipitate water back down to the surface.

Climate Change

Frontiers

AUGUST 7, 2023

For example, Antarctica acts to cool our planet by reflecting solar radiation back to space by virtue of the brightness of its snow surface. The danger is that the Antarctic sea ice is starting to behave like the Arctic, with sustained loss of ocean cover and consequent absorption of solar radiation.

Ocean

Science & Climate

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

As climate change accelerates, low-income districts in the Southwestern United States are 4 to 7 degrees hotter in Fahrenheit — on average — than wealthy neighborhoods in the same metro regions, University of California, Davis, researchers have found in a new analysis. . Becoming Arizona: Heat and Climate Change Series.

2018

Law Columbia

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Roofs covered with reflective paints, for example, reflect more of the solar radiation hitting them and capture less heat as a result. Further, in addition to directly reducing absorbed heat, cool roofs can reduce demand for air conditioning. is available through the Smart Surfaces Coalition.)

Clean Energy

Frontiers

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Rooftop farms and gardens that take advantage of underutilized roof space are a popular option, providing new food resources while simultaneously cooling the surrounding area, increasing building insulation, and improving air quality.

Radiation

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

Breezometer

MAY 23, 2022

Is climate change making ‘firenadoes’ more likely? Can climate resilience technology help businesses protect people and property from such devastating wildfire events? Much like big volcanic eruptions, the smoke from fire tornadoes can block radiation from the Sun and potentially cause temporary climatic cooling.

Air Pollution

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 12, 2022

Extreme heat and heatwaves are growing more frequent and more severe because of climate change. That often brings to mind images of people trying to catch some shade under a baking hot sun or city kids cooling off in a fountain while their parents sweat on the sidelines. How much more likely are hot nights given climate change?

Climate Change

Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In an unchanging climate, the random fluctuations would lead to warming in some parts of the world and cooling in others. In a world with just random local fluctuations but no climate change, about half the weather stations would show a (more or less significant) warming, the other half a cooling.

Greenhouse

Environmental Science

AUGUST 7, 2018

It's fundamental to the Earth sciences such as meteorology and is vital in our understanding of this generation's most pressing problem - climate change. RELATED : Online Masters in Energy Policy and Climate. It is also important for plotting and predicting the effects of climate change. Particle Physics.

Technology

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

It is early September, and we are late into what we at UCS call Danger Season , or the period between May and October when climate change is increasing the frequency, intensity, and/or duration of extreme weather events such as heat waves and wildfires. F, breaking the previous record of 114°F from 1925.

Cooling

Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

Those technical screening criteria should reflect the highest standards of nuclear safety, radiation protection and radioactive waste management, building upon requirements laid down in the Euratom Treaty and in Union legislation adopted under that Treaty, and in particular in Council Directive 2009/71/Euratom.

Fossil Fuels

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. But let’s go back to the beginning.

Atmosphere

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. W/m 2 from elevated CO 2.

Atmosphere

Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 5, 2022

Albedo The amount of solar radiation reflected from an object or surface, often expressed as a percentage. Carbon Dioxide A naturally occurring gas, and also a byproduct of burning fossil fuels and biomass, as well as land-use changes and other industrial processes. compressed natural gas, solar, hydroelectric, wind). See, Weather.

Greenhouse

Physics World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Long term, climate change is a greater threat than the COVID-19 pandemic. Without human-induced climate change, that heat would be at least 150 times rarer. On balance, clouds nearer the stratosphere warm us, whereas low-lying clouds tend to cool us because their greenhouse effect is smaller.

Cooling

Environmental Science

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

There may also be an extreme variation between warm and cool seasons, including extreme winds and storms due to the mixing of cold and warm air. Surface albedo is high - heat acquired during the day is radiated at night. Climate change presents a risk of desertification of present marginal landscapes.

Conservation

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 10, 2022

Some of the impacts of climate change are playing out faster and with a greater magnitude than we predicted.”. While we still have those things, the facts show that climate change has transformed the months of May through October into what we are calling the Danger Season. Those impacts do not affect everyone equally.

Climate Change

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. Figure 1: Size reference for atmospheric particles (US EPA 2016) and a general structure of freshly created black carbon.

Atmosphere

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. The second was a podcast with the somewhat troubled Chris Smith , an Australian journalist. .

Radiation

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 11, 2022

The work UCS is doing on climate change, voting rights and nuclear security is deeply tied to the needs and demands made at the Poor People’s March last month. Here’s how: Climate change : roughly 140 million people in the U.S. are one emergency away from financial disaster. percent, compared to an average of 2.3

Climate Change