Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

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.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Other approaches involve greater risk, like genetic engineering of plants to increase their carbon absorption or changing ocean chemistry to do so. to avoid crossing critical climate ‘tipping points’ )” But this strategy would also present dangers “ related to critical atmospheric processes (e.g.,

2024

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 21, 2025

And as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) faced unprecedented budget cuts and mass firings that hindered their crucial work keeping the public safe from extreme weather events, UCS helped organize and send a letter to Congress signed by over 3,300 scientists from around the world in defense of the agency.

Radiation

Scientific American

JULY 4, 2025

Note that this increase has occurred over the past century or so, a timescale far too short to see any change from the sun; Earth’s current climate change is all us. But the sun’s production of energy does change noticeably—over hundreds of millions of years. Our oceans will evaporate.

Carbon Dioxide

Real Climate

OCTOBER 1, 2022

I have a feeling that we are seeing the start of a new wave of climate change denial and misrepresentation of science. What he hasn’t understood is that the IPCC merely assesses published climate research, much of which is conducted with global climate models that indeed treat the earth as a sphere.

Greenhouse

Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

That is long enough to see that there has been a noticeable trend in the Earth’s Energy Imbalance (EEI), mostly driven by a reduction in the solar radiation reflected by the planet, while the outgoing long wave radiation does not appear to contribute much. A paper last year (Goode et al., Similarly, Loeb et al.

Radiation

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. Figure SPM 8.

Sea Level

Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Presumably Dagsvik and Moen are used to this kind of model, but they seem to be inexperienced with the models used for weather and climate, which on the other hand are based on the laws of physics. Furthermore, the volume of the oceans increases from the melting of land ice.

Sea Level

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.

Cooling

Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

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. So, we’re seeing the ocean heat up, lose oxygen and get bigger.

Ocean

Inside Climate News

MAY 20, 2024

A steep decline of Antarctic sea ice may mark a long-term transformation in the Southern Ocean, and seawater intrusions beneath the Thwaites Glacier could explain its melting outpacing projections.

Radiation

A Greener Life

JUNE 3, 2022

The ocean retains heat for much longer than land does. 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. Water is heated by a boiler, and the hot water circulates through pipes and radiators in the house. By Richard B. Ricky) Rood.

Carbon Dioxide

Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

By Deborah Pirchner, Frontiers science writer Image: Rob Lachlan As ocean temperatures rise, corals can lose their color due to heat stress. This knowledge can help with solar radiation management in marine ecosystems, including the Great Barrier Reef. Over the past two decades, coral reefs have declined at unprecedented rates.

Cooling

Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2024

The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) issued an advisory opinion on April 21, 2024 in response to a request submitted by the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law (COSIS). 52-54) and acknowledged the critical role the ocean plays in regulating the climate system (para.

Law

Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The Sabin Center wrapped up Climate Week NYC last Friday with an event exploring the opportunities and challenges posed by ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR). As evidenced by the 150-plus people in attendance, ocean CDR is attracting growing attention as a possible climate change mitigation option.

Carbon Dioxide

Law Columbia

OCTOBER 20, 2023

In a blog post last month, I wrote about the growing interest in ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR), and the complex legal issues it raises. Much of the legal complexity surrounding ocean CDR stems from the fact that the ocean is a shared resource in which all countries, both coastal and landlocked, have an interest.

Precautionary Principle

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

Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

We’re already experiencing the impact of climate change across the world; now an update from the IPCC suggests weather extremes could become the norm in the near future. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change.

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. Several floating ice shelves – the massive slabs of ice that push back grounded ice from flowing into the ocean – have catastrophically broken up in a matter of days because of such melting.

Ocean

Law Columbia

MAY 24, 2024

On May 21, 2024, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) released its long-awaited advisory opinion on climate change. There was little discussion, either in the written statements or at the oral hearing, of so-called “marine geoengineering” activities that seek to use the ocean to combat climate change.

Carbon Dioxide

Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

Sea level rise within the Pacific has already surpassed the 2007 estimate from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and further predictions infer a further 2m increase within the century. [1] Greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide are great absorbers of heat radiation coming from the Earth’s surface. should be.

Coastal Erosion

Physics World

MAY 8, 2025

EarthCARE has a unique combination of scientific instruments – a cloud-profiling radar, an atmospheric lidar, a multispectral imager and a broadband radiometer – to infer the properties of clouds and how they interact with solar radiation as well as thermal-infrared radiation emitted by different layers of the atmosphere.

Atmosphere

Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

Climatology, or sometimes known as climate science, is the study of the Earth's weather patterns and the systems that cause them. Natural Variables That Influence Our Climate. They are usually predictable, but the increasing effects of climate change can sometimes push them back to a little later. What Climatology Is.

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

Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Acidification : Reducing the pH rating of a substance making it more acidic in nature, for example, increased carbon emissions lead to the oceans absorbing more of it, increasing acidification and damaging ecology such as coral bleaching. Climate change : The process by which the climate changes due to “forcings”.

Government

Environmental Science

AUGUST 7, 2018

These early thinkers were Thales (5) who created natural philosophy and theorized that seismological events such as earthquakes had a natural cause (correct) but assumed (wrongly) that landmasses were giant rafts that reacted to ocean ripples which caused the quakes. RELATED : Online Masters in Energy Policy and Climate.

Technology

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

Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

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. Figure 1: Map of observed near-surface air temperature changes since the late 19 th Century. It’s not hard to understand. Gray areas show lack of data.

Greenhouse

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 22, 2022

He makes his living on the Turnbridge Plantation in his hometown of Hardeeville, South Carolina, 30 minutes from the Atlantic Ocean. Atlantic sea levels are rising three to four times faster than the global ocean average. Crop damage radiates inward gradually from the edges of a field, where the salt hits first.

Sea Level

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. First, underwater – in the sediments on the bottom of swamps, lakes, and the ocean. W/m 2 from elevated CO 2. Rice farm, Williams, California.

Atmosphere

Legal Planet

MARCH 15, 2023

Proponents claim the process will replicate phytoplankton fertilization by iron-rich dust blown into the oceans during ice ages, and that it will help limit climate change through several mechanisms – most prominently by oxidizing atmospheric methane. Is there a way out? Trying to stamp these out is a fool’s errand.

Government

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. a reduction in ocean pH). See, Weather.

Greenhouse

Physics World

OCTOBER 2, 2021

In order to respond effectively to climate change, it’s important to understand its fundamental causes and effects. Eunice Lo is particularly interested in how climate change will affect extreme weather events, with a focus on heatwaves and their impact on human health. Eunice Lo , researcher, University of Bristol, UK.

Atmosphere

Physics World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Long term, climate change is a greater threat than the COVID-19 pandemic. An area of high pressure above the Pacific Ocean was driven eastwards through the jet stream by a “Rossby wave” – a planetary-scale fluctuation arising from the Coriolis force. Global warming of more than 2?

Cooling

Physics World

OCTOBER 30, 2021

With the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) coming up next month, it is strange to think that less than 100 years ago global warming was not widely accepted, even among experts. But climate science has a long and multidisciplinary history, with contributions from scientists both within and outside academia.

Carbon Dioxide

Environmental Science

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Surface albedo is high - heat acquired during the day is radiated at night. As well as preserving the deserts that we have, it is also dedicated to ensuring that human activity such as climate change, agricultural practices, intensive resource use and other activity does not create deserts in other landscapes, ecosystems and biomes.

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