Legal Planet

APRIL 7, 2024

Read out of context, that description fits climate change too, of course. So why do so many ignore scientists’ predictions about climate change?!!” The eclipse is also a teachable moment for what is, and is not, causing climate change. But that doesn’t mean the sun is causing climate change.”

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Legal Planet

APRIL 3, 2023

Climate change under other federal statutes. Climate change as substantial impact requiring discussion in environmental impact statement. Climate change as reason for threatened or endangered status under Endangered Species Act. SEC rules on disclosure of climate-related risks. Takings issues VII.

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Inside Climate News

MAY 20, 2024

By Bob Berwyn Antarctica’s vast ice fields and the floating sea ice surrounding the continent are Earth’s biggest heat shields, bouncing solar radiation away from the planet, but two studies released today show how global warming is encroaching even on the sunlight reflector in the coldest region on the planet.

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Global Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

That’s why gas-powered cars need complex and expensive radiator systems with their associated belts, pipes, and heat exchangers. The post Electric Vehicles Combat Climate Change appeared first on Global Green. A significant portion of the energy from gasoline is converted to unwanted heat. You’ll feel the loss of energy.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Guest Post by Philip Cafaro , Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Colorado State University Scientists and climate ethicists argue that more attention needs to be given to population growth’s role in the climate crisis. Addressing population, therefore, must be part of humanity’s response to global climate change.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 3, 2024

For example, our report examines the common misconceptions that electric vehicles have a net harmful effect on climate change ( they do not ); that electromagnetic radiation from wind turbines poses a threat to human health ( it does not ); and that solar energy development negatively impacts U.S. jobs ( it does not ).

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Real Climate

MAY 21, 2023

A new paper by Ben Santer and colleagues has appeared in PNAS where they extend their previous work on the detection and attribution of anthropogenic climate change to include the upper stratosphere, using observations from the Stratospheric Sounding Units (SSUs) (and their successors, the AMSU instruments) that have flown since 1979.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Solar activity provides no alternative explanation for today’s climate change Dagsvik and Moen claim that recent research indicates that variations in the sun’s magnetic field are of great importance for long-term fluctuations in solar activity. Our job is to be thorough and verify questionable results. It has taken time.

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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.

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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.

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Almost 20 years later, the 2020 and 2021 wildfires seasons saw those orange skies spread across the West and gave me new insight into how climate change will make that glow an increasingly present reality for more people around the world. For one, plants rely on solar radiation to grow, and the U.S. Since so many major U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

Radiation Testing DEP did not test anywhere on the Latkanich property for radiation or radon gas, in spite of multiple requests, according to Johnson. Radiation testing was never part of the testing that the Department performs on the site, even though we had asked repeatedly for radiation testing. Read more here.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Pesticides, climate change and habitat loss have put the two North American monarch populations in a dire spot. Another co-factor, radiation from wireless communications can affect navigation during migration. Wireless radiation for telecommunications impairs monarch navigation ability.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Hari Chohan , nuclear radiation analyst, UK Atomic Energy Authority. Lewis Ashworth , programme manager, Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change. Rhiann Canavan , scientific project manager, Crossfield Fusion. Finance and economics. Rustam Majainah , senior pricing analyst, OVO.

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Physics World

MAY 21, 2022

eV, use back surface reflectors to divert unusable sub-bandgap radiation back to the source, and are optimized for heat sources at temperatures of 1900–2400°C. They also hope to further improve the cells’ efficiency to 50% by increasing the fraction of unusable radiation they reflect to 97-98%. New efficiency of 41.1%.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

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. Nature Climate Change. In: Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. IPCC (2014) Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report.

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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.

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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.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 15, 2022

Picture how a radiator heats a home. Water is heated by a boiler, and the hot water circulates through pipes and radiators in … Continue reading How fast can we stop Earth from warming? If people everywhere stopped burning fossil fuels tomorrow, stored heat would still continue to warm the atmosphere.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Earlier this month, the parties to the London Convention and Protocol met in London to discuss, among other things, whether and how to apply those instruments to certain ocean CDR and solar radiation management activities. solar radiation management). Hopefully other bodies take them up on the invitation.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Climate impacts In Tajikistan, the impacts of climate change are easy to see and, ironically, would impact the production of the low-carbon energy source and its main energy source; hydropower. Due to climate impacts in the country, all of its glaciers are melting rapidly.

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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. .

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HumanNature

MAY 22, 2024

As a result of climate change, nearly every long-term snowpack monitoring site in Colorado has seen a decline in snow water equivalent since the 1950’s, with a few sites having lost nearly 80% of the snowpack. Photographs from May 20, 2021. Severely burned forest in the Cameron Peak Wildfire burn scar. What Can We Do?

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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.

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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.

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Physics World

JULY 28, 2021

This new, passive radar system could offer a cheaper, lower power and more easily scalable method to gather long-term data on the melting of ice sheets and glaciers due to climate change, say the researchers. One is that the level of solar radiation is relatively low, especially at the Earth’s poles.

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Real Climate

MARCH 4, 2021

We’ve published a number of articles over the years (see e.g. here , here , here , here , here , and here ) demonstrating that studies that use such an approach to define the AMO end up mis-attributing to a natural “oscillation” what is actually human-caused climate change. Now we have come full circle.

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Inside Climate News

JUNE 23, 2021

By Bob Berwyn After sampling the atmosphere above the Arctic for more than a year during the MOSAiC research voyage , climate scientists say the ozone layer, Earth’s protection against intense ultraviolet radiation, is at risk, despite the progress made in protecting atmospheric ozone by the 1987 Montreal Protocol , the global treaty that banned ozone-harming (..)

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Vermont Law

JANUARY 18, 2016

Summary: Green-roof zoning laws may provide a solution to the Urban Heat Island Effect, which contributes to anthropogenic climate change through heat pollution originating from large cities. Green-roofs are an overlooked solution to the complex problem of heat pollution, which contributes to anthropogenic climate change.

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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.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 17, 2022

Against the backdrop of Chile’s Atacama Desert, the Salar de Atacama Mine radiates with a futuristic blue light—its cerulean pools glow like tessellated computer screens, a stark contrast to the muted landscape that surrounds them. By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — January 17, 2022.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 7, 2024

In amongst proposals regarding plastic pollution, air quality, pesticides and circular economies, to mention but a few, the most controversial was a Swiss-led proposal to establish an expert group on solar radiation modification (SRM).

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Scientific American

AUGUST 20, 2021

Without the Montreal Protocol, more solar radiation would have destroyed plants, lessening the CO2 they absorb. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 13, 2021

2021 Virtual Watershed Congress In Southeast PA [PaEN] -- DEP: Issues Air Pollution Warning For Friday, August 13 In Southeastern PA Counties -- DEP: Notice Of Sept. 2021 Virtual Watershed Congress In Southeast PA [PaEN] -- DEP: Issues Air Pollution Warning For Friday, August 13 In Southeastern PA Counties -- DEP: Notice Of Sept.

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ESA

DECEMBER 5, 2023

My third session of the day was hosted by the Munich Security Council (MSC) entitled “Climate Security Moment: Assuming Joint Leadership” and was a very high-level panel that included Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Prime Minister of Iceland, Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General, and John Kerry, U.S.

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Washington Nature

APRIL 20, 2022

Ailene installing a temperature logger with a radiation shield in the South Tacoma neighborhood. These efforts are in addition to the City’s planned installation of 300+ street trees and implementation of other green stormwater infrastructure in the Tacoma Mall neighborhood in the coming year. Credit: Courtney Baxter.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

EPA’s Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG) On September 20, 2023, EPA announced the Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG). Administered by the Office of Air and Radiation, this program is $4.6 Throughout this year, EPA has heard from numerous stakeholders at many forums and made these interesting changes to the design.

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