Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2023

However, much of the attention paid to the flood risk of power plant sites has centered on nuclear plants, which also require a water source for the creation of steam, as well as for keeping the plant cool in an emergency. The link to climate change is clearer, however, with floods.

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Physics World

MARCH 18, 2022

The letter’s withdrawal was a chilling reminder of what Russia’s political climate has become. The letter’s withdrawal was a chilling reminder of what Russia’s political climate has become. Horror and hope for Ukrainian scientists. One physicist in Ukraine – Vasyl Kladko – was even shot dead by Russian forces last month.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2022

Indeed, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just warned us of the decisive fate that this decade represents to act on climate for us and all the species that we depend on. We’re also living in a time plagued with costly ”this is not normal” weather events. But how feasible is this transition?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Earlier this month the Union of Concerned Scientists, together with Japan’s New Diplomacy Initiative and Korea Diplomacy Plaza , brought more than thirty-three participants from the United States, Japan, the Republic of Korea and China together in Tokyo for the inaugural meeting of the East Asian Quadrilateral Dialogue.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 25, 2021

Flash floods in Tennessee could become more common as climate change worsens. Opponents argue a proposal for a nuclear waste disposal site in a small town in the Canadian province of Ontario could pollute Lake Huron, which sits less than 30 miles away. degrees Fahrenheit) since 1850, which has thrust the climate into new territory.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

DECEMBER 11, 2021

The media keeps running articles that Greta Thunberg and a majority of the world's young people worry that " society is doomed" because of climate change. It was titled; "Savings and the Fear of Nuclear War". economy has been influenced by the changes in the public perception of the threat of a catastrophic nuclear war.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Last year, Congress passed the most ambitious climate bill ever enacted, the Inflation Reduction Act. I recently sat down virtually with one of the report’s lead authors, Steve Clemmer , director of energy research for the UCS Climate and Energy program, to ask him some questions about his team’s findings.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Among the main reasons to choose a career in renewables, Davies cites the growth that the sector is experiencing due to the increased focus on climate change and demand for clean energy. Davies’ work involves leading teams of scientists and engineers working on the planning, implementation and operation of solar projects around the world.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 20, 2022

Canada makes its case for storing nuclear waste beneath the Great Lakes. In Case You Missed It: HotSpots H2O: In Chile’s Lithium Mines, Climate and Environment Are Dueling Priorities – A battle is brewing over the future of lithium, an essential component of the world’s transition to renewable energy. In Recent Water News.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 19, 2021

From physics to politics William D Magwood IV, director-general of the Nuclear Energy Agency, thinks nuclear power can help us meet net-zero targets. I fight,” answered Magwood, who at the time directed the Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology at the US Department of Energy (DOE). Courtesy: NEA).

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Physics World

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Global solutions: What physicists can do to tackle the climate crisis. “A It’s easy to ignore such warnings as distant, vague and alarmist, something only of concern to policymakers and politicians at gatherings like next month’s COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. For the record, here’s a run-down of what else is in the issue. •

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

The science is clear: Limiting the adverse effects of climate change requires rapid reductions in emissions now. Minnesotans are already experiencing the climate crisis, as well as health impacts, from burning fossil fuels. House Approves Historic Clean Energy & Climate Investments. billion budget surplus.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 24, 2022

In the 1960s climate change was not really a significant concern, not even amongst environmentalists – this was despite the fact that the Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius in 1896 was the first to claim that emissions from fossil fuels might eventually result in enhanced global warming. This has since changed many times.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Some scientists worry that the West Antarctica ice sheet could soon enter a phase of being destabilised. By Anders Lorenzen The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), founded in 1992, has identified that six of the world’s planetary boundaries have been crossed. Photo credit: TiPACCs / Ronja Reese. Graphic credit: PIK.

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Physics World

MAY 19, 2021

Several major scientific-journal publishers have launched poli­cies that allow scientists to easily change their name on previous pub­lications – a move that transgender researchers have been campaign­ing to introduce for years. The American Physical Society (APS), meanwhile, is expected to release its own policy soon. The next step.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2022

Since its founding in 2017, the US Climate Alliance —a coalition of states committed to meeting the goals of the Paris climate accord—has grown to 24 states and one US territory. To help avoid the worst possible consequences of climate change, however, the alliance states need to reach that 100-percent objective much more quickly.

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A Greener Life

JULY 19, 2021

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has directly blamed climate change and as she visited the trail of devastation left behind at flood sites said Germany must pick up the pace with which it is tackling the impact of the climate crisis. Scientists have said that this extreme weather event bears the hallmark of climate change.

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Environmental Progress

JUNE 14, 2020

Apocalypse Never contains chapters on climate change, deforestation, species extinction, plastic waste, meat, nuclear, renewables, fossil fuels, poverty, and much more. The book was initially focused on nuclear energy. Dear Friends, I am happy to announce that on June 30, HarperCollins will publish my new book, Apocalypse Never.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 11, 2022

The march was held by of a broad coalition of organizations, including faith groups, the labor movement, activists, advocates, and scientists, working together across a variety of issues. We are at a game-changing moment for all of humanity, as climate science tells us exactly where we’re headed if we don’t reduce carbon emissions urgently.

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Physics World

MARCH 9, 2022

Listen to the goddamn qualified scientists”. But most people – including the US president Janie Orlean (Meryl Streep) – don’t accept the two scientists’ knowledge. After scientists say that an 11 km comet is heading our way, the US president listens, relays the news to citizens, and they trust him and the scientists.

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Frontiers

MARCH 17, 2023

As the world attempts to deal with the huge impact the climate crisis is having on our planet, scientists are devoting great efforts to developing cutting-edge energy research. However, this is but one small area of focus in an otherwise fascinating field of science.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Renewables are continuing to increase their share of the power sector, rising to almost 23 percent of the nation’s electricity supply last year, which was higher than the generation from both coal-fired and nuclear plants. This is made possible in large part by the steep cost declines of wind and solar.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 24, 2021

Specialists like Pulwarty, who is currently a senior scientist in the physical sciences laboratory at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, use the word “cascade” to describe the long reach. California officials told vineyards along the Russian River in May that the system is too depleted for most of them to withdraw water.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2024

Thank you for your leadership! -- Feature- Remembering March 28, 1979 At The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant - The Accident No One Thought Would Happen [PaEN] -- PennLive - Charles Thompson: 45 Years After Infamous Accident, Why Are They Still Cleaning Up Three Mile Island?

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Physics World

OCTOBER 16, 2021

The book’s title imagines the skies if they were sprayed with vast quantities of particles – a potential climate solution for which people including Harvard physicist David Keith (who is interviewed in the book) want more investment in feasibility studies. What could possibly go wrong this time?

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Physics World

DECEMBER 18, 2021

After moving to Princeton, US, in 1930, he was among the key scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb. After von Neumann’s death, his second wife, computer scientist Klára Dán , who remarried for the fourth time before taking her own life in 1963, penned an unfinished memoir.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 24, 2021

That was the timeline laid down by the most prestigious body of climate scientists for limiting warming to 1.5 Its tagline is “Helping Canada achieve its climate goals.”. So even if these technology unicorns all prove to be viable, this is literally a recipe for Canada to fail on its climate goals. Sounds good, right?

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Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Uma Ramakrishnan is a scientist and academic at the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore, India, who specialises in molecular ecology and population genetics. I am a scientist and professor at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR , in India and I’ve been working here for the last fifteen years or so. “I

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Physics World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

C warming and there are clear signs of the climate chaos we’re starting to unleash. . The previous summit, held in Madrid in 2019, ended in frustration with little progress on issues such as carbon financing or sharing climate burdens between nations. Long term, climate change is a greater threat than the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Physics World

APRIL 27, 2021

Many of today’s scientific axioms have had to pass through what the British scientist John Haldane once described as the four stages of acceptance for scientific ideas: from nonsense, to interesting but perverse, to true but unimportant, to “I always said so.” We humans are not blessed with a reliable intuition for the laws of nature.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 10, 2023

Over the course of his 45-year career serving as a scientist for the US government, his research shaped the fields of minerology and geophysics and generated billions of dollars for industry. But my grandfather’s experience as a lead scientist for the US government was not only about the satisfaction of scientific discovery.

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Physics World

JUNE 1, 2022

Today, the UN exists to address global problems – be it climate change, energy, education or communication. When the idea for a year-long celebration of glass was first proposed in 2018, at the annual meeting of the International Commission on Glass (ICG) in Yokohama, Japan, few could have foreseen the global calamity that would soon befall.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

Information unearthed by Environmental Progress points to a gaping oversight in how the figures influencing government net zero policy and investments in solar worldwide are compiled and collated due to the difficulty of collecting accurate information out of China, especially for the purification processes used to create silicon wafers.

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Edouard Stenger

MARCH 20, 2017

There are still reasons to cheer in our fight against climate change. This is the third year in a row that emissions from energy are flat, yet, climate scientists report that our atmosphere is seeing its carbon content grow faster than ever. So there is a catch… But let us focus on the good news first.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2022

On December 5, 2022, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California focused the power of a stadium-sized laser at a target no larger than a thimble, vaporizing it within a few billionths of a second. And what does this mean for nuclear weapons? The role of the National Ignition Facility in the nuclear stockpile.

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Physics World

JUNE 22, 2022

Indeed, samples excavated and analysed by archaeologists and scientists have enabled a better understanding of how and where glass production began. But surprisingly, ancient glass is also being studied by another group of scientists – those who are finding safe ways to store nuclear waste. It’s better than that.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2023

According to the science, over the next 7 years we must focus on reducing emissions of heat-trapping gases significantly to halve emissions by 2030 and avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Is climate change a priority for our New England Governors? Inauguration Week. Rhode Island . We’re bringing offshore wind to East Providence.

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