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Science denial is still an issue ahead of COP28

Real Climate

But the effect of greenhouse gases is not even investigated in the paper – which suggests the title is politically motivated. In an unchanging climate, the random fluctuations would lead to warming in some parts of the world and cooling in others. It’s not hard to understand. Gray areas show lack of data.

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Feature- Remembering March 28, 1979 At The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant - The Accident No One Thought Would Happen

PA Environment Daily

Yet in spite of the 2018 explosion of a brand new Revolution Pipeline in Beaver County, we’ve done little to change our laws or protect people. The cooling down process, however, took a month and the radioactive plant would take years to decontaminate. We lost cooling in the reactor, but it’s okay now. Read more here.

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RePlanet Nederland’s review of the draft Delegated Regulation on nuclear energy and gaseous fossil fuels in the sustainable finance taxonomy

Environmental Progress

Their inclusion appears to be the result of a political compromise with Member States rather than of scientific appraisal as in the case of nuclear energy. Having an expiration date creates political investment uncertainty and risk, which is precisely what the Taxonomy intended to remove. This makes the condition impractical.

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Finding Science, Faith, Hope, and Unity with the Poor People’s Campaign

Union of Concerned Scientists

These communities contain the expertise, resilience, and knowledge that are necessary to plot the way forward—along with the political power necessary to win on issues of policy. Democracy : every day, decisions are made that affect all of us—laws, regulations, and policy choices. percent, compared to an average of 2.3

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The Fuss about Methane

Legal Planet

There are even indications that near-term cuts might be easier to achieve for methane than for CO 2 , for a mix of technical, economic, and political reasons. For other gases, the GWP depends on two different properties of the gas: how strongly it absorbs infrared radiation; and how long it stays in the atmosphere after it is emitted.

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Feature- Remembering March 28, 1979 At The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant - The Accident No One Thought Would Happen -- Like With Natural Gas Infrastructure Today

PA Environment Daily

million, we’ve done nothing to change our laws to better protect people from the health and safety impacts of these facilities in spite of repeated pipeline problems before and since the explosion. The flare structures were so hot they had to be cooled with water hoses and will need to be reinforced, according to the company.

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The enduring mystery of the solar corona

Physics World

It was a bold claim and some researchers initially struggled to accept the implications because it meant that energy must be flowing from the “cool” 6000 K surface of the Sun into the hotter corona – seemingly in violation of thermodynamics. But is their invocation of Kolmogorov’s argument correct?