Real Climate
AUGUST 9, 2021
Climate scientists are inordinately excited by the release of a new IPCC report (truth be told, that’s a bit odd – It’s a bit like bringing your end-of-(seven)-year project home and waiting anxiously to see how well it will be received). So, in an uncharacteristically enthusiastic burst of effort, we have a whole suite of posts on the report for you to read.
Circle of Blue
AUGUST 13, 2021
The basin’s big reservoirs have fallen to uncharted territory. The forecast isn’t any better. Lake Mead sits at a record low. Federal officials are expected to declare a first-ever Tier 1 shortage, which will require water cuts that fall most heavily on Arizona. Photo © J. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – August 13, 2021.
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Yale E360
AUGUST 10, 2021
In an interview with Yale Environment 360 , marine biologist Edith Widder talks about her pioneering research into the world of bioluminescent organisms in the deep oceans and warns of the dangers, from trawling to oil drilling, that imperil this hidden realm. Read more on E360 ?.
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 13, 2021
Center for Science and Democracy Director Andrew Rosenberg summarizes the testimony he and his colleagues provided to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions
In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.
Real Climate
AUGUST 13, 2021
My top 3 impressions up-front: The sea level projections for the year 2100 have been adjusted upwards again. The IPCC has introduced a new high-end risk scenario, stating that a global rise “approaching 2 m by 2100 and 5 m by 2150 under a very high greenhouse gas emissions scenario cannot be ruled out due to deep uncertainty in ice sheet processes.”.
Circle of Blue
AUGUST 11, 2021
The climate crisis will jeopardize key sources of fresh water and make extreme weather events more severe. But experts say there’s still time to prevent the worst outcomes. A farmer in the Mekong Delta uses plastic, mud, and sticks to hold back the rising sea. According to the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report published Monday, Southeast Asia coastal zones are among the world’s most climate vulnerable regions.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 12, 2021
The Senate just released a federal budget resolution that includes a measure that could subsidize the production of natural gas. Here are 5 reasons why we shouldn't do that.
Real Climate
AUGUST 9, 2021
The biggest contribution scientists can make to #scicomm related to the newly released IPCC Sixth Assessment report , is to stop talking about the multi-model mean. We’ve discussed the issues in the CMIP6 multi-model ensemble many times over the last couple of years – for instance here and here. There are two slightly contradictory features of this ensemble that feature in the new IPCC report – first is the increase in skill seen in CMIP6 compared to CMIP5 models.
Circle of Blue
AUGUST 9, 2021
Julia Bernal came of age while living in a watershed turned upside down by dams and diversions. Now an activist, she campaigns for Indigenous rights — and the water to sustain them. Pictured at the Santa Elena Canyon in Texas, the flow of the Río Grande shrinks during the summer. Photo © iPhone Photography / Wikimedia Commons. By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — August 9, 2021.
Legal Planet
AUGUST 10, 2021
The IPCC issued the massive first volume of its new report on climate change on Monday. This volume focuses on climate science: how much will the world warm, and what will the impacts be? The bottom line is that the evidence is becoming ever firmer that (a) humans are causing an unprecedented rate of climate change, (b) we are starting to foreclose our ability to achieve less dangerous outcomes, and (c) failure to act will impose tremendous costs for generations.
Speaker: Antoine M. Thompson, Executive Director of the Greater Washington Region Clean Cities Coalition
Diversity, Equity, Justice, and Inclusion (DEJI) policies, programs, and initiatives are critically important as we move forward with public and private sector climate and sustainability goals and plans. Underserved and socially, economically, and racially disadvantaged communities bear the burden of pollution, higher energy costs, limited resources, and limited investments in the clean energy and transportation sectors.
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 13, 2021
In early June 2021, following a year of extensive use of chemical weapons (such as tear gas) by law enforcement against racial justice protesters, the U.S. House of Representatives Oversight Subcommittees launched an investigation into the safety of these weapons, requesting internal documents and product information from manufacturers. Despite the well-documented human health impacts of […].
Real Climate
AUGUST 12, 2021
Guest post by Joeri Rogelj (Twitter: @joerirogelj). Since temperature targets became international climate goals, we have been trying to understand and quantify the implications for our global emissions. Carbon budgets play an important role in this translation. Carbon budgets tell us how much CO 2 we can emit while keeping warming below specific limits.
Circle of Blue
AUGUST 11, 2021
In this hot, dry summer, household wells are failing and wait lists for replacements stretch up to a year. A dry field north of Maralee and Noal Child’s house in Glenn County, California, used to be an olive orchard. Now it is slated to be planted with almond trees, Maralee said. Photo courtesy of Maralee Childs. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – August 11, 2021.
Legal Planet
AUGUST 9, 2021
We will need a much more robust transmission in coming years. Sources of renewable energy, such as Iowa wind farms, are often located far from the urban centers that need the power. Transmission also helps to deal with weather issues that may impact renewables: even if it’s too cloudy for solar in one state, the sun may be shining a state or two over.
Speaker: Laurie Schoeman Director, Climate & Sustainability, Capital
As households and communities across the nation face challenges such as hurricanes, wildfires, drought, extreme heat and cold, and thawing permafrost and flooding, we are increasingly searching for ways to mitigate and prevent climate impacts. During this event, national climate and housing expert Laurie Schoeman will discuss topics including: The two paths for climate action: decarbonization and adaptation.
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 12, 2021
Two years ago, I went on a tour of the Russell City Energy Center. Two months ago, the power plant exploded.
Real Climate
AUGUST 12, 2021
I followed with great interest the launch of the sixth assessment report Working Group 1 (The Physical Science Basis) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on August 9th. The main report is quite impressive (see earlier posts here , here , here , and here ) but the press conference didn’t come across as being focused and well-prepared.
Circle of Blue
AUGUST 10, 2021
Kalimantan, Borneo © Marc Veraat. By Christian Thorsberg, Circle of Blue — August 10, 2021. On the Caribbean island of St. Vincent, in the modest village of Rabacca, a natural border known as the Dry River stretches beneath a palm tree canopy. It is dry because it is still, filled not with rapid water but the pyroclastic flows of lava, rock, and ash that have tumbled from the island’s active volcano, La Soufrière, and lithified.
Scientific American
AUGUST 12, 2021
Using data from the OSIRIS-REx mission, scientists calculated slightly increased (but still low) odds the space rock will collide with our planet in the 2100s. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 13, 2021
As more high temperatures are forecast in the next few days, two of our climate scientists explain how people of color in four cities--Fresno, CA, Miami, FL, Mobile, AL, and Shreveport, LA--are at risk from the effects of urban heat islands.
Real Climate
AUGUST 9, 2021
Two decades ago, the so-called “Hockey Stick” curve , published in 1999 by me and my co-authors (Mann, Bradley and Hughes, 1999) , was featured in the all-important “Summary for Policy Makers” (SPM) of the 2001 IPCC Third Assessment report. The curve, which depicted temperature variations over the past 1000 years estimated from “proxy data such as tree rings, corals, ice cores, and lake sediments”, showed the upward spiking of modern temperatures (the “blade”) as it dramatically ascends, during
Circle of Blue
AUGUST 9, 2021
Paraná River © Rodrigo Soldon / Flickr Creative Commons. By Christian Thorsberg, Circle of Blue. The Paraná River stretches through the heart of central South America, arising in Brazil and extending over 3,000 miles through Paraguay and Argentina. The continent’s second-longest river behind the Amazon, the Paraná is a workhorse, supporting rainforest diversity, Indigenous ancestral homes, and Argentina’s economy: over 80 percent of the country’s farm exports, primarily wheat and soy, are transp
Physics World
AUGUST 10, 2021
X-ray flares originating from behind a black hole have been observed for the first time – by an international team led by Dan Wilkins at Stanford University in the US. The wavelength-shifted X-ray flashes are believed to have originated as photons that collided with the black hole’s inner accretion disk, before being redirected towards Earth by the black hole’s colossal gravity.
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 12, 2021
Tyson has aggressively consolidated its power in the chicken industry—and workers and farmers are hurting.
Inside Climate News
AUGUST 9, 2021
A new IPCC science assessment, coming before COP26 in November, called for immediate action and showed that this summer’s extremes are only a mild preview of the decades ahead. By Bob Berwyn Amidst a summer of fires, floods and heat waves, scientists on Monday delivered yet another reminder that burning more fossil fuels in the decades ahead will rapidly intensify the impacts of global warming.
Scientific American
AUGUST 12, 2021
In trying to explain the spectacular star trails of the star cluster Palomar 5, astronomers stumbled on a very large trove of black holes. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
Physics World
AUGUST 10, 2021
I once went to a New Year’s Eve party when I heard a graduate physics student apologize for leaving early. He was working on an accelerator experiment, he explained, and his shift was starting at midnight. To the astonishment of almost everyone, he seemed to be looking forward to getting back into the lab. I, though, was not surprised, having interviewed enough scientists to recognize their enthusiasm for regarding leisure time as a precious opportunity to work.
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 13, 2021
The Senate has passed the infrastructure bill. Will it go far enough to help us prepare for–and fight–climate change?
Inside Climate News
AUGUST 8, 2021
The Colorado River through the national park holds lessons for managing an essential and diminishing resource in a rapidly warming climate. By Judy Fahys Floating in the bottom of the Grand Canyon last spring, I was traveling back in time in more ways than one. In a narrow section, where the Colorado River runs deep and quiet, Vishnu schist offers a window onto the world as it was here 1.7 billion years ago, give or take a couple of hundred million years.
Frontiers
AUGUST 10, 2021
By Conn Hastings, science writer. Image credit: Life science / Shutterstock.com. A new study investigates tiny tumbling soft robots that can be controlled using rotating magnetic fields. The technology could be useful for delivering drugs to the nervous system. In this latest study, researchers put the robots through their paces and showed that they can climb slopes, tumble upstream against fluid flow and deliver substances at precise locations to neural tissue.
Physics World
AUGUST 13, 2021
At his best, Alan Lightman is a wondrous writer: poetic, original, insightful, inspired. In his new book Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings , he ponders the infinitely small and the infinitely large, and the impossibility of understanding each, let alone grasping our place in a universe that pulls us in both directions. He illustrates this at one point with a simple story of taking his two-year-old daughter to the ocean for the first time.
New Scientist
AUGUST 12, 2021
The highest temperature ever recorded in Europe was reported on 11 August. The town of Syracuse on the Italian island of Sicily reached 48.8°C, 0.
Scientific American
AUGUST 9, 2021
Poor neural connections among areas that control movement and speech may be responsible and could be driven by genes. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
National Law Center
AUGUST 10, 2021
A comprehensive summary of today’s judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in agriculture and food. Email important additions HERE. REGULATORY: FSA, The post Ag & Food Law Daily Update: August 10, 2021 appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.
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