Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 2, 2025

For instance, explaining nuclear toxicology concepts is important for helping the public understand why and how to avoid radiation exposure. The nominee must be able to communicate complex scientific concepts so clearly that your grandma (and even the President ) will understand.

Radiation

Scientific American

JULY 16, 2025

Partly to address water concerns, China is now putting a data center in the wettest place there is: the ocean. Shanghai Hailanyun Technology Instead undersea data centers use pipes to pump seawater through a radiator on the back of server racks to absorb heat and carry it away.

Wind Power

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. Some forms of geoengineering seem relatively low risk, like trying to increase soil carbon through regenerative atmosphere or replanting tropical forests.

2024

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2025

However, in some programs like air quality, hazardous waste, safe drinking water, radiation protection, storage tanks and others, Pennsylvania chose to adopt many federal regulations by reference. [So Bureau of Ocean Energy Management-- Outer Continental Shelf Act of 1953; and Energy Policy Act of 2005.

Regulations

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

New Scientist

JUNE 23, 2025

These tiny bursts of radiation appear to interfere with our ability to observe the light that passes through the planets’ atmospheres – if they exist – thwarting the main method of detecting what chemicals might be in any atmospheres.

Atmosphere

Scientific American

JUNE 19, 2025

The US government was testing bombs over the Nevada desert, and even more potent bombs in and near islands in the Pacific Ocean, where residents have been forced to leave. It also came from scientists who initially feared the radiation would cause genetic mutations and birth defects.

Atmosphere

Scientific American

JULY 30, 2025

Early forecasts by scientists (correctly) predicted that several countries around the Pacific Ocean would be inundated to some degree. People across swaths of Central and South America were also advised to flee from the receding ocean. This means it gives scientists only a partial understanding of the ocean-wide tsunami.

Ocean

Scientific American

JULY 31, 2025

The atmosphere changes with the seasons as the sun’s radiation falls disproportionately on different parts of the planet. Because of Earth’s topography and the influence of ocean currents, the Southern Hemisphere’s jet stream is stronger overall than the Northern Hemisphere’s.

Atmosphere

Scientific American

JULY 4, 2025

Our oceans will evaporate. At the same time its surface temperature will drop, so it becomes ruddier, even as it radiates energy 2,400 times stronger than it does now. This global desiccation pretty firmly plants a stop sign for all life on Earth. This transforms the sun into a red giant star.

Carbon Dioxide

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

JULY 10, 2022

The fact that there is a natural greenhouse effect (that the atmosphere restricts the passage of infra-red (IR) radiation from the Earth’s surface to space) is easily deducible from; i) the mean temperature of the surface (around 15ºC) and, ii) knowing that the planet is normally close to radiative equilibrium. in IPCC TAR).

Radiation

Real Climate

OCTOBER 1, 2022

He made some rather strange claims, such as that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) allegedly should have forgotten that the earth is a sphere because “ most absorption of solar radiation takes place over the tropics, while there is excess emission of longwave radiation to space over higher latitudes ”.

Greenhouse

New Scientist

JULY 1, 2025

For 100 years, we have puzzled over the purpose of biophotons, low-level radiation emitted by all plants. It surprised me a great deal that there would be this self-organisation,” says Troy Shinbrot at Rutgers University in New Jersey, who studies static. Mystery of the quantum lentils: Are legumes exchanging secret signals?

Electricity

Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

Projections of (a) temperature (constrained), (b) Arctic sea ice area (raw CMIP6), (c) ocean pH (constrained), and sea level (d)to 2100, and (e) to 2300 (constrained). and other things worth noting – for instance, the much better and more direct graphics that they have clearly worked on a lot. Figure SPM 8. 1981) which can be seen here.

Sea Level

Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

CO 2 emissions embed themselves in the atmosphere/biosphere/upper-ocean carbon cycle and have very long-term impacts (under natural conditions, some 15% of the CO 2 perturbation will still be in the atmosphere thousands of years from now). ppm, a factor of more than 200 smaller). W/m 2 for CH 4. References. Etminan, G. Myhre, E.J.

Carbon Dioxide

Physics World

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Hot, ocean-covered exoplanets with hydrogen-rich atmospheres could harbour life and may be more common than planets that are Earth-like in size, temperature and atmospheric composition. This subset, which the researchers dub “Hycean” (hydrogen + ocean) planets, consists of planets that have radii up to 2.6 Widening the Goldilocks zone.

Ocean

Real Climate

MAY 30, 2024

W/m 2 over the ocean (which translates to 0.14 2024) Looked at the impact of Chinese aerosol emission decreases from 2010 to 2020 and saw increases in North Pacific ocean temperatures. So to help people keep track, we’ll maintain a list here to focus discussions. They find a radiative forcing 0.2±0.11 W/m 2 globally).

2023

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

Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Think about what is involved – biological proxies from extinct species, plate tectonic movement, disappearance in subduction zones of vast amounts of ocean sediment, interpolating sparse data in space and time, degradation of samples over such vast amounts of time. All of which adds to the uncertainty. They get an ESS around 7.7±0.6ºC

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

Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

Biases in the Southern Ocean are less, similarly with sea ice extent or rainfall etc. It is true that *some* models have high ECS beyond what can be reconciled with our understanding of paleoclimate change, and in those models the cloud feedback particularly in the Southern Oceans is more positive than previously. This is good news.

2020

Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

The physics-based models describe how energy flows through the atmosphere and ocean, as well as how the forces from different air masses push against each other. Furthermore, the volume of the oceans increases from the melting of land ice. The global sea level acts like the mercury in a thermometer because warmer water expands.

Sea Level

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. Oceans in the future.

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

Physics World

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

As the material breaks down over time, it releases vast quantities of microscopic particles – which due to their small size and low density, can be transported across the globe by winds and ocean currents. Altitude matters. However, exactly how microplastics are distributed in the atmosphere is not well known.

Atmosphere

Frontiers

AUGUST 16, 2021

The plastic pollution of our oceans isn’t just affecting whales and sea turtles, it also impacts the small, microscopic animals towards the bottom of the food chain,” said Susanne Menden-Deuer, coauthor of this research and a professor at the Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, US.

Ocean

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. ground rock) into the ocean?

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

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

Frontiers

JULY 19, 2022

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2022

Environmental News Bits

JULY 3, 2024

A fungus living in the sea can break down the plastic polyethylene, provided it has first been exposed to UV radiation from sunlight. Researchers expect that many more plastic degrading fungi are living in deeper parts of the ocean. Read the full story from the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research.

Ocean

Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2024

Scientific reports on climate issues, as well as reports on the state of the ocean, its ecosystems, and the relevance of the ocean for climate change, play a central role in the opinion. 52-54) and acknowledged the critical role the ocean plays in regulating the climate system (para. 157 as used in para. 52, 54, 60 and 68).

Law

Law Columbia

MAY 24, 2024

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. The second category of marine geoengineering activities, known as solar radiation management or modification (SRM), do not directly target GHGs.

Carbon Dioxide

Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

The changes to the world's oceans include warming, more frequent marine heatwaves, ocean acidification, and reduced oxygen levels. 2022: What Does the Latest IPCC Report Say? The latest IPCC report assesses global sources of greenhouse gas emissions and the progress of strategies for mitigating the impacts of climate change.

Climate Change