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A distraction due to errors, misunderstanding and misguided Norwegian statistics

Real Climate

are used all over the world, based on calculations that quantify the effects of physical mechanisms and the way different parts of the atmosphere are connected to each other. 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.

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$402,021 Awarded By DEP To Support Delaware Estuary Coastal Zone Projects

PA Environment Daily

Pennsylvania’s Coastal Resources Management Program (CRMP) receives an annual grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). A portion of this award is used to fund eligible projects that address CRMP priorities. Partnership For The Delaware Estuary Science & Environmental Summit Feb.

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Antarctic extreme events: ‘All-time records are being shattered not from decades ago, but from the last few years and months’

Frontiers

In addition, it stores vast quantities of freshwater that if released to the ocean would rise sea level by tens of meters and interfere with saline-driven ocean currents that transfer heat around the planet. In the ocean, 19 marine heatwaves have been recorded between 2002 and 2018. Prof Martin Siegert in Antarctica.

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Melting glaciers have been shifting the Earth’s poles since 1995, new study suggests

Physics World

Part of this movement is an oscillation on a timescale of about a year – caused by short-term fluctuations such as changes in ocean currents and atmospheric pressure. Grace comprised two satellites that followed the same orbit, separated by about 200 km.

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UK 2024 General Election – Mapped: The Tory network of climate denial and fossil fuel funding

A Greener Life

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world’s top climate science body, has stated that it is “unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land”. Lord Hintze, who has given more than £4 million to the Conservatives since 2002, has donated to five current members of the government.

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Solar Geoengineering in the News — Again and Again

Legal Planet

Proponents claim the process will replicate phytoplankton fertilization by iron-rich dust blown into the oceans during ice ages, and that it will help limit climate change through several mechanisms – most prominently by oxidizing atmospheric methane.

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November 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , No. In March 2011, pursuant to the 2002 Act, the Minister had set a target of 50% reduction from 1990 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions levels by 2050. Center for Biological Diversity Filed Lawsuit Seeking Records on Termination of National Climate Assessment Advisory Committee.

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