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The Drying Planet

Circle of Blue

” Jay Famiglietti, hydrologist Since 2002, the GRACE sensors have detected a rapid shift in water loss patterns around the planet. Agriculture, which uses the vast majority of the world’s fresh water, can deploy well-tested technologies like drip irrigation, as Israel has, that sharply cut use by as much as 50%.

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The Transmission, Distribution, and Interconnection Crises Blocking New York’s Climate Goals

Law Columbia

From 2002 to 2016 demand for electricity grew by less than 2% in total. These technologies improve grid reliability, decrease interconnection costs and allow the system to respond to urgent load growth. (2) On April 14, 2022, the New York State Department of Public Service (DPS) had set a new goal of 10 GW of distributed solar by 2030.

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What Are Microgrids?

Union of Concerned Scientists

In 2002, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison were the first to coin the term microgrid, referring to a group of energy sources and loads and the control system to allow it to operate with or without the larger power grid.

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Balancing Environmental Protection with Economic Development: The Greenland Mining Dilemma

Vermont Law

Council of the European Union(2002) undergirds Greenlands ban on uranium mining. Global Demand for Rare-Earth Minerals The global shift towards clean energy technologies escalates the demand for rare-earth minerals. Economic costs notwithstanding, the precautionary principle applied in cases like Pfizer Animal Health v.

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What Scientists on Greenland’s Ice Sheet Are Learning about Our Changing Climate

Scientific American

That’s how much ice has melted out of the Greenland ice sheet since just 2002. He was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2018. Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American ’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Five and a half trillion tons.

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Greenland’s Ice Sheet Collapse Could Be Closer Than We Think

Scientific American

Just before he became a part of the ice record, he wrote: “We are approaching a new era of polar exploration characterized by the successful utilization of new technologies in a rational manner. That is how much water weight the Greenland ice sheet has lost to the ocean since just 2002. Approximately 5,500,000,000,000 tons.

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(In?)sane With the Membrane

Legal Planet

Clarke: Technology and Magic The great speculative fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke’s Third Law reads: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” In other words, Clarke’s Third Law might need a corollary: “any sufficiently advanced technology appears indistinguishable from magic.”