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Twenty years of blogging in hindsight

Real Climate

It’s 20 years since we started blogging on climate here on RealClimate (December 10, 2004). There is one graph that perhaps tells the story of what has happened since 2004, and it’s the Keeling curve shown in the figure below. Another thing I didn’t anticipate in 2004 was efforts such as the World Weather Attribution (WWA).

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A Busy Legislative Season in California Adds Up to a More Climate Proof Future

Union of Concerned Scientists

Bidirectional EVs Could Be the New Standard Electric vehicles (EVs) should be a clean transportation and a clean energy solution. This could let drivers use these batteries to power critical appliances during emergencies, their homes during power shutoffs, or even the grid when electricity demand is high.

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Replacing California’s Oldest and Dirtiest Cars Will Save Money and Lives

Union of Concerned Scientists

Older vehicles pollute more and are a fraction of those on the road Beginning with model year 2004, California has implemented Low-Emission Vehicle (LEVII) tailpipe pollution standards for passenger vehicles. exposure from the use of pre-2004 vehicles is inequitably distributed across racial and demographic groups in California.

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Newsom Can Continue His Climate Leadership by Signing These Three Bills 

Union of Concerned Scientists

They demand electricity to charge while climate-fueled disasters are jeopardizing energy reliability. As California rightly electrifies its homes, buildings and vehicles, the state must produce more electricity to meet this new demand.

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Schwinger effect seen in graphene

Physics World

In the presence of strong electric or magnetic fields, however, this void can break down, causing elementary particles to spring into existence. The researchers applied strong electrical currents through these graphene-superlattice-based-devices, with current densities of up to 0.1 In theory, a vacuum is devoid of matter.

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Colorado River Forecasts Not a ‘Crystal Ball’

Circle of Blue

The reservoirs are a key source of drinking water for about 40 million people, plus they store water that irrigates millions of acres of farmland and generates electricity for the Southwest. The reservoirs are also alarmingly dehydrated right now — about one-third full, the lowest since they were first filled. Annual runoff averaged 9.4

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Salad-dressing inspired droplets could improve printed electronics

Physics World

The answer is yes for many reasons, but how to do so is a puzzle that has confounded scientists working with 2D materials since Konstantin Novoselov and Andre Geim first isolated 2D sheets of carbon (graphene) in 2004. An important potential application is the development of better batteries for electric vehicles.

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