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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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Rare and Severe Weather Events Are Now More Common Thanks to Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

Add climate change and we need to keep track of which decade these flood levels were determined. For example, with expected sea level rise over the next few decades what currently would be extreme coastal floods (50-year floods or a large flood with only a 2% chance in any given year) are likely to occur annually for most coastal U.S.

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The AMOC: tipping this century, or not?

Real Climate

We have direct AMOC measurements only since 2004, a time span too short for this type of study. So the Ditlevsens used sea surface temperatures (SST) in a region between the tip of Greenland and Britain as an indicator, based on Caesar et al. I’ve seen two main arguments there. Do the data used really describe changes in AMOC?

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White House To Nominate PA Native David Applegate As Director of the U.S. Geological Survey

PA Environment Daily

David joined the USGS in 2004 as the first Senior Science Advisor for Earthquake and Geologic Hazards. As the confirmed Director, I am confident he will continue to empower the agency’s scientific and technical experts to use the best available science to help address the most pressing challenges of our time.”

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Desalination and Alternative Water Supply and Efficiency

Vermont Law

In 2004, the. rising sea-levels. While simplistic. of desalination are popular on social media, urban planning of large scale development of seawater desalination on U.S. coastlines is a much more complex environmental, economical, and political discussion. Desalination Plant. in Southern California, the largest in the U.S.,

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1,198 New Stories In 2021 - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA - Is Your Story Being Told?

PA Environment Daily

Wolf, AG Shapiro To Support A Total Ban On Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater; 240.4

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A Stealth Climate Bill

Legal Planet

Military emissions were 85 million tons in 2004, so the trend is in the right direction. Naval bases are located – no surprise — at sea level, and thus directly exposed to the risks of sea level rise. As the 2023 funding bill shows , the military is committed to further emissions cuts.

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