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What’s Been Killing U.S. Coal?

Legal Planet

From 1960 to 2005, coal use grew more or less steadily by 18 million tons per year. It then tread water for a few years and began a steep decline in 2008, going from half of U.S. Since around 2008, natural gas use has been the mirror image of coal use. electricity to about one-fifth today.

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As Soon as Possible

Real Climate

And by the 2007 IPCC AR4 report, or in Lean and Rind (2008) ), at best, scientists had concluded that solar activity wasn’t likely to be responsible for more than 10% or so of the long term rise in global temperature. And which solar reconstruction did he use? Hoyt and Schatten (1993, updated to 2000) of course! Scafetta, R. Willson, J.

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Our Satellite Database Reaches a Milestone. We’ve Learned Much Along the Way

Union of Concerned Scientists

We began this project in 2005, when we realized there was a significant lack of accurate and public data of this kind. We’ve tracked changes in space for nearly two decades Back in 2005, we counted 810 actively working satellites; almost exactly half of these were owned by the United States.

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Germany’s Role in Climate Policy

Legal Planet

The Federal Cabinet adopts its first climate target, a 25-30% cut in carbon emissions by 2005 under 1987 levels. Although its track record has some complexities, this timeline of German actions shows just its early and sustained attention to clean energy policy: 1990. trillion tons.] 2000. Renewables are 6% of power.

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Texas Supreme Court to Review Approval of Injection Well Permit

Energy & the Law

August 2005: TexCom Gulf Disposal seeks a permit from the TCEQ for construction and operation of underground injection control wells for the disposal of non-hazardous industrial wastewater in Montgomery County. September 16, 2005: RRC no-harm letter. April 2008: ALJ recommends that the permit be issued.

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DEP Releases 2024 Climate Change Action Plan Update; 2024 Climate Impacts Assessment Report

PA Environment Daily

from 2005 to 2020. On April 25, the Department of Environmental Protection announced the release of the 2024 Climate Change Action Plan Update and 2024 Climate Impacts Assessment Report. The impacts of a changing climate are being felt both locally and globally. from 2019 to 2020 and 44.4%

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Variational principles and topological constants of motion for MHD

Physics World

Asher was a postdoctoral fellow (1998) in the Department of Electrical Engineering of Tel-Aviv University, Israel, and a visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge, UK, during 2005–2006, 2008 and 2012. The post Variational principles and topological constants of motion for MHD appeared first on Physics World.

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