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HotSpots H2O: In Northern Mexico, Harsh Drought Compounds Water Inequality

Circle of Blue

Tehuacán Valley, Mexico in 2005. The current water shortages continue the region’s seven-year dry spell, an event that climate scientists link to the warming of the planet. Poor residents in Monterrey are buying bottled water from companies that extract groundwater from beneath their feet. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue.

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ExxonMobil Accurately Projected Rising Temperatures While Publicly Disparaging Climate Science

Union of Concerned Scientists

Corporate leadership was informed about advances in climate science and incorporated those advances when its scientists built their own models. Regardless, the company publicly cast doubt on the reality of global warming, attempted to discredit climate scientists and climate models, and tried to block climate action.

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Colorado River Forecasts Not a ‘Crystal Ball’

Circle of Blue

Jerla has worked for Reclamation since 2005 and is intimately acquainted with the computer models that underpin the reservoir forecasts. Future Imperfect. Since June she has been leading federal efforts to update operating rules for Colorado River reservoirs. Reclamation should be looking in that direction, he says.

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A distraction due to errors, misunderstanding and misguided Norwegian statistics

Real Climate

I also wrote a post on this topic in 2005 ( Naturally trendy? ), and even if it is a blog, it could provide some clues for Dagsvik and Moen. One thing we know for sure is that there is always one or more physical mechanisms behind cycles and variations in the Earth’s climate.

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Viewpoint: Forty-three years of the environmental movement?

A Greener Life

I had just turned nine years old in 1988 when one of the world’s most prominent and daring climate scientists James Hansen gave evidence to the US Congress on the link between fossil fuels and climate change. In 1990 the IPCC completed their First Assessment Report climate report. This has since changed many times.

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Stroud Water Research Center Honors Laura Turner Seydel Of Captain Planet Foundation With Freshwater Excellence Award

PA Environment Daily

Previous speakers and Stroud Award for Freshwater Excellence recipients have included luminaries such as Jane Goodall; Olivia Newton-John and John Easterling; leading climate scientist and author Michael E.

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Climate Reality vs. Public Perception: Will Toxic Haze and the 2023 Danger Season Make a Difference?

Union of Concerned Scientists

A Philadelphia Inquirer column carried the headline, “America sleepwalks through a climate crisis. Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Superstorm Sandy in 2012, Hurricanes Harvey and Irma in 2017, and Hurricane Irma in 2021 were all accompanied by the same question. Climate scientists are not sitting on their 99.9

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