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Arctic Report Card 2024: How Did the Region Fare? Ask the Caribou

Union of Concerned Scientists

This report, issued by NOAA annually since 2006, was a much-anticipated event at the annual American Geophysical Union meeting because the implications matter far beyond the Arctic. Another bright spot this year amid thebad news was that the massive Greenland Ice Sheet had the lowest annual ice mass loss since 2013 ( Poynar et al. ,

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A deep dive into the IPCC’s updated carbon budget numbers

Real Climate

And since the first IPCC estimates published in 2013, we have learned a lot and have gotten much better at estimating remaining carbon budgets. IPCC reported carbon budgets for the first time in 2013. in 2018, but they represent a significant update since AR5 in 2013. C warming estimate between 1850-1900 and 2006-2015.

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Fourth District Belatedly Publishes CEQA Opinion Upholding City of Newport Beach’s Approval of Multifamily-Housing Development Pursuant To Addendum To 2006 EIR For Larger Mixed-Use Development

CEQA Developments

Given that the City is fairly built out, there is a dearth of available sites on which to construct multifamily housing, and the City had identified the Center as a possible site for multifamily residential development circa 2006. City of Dublin (2013) 214 Cal.App.4th The appellant argued that because CEQA Guidelines section 15064.3

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Losing Justice Hobbs, Western Water Expert and Valued Mentor

Legal Planet

In 2006, Berkeley Law Professor Joe Sax —widely recognized as one of the founders of the field of Environmental Law—introduced Justice Hobbs as, “beyond dispute, one of the most knowledgeable and most accomplished experts on water law anywhere in the United States.” Long-term connections with Berkeley Law. He got his JD here in 1971.

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Should the official Atlantic hurricane season be lengthened?

Real Climate

But it emphasizes an important point about the relationship between SST and hurricane behavior in general: The hurricane response to SST changes depends on what caused the SST changes ( Emanuel and Sobel 2013 ). and European Clean Air Acts and Amendments of the 1970s ( Mann and Emanuel 2006 ; Dunstone et al. 2013 ; Sobel et al.

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Why is future sea level rise still so uncertain?

Real Climate

The CPDW is thought to be affected by the shift in the westerly winds around Antarctica which have increased in recent decades due to a combination of greenhouse gas forcing and the polar ozone hole ( Miller et al, 2006 ). The last major revision (BedMap2) was in 2013 ( Fretwell et al., 375-393, 2013. 2020) or Sadai et al.

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Sea level in the IPCC 6th assessment report (AR6)

Real Climate

During the most recent period analyzed, 2006-2018, it’s been rising at a rate of 3.7 And the AR5 found in 2013 that “there is high confidence that the rate of sea level rise has increased during the last two centuries, and it is likely that global mean sea level has accelerated since the early 1900’s.” Source: IPCC AR6 Fig.

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