Real Climate

MARCH 31, 2022

The error in the second half of his analysis is related to the error made by Douglass et al (2008) and discussed in Santer et al (2008). 1693-1701, 2008. Curiously, when referencing the ERA5 data, he cites the description paper from ERSSTv5 – an ocean temperature dataset – instead of Hersbach et al (2020).

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Read the full story from WTTW. Three mayors in the past 15 years — Richard M. Daley, Rahm Emanuel and Lori Lightfoot — have all promised to combat the effects of global climate change. But some critics and scientists, along with a new data analysis by the DePaul University Center for Journalism Integrity & Excellence,… Read more →

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Physics World

JULY 30, 2021

Maskawa shared half the 2008 Nobel prize with the Japanese physicist Makoto Kobayashi for their work on the mechanism of “broken symmetry” that led to the prediction of a new family of quarks. It is the theory that explains this broken symmetry that has handed the 2008 prize to Maskawa. “Maskawa leaves an important legacy.”

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Real Climate

APRIL 2, 2021

In 2008, after a series of Atlantic hurricane seasons that began earlier than normal, a study was published that explored whether the anomalously early starts may be part of a larger trend ( Kossin 2008 ). The days of formation for the 2020 named storms are shown by the red squares. References. Geophysical Research Letters , vol.

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Energy & the Law

MARCH 1, 2023

The Supreme Court held that “in light of the boundary stipulation and the signed 2008 letter, Ellison as a matter of law ratified the boundary line in the stipulation as the boundary of Ellison’s leasehold.” The Court overruled Ellison’s issue related to the existence of a contract. As an assignee of Samson’s contract, Concho had standing.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

This has been reiterated time and time again by EPA to the manufacturers, distributors, and installers of the defeat devices for which SEMA is requesting exemption.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

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. Lean, and D.H. 32, 2005.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JULY 16, 2021

Some readings; 2008 Urban Growth and Climate Change 2010 Climatopolis 2021 Adapting to Climate Change The microeconomics research agenda is to trace out this expenditure function approach. See m y slides here starting on slide 9.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The price of urea also surpassed its previous recorded spike in 2008 by approximately 18 percent. Data reported by the World Bank show that prices for two key fertilizers spiked dramatically between April 2021 and April 2022: diammonium phosphate prices went up 75 percent and potash prices rose a staggering 178 percent.

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Corp Watch

AUGUST 18, 2023

Image source, Getty ImagesSwiss bank UBS has agreed to pay $1.4bn (£1.1bn) to resolve fraud claims in the US stemming from the 2008 financial crisis.It brings to a close the last case brought by US prosecutors investigating banks' conduct in the run-up to the crash, which sparked a global downturn.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

Chicago just released its Draft 2022 Climate Action Plan (CAP), an update of the city’s 2008 CAP to reduce citywide emissions 25 percent by 2020 from 1990 levels. Like many cities with CAPs , Chicago missed that target, largely because of insufficient funding, limited staffing, and lack of coordination among city agencies.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 26, 2024

Recent analysis from the Haas School of Business finds “that over recent years, utilities have earned sizeable regulated rates of return on their capital assets, particularly when set against the unprecedented low interest rate environment from 2008–2022.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

True, t he world was different in many ways in 2008 when Obama took office, including the energy sector. One way of getting a handle on the amount of harm, though, is to assume that if Bush had kept his promise, emissions during his presidency would have declined as much as they did under his successor Obama.

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Frontiers

MAY 18, 2022

Researchers investigated the effects of high air temperature and drought on the breeding success of southern yellow-billed hornbills in the Kalahari Desert between 2008 and 2019. The results showed that breeding output collapsed during the monitoring period (2008-2019) due to the increased maximum air temperature. Population collapse.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Renewables are 6% of power. Renewable Energy Act sets fixed feed-in tariffs and gives renewables priority on the grid. New rates are large enough to spark expansion of renewable industry. Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable. Germany decides to phase out nuclear power, complicating efforts to decarbonize the power sector.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

For example, Ecuador’s 2008 constitution enshrines the rights of nature, acknowledging that “nature has the right to exist, persist, maintain, and regenerate its vital cycles.” This establishes a foundation for the right to a stable climate, as nations collectively commit to address climate change and its impacts.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 3, 2021

by Garth Heutel, Givi Melkadze, and Stefano Carattini (Georgia State University) In 2008, as big banks began failing across Wall Street and the housing and stock markets crashed, the nation saw how crucial financial regulation is for economic stability – and how quickly the consequences can cascade through the economy when regulators are asleep at… (..)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 29, 2024

Since 2005, there have been destructive, space debris-producing anti-satellite weapons tests by China (2007), the United States (2008), India (2019), and Russia (2021). Our database helps us understand how the physical environment in which these tests are taking place has changed.

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New Scientist

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Outlawing the sale of cigarettes to anyone born after 2008 and mandating low-nicotine cigarettes for others will help New Zealand reach its smoke-free vision, but vaping will still be an issue

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Inside Climate News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

A 2008 law governs access to it—with an exemption for Illinois. As aquifers dry up, some Midwest communities are looking to the region’s greatest natural resources for a solution.

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Energy & the Law

DECEMBER 10, 2021

April 2008: ALJ recommends that the permit be issued. December 2008: TCEQ remands the application for more modeling. 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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 16, 2024

For example, in Galveston, Texas, where most public housing was destroyed b y Hurricane Ike in 2008, the reconstruction of units was delayed by more than a decade. There’s this great family-level disruption, but there’s also a large cultural disruption. And the issue of recovery gets incredibly politicized.

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Real Climate

DECEMBER 17, 2023

We have discussed the statistics on tropical cyclones in previous posts here on RealClimate: ‘ Climate Change and Tropical Cyclones (Yet Again) ’ (2008) and ‘ Does global warming make tropical cyclones stronger? ’ (2018). Support for the warm-area-connection?

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Energy & the Law

MAY 4, 2021

The 2008 letter could not have ratified the stipulation because it was not capable of being ratified. The 2008 boundary stipulation retroactively changed boundaries without evidence of error or dispute. The trial court agreed but the appellate court deemed the boundary stipulation to be void.

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Inside Climate News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

By Bob Berwyn In 2008, polar bears had the dubious distinction of being the first animal placed on the United States’ endangered species list due to climate threats, specifically the loss of Arctic sea ice.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 27, 2022

Persistent melt in 2008 lifted the snow cover from a low-lying area of Greenland’s ice sheet, revealing a rough terrain crossed by melt water streams. Photo © Thomas Neumann / NASA GSFC. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. High temperatures in Greenland melt millions of tons of ice in just three days. Flash floods in Iran kill nearly two dozen.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 24, 2024

Thanks to the cleanup and restoration efforts of the Shade Creek Watershed Association in conjunction with the Dark Shade Brownfields Project, native brook trout were reintroduced into Shingle Run in 2008.

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Despite adding to Japan’s rich legacy in neutrino physics, in 2008 – before Kajita was awarded the Nobel prize – he made a bold decision to switch research fields. Kajita became director of ICRR in 2008 and played a major role in getting KAGRA funded and constructed. Switching fields.

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

Ann Carlson—who was our founding faculty director, and instrumental in launching the Emmett Institute in 2008—was appointed in January as chief counsel of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the federal agency that has joint authority with EPA over car and truck greenhouse gas standards.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 24, 2024

In 2008 I was the sole civil society representative in the room when parties finalized negotiations on the implementation guidelines.] [Full disclosure: the organization I previously led, Corporate Accountability, joined with allies in the Network for Accountability of Tobacco Transnationals to center this measure in our advocacy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The two industry-funded studies ( NERA 2008 and ACT Research 2022 ) claim much higher impact on sales than either the academic (RZW 2018) or government ( EPA 2021 ) studies. Four studies purporting to examine whether a pre-buy effect occurred on heavy-duty truck sales can’t agree on the magnitude or timing of any such effect.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2024

First, in 2008, the parties adopted a resolution dealing specifically with ocean fertilization. The 2008 resolution and 2010 assessment framework are not legally binding. The draft is similar to the 2008 resolution on ocean fertilization but would apply to other marine CDR and solar radiation management activities.

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Physics World

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Since 2008, he was the CTO at AIST-NT, Inc. Andrey Krayev received his master’s degree from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, in 1991. In 2001, he started to use SPM, while working as an application scientist for QPT, Inc.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 2, 2023

Davenport, Iowa, is used to such floods — waters reached similar levels in 2019, 2014, and 2008. Kim Reynolds issued disaster proclamations for 15 of the state’s counties, ABC News reports. A local brewery, Stompbox Brewing, serves beers named “Flood Insurance” and “When the Levee Breaks” during such occasions, KCCI Des Moines reports.

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 20, 2021

So it won’t come as a surprise that a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences indicates that the benefits of on-road emissions reductions from 2008 to 2017 could be measured in the hundreds of billions of dollars and almost 10,000 fewer deaths.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Reports informing decisions Minnesota passed a cumulative impacts law in 2008 that implemented a method that required facilities to include a report on potential health impacts when applying for a permit. But we cannot stop there. Overburdened communities are not being protected fast enough by these incremental approaches.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

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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