Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Scientists estimate that Brazil hasn’t seen a normal period of rainfall since 2010. Scientists estimate that the country hasn’t seen a normal period of rainfall since 2010. The country’s worst drought in nearly a century is choking commerce, threatening ecosystems, and diminishing hydroelectric power generation. Wikimedia Commons.

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Rainforest Deforestation 2010 Climate Change 325

Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 13, 2022

In 2010, GM committed to a 20% reduction in carbon intensity by 2020. It achieved that goal in 2017. And in January 2021, it said it would source 100% renewable energy to power GM facilities in the U.S. by 2030 and globally by 2035.

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2010 Renewable Energy 2017 2030 246

Legal Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

The earliest government estimate of the social cost of carbon was for 2010: $21/ton with a 3% discount rate and $35 at a 2.5% Given the roughness of this entire exercise, I’ll just use the average of the 2010 figures, $28 per ton. billion in 2010 dollars. discount rate. billion tons, or $78.4

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2010 Carbon Dioxide Climate Change 2008 246

Yale E360

AUGUST 12, 2022

A rare hummingbird, not seen since 2010, has been rediscovered in Colombia's Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains. Read more on E360 ?.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 29, 2024

High Accumulated Cyclone Energy ( ACE – second highest after 2010; a high ACE is linked with the most destructive hurricanes). La Niña (77% chance of forming in late summer-early fall; La Niña is linked to reduced wind shear. High wind shear breaks down cyclone formation, especially in the Western Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean).

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Ocean 2010 Atmosphere 2024 330

Legal Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

Rooftop solar costs in 2020 were a third of what they had been in 2010. In 2020, the cost of single-axis utility scale solar was only a fifth of what it was in 2010. Wind power costs fell by half from 2008 to 2021. Utility-scale solar was an even more dramatic story. Prices for battery storage have declined even more sharply.

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Fossil Fuels 2008 2010 Clean Energy 279

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 8, 2024

After the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists found that one of the whales killed by the oil spill was a member of a unique species called the Rice’s whale. Firefighters battle blazing remnants of the offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon in April 2010. Source: U.S. Coast Guard.

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Fossil Fuels Wind Power Ocean Renewable Energy 332

Environmental and Urban Economics

JULY 16, 2021

As I discuss in my 2010 Climatopolis book, Singapore in recent decades has been highly productive despite the nation's heat and humidity. 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.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

3) affirmed a judgment setting aside an addendum to a 2010 program EIR (PEIR) and accompanying approvals for a 275,000-square foot office complex on a 4.95-acre and (2) did substantial evidence show the project’s GHG emissions are within the scope of the 2010 PEIR? IBC Business Owners for Sensible Development v.

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2010 2020 Law 2030 96

New Scientist

JUNE 16, 2023

Changes in the distribution of groundwater around the planet between 1993 and 2010 were enough to make Earth's poles drift by 80 centimetres

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2010 145

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2025

All of the shale gas wells found in violation were drilled in the earlier days of shale gas development-- 2010 to 2014 In all of 2024, DEP issued 47 violations for abandoned shale gas wells and 20 in 2024. Wells drilled in 2010 and have not produced gas since 2016. Well integrity reports have not been submitted. Violations issued.

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2025 2010 Natural Gas 2014 94

New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

A UN analysis of countries' latest plans to cut carbon emissions shows they will actually rise 16 per cent on 2010 levels by 2030, leaving only a small window to limit global warming to 1.5°C

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Carbon Emissions 2030 2010 145

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 15, 2022

From 2010 through 2020, the cost of electricity from wind fell more than 60 percent, according to the Department of Energy. And US wind jobs, currently totaling more than 100,000, should grow right along with the technology and the market. Flickr/Lance Cheung. Wind power is a bargain.

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New Scientist

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

C warming limit around 2010, according to measurements from the skeletons of sea sponges in the Caribbean, but some climate scientists aren't convinced Earth’s air temperature passed the agreed 1.5°C

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2010 Climate Scientist 143

New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Between 2010 and 2021, the proportion of drug overdose deaths in the US involving a combination of fentanyl and a stimulant such as cocaine or methamphetamine skyrocketed

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2010 2021 139

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Though manufacturers largely didn’t adopt the necessary emissions control technology to meet the NO X requirement until 2010, the 2007 standard did require new technologies to be deployed, at an increased upfront cost. <mic drop> So, is industry just full of it?

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In 2010, U.S. But the growth of f racking began in earnest around 2008, and it drove down the price of gas. Growth in renewable energy, which was likely driven by state energy policies, took an extra bit out of the market for coal. Another key factor is often overlooked.

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2012 2008 Clean Air Act Renewable Energy 278

Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

The cuts are measured from a 2010-2012 baseline. Here are a few details about the four bills: House Bill 2021 creates the emission reduction mandate. It’s a complex piece of legislation, and I’ll only mention some of the provisions.

Fossil Fuels 264

Fossil Fuels Clean Energy Renewable Energy 2010 264

Circle of Blue

MARCH 1, 2022

Between 2010 and 2020, the death rate from floods, storms, and droughts in high vulnerability areas was 15 times higher than in low vulnerability areas. The report notes that these vulnerability hot spots are clustered in Africa, South Asia, Central and South America, and small islands like those in the South Pacific.

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Climate Change Carbon Emissions Fossil Fuels 2010 362

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

Ethanol consumption grew rapidly between 2000 and 2010 but after 2010 biodiesel took over as the major source of biofuel growth before being eclipsed by renewable diesel after 2016. While ethanol remains the largest US source of biofuel, biodiesel and more recently renewable diesel have accounted for most of the growth since 2010.

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Biofuels 2016 2022 Deforestation 345

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

It took until 2010 to get a CDC leader who was willing to deal with the issue. Largely, their actions were repressed, or they were unable to get a hearing. A CDC official first compiled the relevant statistics to document the opioid and tried to get attention to the problem from superiors and other agencies.

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2010 Government Politics Law 246

Legal Planet

APRIL 8, 2024

In terms of the economy, Nigeria experienced a surge of growth at the beginning of this century, averaging over 8% from 1999 to 2010. Sluggish economic growth is one reason why Nigeria may have trouble adapting. But things weren’t so rosy in the last decade, as the country was hit by recessions.

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Climate Change 2010 Carbon Emissions Government 245

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 4, 2024

In 2008 and 2010, the county didn’t provide details on how voters could correct any errors they made on their ballots and instead told voters to refer to a separate instructional packet to learn how to fix their mistakes. times higher than the rest of the state in 2008 and five times higher in 2010.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

from Rogelj et al (2018) – note how the red dot marked 2010 moves to the purple dot marked 2010, once historical modelling uncertainties are corrected for. This is best illustrated by this technical figure from SR1.5. Source: Figure 2.3 Between SR1.5

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Legal Planet

JUNE 13, 2022

It was only in 2010 that India agreed that all countries should take responsibility for controlling their own emissions, but there was backsliding the following year at the next round of international negotiations.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 22, 2021

One water utility, Southern Water, was fined £90 million for deliberately dumping wastewater into waterways from 2010 to 2015. According to the nonprofit Surfers Against Sewage, 286 people have gotten sick after swimming or surfing in rivers or seas polluted with sewage around the United Kingdom. Sewage pollution is rampant in U.K.

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2021 2010 2015 Climate Change 242

Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The data are from the independent open-source Berkeley Earth project – a project by the formerly outspoken climate skeptic physicist Richard Muller, which in 2010 set out to do better than the traditional climate institutes and in the end obtained almost exactly the same results, just a slightly faster global warming.

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Greenhouse Radiation Cooling Carbon Dioxide 309

Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

This reports that a net 45% reduction in 2030, relative to 2010, would be consistent with a 50% chance of keeping warming within 1.5°C C assumes 53 percent reduction in coal consumption between 2010 and 2030, but only 20 percent reduction and 11 percent increase, respectively, in oil and gas consumption. C and an 85% chance for 2°C.

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Carbon Dioxide Fossil Fuels Climate Change 2010 246

New Scientist

APRIL 3, 2023

The production of CFCs was banned globally in 2010, but researchers have detected rising levels of five CFC chemicals from unknown sources

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Ozone 2010 114

Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Renewables are relatively small, at only 6%, but growing rapidly, having doubled from 2010 to 2019. Two thirds of generation capacity is based on fossil fuels, split evenly between coal and natural gas, with 17% nuclear, and 14% hydro and other renewables. 50% coal, 26% gas, and 25% nuclear.

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Climate Change Fossil Fuels Paris Agreement 2030 246

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 13, 2024

According to the California Department of Public Health, 599 people died from heat-related causes in California between 2010 and 2019, but a Los Angeles Times analysis found the true toll was likely six times higher.

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Cooling 2010 Air Pollution Natural Resources 344

Law and Environment

APRIL 11, 2022

I suspect that, if one asked the average American whether GHG emissions increased or decreased from 2010 to 2019, they would say that emissions decreased. GHG emissions in 2019 were 12% higher in 2019 than 2010. Sadly, that’s not the case. The best we can say is that the rate of increase has slowed. (In

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2010 Climate Change 2019 Atmosphere 130

Real Climate

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

C requires rapid, deep and sustained reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions, including reducing global carbon dioxide emissions by 45 per cent by 2030 relative to the 2010 level and to net zero around mid-century, as well as deep reductions in other greenhouse gases; Glasgow Pact final text, section 17.

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Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse Paris Agreement 2030 339

Inside Climate News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

By James Bruggers, Bob Berwyn Sinking, soggy south Louisiana has been losing ground, literally, for decades: The southern part of the state lost about 1,800 square miles from the 1930s through 2010.

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2010 Climate Change 117

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Another of the group’s members is Lynn Henning, an earlier Petoskey Prize winner who also was awarded the 2010 Goldman Prize, the world’s leading honor for environmental activists. Since it launched in 2010 GLRI has paid for 55 projects in Michigan to deal with farm runoff at a cost of $30 million. Henning is a farmer, too.

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2020 2010 Waste Conservation 317

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

million since 2010), other states across the US are also seeing accelerating sales. The higher EV sales volume in Florida and Texas is in part tied to the higher population there, but there are signs that buyers across the political spectrum are interested in EVs. EV sales are quickly growing in states across the country.

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Electricity Climate Change 2010 Air Pollution 321

Circle of Blue

APRIL 20, 2022

The global food price spike coincides with an existing hunger crisis in the Horn of Africa that recalls a severe drought in 2010-11 in which more than 250,000 people died. Higher food and fuel prices have increased the World Food Program’s operational costs worldwide by $71 million per month, according to spokesperson Steve Taravella.

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2010 Politics 2022 Climate Change 290