New Scientist

MARCH 7, 2024

Mass mortality events at salmon farms have been getting more frequent since 2011, sometimes killing millions of fish at once, with causes including heatwaves and poor living conditions

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2023

The rail infrastructure to transport coal from the Powder River Basin in Montana and Wyoming–the country’s primary coal source –was proven to be vulnerable to extreme floods in the spring of 2011 , and even more extreme floods in the spring of 2019.

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New Scientist

JANUARY 11, 2024

Natural gas plant failures were the main factor behind electricity shortfalls and outages during major winter storms in the US since 2011 – that risk remains as the US faces more extreme cold weather

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 18, 2021

A 2018 government report found that between 1999 and 2011, the number of South African rivers in poor ecological health increased by 500 percent. However, even the South African government’s own data points to a disaster. A number of rivers were considered past the point of revival.

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Real Climate

APRIL 4, 2024

Last year, Jim Hansen and colleagues published a long paper that included a figure suggesting that they expected that global temperature trends from 2011 to increase above the recent linear trends. As with most punditry, there is less here than it might seem. 24 from Hansen et al (2023).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 15, 2022

In 2021, 9 percent of US electricity came from those graceful kinetic sculptures, up from less than 3 percent in 2011. Even more important, though, wind is an impressive piece of our electricity supply. Eight states generate more than 25 percent of their electricity from wind. Wind is now the largest source of renewable energy in the country.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 10, 2022

We pointed out in March that Scafetta had totally neglected observational uncertainty in calculating the observed change in temperature (2011-2021 compared to 1980-1990). Observational uncertainty. Now he has included it, but has made a massive error so that it is roughly a factor of ten too small (though this is progress of a sort!).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Since 2011, there have been five extreme winter storms that threatened the reliability of the grid, and the issues that ensued in all five of those storms were very similar. The grid failures were mostly caused by power plants getting knocked offline amid the storms’ frigid cold temperatures.

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Electricity Fossil Fuels 2011 2014 338

Circle of Blue

JUNE 8, 2021

A bloom of Noctiluca scintillans, a single-celled algae, was seen off of Florida’s Panhandle in February 2011. First global review of marine harmful algal blooms identifies regional trends linked to the rise of fish and shellfish farming. Photo courtesy of Flickr/Creative Commons user FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2023

counties have experienced a federal climate disaster between 2011-2021, with some having as many as 12 disasters during that time. Pennsylvania From 2011 to 2021 Pennsylvania had 9 climate disaster declarations with six counties having fire or more disasters. In 2021 alone, the U.S.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The evening of January 14, 2011, Jacob, then a 16-year-old sophomore at Aurora High School, entered a basketball game against Central City. At a January 31, 2011, appointment the doctor ordered blood tests and chest X-rays, to check for infection. Everything is going according to plan,” Gary wrote in his journal on February 25, 2011.

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Real Climate

JANUARY 13, 2023

and La Niña events (2011, 2018, 2021, 2022 etc.) It’s well known (among readers here, I assume), that ENSO influences the interannual variability of the climate system and the annual mean temperatures. El Niño events enhance global warming (as in 1998, 2010, 2016 etc.) impart a slight cooling. GISTEMP anomalies (w.r.t.

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Energy & the Law

DECEMBER 10, 2021

January 13, 2011: the RRC rescinds its no-harm letter. + February 17, 2011: TCEQ issues an order approving the application. April 2, 2011: TCEQ reissues the order. November 2010: After hearing on remand, ALJ recommends the application be denied. 20 days: The rescission takes effect. The litigation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2022

For example, in July 2022, Tulsa, OK saw 20 days with maximum temperatures above 100°F, and the next higher number of such days, 26, occurred in 2011.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 26, 2022

While agricultural burning declined between 2003 and 2011, reducing particulate pollution by more than 50%, California’s record-breaking drought has led to a tripling of the amount of waste burned , with some fearing further escalation of burning as drought persists.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 9, 2024

Durante las cinco tormentas invernales más extremas desde el 2011, hubo amplias fallas en las centrales eléctricas de gas, muchas veces acompañadas por apagones de gran escala. Durante la Tormenta Invernal Uri en la parte central de los Estados Unidos en 2021, falló la cuarta parte de la capacidad eléctrica en esa área.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

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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Nuclear Power Renewable Energy Carbon Emissions 2030 203

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

AB 2097 (Friedman) builds on work dating back to 2011 (I blogged about then-Assm. It’s finally ending local mandates that all new housing and infill projects must include car storage, even if they’re located within half-mile of transit.

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National Law Center

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, between 2011 and 2021, there were 436 work-related deaths attributed to environmental heat exposure. The post Recent Federal and State Heat Safety Proposals appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The CEFR reached criticality in July 2010 and connected to the grid in July 2011. Since 1999, after the Chinese government approved the reactor plans, TVEL, Russia’s nuclear fuel company and a Rosatom subsidiary, worked with the China Institute of Atomic Energy to supply highly enriched uranium fuel (64.4% U-235) for China’s CEFR.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

million BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, and the American Petroleum Institute spent lobbying the federal government since 2011, the vast majority was directed at obtaining tax breaks, while almost nothing was spent on carbon pricing legislation, which the companies publicly claim to support.

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Fossil Fuels Coastal Erosion Carbon Dioxide Biofuels 279

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 2, 2022

The state witnessed its hottest July on record, reaching its highest levels of drought since 2011. Over 97 percent of Texas is experiencing some form of drought and nearly a fifth is in exceptional drought. WHAT’S AHEAD.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 13, 2023

In 2011, then-Governor Brown issued Executive Order B-10-11 , which established what is now the Governor’s Office of Tribal Affairs and directed all state agencies to “encourage communication and consultation with California Indian Tribes.”

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Endangered Species Law

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In 2011, a population was discovered which inhabits a 5.6 The freshwater snail exists only in the Cahaba River in central Alabama and subsists on algae growing on the riverbed. The oblong rocksnail was declared extinct in 2000 after several decades without a confirmed specimen observation and multiple river surveys.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 21, 2023

This report is an updated analysis of previous Critical Materials Strategy (CMS) reports published by the DOE in 2010, 2011, and 2019 based on national and global priorities, technology advancement, and technology adoption trends. Download the report.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In 2020, America generated almost four times as much renewable electricity from the sun and the wind as in 2011, with wind and solar now producing 11% of the nation’s electricity. Download the document. Clean energy is sweeping across America.

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2011 Clean Energy Electricity 2020 97

Real Climate

JULY 24, 2023

2011; Garzoli et al. 2011), could be related to a bias in the northward freshwater transport in the South Atlantic by the meridional overturning circulation. Here a quote from Liu et al. 1999; Huisman et al. 2010; Hawkins et al. 2011a,b; Bryden et al. These observational studies suggest a potentially bistable AMOC in the real world.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 4, 2024

Similar extreme cold weather caused grid emergencies in 2011, 2014, 2018, and again in 2022. It Happened Before The FERC-NERC review of electric system outages in cold weather follows several others that also surprised grid operators as well as the general public.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 2, 2024

On April 7, 2023 , DEP posted an inspection report to document that it had requested Greylock to provide the pre-drill survey it had conducted prior to drilling the wells in 2011, along with all the water sample results associated with the site. [ Background There were six shale gas wells on Mohr A drilled in May, June and July of 2011.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Over the span of three years, from 2011 to 2014, I watched the trees on my parkway die from the top down, leaves crumbling, leaving gray, stark branches on the crown. Read the full story in Q Magazine. I had seen videos of deforestation in the Amazon and other major forests, but this was happening… Read more →

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Real Climate

MARCH 31, 2022

Temperature trends from 1980-1990 to 2011-2021 in ERA5 and the CMIP6 ensemble, plotted against Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity. Applying a statistical test that is guaranteed to reject any specific realization of internal variability if the forced signal is well constrained. The first two points are clearly seen in the following figure.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Read Frank Wolak's 2011 paper. On extreme weather days, the Texas utilities declare a CPP day and the subset of consumers now face much higher power prices and as we know from the law of demand they consume less power.

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Climate Change Electricity 2011 Regulations 264

Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Fortunately, there are additional CERES instruments on Suomi-NPP (launched in 2011) and NOAA-20 (launched in 2017) that can be used.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 26, 2023

She joined the DEP Policy Office in 2011 and worked as the Policy Director and most recently served as the Infrastructure Implementation Coordinator for programs related to the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Act. Jessica Shirley Jessica Shirley was named Acting Executive Deputy Secretary at DEP in February 2023.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 29, 2022

In 2011, a raccoon found its way into some electrical equipment at the Delaware City Refinery, taking a number of units offline. The risk of explosion ultimately shut down the Delaware Memorial Bridge to traffic, and residents were told to shelter in place as the flammable chemical leaked from the plant. This event was hardly unique.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

According to the Times article, since 2011 U.S. And therein lies a threefold environmental crisis: First, “monster fracking” requires massive amounts of often-scarce water. oil and gas operators have consumed about 1.5 trillion gallons of water to support their fracking operations.

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Fossil Fuels Climate Change Greenhouse Regulations 278

Physics World

APRIL 8, 2022

The stunning result was obtained by a painstaking analysis of data taken at the Fermilab Tevatron collider in the US before it closed in 2011. To make absolute predictions, however, physicists needed to know the mass of the Higgs boson, which was not known when Tevatron switched off in 2011. Encouraging measurements.

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