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A Nobel pursuit

Real Climate

In this, he is in violent agreement with Isaac Held, his colleague at GFDL, and indeed most climate scientists. Manabe’s early focus was on radiative-convective equilibrium, and his seminal 1967 paper (with his longtime collaborator Richard Wetherald, who passed in 2011 ). But let’s go back to the beginning.

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

To date in 2023, the United States has already suffered nine climate and weather disasters resulting in at least a billion dollars of damage, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. That fits with the last five years , which have seen an annual average of 18 billion-dollar weather and climate disasters.

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What Happened During the Montana Youth Climate Trial

Legal Planet

Nowakowski made the same claims on the stand, saying that the department’s hands are tied when it comes to approving permits without considering the climate impacts. Not stopping there, Bellinger also asked Seeley to establish a constitutional standard that 350 parts per million of atmospheric CO2 is a target to guide state energy permitting.

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Viewpoint: Forty-three years of the environmental movement?

A Greener Life

And on my birthday, the 20th of June 1979, then US President Jimmy Carter decided to deliver a strong climate and environmental statement by installing solar panels on the roof of The White House. In June 1979, atmospheric carbon stood at 339ppm, just below the 350ppm level scientists believe to be safe. billion tonnes of CO2.

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Getting physical with the climate crisis

Physics World

As air sunk through the atmosphere, it got squeezed and heated. One key challenge is to quantify the different combinations of heat and humidity, then to link them with different health outcomes,” says Eunice Lo, a physicist-turned-climate scientist at the University of Bristol , UK. Courtesy: Canadian Press/Shutterstock).

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Ripe for Disaster Declarations: Heat, Wildfire Smoke…and Death Data

Union of Concerned Scientists

This spring, Texas A&M climate scientists Andrew Dessler and Jangho Lee told the Associated Press that last year’s real national annual heat death toll may be 11,000, nearly five times higher than the 2,300 cited by the government. across the US from 2011 to 2020. the eastern US).”

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Climate Scientist Michael Mann Awarded More than $1 Million in Defamation Case

Greenbuilding Law

But, Michael Mann is a well known climate scientist whose research in studying the “paleoclimate,” or ancient climate, has featured prominently in the politically charged debate about climate change. Scientists attempting to silence those who disagree with their science is wrong (. The hockey stick graph (.