Washington Nature

JULY 20, 2023

Over the course of seven days in November 2021, two atmospheric rivers brought down over 12 inches of rain across the Pacific Northwest. For comparison, the left is a photo of the Fraser River from 2011, the right was taken on November 17, 2021, showing the floods from space.

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HumanNature

JANUARY 20, 2022

In particular, an aging population combined with widely dispersed communities makes it difficult for emergency responders to reach all those who need assistance (Lal, Alvalapati and Mercer 2011). Figure 1. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. This map shows projected changes in U.S. Lower expenditures are blue.

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Law Columbia

MAY 29, 2024

This applies to any source of pollution, whether land-based, vessel-based, and atmospheric. In the context of marine pollution from GHG emissions from vessels, ITLOS referred to the IMO adopted amendments to Annex VI to MARPOL in 2011 and 2021 with a view to reducing GHG emissions from ships. 4) of UNCLOS.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Manabe’s early focus was on radiative-convective equilibrium, and his seminal 1967 paper (with his longtime collaborator Richard Wetherald, who passed in 2011 ). The basic issue stems from the different timescales of the ocean and atmosphere. Fred Singer, before his turn to the dark side). 1975) , and Bryan et al.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

Lord David Frost , the former Brexit minister, became a GWPF director in 2022, former Tory peer Matt Ridley has sat on the GWPF academic advisory board since 2011, while Conservative politician Andrea Jenkyns joined the board of its sister group Net Zero Watch in May 2023.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 20, 2023

Some of the highest risks can be found in the candidates’ home states: the ocean off of Florida has hit 98 degrees— hot tub temp s! In 2011 I invited Reagan-era economist Art Laffer to speak to a hall filled exclusively with New Hampshire Republicans, both leaders and rank and file conservatives.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 24, 2021

Specialists like Pulwarty, who is currently a senior scientist in the physical sciences laboratory at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, use the word “cascade” to describe the long reach. And like that fearsome boxer, the long reach of drought is pummeling. One Thing Leads to Another…And Another.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2023

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. A decade ago, a review of nearly 12,000 studies conducted between 1991 and 2011 found that 97.2 percent agreement.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

An area of high pressure above the Pacific Ocean was driven eastwards through the jet stream by a “Rossby wave” – a planetary-scale fluctuation arising from the Coriolis force. The Rossby wave eventually “broke”, dumping its energy – like an ocean wave hitting the shore – to create an area of high pressure locked over western Canada and US.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

To meet these goals, the state is facilitating burgeoning carbon capture and sequestration (or storage) (CCS) technologies that capture carbon from point sources to store, as well as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), which removes carbon from the atmosphere. Land Use and Building Decarbonization. A Few Notable Vetoes.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2023

People should be celebrating, not demonizing, modern increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). Rare, exotic exceptions are anaerobic life forms dwelling at out-of-the-way places like ocean-bottom volcanic vents. Read more here.] We cannot overstate the importance of the gas. Without it, life doesn’t exist.

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Breezometer

DECEMBER 13, 2021

On Friday, December 11th, atmospheric conditions resulted in a catastrophic tornado outbreak that wreaked havoc across America’s Heartland. The 2011 Joplin tornado resulted in around $2.8 million increase to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s budget.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 15, 2022

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced its 2022 Lake Erie algae bloom forecast. Photo by NASA of 2011 algae bloom, the worst Lake Erie had experienced in decades. But Lake Erie is in trouble…and has been for a while. Earlier this summer, the U.S. on a scale of 1 to 10.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 23, 2023

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Seasonal Outlook for September through November, the majority of the country is expected to see above-normal temperatures during this time. This unrelenting heat is far longer than the 100-degree day streak back in 2011 that lasted 27 days.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

6] Scientists are alarmed that this year the temperature of the surface of the oceans has reached levels that are much higher, [7] and the extent of Antarctic sea ice is much lower, [8] than ever previously recorded. It’s long past time to stop relegating the climate problem to a narrowly conceived field of “environmental law.”

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

When fuels are burned to create energy in a process called combustion, black carbon along with carbon monoxide and other compounds are created because there is not enough oxygen in the atmosphere for the reaction to go to completion. Whenever there are combustion processes, of which there are many in our industrial society (e.g.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 15, 2024

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) lists a mere 535 deaths directly from wildfires over the last 45 years in its list of “Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters.” across the US from 2011 to 2020. A new study by researchers at UCLA found that the fine particulate matter (known as PM2.5)

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In many ways the superlatives are derived from a fevered atmosphere. The last famine in Somalia occurred in 2011, when about a quarter-million people died. The dam’s reservoir, the world’s largest at maximum storage, is less than 3 percent full. Each year delivers tales of the largest, driest, and worst. Hannah Richter.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Australia passes first climate legislation since 2011. He is a career NOAA employee who most recently worked as the director of NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science. Australia’s first climate law since 2011 seals green comeback – The Straits Times. ‘I California passes climate legislation. International. ET on Sept.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

In 2011, while serving a term in the US House of Representatives from Louisiana’s 3 rd Congressional District, Landry made national news by holding up a sign that read “DRILLING = JOBS” during President Obama’s national jobs plan speech. No surprise, Fitch is an oil and gas industry favorite.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , No. In March 2011, pursuant to the 2002 Act, the Minister had set a target of 50% reduction from 1990 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions levels by 2050. Center for Biological Diversity Filed Lawsuit Seeking Records on Termination of National Climate Assessment Advisory Committee.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Not all agencies are starting from scratch here; for instance, the scientific integrity policy of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration policy references a Procedural Handbook that the agency first issued in 2011 and updated in 2021. According to the OSTP report, 15 agencies have finalized these procedures.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2023

Bernhardt’s reasoning was that it would be impossible to establish the requisite causal link between GHG emissions, global climate change, and specific localized effects on species and their habitat due to the “complex and independent processes active in the atmosphere and the ocean acting on GHGs.” 2011) ; Regehr et al.

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ESA

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Matt Cartwright (D-PA) will be ranking member of the House Commerce, Justice and Science Subcommittee, which funds the National Science Foundation, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, among other agencies. Meanwhile, Rep. Zinke formerly served as the Secretary of the Interior during the Trump administration.

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ESA

MARCH 6, 2023

1213 ) reversing a provision of the Fiscal Year 2023 omnibus spending bill preventing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from drafting new protections for the North Atlantic right whale. Legislative updates: House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) introduced a bill ( H.R.1213

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

The federal district court for the Northern District of Texas dismissed for lack of standing a lawsuit against the EPA in which an individual pro se plaintiff asserted that EPA restrictions since 1990 on aerosols in the atmosphere had caused global warming. Federal Court Rejected NEPA Claims in Challenge to Gulf of Mexico Leases.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Improved satellite capabilities will benefit climate adaptation and mitigation, healthy oceans and resilient coastal communities. NOAA: The Interagency Working Group on Ocean Acidification Subcommittee on Ocean Science and Technology released a draft Strategic Plan for Federal Research and Monitoring of Ocean Acidification.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said it anticipates issuing a proposed rule in September updating its regulations for renewable energy generation. 3692 ), which requires the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to develop climate impact management plans for marine mammals that are at significant risk due to climate change.

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