Real Climate

AUGUST 13, 2021

And the AR5 found in 2013 that “there is high confidence that the rate of sea level rise has increased during the last two centuries, and it is likely that global mean sea level has accelerated since the early 1900’s.”

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2022

The number of critical treatment works listed in the last report – from 2013 – was 248. The average Green Drop score across all provinces in 2013 was 61%. Neither of these facilities is required to monitor or reduce the fecal bacteria in the wastewater before releasing millions of liters of sewage into the ocean per day.

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Real Climate

APRIL 2, 2021

But it emphasizes an important point about the relationship between SST and hurricane behavior in general: The hurricane response to SST changes depends on what caused the SST changes ( Emanuel and Sobel 2013 ). 2013 ; Sobel et al. 447-458, 2013. 534-539, 2013. 390-393, 2017. Sobel, S.J. Camargo, T.M. Tippett, and A.A.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The Sabin Center wrapped up Climate Week NYC last Friday with an event exploring the opportunities and challenges posed by ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR). As evidenced by the 150-plus people in attendance, ocean CDR is attracting growing attention as a possible climate change mitigation option. ground rock) into the ocean?

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

Projections of (a) temperature (constrained), (b) Arctic sea ice area (raw CMIP6), (c) ocean pH (constrained), and sea level (d)to 2100, and (e) to 2300 (constrained). Literally, the sea level projection runs off the page… (Stefan will have a more detailed assessment later). Figure SPM 8.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 6, 2023

Exploring our ocean’s deepest places is not an easy feat. The average ocean depth is 2.3 Even the deepest SCUBA dive ever recorded, 1,090 feet, is less than 10% of the way to the average ocean depth. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2022

In 2020, the lake level hit a record high, after having hit a record low in 2013. Now, though, climate is changing rivers, lakes and oceans, forcing a renegotiation of our relationships to those bodies of water. Judging from a 2019 report , the drivers of lake level variability are still not well understood. Download as PDF.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

That 2013 headline resulted from the first effort to quantify emissions from the ‘carbon majors’ —fossil fuel companies and cement manufacturers whose businesses have contributed an outsized amount of heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere. Nearly two-thirds of industrial heat-trapping emissions can be traced to just 90 entities.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 23, 2022

According to the latest forecast from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), drought will continue in more than half of the continental United States through at least the beginning of summer. If the forecast remains accurate, water supplies are likely to be strained and the risk of wildfires will increase.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

If the land data was contaminated by urban heating effects, we wouldn’t see similar warming in the ocean. 4171-4176, 2013. However, the searching for (and finding!) If the surface temperature data sets were corrupted, why do they line up with the satellite data from the independent AIRS and MSU instruments? Laut, and J.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

The physics-based models describe how energy flows through the atmosphere and ocean, as well as how the forces from different air masses push against each other. Furthermore, the volume of the oceans increases from the melting of land ice. The global sea level acts like the mercury in a thermometer because warmer water expands.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 11, 2022

A puffin brings its chicks a large oval butterfish and a long sand lance–clear signs of the struggle of seabirds in the Gulf of Maine, which has some of the fastest-warming ocean water on earth. The size of the herring is an indicator of good ocean conditions, which have become more fleeting with the warming waters of climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 10, 2024

Without the considerable carbon absorption capacity of our lands (and oceans), we’d currently have much more CO 2 in the atmosphere and an accelerated timeline of warming. In North America, the land carbon sink between 2004 and 2013 offset roughly 39% of fossil fuel emissions , but varied substantially year to year.

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 22, 2021

See more wonderful ocean animals! Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Preferring life along the coast, they have been known to enter bays and estuaries—and to venture out into the open ocean, on occasion. Basking sharks are the second largest fish in the ocean—first place goes to the whale shark.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In the Arctic Ocean, the summer sea ice minimum is an important milestone during this seasonal transition. The sea ice minimum occurs when the extent of sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean reaches its lowest point for the year. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Why do we care about Arctic sea ice, anyway?

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Law and Environment

JULY 27, 2023

I thank the legislators and stakeholders who, through collaboration and compromise, have positioned Maine to pursue offshore wind in a manner that puts all Maine workers and businesses on a level playing field, invites investments in critical port infrastructure, and importantly, respects those who rely on the ocean for their livelihoods.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 20, 2023

The new paper in Science summarizes key statements by ExxonMobil executives between 2000 and 2013 that cast doubt on the science. Research produced by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has shown that rising temperatures, sea level rise , and ocean acidification have all been made worse by fossil fuel companies’ activities and products.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Our ocean has absorbed more than 90% of the heat from human-caused global warming—it’s not surprising that this greatly impacts ocean animals and the communities that depend on them. This is especially pressing for something as economically, ecologically and culturally important as our ocean’s fisheries. Love ocean content?

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PBS Nature

APRIL 3, 2023

The year is 2013. In the waters of Belize and Guatemala, a desperate fisherman takes his small boat into the open ocean in search of fish. Encountering engine trouble, he peers over the side of his boat and can’t believe his eyes. Below is an uncharted, massive crown of rocks and corals, teeming with life.

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 26, 2022

This blog was written by Claudia Cecilia Olimón, the Latin America GGGI Project Coordinator Consultant for Ocean Conservancy. She has more than 12 years working in ocean conservation. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. The post Managing Ghost Gear in Mexico appeared first on Ocean Conservancy.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Having worked with Frontiers since 2013, Dr. Hall brings considerable strategic experience to the position. In 2006, she was awarded a PhD in Ocean and Earth Science from the University of Southampton before becoming a postdoctoral researcher in Marine Science at the UK’s National Oceanography Centre.

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Law Columbia

MAY 24, 2024

There was little discussion, either in the written statements or at the oral hearing, of so-called “marine geoengineering” activities that seek to use the ocean to combat climate change. The hope is that the carbon will end up in the deep ocean, where it will remain stored for long periods, but that has not yet been proven.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2024

Most of the trash that pollutes rivers, lakes, estuaries, and oceans comes from sources on land. Founded in 2013, the mission of EPA’s Trash Free Waters Program is to prevent that trash from getting into waterways and to remove what is already in the environment.

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Physics World

MAY 20, 2021

From Debussy’s “La Mer” to the Beach Boys’ “Surfin’ USA”, the ocean has always been a vast font of musical inspiration. Following the 2013/14 winter storms that battered the eastern side of the Atlantic, Cox and her team documented the movement of many large boulders, including one weighing 620 tonnes.

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Physics World

APRIL 27, 2021

Part of this movement is an oscillation on a timescale of about a year – caused by short-term fluctuations such as changes in ocean currents and atmospheric pressure. Scientists have also measured a slow steady shift in the poles that is believed to be associated with the rebound of parts of the Earth that were once covered by glaciers.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Only a quarter of this was absorbed in the natural carbon cycle, mostly by diffusion into the oceans. In 2013 climate scientists Ed Hawkins and Philip Jones called it a “landmark study” and Callendar’s achievements “remarkable” ( Q. 139 1961 ). Magic smartphone trees: technology for a circular economy.

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 20, 2022

This isn’t simply a hypothetical situation; the fish that are available to us and our ocean ecosystems are essential to our survival and successes. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. It was first rebuilt in 2013, was declared overfished again in 2018, and has been rebuilt again in 2021. Stay current.

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Science & Climate

MARCH 16, 2021

By 2013, the population had decreased from 125,000 to fewer than 10,000 individuals. But one year later, in 2014, the population exploded to about 300,000 green crab in the lagoon — a 30-fold increase over 2013 levels and nearly triple the pre-eradication population size. Press kit of photos.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

1907-2013),?these?single-celled Some people call diatoms snow crystals of the sea. To pioneering Academy botanist? single-celled algae?that that exist in virtually every body of water (whether in a puddle?or or in the sea)?were?invisible invisible instruments whose?presence presence indicated?whether whether a creek, stream, river?or?ocean?was

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 31, 2024

He has fond memories of seeing the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone National Park, and the Pacific Ocean for the first time on that journey. He went on to serve as the SRBCs Executive Director from 1992-2013. Then, camera in hand, he backpacked across the U.S. and to Mexico.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) for a proposed floating offshore wind research array. These records were set simultaneously in 2013 when the University of Maine deployed its VolturnUS 1:8 , a scaled version of its floating concrete semi-submersible offshore wind turbine design, in state waters off the shores of Castine, ME.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Our ocean has absorbed more than 90% of the heat from human-caused global warming—it’s not surprising that this greatly impacts ocean animals and the communities that depend on them. This is especially pressing for something as economically, ecologically and culturally important as our ocean’s fisheries. Love ocean content?

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Sylvia Earle, world renowned microplastics and oceanic researcher, will be the keynote speaker for this special two-day event. Dr. Earle is the President and Chairman of Mission Blue , an Explorer in Residence at the National Geographic Society, Founder of Deep Ocean Exploration and Research Inc.,

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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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Vermont Law

APRIL 19, 2019

In June 2013, the University of Hawaii prepared the Lahaina Groundwater Tracer Study for the State of Hawai‘i Department of Health, U.S. The treated wastewater effluent that the County of Maui was injecting into its wells was making its way through the groundwater and into the ocean. LAHAINA GROUNDWATER TRACER STUDY (2013), [link].

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Raimondo , a case involving federal regulation of commercial ocean fishing practices, the fishing industry has asked the justices to repudiate their venerable 1984 decision in Chevron v. Finally, in the 2013 case of Koontz v. For example, in Loper Bright Enterprises v.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

The winds pick up Saharan dust, which then travels across the Atlantic Ocean to where it is deposited in the Amazon basin [4]. African biomass burning is a substantial source of phosphorus deposition to the Amazon, Tropical Atlantic Ocean, and Southern Ocean. Popendorf, K. Oehlert, A. Gaston, C. Shukman, D. O’Shea, N.

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