Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 24, 2023

Going back a few more years, a polar vortex in January 2014 put much of the eastern half of the country into extreme cold, dropping temperatures 20 to 35 degrees Fahrenheit below average. To name a severe example, the wind chill temperature fell to -63 degrees F in Grand Marais, Minnesota.

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Fossil Fuels 2014 Climate Change Electricity 290

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Their collective trauma dates back to August 2, 2014, when she and half a million other Toledoans woke to alarming news: the water coming out of their taps was toxic. After the 2014 Toledo water crisis, the binational International Joint Commission tried to put a price tag on the event. Carl Ganter, Circle of Blue. September 20, 2022

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 17, 2021

So many wells went dry in 2014 in the town of East Porterville that Tulare County supplied portable public showers. Could a state groundwater regulation law passed in 2014 prevent farmers who are cut off from surface water from pumping so much groundwater that household wells go dry? California is not yet to that level of emergency.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In 2014, during the last severe drought, she helped start the lake water testing program that has drawn government attention to the degradation of Clear Lake. One site posted a record-high reading for anatoxin-a, another cyanotoxin that damages the nervous system. But the uptick is also because of a change in environment.

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2014 Environmental Protection 2021 Government 363

Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Flooding hits Bentiu, South Sudan in 2014. Torrential rainfall is battering one of the world’s poorest countries, laying bare its weak infrastructure. Photo © UN Photo/JC McIlwaine/Flickr Creative Commons. 700,000 people and counting have been affected by flooding in South Sudan.

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Climate Change Carbon Emissions 2014 2021 338

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 22, 2024

For wind, that would be two and a half times as much electricity as it produced in the United States in 2014, and would increase its generation to 11 percent of the US supply. For solar, the decade will have brought it from well below one percent of US electricity supply in 2014 to 7.5 percent in 2024 (again, with rooftop solar).

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Physics World

JUNE 24, 2021

Catalogued as C/2014 UN271, the wandering visitor was found in archival data captured by the DES project, which investigates the cosmological mystery of dark energy by photographing distant galaxies. “The C/2014 UN271 seems to have come from a region some 10,000–20000 times farther from the Sun than Earth. Long period comets.

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Legal Planet

MAY 31, 2021

General Secretary said in 2014: “The environment has long been a silent casualty of war and armed conflict. It was not only the youth of Europe who were mown down by that senseless conflict. Soils in many places remain contaminated by heavy metals to this very day.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 21, 2024

But in 2014, following years of severe and protracted California drought, and both agricultural and urban water users compensating for depleted surface water flows by pumping groundwater in unprecedented amounts, a fragile political consensus emerged among California legislators, water districts and environmentalists.

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Real Climate

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

up until 2014, and scenarios thereafter (SSP2-4.5 These model simulations have only just been finished, and even though they only used observed boundary conditions (such as GHGs, aerosols, volcanoes and solar activity etc.) in this figure), it is far too soon to say whether their projections have been validated or not.

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Real Climate

APRIL 4, 2024

These simulations used historical GHG concentrations and aerosol emissions to 2014, and a mid-range scenario (SSP2-4.5) These projections are the basis of our updated comparisons of CMIP6 models to observations , and specifically this graph: CMIP6 simulations and the GISTEMP observations. The screening uses the likely range of 1.8

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Real Climate

MARCH 16, 2023

Since this is a somewhat differently designed ensemble, I’ll plot that similarly (45 simulations), and note too that these are global means, again, for the corrected-TMT product (for the historical and SSP2-45 scenarios after 2014).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 24, 2024

The USDA’s climate hubs , which were first launched in 2014, represent a unique collaborative effort across the agency to connect climate-related federal research and programming with farmers and agriculture workers in the field. And that’s where the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) climate hubs play a critical role.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 2, 2021

trillion in economic activity, according to one 2014 study. Met has been responsible for nearly all withdrawals, taking out a combined 485,000 acre-feet in 2013, 2014, and 2015 when California was clutched by a severe drought and water deliveries from the State Water Project bottomed out in 2014 at 5 percent of contracted amounts.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 14, 2023

During the 2014 Polar Vortex (shown below), gas plants accounted for 40% of the generating capacity within the storm-impacted area, but 55% of the generating capacity that failed during the storm. During the 2014 Polar Vortex, gas plants accounted for a disproportionately large percentage of power plant failures.

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Electricity Fossil Fuels 2011 2014 338

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

After the EPA proposed the Clean Power Plan in 2014, for example, fossil fuel interests and their backers tried to argue that the proposal’s 2030 emission-reduction targets were completely unrealistic, and that the country would see astronomically high costs and blackouts due to the rule.

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Fossil Fuels Electricity 2014 Climate Change 290

Real Climate

JANUARY 12, 2024

Only the jump from 2014 to 2015 (coincidentally (?) Indeed, even as late as October, with only two months to go, the estimates for the annual mean still did not encompass the eventual annual number. In the GISTEMP product, the record was easily broken, and by a record amount.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 6, 2023

The self-governing PJM stakeholders put this in place after so many supposedly “firm” generators failed to perform in 2014. PJM stakeholders voted on this policy to penalize energy suppliers who merely claim to be reliable and to use that money to reward the suppliers that actually exceed their expected performance.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

It is not as though people have not tried – we discussed this here in 2014, where we made a plea for better graphs of the global temperature. All of which adds to the uncertainty. Now, 10 years later, we finally have something.

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Sea Level Ocean Radiation 2014 357

Legal Planet

JULY 4, 2021

In 2014, owners reached a complicated agreement with a land trust with the aim of ultimately converting it into a state park. .” This is a noteworthy early appearance of the idea of that we hold nature in trust for the public, not for private gain. In 1998, the bridge was designated as a National Historic Landmark.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

For CMIP5, history stopped in 2005, and for CMIP6 (the last go-around), it stopped in 2014. Of course, the big work right now is to update and extend the historical data from 2014 to at least 2022 or, ideally, 2023, and this should be done very shortly (preliminary versions very soon, finalized versions in the new year).

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Legal Planet

JUNE 24, 2024

It’s remarkable that California’s landmark Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), enacted in 2014, does not require groundwater monitoring data to be collected and reported for the state’s chronically over-drafted groundwater basins.

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Technology Technology Environmental Science Law 289

Yale E360

OCTOBER 8, 2021

A 2014 California law intended to protect the state's depleted aquifers is going into effect, requiring farms not to pump groundwater faster than it can be replenished. The policy is pushing growers to find new ways to refill the state's depleted aquifers, NPR reports. Read more on E360 ?.

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2014 Conservation Law 128

Legal Planet

MARCH 10, 2022

Another point relates to the pace of global change and of our ability to adapt: Compared with its prior report in 2014, the 2022 report concludes that “levels of risk for all Reasons for Concern (RFC) are assessed to become high to very high at lower global warming levels” than previous expected. The pace of change.

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Energy & the Law

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Adams settled with most of the defendants by a settlement agreement in 2014 but continued to seek damages from the Grafers. The Grefers were not released by the 2014 settlement agreement. The Grafers owned the land where, pursuant to a lease, the pipes and other equipment were cleaned. Your musical interlude

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Scientific American

MARCH 19, 2024

New analyses cast doubt on claims that a meteor witnessed over the South Pacific in 2014 came from another star system and raise questions about a high-profile expedition to recover the fireball’s fragments from the seafloor

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 14, 2024

In 2014, the Air Force completed an Analysis of Alternatives to the Sentinel program, which included the possibility of extending the life of the current fleet of US ICBMs rather than replacing them entirely. Part of the root-cause analysis required by the Nunn-McCurdy Act is an evaluation of “reasonable alternatives to the program.”

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2023

That was repealed in 2014, and the ensuing period saw little progress. On a per capita basis, Australia’s carbon emissions are even higher than the United States. A decade ago, Australia had a climate tax. In the past two years, however, the things have started trending upward after years of inaction by conservative governments.

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Real Climate

JANUARY 13, 2023

Back in 2013/2014, the differences between the surface indices (HadCRUT3, NOAA v3 and GISTEMP v3) contributed to the initial confusion related to the ‘pause’, which was seemingly evident in HadCRUT3, but not so much in the other records (see this discussion from 2015). b) An ENSO-corrected version of the GISTEMP record.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Boats on the shore of Lake Chad in 2014. Climate change has made rainfall in the Sahel more variable, straining Cameroon’s agriculture industry and sparking ethnic tensions. Photo © EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid / Flickr Creative Commons.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In response to this growing threat and 2014 legislation designed to put an end to chronic overdraft, many basins have identified managed aquifer recharge (MAR) as an essential supply-side tool for managing water resources.

2014 246

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Scientific American

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In 2014, a blind astronomer “sonified” the universe’s most explosive event: a gamma-ray burst. By listening to, rather than looking at, the data, she made a critical discovery and changed the field of astronomy.

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New Scientist

MAY 11, 2023

The two main methods of measuring the expansion of the universe have always disagreed, and observations of a supernova found in 2014 have thrown another wrench in the works

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2014 109

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

From 2014 through 2017, more than half of all EVs sold in the US were purchased in California, but that fraction has now fallen to one third. More EV models are now available, from small cars to pickup trucks, meaning more buyers have an electric option that meets their needs. More widespread adoption of EVs across the US is also a factor.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 18, 2023

An evaluation from 2014 (the only one I could find) found that LAMP served 19,423 producers, and programs with a goal of direct market development served 3.5 million customers. In addition, each dollar invested resulted in an estimated $2.67 for the local community.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 10, 2023

They passed a bill in 2014 that requires groundwater basins to be sustainably managed. Roads and canals have been damaged by the land subsidence, costing hundreds of millions of dollars to repair. California lawmakers intend to bring supply and demand back into balance. However, it is not a quick fix.

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National Law Center

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

First authorized in the 2014 Farm Bill, the Regional Conservation Partnership Program (“RCPP”) is a voluntary conservation program administered by the. The post Building Blocks: The Basics of the RCPP appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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