Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) monthly outlook for October and November looks to follow this trend in which many parts of the US will have above-average temperatures. California too experienced a late-season October heatwave , made worse by climate change. Shorter-than-needed acclimatization periods.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 23, 2022

A child collects drinking water in Rajasthan, India in 2016. Such events are becoming more common as Earth’s atmosphere continues to warm. Climate change and mismanagement sowed the seeds of a cholera outbreak. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue. By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — May 23, 2022.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 8, 2025

FIRO started in California and has since gone worldwide Once upon a time, there was (and still is) a megadrought in California that peaked in the acute drought of 2012 to 2016. In other words, FIRO avoids the fear of missing out (FOMO) on water that you could have stored if you had better forecasting.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

I think in hindsight that my concerns from 2013 to some extent were supported by the fact that the IPCC organised an Expert Meeting on Communication, Oslo, Norway, 9–10 February 2016. The cause of our changing climate is the increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations that we have released into the air.

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Real Climate

APRIL 2, 2021

The difference is due largely to the differences in the regional atmospheric response that occurs in concert with the SST warming. In particular, they don’t just respond to SST changes, but also how the atmosphere changes as the SSTs change. 2016 ), a reduction of Saharan dust concentration since the 1970s ( Evan et al.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

22 degrees by 2050 because of both the reduced emissions and the dissipation of methane in the atmosphere, potentially allowing the world a bit more time to reduce and sequester other greenhouse gases. A worldwide methane emission reduction of 30 percent by 2030 could reduce global warming by.22

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2024

Why do Exxon’s greenwashed graphs matter? While ExxonMobil’s strategies have changed, its output of disinformation continues.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 1, 2022

Temperatures on this day in July 2016 exceeded 110 degrees Fahrenheit. Burning fossil fuels, cutting down forests, raising livestock, making cement, and using synthetic fertilizers are among the actions that have increased the amount of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere to the point that the planet’s basic functions are coming undone.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

are used all over the world, based on calculations that quantify the effects of physical mechanisms and the way different parts of the atmosphere are connected to each other. 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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

The InfluenceMap dataset includes company-by-company data on emissions of carbon dioxide–the heat-trapping gas responsible for the largest contribution to climate change–and methane, a very potent heat-trapping gas that lasts a shorter time in the atmosphere. I’ve marked these important years with dotted lines in Figure 2.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

It not only traps heat in the atmosphere, contributing to global warming, but the warmer temperature resulting from global warming leads to an increase in ground-level ozone, since ozone is produced indirectly from precursors like NOx and VOCs in the presence of sunlight. which is formed in the atmosphere from precursor gases such as NOx.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 18, 2024

LISA LINOWES and ERIC TURNER on behalf of the SAVE RIGHT WHALES COALITION Since 2016, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has declared three Unusual Mortality Events (UME) involving large whale species in the Atlantic Ocean. The UMEs for the humpback and minke whales include deaths in 2016 and 2017, respectively.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

Now however, the updates to the historical warming , the use of four datasets instead of one, and of course, the series of record breaking years subsequently (2014, 2015, 2016/2020), the issue of variability in decadal trends is no longer so salient. Russell, "Climate Impact of Increasing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide", Science , vol.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The hybrid set-up, with video links between the two hubs and digital attendence through zoom, was a change from previous ICRCs held in ICTP (2011) , Brussels (2013) , Stockholm (2016) , and Beijing (2019). 31-45, 2016. It worked impressively well, and the CORDEX ICRC 2023 streaming is available from the WCRP CORDEX YouTube channel.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

Dr. Susan Avery, a physicist and atmospheric scientist, is the former director of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Massachusetts. It’s worth noting that the shareholder proposal requesting the nomination of a climate expert to ExxonMobil’s board received just over 20 percent support in 2016.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 14, 2021

Industrial sites are likely the source of PFAS in the atmosphere. A particularly devastating bloom on the Chilean coast in 2016 killed an estimated 27 million farmed salmon and trout. For their PFAS analysis, researchers are monitoring five sites in a mix of urban and rural areas. But are they really increasing globally?

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Physics World

JUNE 28, 2021

Artificial intelligence can be used to detect coronal holes in the Sun’s upper atmosphere, an international research team has shown. When observed at extreme ultraviolet (EUV) wavelengths, holes can appear in the Sun’s corona – its upper atmosphere. Coronal holes are indicated by red contour lines. Courtesy: Jarolim et al.

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Frontiers

JULY 20, 2021

Palmerio and collaborators looked at four stealth CMEs that occurred between 2008 and 2016. The novel imaging techniques applied to remote sensing data of the coronal mass ejection on 08 Oct 2016. nm) captured by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly instrument on board NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 30, 2021

The correlation had been shown in a paper by an author outside the conventional scientific community, so, for good measure, Simpson added that a non-expert could not properly appreciate how atmospheric circulation affects the absorption of radiation. Other little-known researchers, however, made essential progress too.

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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. As of June 21, the Department of Water Resources had received 64 reports of dry wells this month, the most in any month since August 2016.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

OK, on to methane in the environment: The headline here – whether you’re talking about atmospheric concentrations, climate impacts, or emissions – is that there is a lot less methane than CO 2 , but it’s a more potent climate heater and it’s increasing faster. Atmospheric concentrations. Climate impact. W/m 2 from elevated CO 2.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 7, 2024

I hope we can collectively reckon with another terrifyingly awesome atmospheric event: the hottest year. C hotter than the second-hottest year to date, 2016. Multiple relentless heat waves occurred in 2023 , with much of the globe experiencing 20 more “heatwave days” than in the previous three decades.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Because methane has 28 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide and a shorter atmospheric life of only 12 years, immediate action to reduce methane emissions —including from agriculture—is critical to slow our warming climate, especially in light of expanding global populations and food demand. 2016 , LaHue et al.,

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Physics World

JULY 2, 2021

He joined the company in 2016, bringing his passion and experience gained in several sales and marketing-related roles across photonics research and industry. With a background in laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy for atmospheric research, he carried out his PhD thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 11, 2024

degrees Celsius warmer than in the 1850-1900 pre-industrial period, when humans began burning fossil fuels on an industrial scale, pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The Copernicus Climate Change Service added, that in 2023 the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere rose to the highest level ever recorded at 419 PPM.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 16, 2021

On the back of the dark and sombre Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) cli mate report released last week, the US government agency National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has confirmed that this July was the warmest month ever experienced on Earth. of a degree C higher than the 2016 record.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 18, 2022

They found that the past seven years were the world’s warmest by a clear margin, with 2016 and 2020 the warmest on record. Atmospheric CO2 levels at record highs. Levels of CO2 in the atmosphere reached 414.3 C above 1850-1900 levels. parts per million in 2021, up by around 2.4 ppm from 2020, the scientists said.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

A negative CI score would suggest an almost magical climate solution that pulls several carbon dioxide molecules from the atmosphere for each one that comes from the tailpipe of a truck running on dairy biomethane. i] For more on the carbon intensity of transportation fuels, see my 2016 report, Fueling a Clean Transportation Future.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 24, 2023

In Elliott’s aftermath, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration aptly called the storm a “historic arctic outbreak.” Instead of heeding those lessons, US utilities since 2014 have only increased their reliance on gas, which surpassed coal in 2016 as the leading fuel source for power generation.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 16, 2021

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, highlighted new threats facing the Arctic: marine trash and noise pollution. Traffic from fishing, cargo, and military ships has increased by 58% between 2016 and 2019. This article was originally published by Bridge Michigan as part of the Great Lakes News Collaborative.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The 24-month study process begins with the Colorado Basin River Forecast Center, a team of scientists operating within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Cody Moser, a senior hydrologist at the Center, told Circle of Blue that data from the years 2016 through 2020 will be added this fall. Click To Tweet.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Further, while gas emits less carbon dioxide than coal, its main component is methane, an extremely potent greenhouse gas that is released into the atmosphere when gas is burned—a fact that ConocoPhillips conveniently left out on its website.

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Physics World

JUNE 5, 2021

Both von Klitzing and Thouless won the Nobel Prize for Physics for their contributions, in 1985 and 2016 , respectively. David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz win 2016 Nobel Prize for Physics. First of all, the slim layers of the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans can be approximated as 2D.

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Candidate in the Department of Atmospheric Science and Trainee in the CSU InTERFEWS Program Figure 1: Cover art for The War of the Worlds novel by H.G. Large ash particles that rain down and blanket nearby communities are only a fraction of what wildfires billow into the atmosphere. in the atmosphere over the western U.S.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 15, 2024

Smoke from wildfires near Fort McMurray in 2016. In what must be a deeply troubling sense of deja vu, the entire 66,000-person population of Fort McMurray has been told to be prepared to leave on short notice as a 7,700-ha fire burns to the city’s southwest. It simply perpetuates the crisis.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 22, 2022

in September 2016. Farmers may stand their ground for now, but the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s projections for sea level rise bode poorly for low lying cropland in the Delmarva Peninsula, Hyde County, NC, and Beaufort County, SC. Photo: © Dr. Raghupathy Karthikeyan / Clemson University.

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Edouard Stenger

MARCH 20, 2017

According to the respected International Energy Agency’s new report, global greenhouse gases emissions from energy remained flat in 2016 while the global economy grew by 3.1 Coal demand fell worldwide but the drop was particularly sharp in the United States, where demand was down 11% in 2016. Deforestation is one.

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