Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 5, 2023

The increase regional VPD is mostly attributed to human-cause climate change (68%) and the rest (32%) is attributed to variations in the atmospheric circulation. High atmospheric “thirst” over multiple seasons or years can lead to drought conditions as vegetation dries out, and water flow in streams and rivers decreases.

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Real Climate

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The paper results from a major computational effort, based on running a state-of-the-art climate model (the CESM model with horizontal resolution 1° for the ocean/sea ice and 2° for the atmosphere/land component) for 4,400 model years. Nature 2018. Figure adapted from Caesar et al.,

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Circle of Blue

JULY 14, 2022

A thirsty atmosphere evaporates or sublimates its share. With increasing temperatures, “we’re seeing places that do have drought, the intensification is more rapid,” says Roger Pulwarty, a senior scientist in the physical sciences laboratory at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Clunky, perhaps. But more accurate.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 19, 2023

LLC conventional well site known as Nancy 13 in Deerfield Township, Warren County found it to be still venting natural gas to the atmosphere. [ Photos: top- Nancy 13 circa 2018, Nancy 13 2023; bottom- James R. Additional inspection reports may be added to DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Database.]

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Zhang, "The Detection and Attribution of Northern Hemisphere Land Surface Warming (1850–2018) in Terms of Human and Natural Factors: Challenges of Inadequate Data", Climate , vol. Laut, "Solar activity and terrestrial climate: an analysis of some purported correlations", Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics , vol.

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Physics World

MARCH 15, 2022

That is the conclusion of researchers who have modelled the effects of particulate pollution on solar irradiance in 2001–2018. First, particulates in the air block sunlight, reducing the amount that reaches panels in a process called atmospheric attenuation.

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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. 191-196, 2018. 2016 ), could increase again in concentration. Zhang et al. Rahmstorf, A.

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Physics World

MAY 15, 2022

The atmosphere of the planet Neptune has undergone significant and “frankly unexpected” changes to its atmospheric temperature over the past two decades, say scientists at the University of Leicester, UK. C between 2018 and 2020. This is contrary to theoretical expectations.”. ” Read more. A clearer and fuller picture.

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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. You can read their insights from their experiences—including being denied the opportunity to take the floor—and their efforts to engage with Dr. Avery in 2017 , 2018 , and 2019.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 14, 2021

Industrial sites are likely the source of PFAS in the atmosphere. Global aquaculture production increased 16-fold between 1985 and 2018, which is the study’s period of analysis. For their PFAS analysis, researchers are monitoring five sites in a mix of urban and rural areas.

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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. Unfortunately, this is far from the truth. A 2020 report from the US Department of Agriculture on Consolidation in U.S.

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Physics World

MARCH 16, 2022

One way of doing this is to inject aerosols into the atmosphere. We know that this works because of the historical cooling that occurred after major volcanic eruptions, which injected vast amounts of material into the atmosphere. There, aerosols are expected to persist for a much longer time than they would in the troposphere.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 10, 2022

Burning fossil fuels has caused heat-trapping gases to accumulate in the atmosphere. A comprehensive University of Michigan report published last year found that average water prices in the state, when adjusted for inflation, had nearly doubled between 1980 and 2018.

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Astronomers have speculated that if the compact object is close to its surviving companion star, it can spiral into the star’s atmosphere, eventually sinking to the companion’s core where it disrupts the star, causing it to go supernova prematurely. Gradually, the compact object came to be within the star’s atmosphere.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The last food and farm bill in 2018 created the Heirs’ Property Relending Program to help heirs’ property owners access loans to help them secure their land. Much of their land is forested, sequestering carbon that would otherwise be in the atmosphere. Can the system be fixed?

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

China’s emissions are about 30%) and that CO 2 , the most important greenhouse gas, accumulates in the atmosphere, the defendant’s emissions are not determinative. To determine what this requires, the court turns to the 2018 Special Report on 1.5°C C warming of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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Physics World

OCTOBER 20, 2021

They do this by analysing the electromagnetic absorption spectra of an exoplanet’s atmosphere as it transits its sun, seeking the presence of gases such as oxygen, methane, water vapour and ozone (a proxy for oxygen). Analogous to technosignatures, these are the signs of life on alien worlds, intelligent or otherwise. Picking up pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 31, 2024

On December 26, 2018, DEP issued an administrative order to Equitrans demanding the required information regarding wells that have or may have been drilled into the Swarts Field’s storage horizon and other information. regarding the energy company’s failure to fix a natural gas leak that caused a house explosion in Greene County in 2018.

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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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Physics World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It found that greenhouse-gas emissions emitted by the lab in 2018 was 223 800 tonnes of carbon-dioxide equivalent. Eager to learn.

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Physics World

MARCH 2, 2022

A close analysis of data from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has revealed that electromagnetic “whistler waves” – so named because early radio operators mistook these eerie, descending sounds for a person whistling – are unexpectedly absent from certain regions of the Sun’s upper atmosphere. Corona heating.

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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. By Anders Lorenzen. Disturbing and disruptive climate path.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2022

Plugging wells to stop the vertical flow of fluids and gas is critical to preventing ground and surface water contamination and the release of climate-changing methane gas into the atmosphere. Read more here.] There was the same sort of “uniformity” among reporting how waste was disposed in other disposal categories as well.

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Physics World

JUNE 5, 2021

That all changed in 2017 when Brown University’s Marston, together with Pierre Delplace and Antoine Venaille at the University of Lyon in France, studied the fluids that make up the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans from a topological perspective. First of all, the slim layers of the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans can be approximated as 2D.

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HumanNature

APRIL 14, 2022

Losses of water from the soil and plants will lead to immediate losses of moisture to the atmosphere. References Dai, Aiguo & National Center for Atmospheric Research Staff (Eds). Higher temperatures also lead to higher evaporation of water from the soil and plants, as well as, lower amounts of snowfall and higher snow melt.

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Edouard Stenger

OCTOBER 11, 2021

I haven’t published regularly since 2018… Since my last blog post here I have trained for a technical degree in green buildings and renewable energy, interned as an Energy advisor for the healthcare sector and started a job as an energy manager for local communities. November 2018. January 2019.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 4, 2024

This advisory opinion finds that UNCLOS regulates all sources of GHG emissions into the atmosphere as pollution of the marine environment; consequently, States Parties have specific obligations under UNCLOS to address their GHG emissions. 29, citing the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, article 31).

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2023

Methane is a powerful contributor to atmospheric warming. Though it is far less abundant than carbon dioxide, it is about 80 times more efficient at trapping heat in the atmosphere, thus accounting for about 25% of warming. It sounded like two jets were directly above my house,” Doug Harrison, 50, told The Guardian. “I

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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

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Since March 2018, a team led by Licai Deng from the National Astronomical Observatories of China, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has been monitoring cloudiness, night-sky brightness, air temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction at “Summit C” on Saishiteng Mountain, which lies some 4200 m above sea level. Michael Ashley.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 17, 2021

As recently as 2018, when the budget was about to break the $8bn barrier, the US Congress had to vote to provide it with more funds. Today we know of thousands of worlds beyond our solar system, and – all being well – the JWST will be in prime position to study their atmospheres. In the mid-1990s, exoplanet science was in its infancy.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

. -- Attorney General Files Criminal Charges Against Equitrans For 2018 Natural Gas Home Explosion: On November 1, 2023 Attorney General Michelle Henry announced criminal charges against Equitrans, L.P. regarding the energy company’s failure to fix a natural gas leak that caused a house explosion in Greene County in 2018. 28 to Feb.

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Science & Climate

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

This study provides the most detailed mapping yet of how summer temperatures in 20 urban centers in California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas affected different neighborhoods between 2018 and 2020. The researchers found even greater heat disparities in California than in other states.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 30, 2021

These rare storms are expected to become more frequent with climate change as a warmer atmosphere can hold (and during storms release!) For every one degree Celsius that the temperature increases, the atmosphere can hold 7% more water, a thermodynamic law of physics called atmospheric holding capacity. more moisture.

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Physics World

MARCH 16, 2022

Together with colleagues, he has analysed Australian astronomers’ total greenhouse-gas emissions over 2018–2019 from “regular activities” such as travelling, using supercomputers and working at large observatories. In 2018 each researcher at the institute emitted around 18 tCO 2 e ( Nat. Source of the problem.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Minority Report Conclusion “The bottom line is, there is simply no suitable location for an LNG facility in Philadelphia or Southeastern Pennsylvania.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 1, 2022

It’s now widely acknowledged that to avoid catastrophic climate change we’ll need to physically remove CO2 from the atmosphere. By mid-century onwards, as much as 1 billion tonnes of carbon will need to be removed from the atmosphere each year.

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