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Deciphering the ‘SPM AR6 WG1’ code

Real Climate

There is no doubt that we have changed Earth’s climate through our activities on a broad range of aspects that includes consequences for the atmosphere, the oceans, snow, ice, Earth’s fauna and ecosystems. 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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Scranton Times Editorial: Lower Boom On Natural Gas Leaks, Audit Abandoned Gas Well Capping

PA Environment Daily

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. Methane is a powerful contributor to atmospheric warming.

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The huge carbon footprint of large-scale computing

Physics World

It turns out, for example, that climate-change researchers fly more frequently than scientists in other fields. Change 65 102184 ), climate scientists jet off two to three times a year on average, whereas other researchers get on planes just twice during that time. But other scientists also fly a lot.

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A Nobel pursuit

Real Climate

Manabe’s Climate Modeling. Fortunately, Manabe recently wrote a retrospective on his early work in response to receiving the Crafoord prize in 2018. In this, he is in violent agreement with Isaac Held, his colleague at GFDL, and indeed most climate scientists. 9335-9350, 2018. That paper ( Manabe et al.,

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Ask a Scientist: Calling Out the Companies Responsible for Western Wildfires

Union of Concerned Scientists

In just five years, from 2018 through 2022, wildfires scorched 38.3 Since that 2014 study, which laid the foundation of what is called climate source attribution science , UCS scientists have collaborated with Heede on two other studies that pinpointed the major carbon producers’ culpability for specific climate change-related trends.

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EPA Finalizes Rule To Reduce Methane Emissions From Oil & Gas Infrastructure; DEP’s Oil & Gas Methane Regulations 1 Year Old

PA Environment Daily

In June 2018, DEP finalized an Air Quality General Permit to reduce methane emissions from new unconventional oil and gas operations. billion metric tons of carbon dioxide – nearly as much as all the carbon dioxide emitted by the power sector in 2021. Read more here. [In Read more here.] Dr. Jessica Moerman. “As

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October 2019 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Circuit Court of Appeals sent the 2018 Renewable Fuel Standards rule back to EPA after finding that EPA failed to comply with requirements of the Endangered Species Act. Court Dismissed Counterclaims in Climate Scientist’s Defamation Lawsuit. 15-1363 et al. The court said EPA should have consulted with the U.S. Bernhardt , No.

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