Real Climate

APRIL 2, 2021

1 Average number of named storms by day of the year in the historical record from 1851–2019 (dark blue line). The difference is due largely to the differences in the regional atmospheric response that occurs in concert with the SST warming. The days of formation for the 2020 named storms are shown by the red squares. Zhang et al.

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But when there are really heavy rain events, like atmospheric rivers , these systems often overflow untreated wastewater (raw sewage) mixed with stormwater into surrounding waterways, streets, sidewalks, businesses and even homes.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The atmosphere for climate litigation in our Supreme Court is decidedly chilly. Specifically, the court ordered Shell to cut emissions due to its products and operations 45% from 2019 levels by 2030. Some of its peers in other countries have taken a much different approach. Here, I want to briefly summarize some key rulings.

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JANUARY 2, 2023

The “for one year” part is crucial: stratospheric aerosols stay in the atmosphere roughly a year, so one gram offsets the heating effect of one ton only for the first year after the ton is emitted. After that, the sulfur is gone but the CO 2 is still there and heating.)

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JANUARY 15, 2022

Fig 13, from Lenssen et al (2019). Zyss, "Improvements in the GISTEMP Uncertainty Model", Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres , vol. 6307-6326, 2019. Uncertainties arise in the raw data directly, in any homogenizations that are performed, in the data interpolation, in corrections for non-climatic effects etc.

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OCTOBER 6, 2022

Workers in facilities that produce and use EtO as well as people living near facilities that release it into the atmosphere are at risk of unsafe exposures even when the facilities are using the best available technologies to handle and contain it. Have I been exposed to ethylene oxide?

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APRIL 11, 2023

Heightened flood risk The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said in a recent outlook that about 44 percent of the United States is at risk of floods this spring, equating to about 146 million people. This includes most of the eastern half of the country, the federal agency said.

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MAY 12, 2021

Meanwhile, note that the factors listed above involve the whole Earth system: the oceans, the cryosphere, the atmosphere, the solid earth and lithosphere, and a full range of scales, from the city block and shoreline, to ice dynamics that change over kilometers, to GRD footprints, to the whole global ocean. 132-137, 2019. Ommen, M.V.

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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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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Orphaned and Abandoned wells present serious risks to the environment and public health by polluting groundwater and leaking methane into the atmosphere. This well site is an example of those impacts – where residents can’t drink their water because of this orphaned well,” said Acting DEP Secretary Jessica Shirley. Read more here.

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JUNE 20, 2024

The primary cause of accelerating sea level rise is human activity As people burn fossil fuels and emit heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide, our atmosphere and our oceans warm up. A 2019 UCS analysis, Underwater , found that Charleston can expect roughly 500 homes to flood on a chronic basis by 2035. As the ocean warms, it expands.

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Law and Environment

APRIL 11, 2022

I suspect that, if one asked the average American whether GHG emissions increased or decreased from 2010 to 2019, they would say that emissions decreased. GHG emissions in 2019 were 12% higher in 2019 than 2010. We’re almost certainly going to have to spend money pulling carbon from the atmosphere.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

” A growing body of scientific research shows that even if society were to halt emissions overnight, a certain amount of atmospheric warming—and accompanying environmental risks— would still occur. Environment Program (UNEP), wrote in the report’s foreword. And we need it now.”

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JUNE 24, 2021

An atmospheric river will bring heavy rainstorms across Australia this week. In 2019, 212 environmental activists were killed, according to data from the advocacy organization Global Witness. Atmospheric rivers are like rivers in the sky that transport mass amounts of water, bringing heavy rain and wind gusts. ON THE RADAR.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

million jobs in 2022, according to a report last year by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. A report this year by the US Fish and Wildlife Service found between 2009 and 2019, the nation lost enough acreage of forest and scrub wetlands to equal the size of Rhode Island. Photo by Derrick Z.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Laut, "Solar activity and terrestrial climate: an analysis of some purported correlations", Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics , vol. Thomson, "Dependence of global temperatures on atmospheric CO 2 and solar irradiance", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , vol. 2569, 2019. 27489-27492, 2000.

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Physics World

APRIL 11, 2022

Some high-energy neutrinos detected in the Antarctic ice and thought to have come from outside the solar system may have been produced in Earth’s atmosphere. They are distinct from the generally lower-energy neutrinos produced when cosmic rays interact with nuclei in the atmosphere to generate particle showers.

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Five amateur astronomers from South America and Europe have captured a burst of light on Jupiter that was the result of an asteroid crashing into the planet’s atmosphere. If we see larger bodies impacting, this provides an excellent opportunity to study the atmospheric response to the energy and chemistry of these impactors.”.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In Australia , many of the same areas that endured brutal bushfires in 2019 and 2020 are now drowning in record-setting rainfall. Australia smoldered during the epic “Black Summer” bush fires of 2019 and 2020. Traffic from fishing, cargo, and military ships has increased by 58% between 2016 and 2019.

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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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Frontiers

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Deforestation fires in Brazil and Indonesia accounted for 3% and 7%, respectively, of the planet’s total greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in 2019 and 2020, finds a new study in Frontiers in Climate. In Brazil, a total of 11,088 km 2 of forest were destroyed from August 2019 to July 2020. Read original article ?

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JANUARY 10, 2022

On January 5, the Department of Environmental Protection reported their inspections found 4,386 violations of environmental regulations at conventional oil and gas operations during 2021 -- nearly two and a half times the violations reported just two years ago in 2019 and 337 more than in 2020. Read more here.]

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Climate models predict with near unanimity that more atmospheric warming will increase annual rainfall in Michigan and Ohio: a trend that is already making algae blooms worse. Climate change promises to raise all of these costs. If severe blooms repeat year after year, the price tag rises to $1 billion over a decade. .

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Physics World

JUNE 8, 2022

A weather satellite has helped explain why the red supergiant star Betelgeuse experienced an unprecedented dimming in 2019–20. As a variable star, nearby Betelgeuse normally fluctuates in brightness, but in October 2019 it began to grow fainter than it had ever been seen before. The method they use is very original.”.

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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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Breezometer

AUGUST 3, 2021

This makes water vapor rise into the atmosphere, which often generates ‘dry’ thunderstorms, whose rainfall can evaporate before reaching the ground due to extreme heat. Atmospheric Instability. As atmospheric instability increases, stronger gusts of wind in changing directions can occur more frequently. Information is Power.

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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). It worked impressively well, and the CORDEX ICRC 2023 streaming is available from the WCRP CORDEX YouTube channel.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

We know that over 135 years, 88 fossil fuel producers contributed approximately: 61% of the observed rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide 52% of the rise in global average temperature 34% of global sea level rise 55% of the increase in ocean acidification Fisheries, including lobsters, are responding to the warming by moving elsewhere.

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Physics World

JUNE 16, 2021

Great Dimming: Betelgeuse as observed in 2019–20 (Courtesy: ESO/M Montargès et al. ). The dramatic dimming of the red supergiant star Betelgeuse in 2019–20 was caused by a cold spot on the surface of the star causing a nearby gas cloud to cool and condense into obscuring dust, according to new findings.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 18, 2022

Photo credit: Copernicus Sentinel data (2019), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 Atmospheric CO2 levels at record highs. Levels of CO2 in the atmosphere reached 414.3 Desertification seen south of Sahara, in Africa. By Anders Lorenzen. parts per million in 2021, up by around 2.4 ppm from 2020, the scientists said.

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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. This is therefore what Shell must do (oddly enough relative to 2019) in order to act in line with its own “policy, policy intentions and ambitions.”.

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded nearly $1.5 The tribe sued Enbridge in 2019 to remove a section of the 70-year-old pipeline in Wisconsin. ALGAL BLOOMS : The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded $1.5 million to projects combating Great Lakes algal blooms. Looking Ahead.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 20, 2021

There was also the Breakthrough Listen Candidate 1 (BLC1) radio signal observed in April and May 2019 by the privately funded Breakthrough Listen project at the Berkeley Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Research Center at the University of California. While the WOW! Picking up pollution.

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Physics World

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

In 2019, researchers reported breaking hydrogen sulphide’s record with lanthanum decahydride (LaH 10 ), which they found to have a T c of 250–260 K. In 2019, members of the team synthesized a new cerium hydride with the formula P6 3 /mmc-CeH 9. million atmospheres) than other so-called “superhydrides”.

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AUGUST 21, 2021

It is, however, still much higher than the density of our atmosphere (just over 0.001 g/cm 3 ), so, despite their cloud-like appearance, these puffballs of sugar do not float away. But I wonder if, on a planet with a different atmosphere, candyfloss clouds might be possible. Holiday hotspots for physicists.

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APRIL 14, 2022

For example, the Palmer Drought Severity Index (Dai 2019) uses past history of a region to determine what categories drought falls into. 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).

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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. This scenario is a replication of the years 1988 to 2019, and represents hotter and drier conditions that have settled over the basin. Click To Tweet.

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