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. Image: PARALAXIS/Shutterstock.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

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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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. degrees Celsius , according to the International Energy Agency.

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Real Climate

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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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

its district, appellate , and supreme courts decided in favor of Urgenda, an upstart environmental organization, ordering the government to more aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Everyone produces greenhouse gases.

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Law and Environment

APRIL 11, 2022

Nonetheless, here are some of what seemed to me to be important takeaways: Firstly, and most importantly, we’re not doing a very good job at mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. 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.

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Real Climate

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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Real Climate

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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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

As I outlined here , Montana state law prohibits the consideration of greenhouse gas emissions or climate impacts–– inside and outside the state’s borders––when reviewing projects and approving permits. If Montana stopped emitting greenhouse gases, would that prevent the injury to plaintiffs from climate change? “We

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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. Globally, the levels of CO2 and methane which are the main greenhouse gases continued to climb, and both hit record highs in 2021. Levels of CO2 in the atmosphere reached 414.3 By Anders Lorenzen.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Under the LCFS each fuel pathway gets a unique carbon intensity (CI) based on a lifecycle analysis of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production and use of the fuel. dairy herds fell by more than half between 2002 and 2019, with an accelerating rate of decline in 2018 and 2019, even as milk production continued to grow.”

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Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

Understanding Climate Change & Greenhouse Gas Emissions. The greenhouse effect is a popular name for the earth’s warming effect which occurs naturally when gasses in the atmosphere trap heat from the sun and prevent it from escaping back into space. Greenhouse Gas Emissions are Increasing. F), let alone 1.5°C

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 24, 2021

The most high-stakes and controversial of these is solar geoengineering, which would make the Earth a little more reflective to incoming sunlight, most likely by spraying a fine mist of reflective aerosols in the upper atmosphere. Potential solar geoengineering methods. Source: Carbonbrief. Summer School Participants.

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Physics World

MARCH 16, 2022

A 2019 study ( Environ. When the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union took place in California in 2019 the 28,000 delegates emitted around 80,000 tonnes of CO 2 equivalent (tCO 2 e) travelling there and back home afterward. They estimated that in 2019, the average astronomer in the Netherlands emitted 4.7

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Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2024

Question a) referred to States’ obligations to prevent, reduce and control marine pollution in relation to the deleterious effects resulting or likely to result from climate change and ocean acidification caused by anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions into the atmosphere. 157 as used in para. 52, 54, 60 and 68).

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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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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

In a previous blog post , I briefly reviewed some of the innovative strategies to reduce methane emissions from agricultural livestock and rice operations, which have the potential to combat a significant source of global greenhouse gas emissions. This appears to be the only national level agricultural methane target currently in law.

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 8, 2021

In recent history, we have witnessed LUC exacerbating climate change due to disturbed soils, development of greenhouse gas (GHG) producing land uses, and more 4. Colorado Greenhouse Gas Pollution Reduction Roadmap. IPCC guidelines for national greenhouse gas inventories 4 , 1–59 (2006). Ecological Indicators 98 , 29–38 (2019).

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A Greener Life

APRIL 4, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen The emissions from methane , a powerful greenhouse gas (GHG) with 80 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide (CO2) rose in 2023 despite several pledges and initiatives to reduce emissions. Graph credit: IEA.

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Acoel

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

In Shirley, individual Republican legislators and various entities associated with two coal-fired power plants challenged a Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) greenhouse gas control regulation. The regulation would enable the state to participate in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). McKinstry, Jr. and John C.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 11, 2021

Greg Vitali Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas and Pennsylvania’s oil and gas industry is a major methane emitter. They were brought before the Environmental Quality Board (EQB) in December of 2019-- two years after promised-- and the public comment period closed about a year ago. It’s time to finalize these regulations.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 12, 2024

The researchers combined 2019 satellite observations with an atmospheric transport model to generate a high-resolution map of methane emissions, which was then compared to EPA estimates from … Continue reading EPA underestimates methane emissions from landfills, urban areas states, according to a new study.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2023

The first part asks the Court to unpack the State Parties’ obligations to prevent, reduce, and control pollution of the marine environment “caused by anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere.” This effectively brought climate change to the realm of UNCLOS, which does not expressly deal with the issue.

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HumanNature

APRIL 10, 2023

Student in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University Most people remember the water cycle they learned in school: water evaporates from lakes, rivers, and the ocean, air carrying this moisture rises, cools, condenses, and forms clouds, and these clouds precipitate water back down to the surface.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

(Likely climate change impacts in New Zealand | Ministry for the Environment, 2019). Evidence for climate change | Ministry for the Environment, 2019) So how is climate change affecting New Zealand? Likely climate change impacts in New Zealand | Ministry for the Environment, 2019). The science behind climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2022

Climate change is often discussed in terms of global temperature increase, sea level rise, and hundreds of millions of tons of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere,” said Secretary McDonnell. Video and photos of the event will be available later today at PAcast. Video and photos of the event will be available later today at PAcast.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The state recognizes that a reduction in scope three emissions can count towards the utilities reduction in their greenhouse gas emissions.” Methane, the largest component of natural gas, traps up to 80 times as much heat as carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. 27 Released 1.1

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The plastics life cycle, from production to disposal, emits greenhouse gases and contributes significantly to global warming. Plastic pollution has rapidly become one of the world’s most pressing environmental issues, as the ever-increasing production of disposable plastic products outstrips our ability to manage it.

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Science Blogs

APRIL 11, 2019

This could absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and help biodiversity thrive. I should emphasise that even if we use natural climate solutions to the max, we still need to halt almost all greenhouse gas emissions and leave fossil fuels in the ground, if we are to prevent more than 1.5? (or Thu, 04/11/2019 - 12:42.

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HumanNature

MARCH 24, 2022

When forests burn, that carbon is released into the atmosphere and contributes to greenhouse gases (mostly as carbon dioxide). Forest Ecology and Management 2019 , 432 (October 2018), 694–706. This may result in previously forested areas shifting into other types of ecosystems, such as grasslands. Westerling, A. Emelko, M.

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Washington Nature

MAY 26, 2023

by Lena Beck Dr. Ailene Ettinger joined TNC in 2019 as a Quantitative Ecologist. How is your work contributing to the reduction of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere? Most recently, Dr. Ettinger has been focused on climate change mitigation research of on-the-ground efforts such as planting trees.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 31, 2022

We need to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases to head off the most severe impacts of climate change, but we also need to take additional steps to help fisheries adapt. Flooding of the Mississippi River in 2019 led to a catastrophic regional fishery disaster in Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana that included shrimp fisheries.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

In China, cadmium in soil mainly comes from atmospheric deposition of the metal after it has been emitted from coal-burning, metallurgical facilities and animal-source fertilisers. Research has estimated that the soil could keep from the atmosphere the equivalent of 23.8

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Manning Law

JUNE 8, 2020

CO 2 levels in the atmosphere hit an all-time high in early May. And while greenhouse gas emissions may dip this year because of lockdowns, we should not celebrate. Think of the atmosphere as a bathtub, and emissions as the water that flows from the tap. This directly impacts human health and wealth. The tub is still filling.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 12, 2021

2019 ) gives a good overview of Manabe’s particular philosophy of climate modeling which was very much focused on getting things to work, and not worrying too much about the details. The basic issue stems from the different timescales of the ocean and atmosphere. Manabe’s Climate Modeling. That paper ( Manabe et al.,

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It is 33 years now since the IPCC in its first report in 1990 concluded that it is “certain” that greenhouse gas emissions from human activities “will enhance the greenhouse effect, resulting on average in an additional warming of the Earth’s surface.”

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Methane is essential to control, since stabilizing climate requires reducing all anthropogenic greenhouse-gas emissions to net-zero. Atmospheric concentrations. For example, methane stayed roughly flat for about a decade from the late 1990s, but has increased rapidly since then – by nearly 16 ppb in 2020 over 2019.

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