Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2023

The rail infrastructure to transport coal from the Powder River Basin in Montana and Wyoming–the country’s primary coal source –was proven to be vulnerable to extreme floods in the spring of 2011 , and even more extreme floods in the spring of 2019.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

from 2019 to 2020 and 44.4% Reduction Strategies Strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generation offer the greatest potential for decarbonization through 2050, followed by emissions from industrial sources, transportation, and buildings. from 2005 to 2020.

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Real Climate

MAY 12, 2021

Simplified schematic of atmosphere-ocean-ice interactions (Zalasiewicz et al, 2019). The CPDW is thought to be affected by the shift in the westerly winds around Antarctica which have increased in recent decades due to a combination of greenhouse gas forcing and the polar ozone hole ( Miller et al, 2006 ). 132-137, 2019.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

If the sun was driving the warming, we’d see it in the stratospheric temperatures (which are cooling in line with expectations from the impact of CO2, not warming due to the supposed increase in solar activity). 2569, 2019. But we have mega-oodles (the SI unit) of additional data that tell us this conclusion cannot be correct.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 3, 2024

When the outside temperature is hot and humid, just perspiration is not enough to cool down the body since there is no evaporation of sweat,” says Abhiyant Tiwari, lead climate resilience and health consultant at India’s Natural Resources Defense Council. That day, Mumbai recorded a temperature high of 34C and 84% humidity levels.

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Green Bang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

While AI can enhance energy efficiency in some areas, it also contributes to rising greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions due to its immense computational requirements. In 2023, Google reported a 48% increase in its GHG emissions compared to 2019, driven primarily by AI-related data center energy consumption.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Spun out of quantum-photonics research at the University of Sheffield in 2019, it has received more than £3.5m Operating at room temperature – how cool is that! – They can monitor leaks of methane – a potent greenhouse gas – from gas and oil wells. Quantum 2.0 is not just a buzzword: it’s reality. Having raised £3.1m

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A Greener Life

JUNE 10, 2022

To date, BlocPower and its contractor partners — which include Augmented Construction , Urban Energy , VRF Solutions , Super Cool HVAC and Ch! Buildings contribute 67 percent of New York City’s greenhouse gas emissions , with apartment buildings representing the biggest share of that. I guess 16 years later, it worked out.”

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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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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 5, 2019

This blog is based on a talk given to the Climate Change: Response and Resilience Leadership Forum at Columbia University on November 20, 2019, sponsored by RenaissanceRe. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions should be the highest priority, but that won’t be enough to prevent severe impacts, some of which are already occurring.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 13, 2024

Freddie Daley is a research associate at the University of Sussex in the UK, who runs The Cool Down, a network encouraging sports to lead the low-carbon transition. The event reportedly generated 882,900 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions, following which the organising committee received approximately 1.10

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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.” It’s not hard to understand. Gray areas show lack of data.

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Manning Law

JUNE 8, 2020

And while greenhouse gas emissions may dip this year because of lockdowns, we should not celebrate. Natural climate solutions – such as afforestation and using greenery to cool our cities and buildings – can provide around one-third of the emissions reductions needed to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 17, 2023

Modeling highlighted in the IPCC’s Working Group III report shows that global emissions would need to peak before 2025 and decrease by 43% relative to 2019 levels by 2030 to have a roughly 40% chance of limiting future warming to 1.5°C Whether it is possible , however, depends on how you define “possible.” C with limited or no overshoot.

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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. As you will recall, Hansen had declared in 1988 that “the greenhouse effect is here!”, Manabe’s Climate Modeling. Hegerl et al.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 13, 2022

We would run around all day until we finally needed to cool off, which meant we would go to whoever’s house had the most sodas, ice cream, or popsicles. Union of Concerned Scientists 2019 Killer Heat analysis. When I first read the UCS Killer Heat report in 2019, I put my head in my hands and closed my eyes.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

But in reality the proposed emission targets were achieved 11 years early in 2019—without the plan ever even taking effect. Research has shown that the country’s remaining coal plants are responsible for 3,800 premature deaths per year, based on 2019 data.

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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. 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. There are several good reasons for this.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The previous summit, held in Madrid in 2019, ended in frustration with little progress on issues such as carbon financing or sharing climate burdens between nations. This figure will increase to nearly half of the world’s population by the end of the century, the authors say, even with drastic reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions.

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A Greener Life

JULY 20, 2022

In the brilliant but scary non-fiction book, The Uninhabitable Earth (published in 2019), David Wallace-Wells carefully lays out what happens to the human body when exposed to too much heat over prolonged periods, and what it can do to your general health. . The future generation.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In addition to adapting to the level of impacts we’re already experiencing, we must significantly lower greenhouse gas emissions if we’re to prevent worsening impacts.” “The Lowering Greenhouse Gas Emissions In 2019, Gov. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from fuel supply (e.g., Read more here.] Read more here.]

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 12, 2023

From freezer upgrades in labs to geothermal heating and cooling at Johnstown, the winner will move the University of Pittsburgh toward its carbon neutrality goal. of Pitt’s greenhouse gas emissions inventory. Registration for the event is requested , as space is limited. The study will be led by partners at Apex Companies and H.F.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

With the effects of Climate Change an imminent threat to the world and with cities contributing to more than 60% of Global Greenhouse Gas emissions (United Nations, 2021), future cities will also need to secure sustainable development. link] content/uploads/2019/09/ Climate-Emergency- Urban-Opportunity-report.pdf. With an estimated 2.5

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2022

The trees planted along residential streets and throughout the downtown business district also provide an urban canopy which cools the natural environment and limits the “heat island” effect. Read more here. LR100 has the lowest carbon footprint of any commercially available biogenic fuel. The trees planted by Pottstown Trees, Inc.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 3, 2022

Studies are also finding that vegetation planted for grazing under solar panels helps keep the panels cool, boosting energy production. Tom Wolf’s 2019 executive order to lower greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050, some estimates say 80,000 acres of solar arrays will be needed in the next eight years.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

A second bill would require annual reporting of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by a covered firm’s operations. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has adopted a Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rule [25] requiring facilities that emit more than 25,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent to report their direct GHG emissions. [26]

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

Democrats said the General Assembly has been holding hearings on the RGGI regulations since the concept was first proposed in October of 2019 and Senate Republicans have yet to offer a plan for reducing carbon pollution or a proposal for helping workers and communities caught in the market-driven transition to clean energy. Read more here.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 8, 2021

1 Comment / March 2, 2021 Navajo Generating Station shut down in 2019 and is now being dismantled. The Colorado River water that cooled the plant is part of a broader legal impasse. climate change panel’s most recent report, which noted that a buildup of greenhouse gases is intensifying the water cycle. Brett Walton.

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Acoel

JANUARY 17, 2025

The Climate Superfund Act seeks to establish a vaguely analogous Superfund program to transfer the costs of addressing climate change from taxpayers and individuals onto the companies that have contributed most significantly to the buildup of climate change-driving greenhouse gases.

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ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

Despite the panel’s regular reports about the consequences of burning fossil fuels, between 1990 and 2019 global emissions rose 54 percent and they are still rising. This latest report looks at mitigation — or what the world can do to stop pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Halting at 1.5 degrees will be decided in Beijing.

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Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

financial and other assistance to global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help communities and ecosystems adapt to the effects of climate change. Not only that, in 2019, a federal court ruled that the president does not have the authority to rescind these protections. It also ends U.S.

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