Frontiers

JULY 11, 2021

New research published by the open access publisher Frontiers inventories greenhouse gas emissions of 167 globally distributed cities. The study shows that just 25 mega-cities produce 52% of the greenhouse gas emissions from the studied cities.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

We can explore the issues and pitfalls of this using the ‘simple model’ of the greenhouse effect we explored back in 2007. The simplest model for the greenhouse effect. Over the last 20 years the LW radiative forcing change from well-mixed greenhouse gases is around 0.7 A simple model with feedbacks. Dübal, and F.

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New Scientist

DECEMBER 14, 2022

A spike in the greenhouse gas methane in 2020 may be explained in part by a drop in nitrogen oxide emissions during the covid-19 pandemic

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 27, 2022

That was not the case in 2020, when the number of named storms (30) ended up being much higher than predictions. Here are some in our minds right now: Will this season exhaust the list of 21 names from the World Meteorological Organization, like 2020 and 2021 did? Can we expect more seasons like 2020 and 2021?

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New Scientist

JANUARY 7, 2022

The rate at which methane concentrations are rising is concerning researchers, with 2020 marking the biggest annual jump since 1983.

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Physics World

MARCH 10, 2022

According to the International Energy Agency, the chemical production sector is the single largest industrial consumer of oil and gas and the third-largest carbon emitter, putting out just short of a gigatonne of carbon dioxide emissions in 2020.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The time series were included in the Hausfather et al (2020) paper and in the latest IPCC report: Evaluation of old projections of global temperature, including Manabe (1970) and Manabe and Stouffer (1993). As you will recall, Hansen had declared in 1988 that “the greenhouse effect is here!”, 1975) , and Bryan et al.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The latest analysis of observations from the WMO GAW in situ observational network shows that globally averaged surface mole fractions(1) for CO2, methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) reached new highs in 2020, with CO2 at 413.2 ± 0.2 ppm(2), CH4 at 1889 ± 2 ppb(3) and… Read more →

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Here are the basics: The Pledge aims to achieve a collective goal of reducing global methane emissions by at least 30 percent below 2020 levels by 2030. California’s 2016 law, SB 1383 , requires a 40 percent reduction from 2013 levels, which is comparable to the 30 percent reduction from 2020 levels identified in the Global Methane Pledge.

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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. gigatons CO2e in 2020.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 10, 2022

Methane (CH4) is a greenhouse gas that is 86 times more potent than carbon dioxide (CO2) over a twenty year cycle, and accounts for nearly one-fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions. The importance of methane … Continue reading Methane Reduction Potential in the EU Between 2020 and 2030. Download the document.

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Scientific American

MARCH 6, 2024

A California resident faces charges under a 2020 law that seeks to curb powerful planet-warming and ozone-depleting hydrofluorocarbons

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

Temperatures during the most recent decade (2011–2020) exceed those of the most recent multi-century warm period, around 6500 years ago13 [0.2°C to 1.20] °C from 1850–1900 to 2011–2020, and the last decade was more likely than not warmer than any multi-centennial period after the Last Interglacial, roughly 125,000 years ago.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 24, 2022

Between 1950-2020, an average of 9,923 acres burned annually across December, January, and February (Fig. As humans continue to release greenhouse gases, global temperatures will continue to rise. Data note: Wildfire perimeter dataset (Fire Perimeters through 2020) accessed from California’s Fire and Resource Assessment Program (FRAP).

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 9, 2025

The report, submitted to the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), discloses China s greenhouse gas inventory in 2020 and 2021. on 2020 levels. In 2020, China officially announced its dual carbon goals to peak carbon emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality in 2060.

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Real Climate

JANUARY 15, 2022

There is a candidate for this, which is the impact of anomalous freshwater from Antarctica (see for instance, Rye et al., We should probably try and sort this out at some point… Ensembles of uncertainty. Hansen, "Antarctic Glacial Melt as a Driver of Recent Southern Ocean Climate Trends", Geophysical Research Letters , vol. Zelinka, T.A.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 2, 2021

On June 2, The Hershey Company released its 2020 Sustainability Report, highlighting its progress on key environmental and social initiatives during a year of unprecedented challenges. Hershey concluded 2020 with a 23.7 percent improvement in Scope 1 and 2 emissions and a 12.6

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 26, 2022

Transportation is now the largest source of US greenhouse gas emissions. Bleviss, 2020 ). In December 2021, Colorado approved a greenhouse gas emission reduction standard to require this analysis, and other states are thinking to do the same.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

The radiative forcing bar chart has gone full circle: Almost every IPCC report has a version of the radiative bar chart showing the contributions over the historical period of all the different forcings (greenhouse gases, aerosols, solar, etc.). 1, SPM, AR5. Cross-Chapter Box 3.1} AR6 Cross-Section Box TS.1.

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Real Climate

APRIL 2, 2021

By Jim Kossin, Tim Hall, Mike Mann, and Stefan Rahmstorf The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season broke a number of records , with the formation of an unprecedented 30 “named storms” (storms that reach wind-speed intensity of at least 18 m/s and are then given an official name). 2020 ), many others do not. 2021 ; Knutson et al.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions 1990–2019. Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions include carbon dioxide from fossil fuel combustion and industrial processes, net carbon dioxide from land use, land use change and forestry, methane, nitrous oxide, and fluorinated gases. trillion or 6.8%

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New Scientist

MARCH 31, 2022

After a sharp fall in 2020, the UK’s emissions of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases increased by 4.7 per cent in 2021, the biggest annual rise since records started in 1990

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Legal Planet

MARCH 31, 2022

Energy Mix (2020): [link]. Generated Energy Mix (2020): [link]. Energy Mix (2020): [link]. They’ve reached this interim goal in 2020, with a 52% reduction of GHG emissions from 2007 levels. (4) Energy Mix (2020): [link]. Energy Mix (2020-21): [link] (pdf). (thanks to Jetta Cook, Berkeley Law ’22). (1)

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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 13, 2022

In 2010, GM committed to a 20% reduction in carbon intensity by 2020. It achieved that goal in 2017. And in January 2021, it said it would source 100% renewable energy to power GM facilities in the U.S. by 2030 and globally by 2035.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

National commitments made last week at the COP26 climate conference to cut heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions would warm the planet by 1.8 The report noted wealthy nations’ unkept promise to deliver $100 billion in annual climate aid by 2020. degrees Celsius , according to the International Energy Agency.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Shapiro's Administration in support of Pennsylvania reaffirming its commitment to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. This is not only true of Christians, but Pennsylvanians as a whole, with 72% of the state’s residents supporting RGGI, according to 2020 polling.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 1, 2022

Unless people adapt to rapid environmental change and greenhouse gas emissions are slowed, the risks to biodiversity, water security, food production, infrastructure stability, and health are much higher toward the end of the century. Warming temperatures are causing rapid shifts between wet and dry, flood and drought.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The resulting history back to 480 million years ago has the same broad sweep as has been seen before: Summary of previously published records from van der Meer et al (2020). The preliminary schematic that is currently in the NHM Deep Time exhibit at the Smithsonian (via NOAA).

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

In short, developed countries committed to providing $100 billion to vulnerable countries every year between 2020 and 2025. We rank last in the G7 in terms of progress on greenhouse gas emissions reductions. This is what is known as climate finance. Back in 2009, countries set a finance goal of $100 billion.

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Energy and Climate Law

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Until 2030 the EU shall emit 55 % less Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG), compared to 1990 levels. According to the Communication, buildings and power generation can make the largest and most cost-efficient emissions reductions, in the order of 60% and more compared to 2015, to reach the 55% greenhouse gas emissions reduction target (p.8).

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The second major climate d i sclosure bill to pass this week is SB 253 (Wiener), which requires major corporations to disclose their Scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse emissions. We convened legislative leaders, agency leaders and financial experts to share the recommendation and further refine it.

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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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Real Climate

JUNE 25, 2022

2020) (in Box 1) to suggest that rainfall biases in response to El Niño have ‘remained largely unchained over two decades’ However, Fieldler et al. 2020) , where the correlations related to ENSO and PDO have markedly improved in the latest round of models. 3653-3680, 2020. 7591-7617, 2020. Van Roekel, .F.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 16, 2023

According to 2020 polling , 72% of all Pennsylvanians supporting RGGI, particularly because RGGI will benefit their commonwealth by creating thousands of family-sustaining jobs and ensuring a safe and healthy future for generations to come. And they aren’t alone. Mitchell Hescox is President of EEN Action, Inc.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

“It’s [the albedo is] kept the same” [False – for instance here is a paper (Loeb et al, 2020) comparing the changes in albedo in models to the CERES observations]. It is still the case that variations in cloud feedbacks are the dominant source of variability of climate sensitivity in models (Zelinka et al, 2020).

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The group’s annual report for 2020 found that 227 environmental advocates were killed for their activism, a new record high. The report’s authors say that although 2020 broke the record as the deadliest year for environmental activists, the numbers are likely even higher, since many attacks are not reported.

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 1, 2022

With the federal government and state of Maryland each having announced within days of each other, the mandated disclosure of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, we have received, maybe not surprising, many calls in the last two weeks inquiring “what are GHGs?” In 2020, carbon dioxide accounted for about 79% of all U.S. emission trends.

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