Circle of Blue

AUGUST 16, 2021

Meltwater from Greenland’s ice sheets have caused about a quarter of the rise in the world’s sea levels. The post What’s Up With Water — August 16, 2021 appeared first on Circle of Blue. Like rising temperatures, ice loss in Greenland will have global consequences. This is Eileen Wray-McCann – thanks for being here.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 17, 2021

The Tier 1 shortage was triggered because the water level in Mead is projected to be 1,065 feet above sea level at the end of 2021 — 10 feet lower than the shortage threshold. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – August 17, 2021. Each is about one-third full.

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Legal Planet

JULY 28, 2022

The 2021 infrastructure bill, which required bipartisan support in both Houses to pass, contained $47 billion for climate resilience. billion to help communities deal with risks from heat waves, sea-level rise, and flooding. Notably, this funding is coming with bipartisan support. The bill includes $1.5

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Rising sea levels in Bangladesh are inundating farmland and contaminating water supplies. “My Al Jazeera reports that Khatun, the villager in Gabura, spends most of her income on medicines for skin diseases many residents suffer from due to water and land contamination from rising sea levels. IN RECENT WATER NEWS.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Four months later, in March 2021, federal lawmakers doubled down on the approach. What’s Up With Water – November 8, 2021 – This week’s episode covers a declaration from Colombian officials at COP26 and an Oregon city working to keep Google’s water consumption out of the public eye. In context: A Sinking Metropolis.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

For example, sea level rise and climate-driven migration from the islands threatens Vanuatu sand drawing traditions, endangering the passing down of important traditional knowledge on kinship, farming, and seasonal cycles. Many climate threats to intangible heritage have been identified.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 13, 2022

In November 2021, Prime Minster Modi announced in Glasgow that India would get half its energy from renewables by 2030 as well as significantly cutting its emissions. Mumbai is on a peninsula and faces severe risks from sea level rise. The national electricity plan projected that renewables will exceed coal in 2027.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

While temperatures provide a measure of the Earth’s climate, it is even better to use the global sea level , which provides a far more reliable measure. The global sea level acts like the mercury in a thermometer because warmer water expands.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

The 2021 Arctic Report Card noted the first time rain occurred at the Greenland summit of the ice sheet. The Greenland ice sheet holds the equivalent of around 7 extra meters of global sea level rise were it to disappear completely. Rain falling on ice can accelerate a phase transition from solid ice to liquid water.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

In my opinion the press conference on 9 August 2021 didn’t do justice to the vast effort that went into it. The global mean sea level has increased by 20 cm from 1901 to 2018, and the rate of increase has accelerated and is now about 3.7 These changes in the oceans is bad news for marine ecosystems. mm increase every year.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Without steep cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions, the report reminds us, the world will warm by over 2 °C this century – triggering more frequent heat waves, greater flooding, higher sea levels and more extreme heavy rainfall and droughts. Is the answer to climate change lying beneath your feet? Between the lines: Environment special.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2023

For example, researchers at the Union of Concerned Scientists have directly linked fossil fuel producers’ Scope 1 and Scope 3 emissions to increases in ocean acidification , global temperature, sea level rise and North American wildfires.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 3, 2024

The group specifically referenced the inclusion of heritage impacts in the IPCC’s 6 th Assessment Report and the International Meeting on Culture, Heritage and Climate Change co-sponsored by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and UNESCO, held in December 2021.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 5, 2023

From droughts to wildfires to rising sea levels and torrential rains, the state has felt the effects of a changing climate in a variety of ways. billion over the 2021–2022 period. California is no stranger to the impacts of climate change. In California alone, crop revenue losses due to drought totaled $3.0

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A Greener Life

MAY 23, 2022

Their annual ‘State of the Global Climate’ report indicated that the accelerating pace of climate change was to blame for acidification and that the melting of ice sheets contributed to pushing sea level rises to new heights in 2021. And in just the past decade global sea levels have risen 4.5

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

We examined projects funded between 2015 and 2021 through the Organic Research and Extension Initiative (OREI) and the ORG. The 2022 Student Organic Seed Symposium and the 2021 Northeast Organic Seed Conference built robust and lasting collaborations. Several OREI plant breeding projects train farmers in organic seed production.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

While it may seem that a place such as Texas only needs to plan for increasing temperatures, events like Winter Storm Uri in 2021 proved the opposite. Flooding/Sea Level Rise/Storm Surge: Water can physically damage and corrode infrastructure, particularly distribution poles and substations.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 20, 2023

Research produced by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has shown that rising temperatures, sea level rise , and ocean acidification have all been made worse by fossil fuel companies’ activities and products. With unchecked fossil fuel production we follow the extremely dangerous red paths shown here (labeled SSP5-8.5

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Legal Planet

JUNE 11, 2024

California is rapidly experiencing the impacts of a changing climate, from devastating wildfires and persistent droughts to rising sea levels, extreme heat, and erratic precipitation patterns.

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Real Climate

JULY 25, 2021

Climate adaptation steams forward with an accelerated speed that can be seen through the Climate Adaptation Summit in January (see previous post ), the ECCA 2021 in May/June, and the upcoming COP26. One example is the ECCA 2021 Climate Adaptation solutions on YouTube provided by ERA4CS.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

.” More extreme weather events can be expected Petteri Taalas explained that the higher concentrations of GHG would be accompanied by more extreme weather events, including intense heat and rainfall, ice melt, higher sea levels, as well as ocean heat and acidification.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 21, 2024

A report by the New Weather Institute found 258 prominent deals globally across more than ten professional sports in 2021, leading them to declare that “sport is floating on a sea of high carbon sponsorship.” LAFC and the Dodgers are hardly the only teams participating in so-called “sportswashing.”

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In an opinion filed on December 29, 2021, and later ordered published on January 25, 2022, the First District Court of Appeal (Div. It also discussed climate change and sea level rise impacts, noting the Bay level could rise as much as 5.5 The Court’s Rejection of Plaintiffs’ Arguments Concerning Sea Level Rise.

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Law Columbia

MAY 22, 2024

On one hand, numerous adverse effects of climate change manifest in the ocean, such as ocean acidification, temperature changes, and rising sea levels. b) to protect and preserve the marine environment in relation to climate change impacts, including ocean warming and sea level rise, and ocean acidification?

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Global warming is leading to sea-level rise on an unprecedented scale, according to IPCC scientists. Between 2006 and 2016 sea levels globally rose 2.5 At the same time, the seas are warmer than they used to be, which can lead to more tropical storms and a higher risk of coastal flooding. metres by 2100. (In

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In coastal counties, which are home to about 40% of the United States’ population, critical water infrastructure is growing more vulnerable to climate change and faces a host of compounding hazards such as sea level rise and flooding, heavy precipitation and extreme storm surges.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 20, 2024

The DRBC has also developed a complex computer model to evaluate sea level rise scenarios and plan for systemic impacts within the basin. In 2021, DRBC held its first Climate Change Forum. In 2022 and 2024, DRBC worked with the Pa. Emergency Management Agency to advance hazard mitigation and reduce flood losses.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 24, 2023

Back to the future: 2023 COFA negotiations Negotiations around the content of these Compacts are ongoing – they were stalled in 2020 and 2021, but were jump-started with the appointment of Special Presidential Envoy for Compact Negotiations in early 2022. The Marshallese community resoundingly refutes this stance.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 25, 2023

There are some other indicators, either using measured ocean salinities or using various types of proxy data from sediment cores, e.g. sediment grain sizes at the ocean bottom as indicators of flow speed of the deep southward AMOC branch. What does it all mean? An AMOC collapse would be a massive, planetary-scale disaster.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 2, 2021

The first of these shortage tiers — at 1,075 feet above sea level — is expected to be breached next year. Mead is currently at 1,073 feet, but for shortage determinations, it is the projected level in the following January that matters. In total, Met has nearly 1.3 So we’re going to tap into that.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

Rising sea levels and increased intensity of storm surges are playing a considerable role in the degradation of coastal regions in the Pacific Islands. Illustrating the variation in sea levels from 1993 – 2018. Low-lying areas of tropical Pacific islands’ accessed 28 February 2021, [link]. [2] Photo credit.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Many fish populations have been negatively impacted by a changing climate and major episodic events like marine heatwaves, such as the disappearance of the Bering Sea snow crab in 2021. But what about the fish stocks that have increased in abundance as a result of changing ocean conditions?

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 28, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen With its highest elevation at 170 metres above sea level, Denmark is one of the lowest-lying countries in Europe, and so the Scandinavian country is especially vulnerable to climate impacts such as sea level rises. Photo credit: Home. The 2024 report of Home Moving House Indicator says that 19.3%

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Subsidies reached new highs in 2021, even before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a Climate Transparency analysis finds. The G20 group of nations provided nearly US$200 billion in support of fossil fuels in 2021, despite the worsening impacts of the climate crisis and their pledge in 2009 to phase out “inefficient” subsidies.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JANUARY 17, 2024

Sea level rise is also important in the region, causing saltwater intrusion and salinization. from Chapter 21 of NCA5 Changes like sea level rise are resulting in the loss of culturally significant locations for subsistence harvesting. Other risks include increasing tropical cyclones and sea level rise.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

C, we stand to lose ocean and coastal ecosystems we depend on to sea level rise, warming temperatures, ocean acidification and other climate impacts. Since 2010 the cost of offshore wind has decreased by almost 50%, and the total installed capacity has increased by 17 times, only 7% of wind capacity installed in 2021 was from offshore.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

This MOA proposal would permit training units to fly as low as 100 feet above ground level (AGL) for up to 170 days per year. Training is now limited to 8,000 feet above mean sea level (MSL) -- or 6,000-7,000 AGL.

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