Real Climate

JULY 10, 2022

Because the oceans take time to warm up, we are not yet there (so far we have experienced 1.2ºC), and so the remaining ~0.8ºC is ‘in the pipeline’ if we keep concentrations constant (equivalent to an immediate ~70% cut in emissions). The post The CO 2 problem in six easy steps (2022 Update) first appeared on RealClimate.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The SWOT mission, as its called, will measure weekly changes in the world’s major rivers, lakes, wetlands, and oceans. For oceans, the satellite will track small-scale currents and eddies that transport nutrients, salt, and heat. The post What’s Up With Water – December 13, 2022 appeared first on Circle of Blue.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 18, 2022

Microplastics can linger in the world’s riverbeds for up to seven years before being deposited into the ocean, a new study finds. A new study discovered that microplastics can linger in rivers for as long as seven years before reaching the ocean. Drought threatens the livelihoods of Cambodian farmers. 7 YEARS .

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 10, 2022

I had the pleasure of moderating a panel on ocean justice at Capitol Hill Ocean Week (CHOW). This year’s CHOW convening was especially important as we celebrated the 50th anniversary of a powerful package of legislative changes that improved how we protect our ocean, coasts and lakes.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

By Delaney Nelson, Circle of Blue – September 13, 2022. This year marked the third-warmest summer on record for the contiguous United States, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. August 2022 drew to a close the 3rd-warmest summer on record for the contiguous US. Forests become tinder boxes.

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Real Climate

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The paper results from a major computational effort, based on running a state-of-the-art climate model (the CESM model with horizontal resolution 1° for the ocean/sea ice and 2° for the atmosphere/land component) for 4,400 model years. Figure adapted from Caesar et al., Nature 2018.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2024

That’s because the parties to the London Convention and London Protocol are meeting from October 28 to November 1 in London to discuss, among other things, governance of ocean alkalinity enhancement and ocean sinking of biomass (e.g. Some are land-based, while others use the ocean. seaweed) for carbon storage.

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Real Climate

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Here we start by taking the Greenland mass loss rate into the ocean, times the temperature difference between the meltwater and the water it replaces. For the part entering the ocean as ice, we must also consider that to melt ice requires energy. Greenland ice melt. or other estimates). References. Trenberth, K. & Fasullo, J.

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 11, 2022

I am thrilled to share the official winners of Ocean Conservancy’s 2022 Photo Contest ! Thank you for taking the time to enter your photographs and to vote for your favorites during our 2022 Photo Contest. You captured the ocean’s endless beauty and the many threats it faces. © Alexandra Rose. © Prue Wheeler.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 12, 2023

As another year comes to a close, I am reflecting on the incredible progress Ocean Conservancy has made in 2023 towards a healthy, resilient ocean future. For better or worse, this is the nature of ocean conservation work—sometimes we hit roadblocks, but it’s a reminder of why this work is so critically important.

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Real Climate

MARCH 20, 2025

We assessed the long term trend using a 20 yr loess smooth in the WMO timeseries to 2022 (which was then projected forwarded to 2024), and defined the residuals as the difference from that trend. Merchant, "Reconciling Earths growing energy imbalance with ocean warming", Environmental Research Letters , vol. Allan, and C.J.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Tikahtnu has been home to the Sugpiaq and Dena’ina peoples for thousands of years, and our peoples here have stewarded the resources in this area long before there were oil rigs in the ocean. That’s why I’m so grateful to be joining this team with a passion for the vision of a healthier ocean, protected by a more just world.

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Real Climate

JUNE 25, 2022

Ocean eddy visualization ( Karsten Schnieder ). This follows from the need to run for much longer simulation periods (centuries, as opposed to days) (a factor of ~5000 more computation), and to include more components of the climate system (the full ocean, atmospheric chemistry, aerosols, bio-geochemistry, ice sheets etc.)

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 23, 2022

It’s the most wonderful time of the year … the annual Ocean Conservancy Photo Contest has arrived! Now is your chance to submit your pictures that capture the wonder, beauty and state of our ocean—and this year, we’re expanding our depth of field with more chances to win than ever before. appeared first on Ocean Conservancy.

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Real Climate

JUNE 29, 2022

2022 and Hewitt et al., 2022 ) and only briefly recapitulated here — is that it enables the use of physics, instead of fitting, to represent some of the most important components of the climate system (precipitating systems in the atmosphere, eddies in the ocean, and topographic relief), and hence build more reliable models.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 15, 2021

Ocean Conservancy recognized this from the very beginning when we published our ground-breaking report Stemming the Tid e. We knew the problem of ocean plastics required collective action. That is why Ocean Conservancy was thrilled to join the U.S. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Part of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite’s science instrument payload sits in a clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory during assembly. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – November 14, 2022. For oceans, SWOT will track small-scale currents and eddies that transport nutrients, salt, and heat.

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Scientific American

JANUARY 12, 2023

The world’s oceans hit their warmest levels on record for the fourth consecutive year in 2022, fueling sea-level rise and contributing to climate disasters.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 10, 2022

We suggested this screening in our recent Nature commentary ( Hausfather et al, 2022. Note that group means depend on model selection, and I’m using the 58 models we used in Hausfather et al (2022), compared to Scafetta’s 38. 26-29, 2022. and 5.1ºC respectively, compared to 2.2, Maybe ( Cesana et al, subm ).

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Real Climate

DECEMBER 17, 2023

The observed tropical cyclone record On a global scale, the number of tropical cyclones appears to be fairly constant as shown in the figure below, a reproduction from Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS) State of the Climate 2022 : Global tropical cyclone counts. Source Fig. b) from Blunden, J., Boyer, and E. Shan et al.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 25, 2023

Not in summer when the ocean is covered by a shallow surface mixed layer heated by the sun and highly dependent on weather conditions.) The argument has been made that the ‘cold blob’ might not be caused by an AMOC decline but by heat loss at the ocean surface. We argued in Caesar et al. From Caesar et al. It looks like this.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 8, 2024

In California, from 1990 to 2022, an astounding 2.7 In 2022 alone, estimates of the amount of plastic waste leaked to land and into the ocean in California ranged from 121,324 to 179,656 tonnes—the equivalent of dumping 20 to 30 garbage trucks of plastic waste per day into California’s landscapes and waterways.”

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 6, 2022

December 6, 2022. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded nearly $1.5 ALGAL BLOOMS : The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded $1.5 December 5-7, 2022 – 2022 Virtual Great Lakes PFAS Summit– register. December 5-7, 2022 – 2022 Virtual Great Lakes PFAS Summit– register.

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Ocean Conservancy

JANUARY 8, 2024

Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Informal sector waste collectors in Colombia and across the globe help fulfill our mission to protect the ocean from one of today’s greatest global challenges, plastic pollution.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Think about what is involved – biological proxies from extinct species, plate tectonic movement, disappearance in subduction zones of vast amounts of ocean sediment, interpolating sparse data in space and time, degradation of samples over such vast amounts of time. 103-121, 2022. All of which adds to the uncertainty.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

But because land isn’t quite as dark as the surface of the ocean, it doesn’t cause as much additional heating. This is partly why the South Pole (which is covered by the Antarctic continent) isn’t warming as fast as the North Pole (which is surrounded by ocean). Yet, sea-ice acts as an insulator between air and sea. Benestad, I.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 25, 2022

In Case You Missed It: HotSpots H2O: As Dust Settles in Tonga After Volcanic Eruption, Drinking Water Now the ‘Biggest Life-Saving Issue’ – Ocean water and volcanic ash have contaminated the drinking water of tens of thousands of people in the Pacific Island nation. The governor released the plan as part of his proposed 2022 budget.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 15, 2023

The Sabin Center today published model federal legislation to advance safe and responsible ocean carbon dioxide removal (CDR) research in U.S. Controlled field trials and other in-ocean research is critical to improve scientific and societal understanding of CDR techniques that could help the U.S. In 2022, the U.S.

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Real Climate

MAY 30, 2024

Impacts of Hunga-Tonga Hunga Ha’apai (HTHH) The eruption of HTHH in January 2022, reached 56km high in the stratosphere and increased stratospheric water vapor by ~10% while also depositing SO 2 in the stratosphere. W/m 2 over 2022-2023″ (i.e. W/m 2 over the ocean (which translates to 0.14 a net cooling!).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 18, 2025

Previous attribution research published by my Union of Concerned Scientists colleagues have allowed us to draw causal connections between sources of heat-trapping emissions and resulting impacts, like present day increases in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, air temperatures, sea levels , ocean acidification , and wildfire burned area.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

2021) show that the trends in the EEI derived from CERES match what you get from the changes in ocean heat content. Satellite-derived trends in EEI compared to estimates from changes in ocean heat (Loeb et al., Kato, "Satellite and Ocean Data Reveal Marked Increase in Earth’s Heating Rate", Geophysical Research Letters , vol.

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Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Photo credit: Elisabeth Horde What is your background and role at Frontiers? “I joined Frontiers in January 2022 as a project manager for our product operations team, which sits under the technology department. Basically, the bigger the challenge (the Atlantic Ocean to virtually cross!), the bigger the motivation.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 2, 2022

By Hannah Richter, Circle of Blue – August 2, 2022. At a rate of 400 feet per year, saltwater is migrating west from the ocean to once-secure inland groundwater reserves. Block Island, RI, Ocean City, MD, and Hilton Head are all at risk due to their bustling summer tourism. Picture credit: Jeeban Panthi.

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 20, 2022

Ocean Conservancy’s Global Ghost Gear Initiative® (GGGI) engages with international leadership as well as grassroots projects around the world to combat ghost gear—abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded fishing gear (ALDFG). Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Never miss an update. Enter Your Email.loading.

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Frontiers

JULY 19, 2022

The post Frontiers ebook releases: July 2022 first appeared on Science & research news | Frontiers. See all ebooks.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 21, 2022

A giant Antarctic glacier released more than 150 billion tons of freshwater into ocean waters around the sub-arctic island of South Georgia. The post The Stream, January 21, 2022: Great Lakes Ice Coverage Could Reach Long-Term Averages appeared first on Circle of Blue. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN.

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National Law Center

MARCH 29, 2022

The post Ag and Food Law Daily Update: March 29, 2022 appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center. A comprehensive summary of today’s judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in agriculture and food. Email important additions HERE. .

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