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2022 updates to the temperature records

Real Climate

impart a slight cooling. Consequently, a line drawn from an El Niño year to a subsequent La Niña year will almost always show a cooling – a fact well known to the climate disinformers (though they are not so quick to show the uncertainties in such cherry picks!). El Niño events enhance global warming (as in 1998, 2010, 2016 etc.)

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Analysis: IEA warns that the world is struggling to wean itself off coal

A Greener Life

IEA analysts expect this amount to remain relatively stable until around 2027, when consumption levels will start to level off as renewable energy sources start to play a more significant role, particularly in China – the worlds largest coal consumer and producer. billion tonnes in 2024.

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Moon-forming disc is spotted around a giant exoplanet

Physics World

Cool dust grains. In their study, Benisty’s team present the latest observations of PDS70 by ALMA, which can pick up millimetre wavelengths emitted by cool dust grains. Among these were observations of hydrogen-alpha light emission, which only occurs in regions where hydrogen is being ionized. With resolutions as high as 2.3

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The ten-billion-dollar gamble: The JWST’s micro-scale windows on the universe

Physics World

In fact, it is one of three: the Vera C Rubin Observatory will see first light in Chile in 2022, while the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is currently scheduled to launch in 2027. The ten-billion-dollar gamble: Keeping the JWST cool. The NIRSpec team’s answer is an ingenious one.

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Massachusetts Passes Climate Bill Focused on Clean Energy and Offshore Wind

Law and Environment

GW by 2027. DPU is instructed to study how to make it easier for communities to adopt geothermal heating and cooling systems. However, DOER will lead the solicitation and award process, while DPU will review and approve the final contract with the utility. The law keeps the required procurement total at 5.6

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Brooklyn startup addresses gun violence with climate jobs

A Greener Life

To date, BlocPower and its contractor partners — which include Augmented Construction , Urban Energy , VRF Solutions , Super Cool HVAC and Ch! The ban takes effect in December 2023 for buildings under seven stories; for taller buildings, developers negotiated a delay until 2027. I guess 16 years later, it worked out.”

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CityU physics: investing in ‘rising stars’ to deliver sustained research excellence

Physics World

Cool heads and clear thinking are mandatory in the competitive world of front-line research as academic leaders strive for that winning – and sustainable – combination of visibility, recognition and impact that will set their physics programmes apart from the rest of the field.

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