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Why Were 2023 and 2024 So Hot?

Union of Concerned Scientists

As industrial aerosols decreased due to this new regulation, particularly over the North Atlantic Ocean, the planetary albedo slightly decreased, which means that more incoming solar radiation was absorbed by the planet rather than reflected.

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Getting physical with the climate crisis

Physics World

An area of high pressure above the Pacific Ocean was driven eastwards through the jet stream by a “Rossby wave” – a planetary-scale fluctuation arising from the Coriolis force. The Rossby wave eventually “broke”, dumping its energy – like an ocean wave hitting the shore – to create an area of high pressure locked over western Canada and US.

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Senate Committees Hear Familiar Pro/Con Comments On Economic, Environmental Impacts Of EQB’s Final Carbon Pollution Reduction Program Covering Power Plants - RGGI

PA Environment Daily

It needs to be an informed decision with equal input from climate scientists and economists. Report after report, scientist after scientist, they continue to demonstrate that our lack of movement on climate change is leading to stronger and more frequent and dangerous weather patterns and rising ocean waters.

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The Endangerment Finding Is in Danger. Will EPA’s Zeldin Uphold Climate Science?

Union of Concerned Scientists

establishing that heat-trapping emissions (or greenhouse gas emissions) are air pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act. The court further mandated that, under the Clean Air Act, the EPA must set protective standards for global warming pollutants if the agency found them to be harmful to human health and welfare.

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The Endangerment Finding Is in Danger. Will EPA’s Zeldin Uphold Climate Science?

Union of Concerned Scientists

establishing that heat-trapping emissions (or greenhouse gas emissions) are air pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act. The court further mandated that, under the Clean Air Act, the EPA must set protective standards for global warming pollutants if the agency found them to be harmful to human health and welfare.

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MAGA vs NOAA, Executive Orders, and Growing IRA Support

Legal Planet

The news that started leaking last Friday is that the Trump administration wants to break up the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and essentially end NOAAs climate work by abolishing its primary research office and forcing the agency to instead help boost U.S. Trump wants to Make Weather a Mystery Again.

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March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The court stated: “Plaintiffs’ claims for public nuisance, though pled as state-law claims, depend on a global complex of geophysical cause and effect involving all nations of the planet (and the oceans and atmosphere). Arizona Court Ordered Production of Climate Scientists’ Emails Under Arizona’s Public Records Law.

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