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Climatology: The Science of Global Weather Systems over the Long Term

Environmental Science

Satellites, for example, are used in meteorology to track weather systems and to monitor atmospheric fronts to predict what the weather will do next. Known as ENSO, they are opposite effects of the same process and are defined as an oscillation (a variation in magnitude) between the temperature of the atmosphere and the ocean.

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

Acidification : Reducing the pH rating of a substance making it more acidic in nature, for example, increased carbon emissions lead to the oceans absorbing more of it, increasing acidification and damaging ecology such as coral bleaching. Air emissions : Any gas emitted into the atmosphere from industrial or commercial activity.

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Green jobs for physics graduates: policy and behaviour change

Physics World

Lo first became interested in this area while studying physics and astronomy at Durham University , UK, where her final-year project looked at how to calibrate telescopes to correct for atmospheric effects on the radiation they detect. Eunice Lo is a researcher at the University of Bristol and frequently contributes to climate reports.

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Getting physical with the climate crisis

Physics World

As air sunk through the atmosphere, it got squeezed and heated. What’s harder is knowing the carbon footprint of building materials throughout their lifecycle, which requires reams of data about supply chains and logistics that either don’t exist or have never been tracked. Courtesy: Canadian Press/Shutterstock). Wood you believe?

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Bad science and bad ethics in Peter Gleick’s Review of “Apocalypse Never” at Yale Climate Connections

Environmental Progress

I further argue that, if we continue to develop in these ways, deaths from natural disasters will continue to decline, food surpluses will continue to rise, and global carbon emissions will likely peak and decline soon, preventing temperatures from rising more than three degrees centigrade over pre-industrial levels. Why else use it?

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Back in Black: Creating positive changes by focusing on a short-lived pollutant

HumanNature

When fuels are burned to create energy in a process called combustion, black carbon along with carbon monoxide and other compounds are created because there is not enough oxygen in the atmosphere for the reaction to go to completion. Whenever there are combustion processes, of which there are many in our industrial society (e.g.,

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The 2024 Election Outcome Could Boost the Case for Geoengineering

Legal Planet

and other countries are currently stumbling their way to a sharp reduction in carbon emissions. We definitely seem to be on the path to reducing emissions but having trouble doing so quickly enough. Despite the risks, if we dump enough carbon into the atmosphere, the dangers of climate change could be even greater.

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