Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Peatlands store a significant amount of the Earth’s carbon and have functioned as an important moderator of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere for thousands of years.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Last month, 44 climate scientists from 15 countries wrote an open letter to the Nordic Council of Ministers highlighting the risk of a potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a critical ocean current system in the Atlantic Ocean. The Earth’s climate system does not like imbalances in heat!

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Inside Climate News

JUNE 23, 2021

Warming of the surface of the Arctic is matched by a colder polar vortex high in the atmosphere, which is speeding the breakdown of the Earth’s shield against ultraviolet rays.

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Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

James Hansen, the scientist who first sounded the climate alarm in Congress, sees a decrease in aerosol pollution driving a surge of warming and criticizes the U.N. climate science panel, drawing a backlash from other researchers.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 11, 2021

This trend will continue as glacial melting, decreased rainfall, and a “thirstier” atmosphere jeopardize sources of freshwater in some parts of the globe. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of the world’s leading climate scientists, released its sixth climate assessment on Monday.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 16, 2021

This week, Circle of Blue looks at a major new climate report, which finds that a warming planet is accelerating the water cycle. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of the world’s leading climate scientists, has released its sixth assessment report. The report, while grim, does offer hope.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 6, 2021

International organizations had blamed the calamity on climate change, but a new study rejects that assumption. Friederike Otto, one of the study’s co-authors, said that the ongoing famine highlights the risks faced by vulnerable nations, even without climate breakdown. “We are not even adapted to the present day.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Mann, climate change scientist, author and Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State, and Director of the Earth System Science Center, is the 2022 recipient of the Stroud Award for Freshwater Excellence. The Stroud Water Research Center announced Dr. Michael E.

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Inside Climate News

JANUARY 21, 2023

An “atmospheric river” has pummeled California with weeks of heavy rain, and the Rocky Mountains are getting buried with snow. Climate scientists, though, say the 40 million people who use the river’s water should take the good news with a grain of salt.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 12, 2021

In this, he is in violent agreement with Isaac Held, his colleague at GFDL, and indeed most climate scientists. The key aspects were the inclusion of water vapour feedback as temperatures increased, and the use of ‘convective adjustment’ to maintain stability of the lower atmospheric column. 1975) , and Bryan et al.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Researchers in Finland have observed a plant-induced cooling effect in the atmosphere, which strengthens as temperatures increase. Their results could provide important guidance for climate models that include the influence of aerosols in the atmosphere. Organic aerosols are tiny particles that include dust, ash, and pollen.

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Inside Climate News

JULY 2, 2021

Like other climate scientists, he knew from research papers and worldwide storm patterns that a warming atmosphere is thirstier and sops up more moisture from oceans and the land. By Judy Fahys A question has bothered climatologist Park Williams during the decade he’s been probing drought in the Southwest.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2024

The Discovery Partners Institute studies land surface-atmosphere interactions that impact urban fluid dynamics and boundary layer flow at multiple spatial scales, from regional to local. The institute also conducts collaborative and translational research that benefits society at the intersection of science, engineering and social sciences.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Photo provided by the author The aftermath of Helene is proving the worst of what we imagine in the face of climate change. I asked my colleague, Dr. Marc Alessi , an atmospheric scientist, about the hurricane. Here’s what Marc had to say: “Helene was an example of what hurricanes will look more like in the future.

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Inside Climate News

AUGUST 8, 2024

By Amy Green, Lisa Sorg Tropical Storm Debby, a plodding, waterlogged system that has already saturated four southeastern states, bears many characteristics of a warming planet, climate scientists say. It’s reminiscent of other catastrophic tropical cyclones that have battered the United States over the past eight years.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

“Pakistan, which is already facing political and economic turmoil, has been thrown into the front line of the human-induced climate crisis,” a U.N. Climate scientists forecast with medium confidence that continued atmospheric warming will cause more erratic and powerful monsoons in South Asia.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Someone’s bound to hack the atmosphere to cool the planet. So we urgently need more research on the consequences, says climate scientist Kate Ricke. Read the full story in Wired. Read more →

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

Another clue indicating a shortcoming is if you look at the atmospheric CO 2 -concentrations over time to see how much impact the IPCC reports have had on the real policy-makers in the world (Figure below). The cause of our changing climate is the increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations that we have released into the air.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

We live in a world that markets individual action as the singular solution to climate change, instead of corporate and governmental accountability, where multinational companies and the governments that endorse them are largely responsible for the excessive carbon in our atmosphere. Seeing them come to life in court was powerful.

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Inside Climate News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The state’s legendary and beloved “climate scientist-communicator” finds his public outreach isn’t valued by the institutions in America that fund science.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The world’s top climate scientists have been clear: If we’re to avoid the most calamitous consequences of warming our planet, we must get as good at taking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere as we’ve been at putting it in. Read the full story from Bloomberg.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The warming has even taken many other climate scientists by surprise and no one has predicted such a rapid warming trend, with feedback loops being a key contributing factor, he argued. Climate Repair focuses on three pillar points: reducing CO2 emissions, remove CO2 from the atmosphere and refreeze damaged parts of the climate system.

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Physics World

APRIL 26, 2022

The discovery by Ladislav Skrbek at Charles University and colleagues could help climate scientists to better understand the flow of heat through Earth’s atmosphere, and may also lead to better designs of heat exchangers.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 5, 2022

Mann, climate change scientist, author and Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State, and Director of the Earth System Science Center, is the 2022 recipient of the Stroud Award for Freshwater Excellence. The Stroud Water Research Center announced Dr. Michael E. Currently, Michael E. Mann, Ph.D.,

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

are used all over the world, based on calculations that quantify the effects of physical mechanisms and the way different parts of the atmosphere are connected to each other. The physics-based models describe how energy flows through the atmosphere and ocean, as well as how the forces from different air masses push against each other.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 30, 2021

The correlation had been shown in a paper by an author outside the conventional scientific community, so, for good measure, Simpson added that a non-expert could not properly appreciate how atmospheric circulation affects the absorption of radiation. One was Eunice Foote , a 19th-century American scientist. 139 1961 ).

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Legal Planet

APRIL 7, 2024

I hope we can collectively reckon with another terrifyingly awesome atmospheric event: the hottest year. Communities from Texas to Ohio that are benefiting from this scientifically informed tourism boom are the same places where some people like to question and mock climate scientists. as one writer put it on X.

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Real Climate

JULY 25, 2021

The good news is that there are some initiatives on climate change adaptation which involve climate scientists such as the Infrastructure and Climate Network ( ICNet Global ). Such professional debates should include climate scientists, the adaptation community, and prac titioners.

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Breezometer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Chris’s well-researched articles and expert interviews help shed light on dynamic climate changes, bring public attention to the resulting impact, and highlight environmental trends that can completely alter the world we know. Dr. Shepherd’s work in the climate and weather space is widely recognized. Dr. Marshall Shepherd. Eric Blake.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 17, 2022

Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles. Although the Pacific coast is no stranger to heavy rainfall, climate change has exacerbated the impacts of atmospheric rivers and other natural disasters. I would be very surprised to avoid it occurring in the 21st.”.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 24, 2022

And on my birthday, the 20th of June 1979, then US President Jimmy Carter decided to deliver a strong climate and environmental statement by installing solar panels on the roof of The White House. In June 1979, atmospheric carbon stood at 339ppm, just below the 350ppm level scientists believe to be safe. billion tonnes of CO2.

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A Greener Life

MAY 9, 2022

ENSO is so influential that climate scientists have dedicated decades to tracking and predicting its irregular cycles. Researchers are also studying how ENSO will be affected by climate change. Modelling a future of more frequent extremes.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 12, 2021

A relentless interval of hot, dry weather, made worse by heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere, has turned this section of the state into a cauldron of flame, dust, and smoke. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of the world’s leading climate scientists, released its sixth climate assessment on Monday.

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HumanNature

APRIL 10, 2023

Student in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University Most people remember the water cycle they learned in school: water evaporates from lakes, rivers, and the ocean, air carrying this moisture rises, cools, condenses, and forms clouds, and these clouds precipitate water back down to the surface.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 20, 2023

Corporate leadership was informed about advances in climate science and incorporated those advances when its scientists built their own models. Regardless, the company publicly cast doubt on the reality of global warming, attempted to discredit climate scientists and climate models, and tried to block climate action.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Ed Hawkins, National Centre for Atmospheric Science. Unscientific sources The paper also repeatedly cites a climate skeptics book by Fritz Vahrenholt and Sebastian Lüning, a former German CEO and an employee of the energy giant RWE, the largest CO2 emitter in Europe. Image: Prof.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 13, 2024

The 2024 State of the Air report I work every day on topics related to air in my role as a Senior Climate Scientist at UCS, through my volunteer grassroots work, and because I want to be a well-informed resident in the San Joaquin Valley. Ozone plays a dual role in our atmosphere. This is more than just my job. This is personal.

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