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A Dangerous Disruption

Legal Planet

The “for one year” part is crucial: stratospheric aerosols stay in the atmosphere roughly a year, so one gram offsets the heating effect of one ton only for the first year after the ton is emitted. And in all likelihood, they are not breaking any current law or regulation. Could this activity change the climate?

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New Satellite Will See Water’s Big Picture

Circle of Blue

Instruments installed on the International Space Station are refining weather forecasts by measuring water vapor in the atmosphere and water held in clouds. California regulators police water use with an open-source program from OpenET. California regulators police water use with an open-source program from OpenET.

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Another Historic Climate Court Ruling in the Netherlands

Legal Planet

In the face of disappointing legislation and regulation, activists have increasingly turned to courts in the last fifteen years. Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. However, given the unprecedentedruling’s questionable logic, I doubt that it stand on appeal.

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What Happened During the Montana Youth Climate Trial

Legal Planet

That the state official who oversees the permitting and regulation of all major energy projects in Montana could be ignorant of the UN body that has been issuing increasingly urgent assessments about global warming and climate data for 30 years is unbelievable and distressing. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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International Women's Day - BreezoMeter Supports ‘Breaking The Gender Bias!

Breezometer

in Atmospheric Science). Given this desire and my aims to improve awareness of air pollution, I came to join the ranks of BreezoMeter’s team of environmental superheroes as their Chief Scientist! The experience I got in coding and my interest in atmospheric science brought me to work at BreezoMeter. For my Ph.D.,

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Building a More Resilient, Just City

Academy of Natural Sciences

These rare storms are expected to become more frequent with climate change as a warmer atmosphere can hold (and during storms release!) For every one degree Celsius that the temperature increases, the atmosphere can hold 7% more water, a thermodynamic law of physics called atmospheric holding capacity. more moisture.

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The Santa Barbara Oil Spill

Environment, Law, and History

H-Environment recently published a review by Samm Newton of Teresa Sabol Spezio's Slick Policy: Environmental and Science Policy in the Aftermath of the Santa Barbara Oil Spill (U. Part 1 describes environmental science and policy before 1969. Pittsburgh Press, 2018). Her argument is broken into three sections.