Environmental and Urban Economics

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Climate change adaptation refers to our individual and collective ability to cope with Mother Nature’s more intense weather punches in terms of extreme heat, drought, fire, flood and many other place based risks. I must acknowledge upfront that I have not interviewed either of them about their climate change adaptation pessimism.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 17, 2024

People now really are discussing the possibility of making intentional interventions to change the climate — or rather, to reduce some of the climate disruptions that are happening and coming due to human elevated greenhouse gases. These interventions would not precisely offset greenhouse-gas-driven climate change.

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Frontiers

JULY 12, 2023

By Deborah Pirchner, Frontiers science writer Image: Shutterstock.com Methane production in the livestock sector greatly contributes to greenhouse gas emissions. Manure stored in the cool-temperate European climate is estimated to be responsible for approximately 12% of total methane emissions from the dairy system.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

First, the cooling from the reflective materials they will inject, for which they are already selling carbon credits, charging $10 per gram of SO 2 released (!) Those following debates on active climate interventions have been expecting – and worrying about – something like this for a few years. Could this activity change the climate?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 13, 2022

We would run around all day until we finally needed to cool off, which meant we would go to whoever’s house had the most sodas, ice cream, or popsicles. My dog Henry trying to stay cool during the heatwave. I think about people who are unhoused and unsheltered, and how challenging it is to stay cool and hydrated.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Through interviews with farmers, this post highlights both the climate-related challenges farmers are facing and how the IRA investments are building farmers’ resilience. As Doug puts it, “Climate change is bringing more variability, not a consistent change toward a new pattern.”

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

I followed with great interest the launch of the sixth assessment report Working Group 1 (The Physical Science Basis) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on August 9th. 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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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 5, 2023

California is no stranger to the impacts of climate change. From droughts to wildfires to rising sea levels and torrential rains, the state has felt the effects of a changing climate in a variety of ways. Vapor pressure deficit is closely related to temperature and climate change is causing temperatures to rise.

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 1, 2022

With the federal government and state of Maryland each having announced within days of each other, the mandated disclosure of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, we have received, maybe not surprising, many calls in the last two weeks inquiring “what are GHGs?” greenhouse gas emissions from human activities. emission trends.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 1, 2022

The August newsletter from the Pike County Conservation District includes articles on riparian buffers and climate change and forests as part of the District's Forestry month education initiative. While these shifts can have a major impact on the planet’s forests, the forests can also have a major impact on climate change.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 3, 2021

Heat is already the leading climate-related cause of death and health impacts, responsible for thousands of US deaths and emergency room visits each year and countless hours of lost productivity and educational attainment. They can also help reduce greenhouse gas emissions through reduced energy consumption and greater carbon sequestration.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

We’ve been hearing a lot lately about geoengineering – the various scientific theories and governance ideas that could eventually lead to technological interventions to help cool the planet. Take this recent CNN story titled “Supporters of a controversial climate solution say it could be key. Anyone can float a balloon.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Last week, the Nobel physics prize was (half) awarded to Suki Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann for their work on climate prediction and the detection and attribution of climate change. This came as quite a surprise to the climate community – though it was welcomed warmly. Hegerl et al., 1996 ; Hegerl et al.,

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Real Climate

MARCH 4, 2021

Two decades ago, in an interview with science journalist Richard Kerr for the journal Science, I coined the term the “Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation” (AMO) to describe an internal oscillation in the climate system resulting from interactions between North Atlantic ocean currents and wind patterns. Background.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

But the hydrofluorocarbon refrigerants in these and other cooling devices are potent greenhouse gases and major drivers of climate change. Summer is in full swing in the U.S., and people are turning up their air conditioners to beat the heat.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Scientists say the pattern is yet another effect of global climate change. Scientists say the pattern is yet another effect of global climate change. The La Niña weather pattern, driven by normal cooling cycles in the eastern Pacific, has always caused dry spells in East Africa.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 3, 2024

“When the outside temperature is hot and humid, just perspiration is not enough to cool down the body since there is no evaporation of sweat,” says Abhiyant Tiwari, lead climate resilience and health consultant at India’s Natural Resources Defense Council. This could mean roughly 78 such days per year.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 30, 2024

After the record breaking wildfire season that we had last year, it should be a wake up call for everyone that climate change is here and that it’s only going to get worse. Heat pumps run on electricity and do not emit any greenhouse gasses so using one will be part of your contribution to reducing the effects of climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2023

However, much of the attention paid to the flood risk of power plant sites has centered on nuclear plants, which also require a water source for the creation of steam, as well as for keeping the plant cool in an emergency. The link to climate change is clearer, however, with floods.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

“Natural gas”, also known as methane gas or fracked fossil gas, is a potent greenhouse gas that pollutes the environment and causes climate change when it is burned and when it escapes into the atmosphere during extraction, production, and transportation. Enbridge should be made to stop deliberately misleading the public.”

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Real Climate

MARCH 5, 2023

Remember ‘satellite cooling’?]. This was before Wentz and Schabel (1998) pointed out that orbital decay in the NOAA satellites was imparting a strong cooling bias (about 0.12 McNider, "Satellite greenhouse signal", Nature , vol. Climatic Change , vol. K/decade) on the MSU2R (TLT) record. References J.R.

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Inside Climate News

JULY 19, 2021

New research, using machine learning, helps project how the buildup of greenhouse gases will change clouds in ways that further heat the planet. By Bob Berwyn Scientists know that global warming is changing clouds, but they haven’t been sure whether those changes would heat or cool the planet overall.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Upfront equipment costs can also be lower because heat pumps provide both heating and cooling in one unit and they qualify for a number of government rebate programs. What’s more, switching to heat pumps would reduce a home’s carbon emissions for space heating, cooling, and water heating significantly. What is “Natural” gas, really?

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Scientific American

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The Kigali Amendment, supported by the cooling industry, has finally been sent for ratification. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Up to this point, the ocean has been our greatest guardian against extreme heat and catastrophic climate changes. It has absorbed roughly 90% of the excess heat caused by carbon pollution and other greenhouse gases that humans have emitted. However, there is no air conditioner to help cool down the ocean.

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

As the Arctic is 30 degrees Celsius (50 F) warmer than what it should be right now, finding local solutions to cool down the poles suddenly doesn’t seem this far-fetched anymore. . Years ago I read a short article on how bringing more ice to the poles could help slow down climate change. Image credits: NASA.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 10, 2024

Upfront equipment costs can also be lower because heat pumps provide both heating and cooling in one unit and they qualify for a number of government rebate programs. What’s more, switching to heat pumps would reduce a home’s carbon emissions for space heating, cooling, and water heating significantly. What is “Natural” gas, really?

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

China is intent on using the Winter Olympics to showcase how they’re at the forefront of implementing low-carbon technologies and thereby tackling climate change. Cooling ice rinks. Cooling ice rinks. China, which is hosting the Olympics, have said they are striving to run what they call a ‘green’ Olympics.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

estimate of no further CO 2 -induced warming or cooling once global CO 2 emissions reach and stay at next zero. ZEC therefore causes no changes between SR1.5 Nature Climate Change. In: Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. IPCC (2014) Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report.

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Real Climate

JULY 24, 2023

The AMOC has repeatedly shown major instabilities in recent Earth history , for example during the Last Ice Age, prompting concerns about its stability under future global warming, see e.g. Broecker 1987 who warned about “unpleasant surprises in the greenhouse”. For more on this see my Review Paper in Nature.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 3, 2022

The radiators are, in fact, cooling down, but their stored heat is still warming the air in the room. Emerging research is refining scientists’ understanding of how Earth’s committed warming will affect the climate. Today’s models can more explicitly represent the behaviour of greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2023

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

It is also exerting an inadvertent cooling effect that masks a large fraction — perhaps a third to a half — of the climate forcing from previously emitted greenhouse gases that are already in the atmosphere. But cleaning this up will remove its cooling effect, which the IPCC recently estimated as 0.7°C.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2022

By Penn State News Last spring, at the request of President Eric Barron, a team of more than 20 faculty members, staff members and students began to formulate a plan to address climate change, one of the most complex and urgent issues of our time, by significantly lowering the University’s greenhouse gas emissions on all its campuses.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 20, 2023

Buildings are one of Colorado’s top five sources of greenhouse gas emissions. That burden needs to be considered against the backdrop of Energize Denver, a previously enacted Denver ordinance that will require all commercial and multifamily buildings in the city to gradually replace their heating and cooling systems with all electric.

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A Greener Life

JULY 20, 2022

And of course, climate change is linked to many environmental issues such as loss of species. And so, no one can be very surprised that in recent years we have seen an acceleration of climate impacts due to the points mentioned above. For me, climate change is very much about health and how much heat humans can handle.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 15, 2024

Read the full story at The Climate Brink.

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