Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 18, 2024

With the flip of a switch at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s seaside facility in Sequim, Washington, a tangle of pipes and filters whirrs into action, scrubbing acid from the cool gray waters of the Salish Sea. It’s the pilot project of Ebb Carbon, one of several … Continue reading Climate change is ravaging the oceans.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 1, 2024

Let’s take a closer look at the water cycle and how it impacts the weather and our ocean. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. As ocean waters warm , more water evaporates into the air, which then results in more intense and frequent rain or snow.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 20, 2024

But with estimates suggesting that sea level rise will affect more than one billion people around the world in the next 25 years, this is one member of the dysfunctional climate change family that shouldn’t be ignored. As the ocean warms, it expands. That adds water to the oceans, which raises their level. Why is this?

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 21, 2021

The first climate change presentation I saw was back in the 1970s when I was working for the National Weather Service. Murray Mitchell, was the top climate scientist for NWS. While that got the bulk of the publicity, Dr. Mitchell assured us that the warming of the climate would be the biggest problem in the future.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In an unchanging climate, the random fluctuations would lead to warming in some parts of the world and cooling in others. In a world with just random local fluctuations but no climate change, about half the weather stations would show a (more or less significant) warming, the other half a cooling.

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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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Real Climate

AUGUST 25, 2023

If the AMOC weakens, this region will cool. And in fact it is cooling – it’s the only region on Earth which has cooled since preindustrial times. that the sea surface temperature there in winter is a good index of AMOC strength, based on a high-resolution climate model. From Rahmstorf and Ganopolski 1999.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Existing global environmental governance institutions – even those designed to address climate change – are ill-equipped for such challenges. These are needed at global, regional and ‘thematic’ levels – given the diverse scales of tipping elements in oceans, forests and the cryosphere, for example.

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Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 26, 2024

My favorite creatures in the ocean are the weird ones. They can be found in the benthic zone, the sandy bottom of the ocean. Want to learn more about ocean animals? Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Sign up to receive our emails.

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 24, 2023

Animals around the world and throughout our ocean are impacted by changing temperatures. Predicting how animals will respond to climate change is complicated because there are so many factors at play. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

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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. Fred Singer, before his turn to the dark side).

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Inside Climate News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

It wasn’t long after dawn—still the cool of the day—but I could feel the weight of summer bearing down. I was probably the largest creature walking around these quiet woods, and it would soon be too hot for me to think about anything except reaching the ocean on a vacation still a few weeks in the future.

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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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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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Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

By Deborah Pirchner, Frontiers science writer Image: Rob Lachlan As ocean temperatures rise, corals can lose their color due to heat stress. The latter is one of the interventions that researchers in the RRAP Cooling and Shading program are working on.

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 18, 2023

There’s something nice about exploring the coast, and whenever you get hot you can just pop into the ocean waves to cool down! These sights led me to wonder why more and more seaweed was surrounding me on my ocean walks and where was it all coming from. Love ocean content? What is seaweed? Where does seaweed come from?

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Inside Climate News

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

New research finds coral refugia, where reefs are protected from global warming by cool local currents, are disappearing faster than expected. By Bob Berwyn In the race to save at least some remnants of the world’s coral reefs, a new study shows only one thing really matters—capping global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

‘Despite decades of warnings, we are still heading in the wrong direction’ By Bob Berwyn Research released this week raises new questions about how much more Earth may warm, or cool, if and when human carbon dioxide emissions zero out.

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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

JUNE 3, 2022

The ocean retains heat for much longer than land does. 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. By Richard B. Ricky) Rood.

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Washington Nature

MAY 25, 2023

Similar to a detective that is able to identify a criminal who left their DNA at the scene of a crime, scientists, like myself, are able to identify animals, plants, bacteria found at the scene of a forest or ocean and provide a census of who has lived or lurked in that ecosystem. Cool Green Science BLOG Want to learn more?

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 17, 2024

These interventions would not precisely offset greenhouse-gas-driven climate change. They could cool the Earth on average but not precisely undo the patterns of disruption from GHGs. Now, people are talking about possible interventions that might limit or delay some of the most harmful effects of global climate change.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Here in Anchorage, Alaska, the leaves are changing color, frost is on the ground and there’s new snow covering the mountain slopes. In the Arctic Ocean, the summer sea ice minimum is an important milestone during this seasonal transition. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Enter Your Email.loading.

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 25, 2023

Enter a true star of the ocean: algae! Love ocean content? Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Built-in sunscreen sounds pretty cool, doesn’t it? Algae and climate change can be a bad combination.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 8, 2022

Most inland facilities cool their power-generating equipment with river water. A major conveyor belt of ocean currents is slowing down due to climate change. A recent report reveals the toll of climate change in India. In Somalia, the risk of famine is growing as a severe drought shows no sign of abating.

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Real Climate

MAY 12, 2021

Meanwhile, note that the factors listed above involve the whole Earth system: the oceans, the cryosphere, the atmosphere, the solid earth and lithosphere, and a full range of scales, from the city block and shoreline, to ice dynamics that change over kilometers, to GRD footprints, to the whole global ocean. 2020) or Sadai et al.

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A Greener Life

JULY 30, 2023

What is the AMOC The AMOC is a complex system of ocean currents driven by differences in temperature and salinity. It transports warm surface water from the tropics to the North Atlantic, where it cools down and sinks to deeper layers.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2023

Heightened flood risk The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said in a recent outlook that about 44 percent of the United States is at risk of floods this spring, equating to about 146 million people. The link to climate change is clearer, however, with floods.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 7, 2023

For example, Antarctica acts to cool our planet by reflecting solar radiation back to space by virtue of the brightness of its snow surface. Several floating ice shelves – the massive slabs of ice that push back grounded ice from flowing into the ocean – have catastrophically broken up in a matter of days because of such melting.

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Real Climate

APRIL 2, 2021

This would have a cooling effect on Atlantic SST, as well as a stabilizing effect on the regional atmosphere ( Dunion and Velden 2004 ), and would be expected to reduce tropical storm formation frequency for some (possibly prolonged) period. Li, "Past and Future Hurricane Intensity Change along the U.S. Mann et al. Klotzbach et al.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 26, 2024

The National Heat Strategy The Strategy is authored by the National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS), an interagency initiative coordinating work across two dozen federal agencies and led by the Centers for Disease Control and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. A draft rule from the U.S.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 19, 2022

Although much of the ocean’s abyss seems dark, still and silent, water is nevertheless always flowing, and in specific directions. Vast, slow currents called conveyors help create and govern the climate we experience. Much of this water cools as it flows towards the poles, becoming denser and sinking to the ocean floor.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

Extremes : Back in 2012, the literature assessed by AR5 connecting changes in extremes to climate change was scant. Projections of (a) temperature (constrained), (b) Arctic sea ice area (raw CMIP6), (c) ocean pH (constrained), and sea level (d)to 2100, and (e) to 2300 (constrained). Figure SPM 8.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 5, 2022

Climate in a wider sense is the state, including a statistical description, of the climate system. Climate Change Climate change refers to any significant change in the measures of climate lasting for an extended period of time. a reduction in ocean pH). a reduction in ocean pH).

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The results complicate a widespread belief about the role of plants in helping to draw down, or use, carbon from the atmosphere, providing new insight into how plants could adapt to climate change. million years, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Among these, climate change is becoming more dire every month and global biodiversity is collapsing right in front of our eyes. Bringing back Nature from the brink of collapse can be done by implementing regenerative solutions to our land and oceans. But what if we could turn these tides around ?

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

If the sun was driving the warming, we’d see it in the stratospheric temperatures (which are cooling in line with expectations from the impact of CO2, not warming due to the supposed increase in solar activity). If the land data was contaminated by urban heating effects, we wouldn’t see similar warming in the ocean.

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