Inside Climate News

JUNE 23, 2021

By Bob Berwyn After sampling the atmosphere above the Arctic for more than a year during the MOSAiC research voyage , climate scientists say the ozone layer, Earth’s protection against intense ultraviolet radiation, is at risk, despite the progress made in protecting atmospheric ozone by the 1987 Montreal Protocol , the global treaty that banned ozone-harming (..)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 13, 2024

The American Lung Association’s State of the Air report measures three of the major types of pollutants in the San Joaquin Valley: long-term particle matter, short-term particle matter, and ozone. Ozone, too, poses significant risks to respiratory health. Ozone plays a dual role in our atmosphere.

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Inside Climate News

MARCH 17, 2022

New research warns that wildfire emissions could unravel progress made under the Montreal Protocol to shrink atmospheric ozone holes.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 23, 2021

Suppose we bring climate change under control and deal with its fallout. Untamed climate change means an dangerous, ugly future for all of us on “Spaceship Earth.” I’m asking about something different, however: how will the world be better off than it would have been if climate change had never been a problem?

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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

MAY 21, 2023

A new paper by Ben Santer and colleagues has appeared in PNAS where they extend their previous work on the detection and attribution of anthropogenic climate change to include the upper stratosphere, using observations from the Stratospheric Sounding Units (SSUs) (and their successors, the AMSU instruments) that have flown since 1979.

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Breezometer

OCTOBER 31, 2021

As COP26 gets underway this week in Glasgow, Scotland and the World Meteorological Association warns that the past seven years are set to be the warmest on record, we thought this the right time to explore the associated impacts of climate change on the air we breathe. As average temperatures rise, ozone levels accelerate.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In 27 years of previous climate conferences, there was no central discussion of health and the impacts of climate change. To me, environmental law and climate policy are about people, protecting people, and advocating alongside those disproportionately affected by climate change. More than ever before.

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Scientific American

MAY 23, 2023

The Montreal Protocol was intended to save Earth’s ozone layer, but it also helped slow global warming and delayed the melting of Arctic sea ice

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Academy of Natural Sciences

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Inspired by the book All We Can Save , a celebration of the feminist climate renaissance , we asked 15 local women who are thinking about and working on climate change to respond to the question: “If we are at a crossroads of peril and promise, where do you see possibility alive and growing?”

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Scientific American

MARCH 10, 2023

Smoke from the catastrophic 2019–2020 fires in Australia unleashed ozone-eating chlorine molecules into the stratosphere

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The fossil fuel industry is the problem, not the solution Despite their well-funded campaigns to convince us otherwise, here are five reasons why we need to be skeptical about fossil fuel industry engagement in global climate policy. Let’s start with the obvious: the burning of fossil fuels is the main driver of climate change.

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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. In addition, ozone depletion higher up in the stratosphere has caused a cooling high up in the atmosphere.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 15, 2023

Research shows that halting the burning of fossil fuels in homes and businesses is beneficial for the health of residents and vital to combat climate change. Additionally, NOx react with other chemicals in the air to create other harmful pollutants, like fine particulate matter and ozone.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

No serious person is advocating for any large-scale deployment of solar geoengineering or substituting it for other urgent climate change mitigations, so the shorthand use of “opponent” or “supporter” is itself misleading and pushes voices to extremes. Anyone can float a balloon. Critics believe it is the path to catastrophe.”

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Today, climate change is the central, though by no means the only, concern in environmental law. I found only one relevant reference using the term “climate change” before 1985. In one sentence of a 1975 article, John Barton referred to “climate change” as a potentially severe long-term problem.

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Inside Climate News

APRIL 3, 2023

By Phil McKenna Emissions of a small group of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), man-made chemicals that destroy Earth’s protective ozone layer and fuel global warming, are back on the rise after their production was all but banned more than a decade ago, a new study concludes.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 2, 2022

A key step towards addressing climate change and air quality. Cleaning up heavy-duty vehicles is one of the most consequential tasks in reducing climate-warming greenhouse gases and toxic air pollution from the transportation sector. These policies will complement the important provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.

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Successful Green

MARCH 17, 2021

The world’s oceans are a vast repository... The post Oceans may start emitting ozone-depleting CFCs appeared first on successful GREEN. As atmospheric concentrations of CFC-11 drop, the global ocean should become a source of the chemical by the middle of next century, a new MIT study predicts.

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Scientific American

JANUARY 17, 2024

The Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha‘apai volcano erupted in January 2022 with the force of an atomic weapon. The disaster has launched dozens of new studies about global warming

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 3, 2022

Climate researchers are learning that warming temperatures and heat waves resulting from greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions could adversely affect air quality in the United States and increase deaths from air pollution exposure. This effect is referred to as the “climate penalty.” Read the full story from U.S.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The detection and the attribution of climate change are based on fundamentally different frameworks and shouldn’t be conflated. But there is a fundamental problem here to which I’ll return below. But first, an easy example: Global mean surface temperatures. As in the previous example, it’s not even wrong.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $21,410,211 in grant funding to 16 institutions for community-based research to examine how climate change may compound adverse environmental conditions and stressors for vulnerable populations in underserved communities. On February 27, the U.S. Read more here. -- RAND Corp.,

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Scientific American

AUGUST 20, 2021

Without the Montreal Protocol, more solar radiation would have destroyed plants, lessening the CO2 they absorb. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 2, 2024

The vehicles, vessels, and equipment that move our freight create hot spots of some of the worst air quality in the country and contribute significantly to climate change. However, zero-emission options for these workhorses of the economy are growing rapidly and some ports are beginning to move towards cleaner operations.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

In the last few months he has given two interviews in which he goes into to detail about what he describes as a ‘missing element’ in climate science and what he imagines the consequences are for climate change. Clauser however takes that number, removes 80 and 20 W/m 2 for atmospheric absorption by ozone (!!)

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The expansion of industrial-scale farming in the basin, plus rainstorms made worse by climate change, have caused the blooms to surge in recent years. Climate change promises to raise all of these costs. Climate change events, and its related impact on nutrient runoff, are not fair in their impacts.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

And to zoom out a bit, burning fossil fuels is the primary contributor to global climate change, which is driving and exacerbating the once-rare extreme weather events that are impacting people across every part of the country—and across the world. It must not respond by watering the protections down based on industry disinformation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

For example, EPA rules limiting ozone pollution or carbon from power plants move the first lever, while the combined $1.25 Throughout this year, EPA has heard from numerous stakeholders at many forums and made these interesting changes to the design.

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Real Climate

APRIL 23, 2023

The upward trends differ slightly for sure, but they are all recognizably describing the same climate change. the AIRS retrievals work by assuming a (realistic) prior atmospheric profile (surface temperature, vertical profiles of temperature, humidity, cloud cover, aerosols, ozone etc.)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Medium- and heavy-duty vehicles (MHDVs), like the big rigs on our highways and the vans that deliver our packages, make up just over 1 in 10 of the vehicles on our roads, but are responsible for over half of ozone-forming nitrogen oxide pollution and lung-damaging fine particulate pollution from on-road vehicles.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

States and local air quality regulators have the legal authority to set particulate matter (PM), ozone, and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions standards and adopt regulations for these pollutants when they are already in attainment of the national ambient air quality standards ( NAAQS ) set by the U.S.

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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 8, 2023

However, climate change has sucked the air out of the room leaving almost no meaningful opportunity for businesses to talk about potable water quantity and quality or humanity’s other environmental impacts, leaving businesses at risk of being single minded to the point of being subject to jeopardy. So the planet is going to be fine.”

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 20, 2023

The ozone layer is on track to recover within four decades, with the global phaseout of ozone-depleting chemicals already benefitting efforts to mitigate climate change. Read the full story from the UN Environment Programme and the World Meteorological Association.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 21, 2023

A new study reaffirming that global climate change is human-made also found the upper atmosphere is cooling dramatically because of rising CO2 levels. Scientists are worried about the effect this cooling could have on orbiting satellites, the ozone layer, and Earth’s weather. Read the full story from e360.

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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 9, 2023

In this blog post, we will explore why targeting methane emissions presents a more advantageous strategy for the United States in its quest to mitigate climate change. Co Benefits for Human Health : Methane is a key precursor of tropospheric ozone (ground level), a harmful air pollutant.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

NO x also contributes to the formation of ozone (or “smog”), another toxic pollutant. And CO 2 emissions are a primary driver of global climate change, which is exacerbating the type of extreme weather that killed 474 people and caused $165 billion in damages in the United States last year alone. micrometers or less.

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