Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2022

This summer, like many of my fellow climate scientists, I’ll try to recount the facts I remember and those I’ve been disciplined enough to write down for all the reporters who work tirelessly to tell the story of how we got here and where we should go from here. During a pandemic.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

In addition, ozone depletion higher up in the stratosphere has caused a cooling high up in the atmosphere. This is likely an effect of man-made climate change. Climate scientists are convinced that the world oceans have warmed down to a depth of 700 m since the 1970s because of our past emissions of greenhouse gases.

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Physics World

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Tiny particles of plastic in the atmosphere can affect Earth’s climate, according to Laura Revell at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and colleagues. Although the threats these microplastics pose to natural ecosystems are now being studied extensively, their influence on Earth’s climate is still virtually unknown.

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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 9, 2021

As climate scientists we tend to look at the IPCC reports a little differently than the general public might. Here are a few things that mark this report out from previous versions that relate to issues we’ve discussed here before: Extreme events are increasingly connected to climate (duh!)

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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. Efficiency booster. They examined different oscillation frequencies in the range 0.006–0.2

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Frontiers

MAY 18, 2022

Snow plays an important role in regulating climate because it reflects the Sun’s energy back out into space and helps keep the planet cool. Snow depth, along with estimated snow density is important for water resource management,” Hu added. How much will snowfalls decline? This is where this new technique will make a difference.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 5, 2024

Unfortunately, the weather experienced in Tokyo then was not a one-off event but in line with what climate scientists predict we can expect in a warming world. But it is worth reflecting on the fact that when we run, in our tolerable climatic environment, we put our body through similar stuff than when it is exposed to heat.

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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

OCTOBER 12, 2021

In this, he is in violent agreement with Isaac Held, his colleague at GFDL, and indeed most climate scientists. He makes a eloquent argument for a hierarchy of modeling where simpler, functional, models can contribute a lot to understanding in advance of the more complete and more detailed versions turning up.

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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. Prof Martin Siegert is an award-winning Antarctic glaciologist and climate scientist. In the ocean, 19 marine heatwaves have been recorded between 2002 and 2018.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

A detailed understanding of the forested areas, how the landscape moved and shifted, and how cool burn fires (with lower heat intensities than wildfires) would move, was common TEK knowledge. This encouraged game to return for the fresh shoots, and provided better basketry material.

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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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A Greener Life

MAY 12, 2023

A woman pours water over her head to cool off during soaring temperatures in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 11 April 2023. With our children already paying a terrible price for climate change, we must act to protect their future, urges an IPCC scientist. I am writing this as a climate scientist and a mother of two young children.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 10, 2022

Climate scientists at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) have dubbed the six-month stretch from May through October the “ Danger Season.” Not only has much of what climate scientists have been warning about come to pass, many of the extreme weather events the planet is now experiencing are worse than they expected. “To

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Physics World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Extreme heat is not just an abstract notion: if we can’t cool our bodies enough, we’re in danger of neurological failure, organ failure and even death, with the risks highest for children and the elderly. On balance, clouds nearer the stratosphere warm us, whereas low-lying clouds tend to cool us because their greenhouse effect is smaller.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 15, 2024

The petitioners hope that disaster declarations can unlock federal funds for short-term relief such as cooling centers, water supplies, emergency air conditioning and air filtration systems, and financial assistance for evacuations.

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Greenbuilding Law

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

But, Michael Mann is a well known climate scientist whose research in studying the “paleoclimate,” or ancient climate, has featured prominently in the politically charged debate about climate change. who referred to an article by Simberg article in his article.

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Breezometer

JULY 7, 2021

In the US, many areas have hit continuous days of record-breaking temperatures during a heatwave that climate scientists suggest might be the worst drought to hit in the last 1,200 years. As of June 29th, 39.5% of the US was suffering from some kind of drought and 48 large wildfires have already burned 661,462 acres in 12 states.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 10, 2024

Texas A&M climate scientists Andrew Dessler and Jangho Lee told the AP that last year’s real national annual heat death toll may be more like 11,000–and that it could get much worse. We’re going to look back at 2023 and say, man, that was cool,” Dessler said.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 30, 2024

Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are responsible for weather forecasts and severe storm warnings, information we likely take for granted. Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe asserts that talking about climate change is the most important thing we can do.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 14, 2024

Washington County [ PDF of Story ] -- Reading Eagle: Antietam Schools’ Post-Flood Project To Build Temporary Classrooms On Schedule, Officials Say -- FEMA Finalizes Rule To Increase Resilience Against Flooding To Protect Future Taxpayer-Funded Projects -- The Guardian: After Hurricane Beryl’s Destruction, Climate Scientists Fear For What’s Next -- (..)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

According to the Climate Shift Index from Climate Central, record-breaking ocean surface temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico were made 400-800 times more likely due to fossil fuel-driven climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2022

To get an assessment of the progress thus far, as well as an idea if what has to happen next, I turned to two of my colleagues in the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) Climate & Energy Program: Principal Climate Scientist Rachel Licker and Transmission Policy Manager Sam Gomberg. How cool is that?

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

It needs to be an informed decision with equal input from climate scientists and economists. In 1970 in the Boston Globe newspaper, there was a scientist from the atmospheric research in Boulder, Colorado predicted that an ice age would be upon us by the 21st century. Pennsylvania must get this decision on RGGI right.

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ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

degrees or try to cool the planet back down through the massive use of CDR. The choices available to us are no longer ideal,” said Kristina Dahl, a principal climate scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, an NGO. “Yet

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 14, 2024

Heat Pumps! -- TribLive: Pittsburgh Opening 6 Cooling Centers As Temperatures Climb Monday, Tuesday -- WHYY: Philly Declares Heat Health Emergency With Temperatures Nearing 100 Degrees -- AAA Gasoline Prices: PA- $3.68 National- $3.52 Ohio- $3.32 -- Investopedia.com: Will Low Gasoline Prices Continue To Drive An Inflation Slowdown?

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