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More Heat This Weekend–More Inequities of Keeping Cool

Union of Concerned Scientists

As more high temperatures are forecast in the next few days, two of our climate scientists explain how people of color in four cities--Fresno, CA, Miami, FL, Mobile, AL, and Shreveport, LA--are at risk from the effects of urban heat islands.

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Organic aerosols from forests could help cool the planet

Physics World

Researchers in Finland have observed a plant-induced cooling effect in the atmosphere, which strengthens as temperatures increase. Their results could provide important guidance for climate models that include the influence of aerosols in the atmosphere. Organic aerosols are tiny particles that include dust, ash, and pollen.

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Geoengineering Wins Reluctant Interest from Scientists as Earth’s Climate Unravels

Scientific American

More and more climate scientists are supporting experiments to cool Earth by altering the stratosphere or the ocean

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Too Hot to Handle: My First Experience with Extreme Heat

Enviromental Defense

As the climate continues to change and average global temperatures rise, heat domes, heat waves, and extreme temperatures days will become more frequent. But the thing about a heat dome is that the air barely cools off in the evening. That’s why electric heat pumps are an integral climate solution.

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Science denial is still an issue ahead of COP28

Real Climate

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. I could go on.

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Think climate change is messy? Wait until geoengineering

Environmental News Bits

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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Opinion: How does running fare in a warming world?

A Greener Life

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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