Union of Concerned Scientists
OCTOBER 10, 2024
Next week, October 15 is the anniversary of the enactment of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA). Until Congress acts, otherwise-eligible sick “downwinders” and uranium workers have nowhere to turn, and exposed communities that have been left out of RECA for decades are still being abandoned by their government.
Union of Concerned Scientists
OCTOBER 29, 2024
New scientific information has yielded insights, including updates to our understanding of, and ability to model, the atmosphere, and the studies of the long-term effects of radiation on affected populations have yielded new information. What role should scientists play in nuclear weapons policy?
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Law Columbia
OCTOBER 25, 2024
The next week has the potential to bring important developments for international governance of marine carbon dioxide removal (CDR). Solar radiation management is distinct from CDR. In 2022, the parties agreed to evaluate those four approaches, and how they should be governed. seaweed) for carbon storage.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 19, 2025
In my blog on the potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), which is the conveyor belt of water moving in the Atlantic Ocean, I discussed how regions around the equator are warmer than the poles due to different amounts of incoming solar radiation, that is, energy from the sun. What do I mean by this?
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
Because the Earth is a sphere, it receives incoming light (electromagnetic radiation) from the sun at different intensities depending on what latitude you’re located at. Globally, the circulation of the atmosphere, which governs where weather patterns set up, would change in intensity. How likely is this scenario? degrees Celsius.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 8, 2024
The clock is ticking for the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA), which provides health screenings and compensation for people sickened by radiation from U.S. government to protect the public from dangerous and harmful radiation. nuclear weapons production.
Real Climate
AUGUST 9, 2021
As usual, most of the headlines will also focus on the Summary For Policy Makers (SPM) which was approved word by word by the governments over the last two weeks (full disclosure, I was advising the US delegation), but the full report will be worth dipping into over the next few months (there is a lot there to digest!).
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