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Study estimates California’s GHG reductions since 2003 could be wiped out by 2020 wildfires

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In an open-access report in the journal Environmental Pollution , researchers from UCLA and the University of Chicago estimate that California’s wildfire carbon dioxide equivalent (CO 2 e) emissions from 2020 (~127 mmt CO 2 e ) are approximately two times higher than California’s total greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions since 2003.

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Copenhagen Diagnosis Released, Detailing Accelerating Indicators of Climate Change In Last Three Years

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A team of 26 climate scientists from Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States have published the “Copenhagen Diagnosis”, an interim synthesis report on developments in climate change science from mid-2006 to the present day. “The 2007 IPCC Assessment.

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Met Office Climate Scientist: “Apocalyptic Predictions” Of Climate Change Can Impede Understanding Of Long-Term Warming Trends

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News headlines vie for attention and it is easy for scientists to grab this attention by linking climate change to the latest extreme weather event or apocalyptic prediction. But in doing so, the public perception of climate change can be distorted. This has been picked up on the climate sceptics’ websites.

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Scientists find night-warming effect over large wind farms in Texas

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Large wind farms in certain areas in the United States appear to affect local land surface temperatures, according to a paper published in the journal Nature Climate Change. Nature Climate Change. —co-author Somnath Baidya Roy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Credit: Liming Zhou et al.,

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Radar Imaging Could Be the Key to Monitoring Climate Change

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Moreira’s technology also helps to track the effects of climate change. in engineering at the Technical University of Munich. He founded the IEEE GRSS Germany Section in 2003 and served as the society’s 2010 president. Moreira earned his Ph.D.

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Study using extreme value theory finds lack of uniform trends but increasing spatial variability in rainfall extremes in India

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These findings, published in Nature Climate Change , are contrary to results of some earlier work on this subject. Ganguly noted that the Nature Climate Change paper is the result of a team effort with researchers from diverse disciplines. Nature Climate Change (2011) doi: 10.1038/nclimate1327.

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Study measures the effect of regional change in clouds caused by ships’ emissions; masking GHG warming

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This puffy line is not just exhaust from the engine, but a change in the clouds that’s caused by small airborne particles of pollution. New research led by the University of Washington (UW) is the first to measure this phenomenon’s effect over years and at a regional scale. Michael Diamond/University of Washington. C, or 1.8 ?F,

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