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MARCH 2, 2013

The document is a detailed draft technical review of potential environmental impacts associated with the segment of the pipeline in the US, including: impacts from construction, impacts from potential spills, impacts related to climate change, and economic impacts. What Keystone XL would carry. Draft SEIS.

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AUGUST 19, 2020

The results of the study were published in the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. The study, set in Singapore, suggests that better air quality will bring about climate co-benefits in reducing electricity generation via lower household demand, and thus mitigating carbon emissions. —Prof Salvo.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Significant climate anomalies 2008/2009. Source: Climate Change Compendium. Since the 2007 IPCC report, wide-ranging surveys have shown changes to the seasonal behaviour and distribution of all well-studied marine, freshwater and terrestrial groups of plants and animals. Climate Change Science Compendium 2009.

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OCTOBER 12, 2020

The results emphasize the temporal asymmetry between the costs of mitigation and benefits of avoided damages from climate change and thus the long timeframe for which climate change mitigation investment pays off. —Brown and Saunders. PLoS ONE 15(10): e0239520 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0239520. 0239520.

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DECEMBER 23, 2012

The study makes uses new simulations from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Five, to be assessed in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment Report Five (AR 5) due out next fall, to estimate seasonal changes in precipitation, evaporation, water runoff and soil moisture in the near future, 2021-2040.

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JULY 8, 2020

This approach will enable scientists to complete renewable energy studies in future climate scenarios faster and with more accuracy. To be able to enhance the spatial and temporal resolution of climate forecasts hugely impacts not only energy planning, but agriculture, transportation, and so much more. —Stengel et al.

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JULY 26, 2009

Other climate variables used in the analysis are sea surface temperature (SST), sea-level pressure (SLP) from the Hadley center, and vertical velocity, surface winds, and lower tropospheric static stability (potential temperature at 700 mb minus surface temperature) from the ERA-40 reanalysis. a positive feedback). Clement et al. Science Vol.

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JULY 4, 2011

Decreasing autumn and winter rainfall over southern Australia has been attributed to a 50-year decrease in the average intensity of storms in the region—a trend which is forecast to continue for another 50 years, according to The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Australia’s national science agency.

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OCTOBER 21, 2011

The California Air Resources Board on Thursday adopted the final greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions cap-and-trade regulation. When the nation addresses the growing danger of climate change, as I believe it must and will, California’s climate plan will serve as the model for a national program. Earlier post.)

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

At its meeting in Sacramento yesterday, the California Air Resources Board (ARB) adopted targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in 2020 and 2035 associated with passenger vehicle travel in the state’s 18 Metropolitan Planning Organizations. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Land use Policy. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 1, 2021

We need to understand this multiphase chemistry in the atmosphere to design an efficient strategy to manage air pollution and accurately predict future air pollution and climate change impacts. Knowing how these molecules react will help improve the atmospheric models used to forecast air quality and project climate change.

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DECEMBER 11, 2011

Governments at the COP17 meeting decided to adopt some form of a universal legal agreement on climate change as soon. markets all remain in action as effective tools to leverage global climate action and as models to inform. Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). existing climate change.

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The floods in the reserve have added to the heavy damage to key economic resources in Kenya, including livestock, crops and infrastructure. “We Forecasters with the Kenya meteorological department warned on Wednesday about “a surge in rainfall intensity across multiple regions of the country from Thursday through the weekend.”

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NOVEMBER 14, 2016

This is a great help for tackling climate change but it is not enough. The projection for 2015 is based on available energy consumption data for China and the USA, as well as on forecast economic growth for the rest of the world. 2015) “Reaching peak emissions” Nature Climate Change doi: 10.1038/nclimate2892.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2012

KPMG developed 3 nexuses linked by climate change to represent the challenges of sustainable growth. The world is too uncertain and too complex to rely on linear forecasts; therefore, business leaders and policy makers should prepare for the unexpected. —“Expect the Unexpected: Building Business Value in a Changing World”.

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JUNE 26, 2022

Global revenue generated from this industry is forecast to grow from 350 million USD in 2019 to more than 1 trillion USD by 2040 (Morgan Stanley, 2020). The conversation about regulating the environmental impact of the space launch industry needs to start now so we can minimise harm to the stratospheric ozone layer and climate.

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JULY 25, 2013

World use of petroleum and other liquid fuels grows from 87 million barrels per day in 2010 to 97 million barrels per day in 2020 and 115 million barrels per day in 2040, according to the forecast. Non-petroleum liquids resources from both OPEC and non-OPEC sources grow on average by 3.7% million barrels per day.

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However, according to the World Resources Institute , “EVs need to account for 75 percent to 95 percent of passenger vehicle sales by 2030 in order to meet international climate goals aimed at keeping global warming to 1.5 If those sunny forecasts hold up, they certainly won’t hinder other national EV adoption goals. degrees F).”

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MAY 27, 2010

However, the scientists’ computer model forecast that emissions of carbon dioxide from aviation will likely double or triple within the next 50 years. The aviation emission scenarios presented are designed to interpret the SRES and have been developed to aid in the quantification of the climate change impacts of aviation.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2012

The report is not a comprehensive scientific assessment, the authors note; one such is slated to be forthcoming from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2013–14 in its Fifth Assessment Report. The report authors acknowledge that uncertainties remain in projecting the extent of both climate change and its impacts.

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JANUARY 10, 2013

The goal is to show the benefits of coordinated resources in a microgrid system. The individual resources will be operated together in an integrated fashion to maximize their contribution as a resource and the aggregated response will be observed by the CAISO. —Energy Commission Chair Robert B. Weisenmiller.

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AUGUST 7, 2010

The JRC used an novel crop yield forecasting system to provide yield estimates for the main crops across the EU. Based on its findings, the yield forecast for cereals, including wheat, barley and maize, is 5.1 Crop yield forecasts for 2010. Tags: Climate Change Europe. tonnes per hectare across the EU, up 0.7%

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AUGUST 12, 2009

The STEO is a monthly forecast of energy supply, consumption, and prices that looks forward from 12 to 24 months (every January the outlook is extended through December of the following year). The STEO provides a history and forecast of CO 2 emissions from the consumption of the three fossil fuels: coal, natural gas, and petroleum.

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JUNE 3, 2010

while the US GDP is projected to grow by 40%, according to the fifth National Communication on US climate change actions submitted by the US Department of State to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The United States released previous Climate Action Reports in 1994, 1997, 2002, and 2006.

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APRIL 7, 2010

The Water Disclosure Project extends this approach to managing the world’s shrinking water resources, which has become a critical global environmental and quality of life issue. “Water, like climate change, is set to be a key issue for the 21 st century.

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JANUARY 29, 2015

Integrated policies aiming at climate and health objectives work best. Promoting low sprawl and road development, and higher rates of public transit can achieve substantial climate change mitigation, and lower negative effects on health if implemented alongside more stringent controls for vehicle emissions (in particular for buses).

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OCTOBER 10, 2009

A team of climate scientists from eight US national labs and academic institutions have successfully incorporated the nitrogen cycle into global simulations for climate change for the first time, questioning previous assumptions regarding carbon feedback and potentially helping to refine model forecasts about global warming.

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OCTOBER 15, 2010

Taking into account the entire life cycle, replacing petroleum with FT jet fuel derived from fossil fuel resources would likely result in equal or greater CO 2 emissions than petroleum jet fuel refining and combustion. Resources. —Timko et al. Timko et al. Energy & Fuels doi: 10.1021/ef100727t.

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OCTOBER 22, 2015

One of the really interesting things with these grasses is that the climate in which they have found themselves has changed a lot over the last several hundred thousand years. As glaciers and climate change occurred, their populations were pushed south. Interest in developing genomic resources for P. hallii var.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) released the results of California’s first quarterly auction under the cap-and-trade program. That means new jobs, cleaner water and air—and a working model for other states, and the nation, to use as we gear up to fight climate change and make our economy more competitive and resilient.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Images and video distributed through social networking resources such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube ( sample YouTube video) showed vehicles floating down city streets, 80% of which were flooded in Manila at the height of the storm. that “ This could be again a manifestation of climate change. Click to enlarge. Jack Rosebro.

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OCTOBER 10, 2009

The selection was based on a consultation process involving the SET-Plan information system ( SETIS ), which offers up-to-the-minute research results on the status, forecasts and research and development (R&D) investment figures for low-carbon technologies. Technology roadmap.

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MARCH 17, 2009

Among the increasing challenges is that while the sourcing, processing, and delivery of clean water is becoming more energy-intensive, the extraction and refining of fossil fuels and their substitutes is trending towards increasing water requirements per unit of fuel produced as energy companies work with progressively lower grade resources.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Four California state agencies and the independent power grid operator have released a new plan and vision for California’s energy future in advance of the Air Resources Board consideration of a first-in-the-nation rule requiring that a third of California electricity come from renewable sources by 2020. Click to download pdf version.

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MAY 5, 2014

Warmer temperatures and other changes in the atmosphere related to a changing climate, including higher atmospheric levels of methane, spur the chemical reactions that lead to ozone. To examine the impacts of climate change on ozone pollution, NCAR scientist Gabriele Pfister and her colleagues looked at two scenarios.

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MAY 10, 2011

Up to 77% of the world’s energy supply could be met by six key renewables by mid-century under the most optimistic scenario if backed by the right enabling public policies, according to a new report by more than 120 researchers working with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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MARCH 26, 2009

The acute economic and financial crisis must not, he said, be allowed to function as a pretext for slackening efforts to combat climate change. According to Fehrenbach, every third euro of sales generated by Bosch now comes from products that conserve resources and/or protect the environment. billion (US$5.3

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