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AUGUST 22, 2011

An international team of researchers has confirmed the presence of a deep-reaching ocean circulation system off Iceland—the North Icelandic Jet (NIJ)—that could significantly influence the ocean’s response to climate change in previously unforeseen ways.

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APRIL 12, 2021

A team of scientists from Heriot-Watt University has found the waters in the Faroe-Shetland Channel (FSC) are teeming with oil-eating bacteria. We demonstrate that bacterioplankton communities were significantly different across water samples of contrasting origin and depth. Angelina G.

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APRIL 17, 2010

A new study co-authored by CSIRO (Australia) scientists Paul Durack and Dr. Susan Wijffels finds evidence that the world’s water cycle has already intensified. The stronger water cycle means arid regions have become drier and high rainfall regions wetter as atmospheric temperature increases. Source: Durack and Wijffels. ºC since 1950.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Significant climate anomalies 2008/2009. Source: Climate Change Compendium. Losses of tropical and temperate mountain glaciers affecting perhaps 20-25% of the human population in terms of drinking water, irrigation and hydro-power. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Ecosystems.

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DECEMBER 5, 2016

Members of the Marine Algae Industrialization Consortium (MAGIC), led by Duke University in North Carolina, have published an open-access paper in the journal Oceanography presenting the large-scale industrial cultivation of marine microalgae (ICMM) as an answer to pressing global energy, food and climate security issues.

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MARCH 6, 2010

This article shows that including offsets in climate change legislation would likely make an emissions program more cost-effective by: (a) providing an incentive for non-regulated sources to generate emission reductions; and (b) expanding emission compliance opportunities for regulated entities. Assuming the offset is legitimate—i.e.,

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NOVEMBER 25, 2009

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.

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APRIL 4, 2009

The European Commission has published a white paper—“ Adapting to climate change: Towards a European framework for action ”—outlining the framework of a two-phase strategic approach to help the EU cope with the impacts of climate change. European Commissioner for the Environment Stavros Dimas.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2011

Analysis by researchers at Rice University suggests that the theory that the release of massive amounts of carbon from methane hydrate frozen under the seafloor 56 million years ago drove a massive climate change incident—the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)—is quite possible. Guangsheng Gu, Gerald R.

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APRIL 27, 2009

The mean cost of cost of climate change for the four countries—Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam—under a “business-as-usual” scenario and if market and non-market impacts and catastrophic risks are all considered could be equivalent to losing 6.7%

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JUNE 17, 2009

Widespread climate-related impacts are occurring now in the US and are expected to increase. A product of the interagency US Global Change Research Program, the 190-page report was commissioned in 2007 and completed this spring. It is clear that climate change is happening now. Source: USGCRP. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 15, 2011

A new set of buoys in Alaska waters will help scientists understand how climate change may be affecting the pH level of northern seas. It was assembled at UAF’s Seward Marine Center with the help of Chris Sabine, a senior scientist and co-principal investigator at NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory.

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JANUARY 30, 2013

Andrews have demonstrated that ammonia can be synthesized directly from air (instead of N 2 ) and H 2 O (instead of H 2 ) under a mild condition (room temperature, one atmosphere) with supplied electricity which can be obtained from renewable resources such as solar, wind or marine. —Lan et al. Rong Lan, John T.

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OCTOBER 16, 2009

The report estimates that carbon emissions equal to half the annual emissions of the global transport sector are being captured and stored by marine ecosystems such as mangroves, salt marshes and seagrasses. Marine-living organisms range from plankton and bacteria to seagrasses, saltmarsh plants and mangrove forests. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 25, 2020

Small particles in exhaust from burning fossil fuels creates “seeds” on which water vapor in the air can condense into cloud droplets. More particles of airborne sulfate or other material leads to clouds with more small droplets, compared to the same amount of water condensed into fewer, bigger droplets. C, or 1.8 ?F, Diamond, M.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Researchers in the Laboratoire d'Océanographie at Villefranche (LOV) (CNRS / UPMC) have demonstrated that key marine organisms, such as deep-water corals and pteropods (shelled pelagic mollusks) will be significantly affected by ocean acidification caused by anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions during the years to come. Weinbauer M.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The CMA CGM Group has already begun to respond to climate change by using liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a transitional maritime fuel. The Fund is structured around four lines of focus: First focus: Supporting the development and production of renewable fuels.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The leaders of the world have just returned from the UN's latest climate change summit, COP26 , in which the countries that have signed on to the Paris Agreement upped their commitments to fight climate change. IEEE Spectrum : What role does Silver Lining play in climate research or advocacy? In 2015, the U.S.

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JANUARY 30, 2009

Green areas indicate waters supersaturated with aragonite carbonate and favoring shell formation, with darker color indicating more favorable conditions. Red areas are those where waters are under-saturated in aragonite and so hostile to shell formation by marine organisms, with darker color indicating greater under-saturation.

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DECEMBER 12, 2019

— The ordinances focus on building decarbonization—the strategic lowering of climate-changing emissions from buildings—including five that move toward building electrification. New nonresidential construction must be all-electric and install solar generation.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Water covers 72 percent of the Earth’s surface, its volumes host 80 percent of biodiversity and play a pivotal role in global phenomena, such as climate change. Pioneering underwater network technology There are a few marine research stations scattered around the globe (like needles in algal stacks).

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APRIL 18, 2009

New calculations made by marine chemists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) suggest that low-oxygen “dead zones” in the ocean will expand significantly over the next century, with severe effects on marine animals. This could have significant consequences for marine life in these zones.

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DECEMBER 16, 2009

This is an increase 100 times faster than any change in acidity experienced in the marine environment over the last 20 million years, giving little time for evolutionary adaptation within biological systems, the report says. Carbonate ion concentrations are now lower than at any other time during the last 800,000 years.

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JULY 9, 2009

Requiring ships to use marine fuel with 0.1% In a 2007 study, Winebrake and James Corbett from the University of Delaware (who is a co-author of the current study) concluded that pollution from marine shipping causes approximately 60,000 premature cardiopulmonary and lung cancer deaths around the world each year. Credit: ACS.

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AUGUST 2, 2020

Researchers from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel have found that considerable quantities of the greenhouse gas methane escape uncontrolled into the water from abandoned oil and gas wells in the North Sea. Haeckel, more than 15,000 boreholes have been drilled in the entire North Sea. Böttner, C., Haeckel, M. Schmidt, C.

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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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JUNE 10, 2021

However, in the MSR, molten salts play a key role in the reactor core, including as a coolant instead of water as used by most currently operating reactors. MSR is a carbon-free energy source that can efficiently respond to climate change issues and is a next-generation technology that meets the vision of Samsung Heavy Industries.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2012

KPMG developed 3 nexuses linked by climate change to represent the challenges of sustainable growth. The 10 global sustainability megaforces that may impact business over the next two decades are: Climate Change: This may be the one global megaforce that directly impacts all others. Source: KPMG. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 10, 2009

Through a recent modeling experiment, a team of NASA-funded researchers have found that future concentrations of carbon dioxide and ozone in the atmosphere and of nitrogen in the soil are likely to have an important but overlooked effect on the cycling of water from sky to land to waterways. Credit: NASA. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The potential for high-temperature electrolysis in the production of e-fuels is also improved by the possibility to produce a mixed gas of hydrogen and carbon monoxide required in Fischer-Tropsch synthesis by feeding carbon dioxide and water vapour directly into an electrolyser operating at a temperature of about 700°C.

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JULY 14, 2022

“Our planet’s oceans are full of information that can help us protect at-risk marine life, allow ships to select more fuel-efficient routes, crack down on illegal fishing, better understand the impacts of climate change, and more,” Angus says. The IEEE member also belongs to the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society.

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MAY 5, 2011

A two-part study by scientists from the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Los Alamos National Laboratory provides a detailed scenario based on a novel combination of two computer models of how climate change could impact millions of tons of methane frozen in sediment beneath the Arctic Ocean.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Coccolithophores —unicellular, eukaryotic phytoplankton (algae)—have been increasing in relative abundance in the North Atlantic over the last 45 years, as carbon input into ocean waters has increased. The CPR survey was launched by British marine biologist Sir Alister Hardy in the early 1930s. —Anand Gnanadesikan.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

Today’s Hot Dot comes courtesy of our our ultra-connected pal, Joe Romm of Climate Progress: Here’s the headline he gave it: Geological Society: Acidifying oceans spell marine biological meltdown “by end of century”.

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APRIL 28, 2010

As of 10:40 am 27 April, an irregular sheen of oil on the Gulf waters had spread to 100 miles by 45 miles at its extremes. No populated areas are expected to be affected by the controlled burn operations and the reponsders anticipated impacts to marine mammals and sea turtles. Tags: Oil Ports and Marine. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 22, 2010

That’s three times the amount estimated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This is especially the case for those draining nitrogen-enriched urbanized and agricultural watersheds, highlighting the importance of managing nitrogen before it reaches open water. Beaulieu et al. PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.1011464108.

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MARCH 4, 2013

The monetary subsystem generates 52% (climate change), 44% (acidification), 38% (photochemical oxidants), 26% (particulate matter), 19% (marine eutrophication), and 16% (terrestrial ecotoxicity) of total emissions, of which 70?80% 80% is due to activities in the Europe region.

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