Global Warming- Setting the Record Straight — What this Week's Supreme Court Order Really MeansBy Megan CeronskyThis week the Supreme Court denied numerous legal attacks seeking further judicial review of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) determination that greenhouse gas emissions are dangerous to human health and welfare, and of other key aspects of EPA’s first generation of climate policies. The Court agreed to hear arguments on one narro […]
- Making regrettable substitution a thing of the pastBy EDF BlogsMichelle Harvey is a Senior Project Manager in EDF's Corporate Partnership Program. Regrettable substitution. Informed substitution. The first sounds like a problem – and it is. The second is the way you avoid the first. In the world of consumer products made from mixtures of chemicals – baby lotion, shampoo, cleaners, laundry soap – chemist […]
- Science plays key role in determining amount of oil spilled during 2010 Gulf disasterBy Alisha Renfro, Coastal Scientist, National Wildlife Federation A "vessel of opportunity" skims oil spilled after the Deepwater Horizon/BP well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010. Photo: NOAA. The unprecedented scale of the 2010 BP oil spill and the further complexity introduced by its deep water location pushed scientists involved in t […]
- Setting the Record Straight — What this Week's Supreme Court Order Really Means
- State Of The Climate
- August 2013 National OverviewThe average temperature for the contiguous U.S. during August was 73.1°F, 1.0°F above the 20th century average — the 28th warmest such month on record. The nationally-averaged August precipitation total of 2.63 inches was 0.03 inch above average.
- August 2013 Global AnalysisNot Available
- August 2013 Synoptic DiscussionAugust: Normally, the subtropical high pressure belt (called the Bermuda High or Azores High) dominates the weather over the U.S. this time of year, and the polar jet stream normally retreats well into Canada during the summer. This month was a departure from this normal pattern. The weather pattern during August 2013 underwent a change part way through the […]
- August 2013 National Overview
- Global Climate Change – Vital Signs of the Planet – News RSS Feed
- New U.N. report: Humans responsible for climate changeA United Nations panel has released the first part of its much-anticipated six-year update on the state of climate change. The report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says there is 95 percent certainty that humans have caused most of the warming of the planet's surface that has occurred since the 1950s — up from 90 percent certain […]
- New U.N. report: Humans responsible for climate change
Human Induced Climate Change Experiment
- NOAA
- Ocean and coastal observing technology efforts awarded $27.2 million
- Research reveals bottom feeding techniques of tagged humpback whales in Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary
- Deep sea ecosystem may take decades to recover from Deepwater Horizon spill
- Global August temperature ties for fourth highest on record; global ocean temperature ties for record highest
- Sanctuaries establishes new business advisory council
- Air
- EPA Takes Public Comments on Proposal to Delete an Oneida County Site from the Superfund List after Cleanup(New York, N.Y.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed to delete the Ludlow Sand & Gravel site in Paris, New York from the Superfund National Priorities List of the most hazardous waste sites because the site no longer poses a threat to human health or the environment after a successful cleanup of soil and ground water. The site was place […]
- EPA Takes Public Comments on Proposal to Delete an Oneida County Site from the Superfund List after Cleanup
- Water
- EPA Takes Public Comments on Proposal to Delete an Oneida County Site from the Superfund List after Cleanup(New York, N.Y.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed to delete the Ludlow Sand & Gravel site in Paris, New York from the Superfund National Priorities List of the most hazardous waste sites because the site no longer poses a threat to human health or the environment after a successful cleanup of soil and ground water. The site was place […]
- EPA Takes Public Comments on Proposal to Delete an Oneida County Site from the Superfund List after Cleanup
- Ocean Temperatures
- Providence RIRecent Water Temperature: 63.3°F (17.4°C) Observation Date and Time: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 05:54:00 GMT […]
- Newport RIRecent Water Temperature: 63.0°F (17.2°C) Observation Date and Time: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 05:54:00 GMT […]
- Quonset Point RIRecent Water Temperature: 62.4°F (16.9°C) Observation Date and Time: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 05:54:00 GMT […]
- Providence RI
- Invasive Species
- Federal ShutdownFederal ShutdownDue to the lapse in federal government funding this...
- Species Profile -- Khapra BeetleSpecies Profile -- Khapra Beetle Khapra beetles are native to...
- Federal Shutdown
- Energy Research
- Together at last: PPPL binds the heart of the NSTX-U into a complete wholeAfter some 18 months of painstaking preparation, a team of engineers and technicians has bound all 36 magnetic field conductors for the center stack of the National Spherical Torus Experiment Upgrade (NSTX-U) into a unified whole.
- Together at last: PPPL binds the heart of the NSTX-U into a complete whole
- Energy Savers
- Message from the President to U.S. Government EmployeesMessage from the President to U.S. Government Employees Today, the President released a letter to U.S. government employees, thanking them for their service in the light of the current federal government shutdown. Due to the current lapse in federal funding, the Department of Energy's website is accessible, but may not be updated until Congress approve […]
- Message from the President to U.S. Government Employees
- Food And Drugs
- FDA approves new pediatric use for Liposorber Apheresis SystemThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Liposorber LA-15 System to treat pediatric patients with primary focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) either before transplant, or after renal (kidney) transplantation in which there is recurrence of FSGS.
- FDA approves new pediatric use for Liposorber Apheresis System
- Consumer Health
- Island Office Protects Consumers Near and FarIt’s Hispanic Heritage Month. In this story, FDA recounts the history of the agency’s San Juan District office, which ensures that FDA-regulated products made or sold in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands comply with FDA regulations.
- Island Office Protects Consumers Near and Far
Global Warming Is Unequivocal
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released its Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). The report states that it is “extremely likely” humans have been the principal cause of warming since the 1950s. Without making “substantial and sustained reductions” of greenhouse gas emissions, the world can expect an increase of extreme weather including heatwaves and heavy rainfall.
Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia. The atmosphere and ocean have warmed, the amounts of snow and ice have diminished, sea level has risen, and the concentrations of greenhouse gases have increased.
Each of the last three decades has been successively warmer at the Earth’s surface than any preceding decade since 1850. In the Northern Hemisphere, 1983–2012 was likely the warmest 30-year period of the last 1400 years.
Ocean warming dominates the increase in energy stored in the climate system, accounting for more than 90% of the energy accumulated between 1971 and 2010 (high confidence). It is virtually certain that the upper ocean (0?700 m) warmed from 1971 to 2010, and it likely warmed between the 1870s and 1971.