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Rapid Sea Level Rise in the Tropical Southwest Indian Ocean in the Recent Two Decades, Huang et al., Geophysical Research Letters:
Closing out 2023
According to our database, this year in our academic research section we ve eyeballed, aggregated and listed 6,755 peer reviewed climate-connected research articles, with 42,629 involved investigators and published in 215 journals. Demonstrating both the tight continuity and integration of the overall climate research enterprise as well as climate consilience in plain sight, this year s new reports established their respective new research launching points by citing 360,902 previous works. Nearly 63% of new work this year was available as open access in one form or another, a solid win for climate communications.
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From this week s government and NGO section, Flaws in EPA’s Monitoring and Verification of Carbon Capture Projects, Preet Bains, Environmental Integrity Project (pdf):
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How warped are we by fossil fuel dependency? Despite Russia s invasion of Ukraine, 35-40 million cubic meters per day of Russian natural gas are piped across Ukraine for European consumption every single day, right now. In order to secure European cooperation against Russian aggression, Ukraine must help to finance its own destruction at the hands of one of the world s largest petro-kleptocracies, assisting its attacker in marketing what has become a transcendently toxic geopolitical hazard. Publishing in Energy Policy, Ah-Voun, Chyong & Li describe how this tortuously ironic knot might be unraveled, in Europe s energy security: From Russian dependence to renewable reliance. People keen on self-respect may appreciate the authors contribution to showing how to crawl from a moral and ethical cesspit.