By Eric Niiler , The New York Times.  Excerpt: The Earth is out of balance. That’s the message from a United Nations report released late Sunday that looked at how much energy from the sun is absorbed by the Earth or reflected back into space. Researchers found the gap between the two is the biggest since measurements began in 1960, meaning more of the sun’s heat energy is now staying on Earth. And that energy imbalance is heating up the oceans, atmosphere, and frozen regions of the world, according to the World Meteorological Organization’s  State of the Global Climate report . ...said Dr. Deoras, who was not associated with the report... “...all these greenhouse gases, they are just trapping more and more heat. The planet is just not getting a chance to cool down.”...  Full article at https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/climate/energy-imbalance-un-report.html .  See also Inside Climate News article Report Shows Earth’s Climate is Out of Balance, as Indicators Hit Ne...

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https://eos.org/articles/termite-fumigation-in-california-is-fueling-the-rise-of-a-rare-greenhouse-gas By  Jenessa Duncombe , Eos/AGU.  Excerpt: New research has suggested that the nationwide rise of the potent greenhouse gas sulfuryl fluoride comes almost entirely from termite fumigations in the greater Los Angeles area. ...The method rose in popularity after the Montreal Protocol phased out another common fumigant, methyl bromide, that was found to erode the ozone layer. But research in  2008  and  2009  revealed that sulfuryl fluoride has a relatively high  global warming potential  and sticks around longer than initially thought. The gas has a global warming potential of more than 4,000 times that of carbon dioxide over 100 years and remains in the atmosphere for about 36 years.…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2021/russia-greenhouse-gas-emissions/ By  Steven Mufson ,  Isabelle Khurshudyan ,  Chris Mooney ,  Brady Dennis ,  John Muyskens  and  Naema Ahmed , The Washington Post.  Excerpt: On the morning of Friday, June 4, an underground gas pipeline running through the ancient state of Tatarstan sprang a leak. And not a small one. In a different era, the massive leak might have gone unnoticed. But hovering 520 miles above the Earth, a European Space Agency satellite was keeping watch. The four-year-old Copernicus Sentinel-5P, which orbits the planet 14 times a day, looks for traces of methane and other gases. ...Crews from the natural gas giant Gazprom hurried to repair a defect in the steel pipeline and stem the rush of methane  —  an invisible but powerful greenhouse gas  —  which was escaping into the atmosphere at a breakneck rate of approximately 395 metric tons an hou...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/science/nobel-prize-physics-manabe-klaus-parisi.html Source: By Cade Metz ,  Marc Santora  and  Cora Engelbrecht , The New York Times.  Excerpt: The work of Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi “demonstrate that our knowledge about the climate rests on a solid scientific foundation,” the committee said. ...In 1967, Dr. Manabe developed a computer model that confirmed the critical connection between the primary greenhouse gas — carbon dioxide — and warming in the atmosphere.…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/06/16/earth-heat-imbalance-warming/ Source: By  Tik Root , The Washington Post.  Excerpt: The amount of heat Earth traps has roughly doubled since 2005, contributing to more rapidly warming oceans, air and land, according to  new research from NASA and  the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.... 

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/04/california-hunt-greenhouse-gas-leaks-and-super-emitters-monitoring-satellites Source:  By  Paul Voosen , Science Magazine.  Excerpt: In December 2016, soon after advisers to President Donald Trump threatened to shut off NASA’s climate-observing satellites, California Governor Jerry Brown made a famous promise: “If Trump turns off the satellites,” he said  while addressing  a geoscience meeting, “California will launch its own damn satellites.” That promise is now a reality, with California and partners set to launch by 2023 two satellites to spot and monitor plumes of planet-warming carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and methane. If all goes right, dozens more could follow. The $100 million  Carbon Mapper  project, announced today and financed by private philanthropists including Michael Bloomberg, will advance efforts to track concentrated emissions of greenhouse gases, which rise from fossil fuel power plants, leaky pipe...