Dangerous heat wave strains Texas power grid
Record-breaking drought and sweltering temperatures are baking parts of the U.S.
James Hansen: May 2021 Global Temperature Update
12-month global temperature should reach minimum near +1.1C in late 2021. Maximum at next El Nino is likely to be near +1.5C due to rising CO 2 , CH 4 , N 2 O, solar irradiance and Earth’s energy imbalance.
NASA: The Land Temperature Bell Curve Heat Up (1950-2020)
This visualization shows that as land temperatures have increased since 1950, hotter days have become more common and colder days have become less common. When the bell curve becomes shorter, one can see more data trending toward the right, revealing hotter days. This visualization shows how the distribution of land temperature anomalies has varied over…
Hansen: The World Has Cooled Off – What’s the Significance?
June Update: A month after Hansen’s post – the index changed considerably, in June NOAA made the following post By James Hansen and Makiko Sato, 13th May 2021. Global temperature in April continues to be much less than a year ago (Fig. 1: left side). ENSO (El Nino Southern Oscillation) is the principal cause of…
Scientists Detect Signs of Abrupt Climate Shift in Arctic
Ice cores obtained years ago document an ominous rise of temperatures, abrupt change manifesting just within a few decades. First scientists thought this must be an error, but slowly they realize what it could mean for us today. Research into the polar ocean, found, it is getting hotter at a rate faster than even the worst…
Harvard: Timescale of Radiative Balance
Speaker: Daniel Schrag, Harvard University https://climatechange.environment.harvard.edu/daniel-schrag
Global Warming is Accelerating
Back in 1982, Exxon’s environmental affairs office circulated an internal report to Exxon’s management which said that the consequences of climate change could be catastrophic, and that a significant reduction in fossil fuel consumption would be necessary to curtail future climate change. It also said that “there is concern among some scientific groups that once…
Polar Vortex: How the Jet Stream and Climate Change Bring on Cold Snaps
Polar Vortex: How the Jet Stream and Climate Change Bring on Cold Snaps https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02022018/cold-weather-polar-vortex-jet-stream-explained-global-warming-arctic-ice-climate-change Temperatures are rising much faster in the Arctic than the global average (“Arctic Amplification”). https://twitter.com/ZLabe/status/1086714347399700480 Broward County declares cold weather emergency https://news.google.com/?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen Be careful and try staying in your house. Large parts of the Country are suffering from tremendous amounts of…
Climate Tipping Points Existential Threat to Our Life Support Systems
November 8, 2018 – Tim Lenton of University of Exeter presents “Tipping Points in Climate and Biosphere Function”. Lenton is co-author of the most discussed climate study from 2018, Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene https://www.pnas.org/content/115/33/8252 Tipping Points in Climate & Biosphere Functions Lenton is co-author of the most discussed climate study from…
CO2 May Make Earth +10-15ºC Hotter, Like Early Paleogene
A new study led by scientists at the University of Bristol has warned that unless we mitigate current levels of carbon dioxide emissions, Western Europe and New Zealand could revert to the hot tropical climate of the early Paleogene period – 56-48 million years ago. https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2018/july/co2-levels-paleogene-period.html Read The Atlantic article here: They were strange days…
Experts Discuss Recent Heat Waves and Atmospheric Changes
The impacts of global warming are now ‘playing out in real-time’. Mike Mann (Penn State), Jennifer Francis (Rutgers), and Noah Diffenbaugh (Stanford), discuss the recent heat waves around the globe, and how it connects with the jet stream pattern, moderated by Markeya Thomas of Climate Signals. Read the conversation summary at ClimateSignals.org https://goo.gl/dK9gku Latest article…
Greenland’s Massive Contribution to Global Sea Level Rise
Glacier half the size of Manhattan breaks off Greenland https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/greenland-glacier-calving-1.4742691 POLAR 2018 https://www.facebook.com/1667646543476558/videos/2059095260998349 The land ice contribution to sea level during the satellite era http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aac2f0/meta ICE ALIVE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okafyLzGvcw Greenland Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfjoI-jliSk Drastic Arctic warm event stuns scientists, as record-breaking temperatures reach the North Pole https://mashable.com/2018/02/26/arctic-heat-wave-north-pole-february-sea-ice Zack Labe https://twitter.com/ZLabe Ocean‐induced melt triggers glacier retreat in Northwest…