CarbonBrief recently published a guest article by Robert M. DeConto, Pamela Pearson, and David Pollard, called Overshooting 2C risks rapid and unstoppable sea level rise from Antarctica. Here is now a text-to-speech conversation for people who like to listen to it. Visit Overshooting 2C risks rapid and unstoppable sea level rise from Antarctica to follow…
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The 2021 published study Non-Monotonic Response of the Climate System to Abrupt CO2 Forcing (10.1029/2020GL090861) involves research from the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Center for Climate System Research, and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. The study key points are: We examine the response of the climate system…
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An international team of scientists, from Texas A&M University, the University of Southampton and the Swiss University ETH Zürich, led by the University of St Andrews, published their findings in the study, Atmospheric CO2 over the Past 66 Million Years from Marine Archives. The international team pulled together data collected over the last 15 years using high-tech laboratory techniques. The combined data spans the…
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A NASA / JPL study published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology found that the potent greenhouse gas methane is leaking from the Permian Basin oilfield, located in Texas and New Mexico. Sensor-equipped aircraft probed the atmosphere over the region for a month, and identified 123 hot spots – leaking 55 tons (50 metric…
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A new study be the University of Manitoba, finds that for every degree of global warming, the open water period in the Arctic will increase by roughly one month. The study, Arctic open-water periods are projected to lengthen dramatically by 2100 – published in the Nature journal Communications Earth & Environment, notes: The shrinking of Arctic-wide…
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Climate scientist James Hansen in his latest blog, Fighting the Battles, Winning the War – once again reminds us of the carbon fee-and-dividend. And that President Joe Biden has the authority to bring it forward. Meanwhile, Canada already has a carbon fee-and-dividend, with British Columbia operating a system very similar to Fee and Dividend, as…
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In the past view weeks the price of Bitcoin went from $48,000 down to $26,000! Bitcoin lost almost 50%! This trend came after Elon Musk’s Tesla announced to stop accepting Bitcoin. “We are concerned about rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining and transactions, especially coal, which has the worst emissions of any…
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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…
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Since we suggested that NIO shares should be part of a portfolio, when looking to help accelerate the electric car revolution, the stock has risen tremendously, by roughly 400 percent. Nio has risen to the point where further investments need careful considerations, because even with more gain most of it will be from hype feeding…
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Wer die News der letzten paar Wochen verfolgt hat wird feststellen daß zwar viel über den sehr seltenen Polar Wirbel Zerfall geschrieben wird, aber bei den Hintrgründen dazu, dazu scheinen Journalisten keinen Bock zu haben, es zu recherchiren. Seit etwa 2010 wird vermehrt in der Community von Wissenschaftlern die den Klimawandel erforschen über extreme Winter…
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The Autogefühl in-depth review of the 2021 Audi RS e-tron GT. Taking a look at Exterior, Interior and the driving experience.
Jörg Kachelmann ist Meteorologe und so vom Beruf her schonmal kein richtiger Experte wenn es um Klima geht. Natürlich darf sich jeder zum Thema äußern, solange es sachlich und fundiert ist, man sich auf Studien beruft, den wissenschaftlichen Dialog sucht. Bei Jörg Kachelmann ist das aber anders, er tweetet regelmäßig zum Thema Klima und weiss…
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