Skeptical . . . Very diplomatic ✌️
This is when some people will look back at the promise to “build a wall” and think: “yep, that man sure was riiight”
WASF
DA retweeted
The Nino index (Nino3.4) has just reached Nino-neutral, but global SST (sea surface temperature) has matched the highest level for this date, which was achieved during the last El Nino.
Super warming is clear. Look for a global temperature soon of at least +1.7C, even if the "Super" El Nino turns out to be half-baked.
The University of Maine Climate Change Institute has a spectacular interactive graphic that they update daily. It is a valuable research and communications tool.
Link to graph: climatereanalyzer.org/clim/s…
“Things fall apart; the maintenance schedule cannot hold.”
The echo in our time from words written more than 100 yrs ago resonates . . .
Indeed the worst are full of passionate intensity; our ceremony of innocence shall be drowned/overtaken by small things, as AS writes about🫤
NEW: When it comes to climate foresight, the small stuff really adds up.
alexsteffen.substack.com/p/t…
Properly good “chat” ✌️
Covers NoAtl warming, and also Southern Ocean circulation etc.
Eye opening stuff 😵💫
Cause of Extreme North Atlantic Warming in 2023 with Matthew England
youtube.com/live/39T7bW7KA18…
@danmiller999
@LeonSimons8
This is a “climate report” that should feature periodically in the (mainstream) news so that, you know, we could see that actions & policies are starting to move things in the right direction . . . ✌️
Occasional reminder where you can find all of my weather/climate posts and data viz: #ClimateChange #SciComm
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ALT Screenshot showing a variability of different climate-related graphics for different climate change indicators
Can you color-code the decades?
A. I’m curious 😬
B. If it’s as we suspect, a good visual of the changes being wrought goes a long way towards bringing others along!
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The upshot of Earth Energy Imbalance (EEI) in a nutshell 🫠
Thx for the decadal plot — illustrates the point well✌️
Vast majority (>90%) of excess energy retained by Earth system is in the oceans . . .
Even if the seas can still act as a heat sink other effects are a problem😵💫
Day 9 - William E. Rees: The Enigma of Climate Inaction – On the Human N... youtu.be/WDWhjSUu8UY?si=nhq5…
Highly recommend this from Prof. Rees. You owe it to yourself to at least be aware of the world we’ve created.
Climate change is just a symptom of ecological overshoot . . . 🫤
If you have not yet heard (Prof.) William Rees discussing ecological overshoot and the predicament we have created for ourselves, this is highly recommended:
Our Ecological Footprint and its Consequences youtu.be/7uWud8RZNE4?si=83J8…
Even if you have—still recommended 😬
#COP28
If there is going to be some attempt to turn this around, the sooner the better.
The *path* taken to a lower/no emissions world is the most important aspect of whatever level we finally reach.
Updated annual temperature anomalies in the #Arctic from 1950 to 2023 - wait until the last decade..
+ Data from cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cd…
+ Graphic at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-…
Okay, so shouldn’t this be motivating action to (at least) begin reducing emissions?
Ironic, tho, that it’ll be the “fleeting impacts” that stir the public to get serious about emissions—that have already created a lumbering giant of ocean heat content driving climate change
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Why…Approve the Willow Project? | The New Yorker
“the Willow project will be vulnerable to climate change. To deal with the problem ConocoPhillips has plans to install chillers to keep the permafrost frozen under its heavy equipment.”
Isn’t it ironic 🫠 newyorker.com/news/daily-com…
“The tempo of change keeps galloping forward even as nothing seems to change. Everything looks much like it did; everything is different than it was.”
As usual, a useful read to steady and steel oneself
"Despair and rage are a set of blinders. The darkest view is not the clearest one."
alexsteffen.substack.com/p/t…
Some say in fire,
while some say in ice
Little did we think
the two would conspire to
bring us to the brink
🫤 – at Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
An excellent piece on the same topics, by @jeffgoodell
“We are dealing with an event that no human has ever witnessed," says one scientist. "We have no analog for this.”
rollingstone.com/politics/po…
Strongly recommend listening to this report by Prof. Box — based on years of research — about the amount of the ice sheet that *is already committed to melt* 🫠
(The paper’s worth a read too)
#ClimateEmergency – at Minato-ku, Tokyo
A big thank you to @SimonMichaux for this reality check on amount of mineral resources needed to abandon fossil fuels
Highly recommend this presentation . . .
A wake-up call to reconsider future energy systems and amounts of energy used before wasting ⏳💶💎
#ClimateEmergency
The quantity of metals required to manufacture just one generation of renewable technology to phase out fossil fuels youtube.com/watch?v=MBVmnKuB…
‘Tell it like it is’ is a guiding principle to my colleague @dancalverley & my new venture climateuncensored.com. The gif in the @Clim8Uncensored tweet captures where we start from …
If you eat regularly the following should be of interest (i.e., concern):
“Shoppers face smaller and worse quality onions and carrots in supermarkets after the record-breaking heatwave and drought conditions ravaged the growing of Britain’s *staple* vegetables . . . “
cc:#COP27
⚠️PAY ATTENTION
This only gets worse-
'Farmers warn extremely dry & hot weather in the UK will add to food price inflation'
Shoppers face smaller & worse quality onions & carrots in supermarkets after the record-breaking heatwave & drought conditions
telegraph.co.uk/business/202…
