NEW – Western-Mediterranean heatwave ‘almost impossible’ without climate change | w/ comment from Fatima Driouech, Sjoukje Philip
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Climate scientist, occasional juggler, even more occasional author, curious about how the world works.
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Li, Qian (), John Marshall, Craig D. Rye (), Anastasia Romanou, David Rind, and Maxwell Kelley. "Global Climate Impacts of Greenland and Antarctic Meltwater: A Comparative Study", #JClimate 36, 11 (2023): 3571-3590, doi: doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D
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Parking minimums increase costs in US cities, prevent affordable development and cause sprawl. Good explainer from the >>
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My latest piece for featuring an interview with discussing a small detail sometimes overlooked in the study of sea level change
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Climate graphic of the week: Tom and Jerry satellites chase climate change via
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Initiating a “debate” about the rights and lives of oppressed and marginalized people to prove to everyone that you’re a supremely rational impartial being focused only on The Science is, in fact, astonishingly cruel.
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The point of climate denial isn’t to convince us of an alternative fact but to muddy the waters and waste our time so we don’t focus on what’s really important, which is climate solutions (top 5: wind, solar, energy efficiency, stop deforestation, cut CH₄ emissions).
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Texas horror: family asks neighbor to stop shooting guns in his yard because baby was asleep. Cops say he went over and killed five of them - including an 8-year-old. Two children found alive under the bodies of women shielding them.
He’s on the lam.
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Here I explain 14 years ago that drought in the Mediterranean results from our fossil CO2 emissions, in a lecture in Malaga (Spain). That was well-established robust science even back then in 2009. Nobody should be surprised by it now.
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Whether it's because reasonable people have left, or tweets are only being pushed to people who are triggered by climate science or something else, the unremitting celebration of know-nothingness is just... sad.
We do well to realize this is not the real world.
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The comments on this reasonable, helpful and explanatory post by Zeke are something to behold. Almost 100% nonsense, using the stupidest of stupidest contrarian tropes.
Others have commented on this, but climate interactions on Twitter have really degenerated in recent months.
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When I post our @BerkeleyEarth global temperature record, I always get complaints that 1930s were really the warmest decade and our data is wrong.
But while the summers in the 1930s were warm in the US, thats only 2% of the planet. Globally they were nothing compared to today:
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A lot of interest in sort-of-global SSTs (60°S-60°N) at the moment. I made some plots that emphasise (slightly) different aspects. Actual SST, anomalies, and change from the start of the year are all unusual in the context of the satellite period 1982-present in this data set.
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Excellent illustration by of yesterday's record-shattering April heat in southern Spain. A period with a seemingly little trend is followed by a record that smashes anything observed before. This is the result of today's very high underlying forced warming rate.
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Lots of presentations this week in #EGU23 about record-shattering heat extremes by @erichfischer and many others.
The new April heat record in Cordoba airport just demonstrates the nature of these events: the records are not just broken, they are shattered.
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The session on digital twins for climate and weather from February featuring me and many others.
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YouTube version of my lecture today on climate change from space for . It’s a short presentation with a lot of Q&A!
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Minor – or as it’s sometimes called, “nuisance” – flooding is increasing along U.S. coastlines, driven by interwoven factors that include storm surge, tidal changes, and sea level rise, a research project shows.
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How will air pollution affect human health in the next few decades?
Understanding the risks takes an international mix of scientists, computer models, and supercomputers from 🇺🇸, 🇩🇰, and 🇺🇸.
Learn more: go.nasa.gov/40J55PD
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#EarthDay Everyday. All 50 states and at least 241 U.S. cities have warmed since the first Earth Day in 1970. The fastest-warming city is Reno, Nev. and the fastest-warming state is Alaska. See & share where your state and city ranks: climatecentral.org/climate-matter 🌎
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Did you miss all of the great #EarthDay content because you were busy celebrating our planet over the weekend? Here are the highlights:
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This Wed at the Pop-Up: take back the narrative on climate!
of will lead us in considering the climate media landscape, communications research, & takeaways for effective climate conversations.
Wed, 4/26, 7PM
FREE! RSVP: climatemuseum.org/2023-events/20
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Climate Change from Space
Save the date for live webinar with Gavin A. Schmidt (Goddard Institute for Space Studies , NASA, USA)
🗓️Thu, 27th April 2023 (17h CEST, 11h EDT)
Details: issibern.ch/online-seminar
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I made this for 10 years ago.
Previously, only antivaxx quacks embraced the idea that getting sick with a virus was the best way to protect yourself against the virus.
That idea is now mainstream.
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Replying to @19joho and @RedhawkPublica1
Natural immunity is as good, if not better than the vaccine.
The study was published in the respected Lancet journal.
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A NOAA-STAR dataset is born…
Why we should be happy that we are getting an improved understanding of the structural uncertainty in satellite retrievals.
realclimate.org/index.php/arch via
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I love the age-grading of race times. Just by falling apart a little slower than the average bear, my age-graded times are now faster than any 4 mile race I ever ran. 🏃⌛️🙂
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The State of the Global Climate 2022 report is out. Once again greenhouse gases, ocean heat and global sea level reached new records. For global temperature, the past 8 years were the 8 warmest years on record.
public.wmo.int/en/our-mandate
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How’s our planet doing? 🌎🛰
As we head into #EarthDay, here’s a quick roundup of ’s climate vital signs.
Want to learn more about climate change? Head to our site: climate.nasa.gov #EarthDay2023
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A new article by NASA’s Transform to Open Science (TOPS) team shows the many ways the agency is using #OpenScience to foster collaborative research that is helping unlock the secrets of Earth's interconnected systems.
Read more: go.nasa.gov/40nOwbC
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First time I’ve ever seen classism in the catered sandwich boxes. The ‘executive’ lunch seems to be 50% bigger than the pleb lunches we all got.
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With the world heading into a moderate-to-strong El Nino event, its increasingly likely that we might see record warmth globally in 2024, as I discuss with over at : axios.com/2023/04/19/el-
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The natural coastal defense provided by mangrove forests reduce annual flooding significantly in critical hotspots around the world. Without mangroves, flood damages would increase by more than $65 billion annually & 15 million more people would be flooded buff.ly/2THka57
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New paper (with Rei Chemke): nature.com/articles/s4158
Main result: In recent decades the Hadley circulation in the Northern hemisphere has been weakening. The weakening of the circulation is attributable to anthropogenic emissions.
Summary - 👇
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Hard to overstate how much worse things are going to get in a country where the population is armed to the teeth then conditioned to live in a constant paranoid state of fear.
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𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝟏𝟗𝟔𝟎-𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟎: 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐲 𝐠𝐨?
von Schuckmann et al.
📰New paper published today
🧵Thread on the important findings
📎Link to paper: essd.copernicus.org/articles/15/16
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Periodic efforts to claim that issues w/weather stations undermine global warming are not novel. Better understanding of issues is helpful to improving the adjustments, but when folks complain about that too, it’s not a good faith argument.
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Additionally, totally independent data from satellites also shows similar rates of global warming over the periods of overlap.
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Basic reminder. Homogenization adjustments (on land and ocean) for instrument changes, station moves, urban heating etc, *reduce* the long term trends.
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Climate contrarian: Breaking news! Instrument changes can affect local temperature readings!
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Climate contrarian: Attempts by climatologists to correct for instrument differences are fraudulent manipulation of raw data!
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A climate scandal is brewing down under, with the Australian Bureau of Meteorology refusing to release data that cast doubt on its alarmist global warming claims. The Daily Sceptic's environment editor has the story. dailysceptic.org/2023/04/17/cli
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Photos of children handling guns at the NRA annual meeting in Indianapolis this weekend by at .
Gun violence is now the leading cause of death of children in America.
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