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AR6 of the best

Real Climate

Sea level rise is a big deal Use, abuse and misuse of the CMIP6 ensemble The radiative forcing bar chart has gone full circle Droughts and floods are complicated Don’t mention the hiatus. Sea Level Rise: The previous IPCC reports, notably AR4 and AR5 (to a lesser extent) , have had a hard time dealing with SLR.

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Phantastic Job!

Real Climate

It is not as though people have not tried – we discussed this here in 2014, where we made a plea for better graphs of the global temperature. van de Weg, "Long-term Phanerozoic global mean sea level: Insights from strontium isotope variations and estimates of continental glaciation", Gondwana Research , vol. Scotese, B.J.

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Deciphering the ‘SPM AR6 WG1’ code

Real Climate

In addition, ozone depletion higher up in the stratosphere has caused a cooling high up in the atmosphere. The global mean sea level has increased by 20 cm from 1901 to 2018, and the rate of increase has accelerated and is now about 3.7 This is likely an effect of man-made climate change. mm increase every year.

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Ask a Scientist: ‘Danger Season’ Summers Disproportionately Harm Disadvantaged Communities

Union of Concerned Scientists

metro area in 2014, Dr. Declet-Barreto lived in Phoenix, where the average daily temperature now tops 98 degrees F from late May through mid-September. For example, Phoenix is taking heat mitigation seriously by establishing one of the first heat mitigation and response offices at the municipal level. degrees F to as much as 12.6

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Desalination and Alternative Water Supply and Efficiency

Vermont Law

rising sea-levels. between 2014 and 2015, which complicate how seawater desalination. Second, seawater desalination intake cooling structures on coastlines effectuate potentially devastating. cooling structures (using underground intake pipes to avoid impingement and entrainment altogether). population growth.

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Arguments over Solar Geoengineering Research

Legal Planet

SG would cool the Earth, temporarily and imperfectly offsetting some of the climate effects of elevated greenhouse gases, by reflecting a bit (around 0.5% And serious anticipatory adaptation measures, even for risks as well known as coastal inundation from sea-level rise, remain few, weak, and highly contentious.