Real Climate
OCTOBER 27, 2021
Climate change adaptation was addressed in the Paris Agreement from 2015, the Climate Adaptation Summit in January 2021 , and will be one of four key priorities during the upcoming COP26. However, I would argue that the climate research community has not had a visible presence during any of these meetings.
Circle of Blue
AUGUST 15, 2022
The current water shortages continue the region’s seven-year dry spell, an event that climate scientists link to the warming of the planet. Water shortages have hit Monterrey almost every year since 2015.
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Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
From that baseline hydrologists feed their model, one by one, with historical weather observations from the years 1981 to 2015. The problem: there are more wet years in the 1981 to 2015 period than dry ones. The River Forecast Center starts with current land and water conditions: soil moisture, snowpack, stream flow.
A Greener Life
NOVEMBER 26, 2023
By Anders Lorenzen On the eve of the COP28 climate summit, scientists at the United Nations (UN) have warned that the world is on track for 3 degrees C of warming by the end of this decade. This is double the target that world leaders agreed to in 2015, when the Paris Agreement deal was struck and subsequently implemented.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 20, 2023
Corporate leadership was informed about advances in climate science and incorporated those advances when its scientists built their own models. Regardless, the company publicly cast doubt on the reality of global warming, attempted to discredit climate scientists and climate models, and tried to block climate action.
Real Climate
AUGUST 9, 2021
As climate scientists we tend to look at the IPCC reports a little differently than the general public might. Here are a few things that mark this report out from previous versions that relate to issues we’ve discussed here before: Extreme events are increasingly connected to climate (duh!) 1, SPM, AR5.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 13, 2024
I moved to Merced in 2015 to study for my PhD, and I found a place I could call home. The 2024 State of the Air report I work every day on topics related to air in my role as a Senior Climate Scientist at UCS, through my volunteer grassroots work, and because I want to be a well-informed resident in the San Joaquin Valley.
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