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The water south of Greenland has been cooling, so what causes that?

Real Climate

An AMOC weakening by 15 % thus cools the region at a rate of 0.15 x 10 14 W and according to model simulations can fully explain the observed cooling trend (2). So in comparison, the cooling effect of a 15 % AMOC slowdown is over 1,000 times larger than the direct cooling effect of the Greenland meltwater. References.

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Should the official Atlantic hurricane season be lengthened?

Real Climate

The difference is due largely to the differences in the regional atmospheric response that occurs in concert with the SST warming. In particular, they don’t just respond to SST changes, but also how the atmosphere changes as the SSTs change. The key to understanding this lies in understanding what tropical storms respond to.

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Ask a Scientist: Gas Plants Disproportionately Harm Marginalized Communities

Union of Concerned Scientists

Responsible for 12 percent of all US global warming emissions from human activities, methane traps significantly more heat per molecule than carbon dioxide, making it 86 times more harmful for the first 20 years after it is released into the atmosphere. percent higher than the number of wealthier residents, according to a 2022 UCS study.

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Weather satellite sheds light on ‘Great Dimming’ of Betelgeuse star

Physics World

This, astronomers believe, allowed the cloud to cool and condense into dust that blocked some of Betelgeuse’s light. He and his collaborators then realized that Himawari-8 also had a constant view of Betelgeuse over four years back to 2017. The satellite revealed that the star itself cooled by 140 °C.

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Antarctic extreme events: ‘All-time records are being shattered not from decades ago, but from the last few years and months’

Frontiers

For example, Antarctica acts to cool our planet by reflecting solar radiation back to space by virtue of the brightness of its snow surface. Antarctica is such a place – remote from society yet influentially connected to the world’s environment that it relies on for survival. The world’s largest ever heatwave (38.5C

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Using Clouds to Fight Climate Change

HumanNature

Student in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University Most people remember the water cycle they learned in school: water evaporates from lakes, rivers, and the ocean, air carrying this moisture rises, cools, condenses, and forms clouds, and these clouds precipitate water back down to the surface.

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Book review : Regeneration by Paul Hawken

Edouard Stenger

Back to 2017, I had loved listening to famous environmentalist Paul Hawken present his book Drawdown. Eventually, CO2 levels in the atmosphere would return to 350 ppm. This might be some crazy utopia, or it might just be the future we all collectively build.

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