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Another dot on the graph

Real Climate

and the never-ending insistence of some solar enthusiasts that a dramatic cooling is right around the corner, these are not serious issues. The size of this cooling varies in the records, most of all in the satellite-derived AIRS v7 data, where the cooling is quite pronounced, and not at all in the ERA5 reanalysis.

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A Dangerous Disruption

Legal Planet

First, the cooling from the reflective materials they will inject, for which they are already selling carbon credits, charging $10 per gram of SO 2 released (!) Pinatubo, widely used as an analogy for SAI, put about 15M tons of sulfur aerosols in the stratosphere and cooled the Earth a little less than 1°C over the following year.

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Deciphering the ‘SPM AR6 WG1’ code

Real Climate

Another clue indicating a shortcoming is if you look at the atmospheric CO 2 -concentrations over time to see how much impact the IPCC reports have had on the real policy-makers in the world (Figure below). The cause of our changing climate is the increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations that we have released into the air.

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Alaska Communities Struggle for Baseline Water Data Amid Climate Uncertainty

Circle of Blue

The summer of 2019 began with its usual verve, and as May turned to June turned to July, the height of the busy season, the sleepy town was still dreaming. But between June and August of 2019, fewer than three inches of rain had fallen , roughly half a foot behind seasonal averages. Fishing charters fill. Bellies, too.

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The CO2 problem in six easy steps (2022 Update)

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The fact that there is a natural greenhouse effect (that the atmosphere restricts the passage of infra-red (IR) radiation from the Earth’s surface to space) is easily deducible from; i) the mean temperature of the surface (around 15ºC) and, ii) knowing that the planet is normally close to radiative equilibrium. in IPCC TAR).

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Should the official Atlantic hurricane season be lengthened?

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1 Average number of named storms by day of the year in the historical record from 1851–2019 (dark blue line). The difference is due largely to the differences in the regional atmospheric response that occurs in concert with the SST warming. The days of formation for the 2020 named storms are shown by the red squares.

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Sea Level Rise is Already Threatening Communities

Union of Concerned Scientists

The primary cause of accelerating sea level rise is human activity As people burn fossil fuels and emit heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide, our atmosphere and our oceans warm up. Cool, right?) A 2019 UCS analysis, Underwater , found that Charleston can expect roughly 500 homes to flood on a chronic basis by 2035.

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