I'm not sure many folks realize just how persistent the warming from CO2 is.

Here is a set of 1000-year climate model runs (using FaIR) simulating one year of CO2 emissions (40 gigatons in 2020); a millennia later the world has not cooled back down!

This man-made phenomenon is masking the true speed of climate change Climate change is accelerating faster than previously thought, with Earth proving more sensitive to greenhouse gases than expected, new research has revealed.

Here's an article I wrote on the topic a few weeks back!
www.skynews.com.au/insights-and...

Graph of science funding of NASA from 1980 until present with estimated 50% cut included. This drops NASA Science to under $4B. Image source: Casey Dreier/The Planetary Society

Cuts to #science of >50% at NASA and >75% at NOAA would end US climate and space science research.

NASA cuts are '...an "extinction level" event': arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
"At this funding level, Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research is eliminated...": www.science.org/content/arti...

Sky News Weather declares La Nina weather driver now underway Australia is now within its fourth La Nina event in five years – but this one should be the shortest of them all.

La Nina is here. Set to peak in January before easing. Relative Nino values have averaged -0.9C below normal through the last three months. The atmosphere has joined the party too with SOI, tradewinds and cloudiness all in La Nina-like territory.

www.skynews.com.au/australia-ne...

As always, my last post of the year reminder...

Reducing emissions will reduce future climate warming and impacts. The time is now. Visualization made by globalcarbonbudget.org

Thank you all for sticking by in 2024! 🙂