The published work shows a stairstep progression with large amounts of heat being released from the ocean to the atmosphere during el nino. This is not a ,'driver' per se, but heat movement. Changes in ocean surface wind patterns may lead to increases warming rates in the future
The last time we had CO2 levels anywhere near todsy's values the ancient Sonoran Desert stretched all the way up to central Nebraska.
Hi bob, it is so good of you and to see the good of you in your posting. Thank you!
When that multidecade negative trend caused by stack land based aerosols flips to a near continuous positive PDO and correlates to a strong El Nino we will see our first 6 months of GMST at >2.0C
When a tree becomes diseased it overproduces flowers and seeds to pass on new life before it dies. Humanity's sole purpose was to create new AI and now it will finish the job.
Smaller scale sand batteries are excellent for storing solar electric generated process heat for 24 hour cycles.
Sand batteries are literally just silos of sand that retain heat exceptionally well -- so well that they can be tied to heat exchange systems to serve as proxy *electrical* batteries. Finland's new model can store enough power (100 MWh) to heat an entire town for a week.
newatlas.com/energy/large...
Our solarpunk present is shaping up to be a weird mix of thermopunk, electropunk, and cyberpunk (derogatory).
Knocking someone up usually takes far shorter time :-D
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BREAKING: Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Gaza killed at least 15 people, including three journalists, one of whom worked for Reuters, Palestinian health officials said reut.rs/45OFPfr
He had incriminating Trump/Epstein docs.
Targets need to be in the form of end use fossil fuel consumption, not carbon.
Volcanism too (seeing Pinatubo in the graph shown)
CA pilot test of Virtual Power Plant, if incorporating V-2-G will change everything.
About 5 years worth of total externalized costs due to air pollution. (Asthma, etc.)
Blasphemer!!!
317,000 is a gross underestimate.
Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last. If this exponential rate of growth can continue, we will soon live in a very different world, @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.
Cheers! Brother in Arms.
Oooh reference please???
I remember the haiatus period, mocking the deniers, "should be cooling anytime now. . ."
I would say that more scientists are traumatized by 'climate gate'.
*shows graph with an anomalous 0.54C of warming since 2012 (13 years) . . .
Time series of global annual average temperature anomalies from 1850 to 2024, and the projected range for 2025.
Following a relatively cool May, the odds of 2025 being warm enough to set a new annual record have fallen to only 5.8%.
More likely, 2025 will become either then 2nd or 3rd warmest year on record.
berkeleyearth.org/may-2025-tem...
(sigh) looks down. . . shakes head. . .
I remember when German trains were on time and German futbol teams won games. . .
The @wmo-global.bsky.social latest report is a stark warning: we're nearing 2°C warming by 2030, with alarming predictions for the next 5 years. Our Prof. @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social calls it a "climate emergency." (...) which, among other crises, we shouldn't forget.
time.com/7290141/wmo-...
I have long posited this as a "third forcing feedback" associated with aerosol emission reduction. Have a long bet with zeke hausfather on it. Weak but large area impacts not localized to shipping lanes.
They don't take into account non-shipping lane sulphate reductions on surface winds.
