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As Soon as Possible

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2015 ; Connolly et al, 2021 ). And also, let’s be clear, this mysteriously justified temperature series has been created explicitly to demonstrate a connection to the HS93 solar reconstruction – that was the case in the Soon et al (2015) paper, the Connolloy et al (2021) paper and now in this new Soon et al paper.

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Should the official Atlantic hurricane season be lengthened?

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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. 2015 ) are not clearly supported. 2013 ; Sobel et al. Zhang et al. Klotzbach et al.

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Orange glow and plants below: Wildfire smoke’s impact on crops

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Candidate in the Department of Atmospheric Science and Trainee in the CSU InTERFEWS Program Figure 1: Cover art for The War of the Worlds novel by H.G. Large ash particles that rain down and blanket nearby communities are only a fraction of what wildfires billow into the atmosphere. in the atmosphere over the western U.S.

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Back in Black: Creating positive changes by focusing on a short-lived pollutant

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When fuels are burned to create energy in a process called combustion, black carbon along with carbon monoxide and other compounds are created because there is not enough oxygen in the atmosphere for the reaction to go to completion. Whenever there are combustion processes, of which there are many in our industrial society (e.g.,

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Forest recovery in the age of megafires – how can we predict if forests grow back?

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When forests burn, that carbon is released into the atmosphere and contributes to greenhouse gases (mostly as carbon dioxide). Science 2006 , 313 (5789), 940–943. International Journal of Wildland Fire 2015 , 24 (7), 892–899. Forests are incredibly good at storing carbon, in both soils and plants. Forest Wildfire Activity.

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A deep dive into the IPCC’s updated carbon budget numbers

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C warming estimate between 1850-1900 and 2006-2015. Let’s dive into each piece of this puzzle to understand what has changed between SR1.5 Warming to date – SR1.5 used a 0.97°C This was a crude estimate and therefore not included as a central part of the remaining carbon budget numbers in SR1.5

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Why is future sea level rise still so uncertain?

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Meanwhile, note that the factors listed above involve the whole Earth system: the oceans, the cryosphere, the atmosphere, the solid earth and lithosphere, and a full range of scales, from the city block and shoreline, to ice dynamics that change over kilometers, to GRD footprints, to the whole global ocean. Back in 2015, Pollard et al.

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