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New journal: Nature 2023?

Real Climate

The mix of warming and cooling effects and different timescales for each, makes calculating the impact hard. a net cooling!). 2024) Looked at the impact of Chinese aerosol emission decreases from 2010 to 2020 and saw increases in North Pacific ocean temperatures. W/m 2 over 2022-2023″ (i.e. They find a radiative forcing 0.2±0.11

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Science denial is still an issue ahead of COP28

Real Climate

In an unchanging climate, the random fluctuations would lead to warming in some parts of the world and cooling in others. In a world with just random local fluctuations but no climate change, about half the weather stations would show a (more or less significant) warming, the other half a cooling. It’s not hard to understand.

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The CO2 problem in six easy steps (2022 Update)

Real Climate

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.

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

Real Climate

from Rogelj et al (2018) – note how the red dot marked 2010 moves to the purple dot marked 2010, once historical modelling uncertainties are corrected for. estimate of no further CO 2 -induced warming or cooling once global CO 2 emissions reach and stay at next zero. This is best illustrated by this technical figure from SR1.5.

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

HumanNature

This balance describes how much energy is being reflected back into space versus how much is being absorbed by our atmosphere; a positive change in the balance indicates that we’re taking more energy in (net warming) and a negative balance indicates that we’re reflecting more energy out (net cooling). Particles that are less than 2.5

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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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The enduring mystery of the solar corona

Physics World

It was a bold claim and some researchers initially struggled to accept the implications because it meant that energy must be flowing from the “cool” 6000 K surface of the Sun into the hotter corona – seemingly in violation of thermodynamics. This estimate was later revised upwards to 10 6 K and above.