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CMIP6: Not-so-sudden stratospheric cooling

Real Climate

As predicted in 1967 by Manabe and Wetherald , the stratosphere has been cooling. 2012) described the issues as ‘mysterious’, but efforts to better correct the record for non-climatic effects soon bore fruit, and the ‘mystery’ became history ( Maycock et al., Thompson et al.

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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). link] Jacobson, Mark Z.

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AR6 of the best

Real Climate

Extremes : Back in 2012, the literature assessed by AR5 connecting changes in extremes to climate change was scant. As one example, the rate of warming over the past 15 years (1998–2012; 0.05 [–0.05 to 0.15] °C per decade), which begins with a strong El Niño, is smaller than the rate calculated since 1951 (1951–2012; 0.12 [0.08

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Physics World announces its finalists for the 2021 Breakthrough of the Year

Physics World

Experiments between 2009 and 2012 fell well short of reaching ignition and so researchers went back to the drawing board to make improvements. Innovative particle cooling techniques. The ALPHA collaboration demonstrated laser-cooling of antihydrogen atoms for the first time. nm laser pulses, to cool the antiatoms.

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Quantum entanglement of two macroscopic objects is the Physics World 2021 Breakthrough of the Year

Physics World

Experiments between 2009 and 2012 fell well short of reaching ignition and so researchers went back to the drawing board to make improvements. Innovative particle cooling techniques. The ALPHA collaboration demonstrated laser-cooling of antihydrogen atoms for the first time. nm laser pulses, to cool the antiatoms.

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