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What’s the Role of the Land Carbon Sink in Achieving US Climate Goals?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Without the considerable carbon absorption capacity of our lands (and oceans), we’d currently have much more CO 2 in the atmosphere and an accelerated timeline of warming. In North America, the land carbon sink between 2004 and 2013 offset roughly 39% of fossil fuel emissions , but varied substantially year to year.

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Detroit Flooding Previews Risks from a Warming Climate

Circle of Blue

It’s hard to pin individual storms on climate change, but the science is clear that atmospheric warming leads to more events like last weekend’s rainfall. This may be a trivial sum for small temperature changes, but with climate projections forecasting a few degrees of atmospheric warming, it starts to add up.

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Deciphering the ‘SPM AR6 WG1’ code

Real Climate

The problems with the SPM are similar those from the previous fifth assessment report which prompted me to write a post in 2013. I think in hindsight that my concerns from 2013 to some extent were supported by the fact that the IPCC organised an Expert Meeting on Communication, Oslo, Norway, 9–10 February 2016.

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New, Updated Carbon Majors Dataset Holds Promise for Researchers, Litigators

Union of Concerned Scientists

That 2013 headline resulted from the first effort to quantify emissions from the ‘carbon majors’ —fossil fuel companies and cement manufacturers whose businesses have contributed an outsized amount of heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere. Nearly two-thirds of industrial heat-trapping emissions can be traced to just 90 entities.

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Should the official Atlantic hurricane season be lengthened?

Real Climate

But it emphasizes an important point about the relationship between SST and hurricane behavior in general: The hurricane response to SST changes depends on what caused the SST changes ( Emanuel and Sobel 2013 ). The difference is due largely to the differences in the regional atmospheric response that occurs in concert with the SST warming.

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The Global Methane Pledge

Legal Planet

22 degrees by 2050 because of both the reduced emissions and the dissipation of methane in the atmosphere, potentially allowing the world a bit more time to reduce and sequester other greenhouse gases. A worldwide methane emission reduction of 30 percent by 2030 could reduce global warming by.22

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As Soon as Possible

Real Climate

4171-4176, 2013. Laut, "Solar activity and terrestrial climate: an analysis of some purported correlations", Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics , vol. Thomson, "Dependence of global temperatures on atmospheric CO 2 and solar irradiance", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , vol. Laut, and J.

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