Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 10, 2024
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.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 4, 2024
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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Circle of Blue
JULY 1, 2021
The Detroit cloudburst was the result of a nasty weather combination—a cold front sweeping across the Midwest, plus a mass of humidity hanging over the city—which promises to be all the more powerful as the climate continues to warm. Similarly, the annual number of extreme storms in southern Michigan doubled between 1964 and 2013.
Real Climate
AUGUST 12, 2021
I followed with great interest the launch of the sixth assessment report Working Group 1 (The Physical Science Basis) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on August 9th. The problems with the SPM are similar those from the previous fifth assessment report which prompted me to write a post in 2013.
Our Environment
MAY 21, 2021
Likely climate change impacts in New Zealand | Ministry for the Environment, 2019). The science behind climate change. Climate change, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is the noticeable change in the climate across time (decades or longer).
Real Climate
NOVEMBER 11, 2023
are used all over the world, based on calculations that quantify the effects of physical mechanisms and the way different parts of the atmosphere are connected to each other. The physics-based models describe how energy flows through the atmosphere and ocean, as well as how the forces from different air masses push against each other.
Real Climate
AUGUST 12, 2021
And since the first IPCC estimates published in 2013, we have learned a lot and have gotten much better at estimating remaining carbon budgets. How have these estimates changed since previous reports? IPCC reported carbon budgets for the first time in 2013. in 2018, but they represent a significant update since AR5 in 2013.
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