Remove 2021 Remove Atmosphere Remove Climate Scientist Remove Radiation
article thumbnail

A distraction due to errors, misunderstanding and misguided Norwegian statistics

Real Climate

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.

Sea Level 296
article thumbnail

Getting physical with the climate crisis

Physics World

Up in flames After recording Canada’s highest ever temperature on 29 June 2021, Lytton in British Columbia had to be evacuated as wildfires engulfed the town and destroyed most of its buildings. As air sunk through the atmosphere, it got squeezed and heated. Courtesy: Canadian Press/Shutterstock). By how much, though, is unclear.

Cooling 133
article thumbnail

Climate adaptation should be based on robust regional climate information

Real Climate

Climate adaptation steams forward with an accelerated speed that can be seen through the Climate Adaptation Summit in January (see previous post ), the ECCA 2021 in May/June, and the upcoming COP26. One example is the ECCA 2021 Climate Adaptation solutions on YouTube provided by ERA4CS.