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A CERES of fortunate events…

Real Climate

That is long enough to see that there has been a noticeable trend in the Earth’s Energy Imbalance (EEI), mostly driven by a reduction in the solar radiation reflected by the planet, while the outgoing long wave radiation does not appear to contribute much. But what can be causing this? A paper last year (Goode et al.,

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Astronomers define new class of potentially habitable ocean worlds

Physics World

Hot, ocean-covered exoplanets with hydrogen-rich atmospheres could harbour life and may be more common than planets that are Earth-like in size, temperature and atmospheric composition. This subset, which the researchers dub “Hycean” (hydrogen + ocean) planets, consists of planets that have radii up to 2.6 Widening the Goldilocks zone.

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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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The Evolving Legal Landscape for Ocean-Based Carbon Dioxide Removal

Law Columbia

The Sabin Center wrapped up Climate Week NYC last Friday with an event exploring the opportunities and challenges posed by ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR). As evidenced by the 150-plus people in attendance, ocean CDR is attracting growing attention as a possible climate change mitigation option. ground rock) into the ocean?

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Policy News: June 28, 2021

ESA

Congress funded the DOE Office of Science at $7 billion in FY 2021. The full Committee also approved amendments adding solar radiation management and wildfire science to the list of climate change research topics funded by the bill. The Senate voted to overturn this rule in April 2021. billion by 2026. billion from $5 billion.

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A distraction due to errors, misunderstanding and misguided Norwegian statistics

Real Climate

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. Furthermore, the volume of the oceans increases from the melting of land ice. The global sea level acts like the mercury in a thermometer because warmer water expands.

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Clauser-ology: Cloudy with a chance of meatballs

Real Climate

However, not only is there an obvious energy imbalance (as seen by the growth of ocean heat content), it’s actually accelerating Loeb et al., He, however, goes seriously off the rails when he estimates the impact of clouds on the radiation budget.