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A Total Eclipse of the Heat

Legal Planet

I hope we can collectively reckon with another terrifyingly awesome atmospheric event: the hottest year. Read out of context, that description fits climate change too, of course. So why do so many ignore scientists’ predictions about climate change?!!” But that doesn’t mean the sun is causing climate change.”

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Using Clouds to Fight Climate Change

HumanNature

Student in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University Most people remember the water cycle they learned in school: water evaporates from lakes, rivers, and the ocean, air carrying this moisture rises, cools, condenses, and forms clouds, and these clouds precipitate water back down to the surface.

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Science denial is still an issue ahead of COP28

Real Climate

In a world with just random local fluctuations but no climate change, about half the weather stations would show a (more or less significant) warming, the other half a cooling. And yes, also the increase in back-radiation towards the Earth surface from the CO2 greenhouse effect is a measured fact. It’s not hard to understand.

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New Climate Research From a Year-Long Arctic Expedition Raises an Ozone Alarm in the High North

Inside Climate News

Warming of the surface of the Arctic is matched by a colder polar vortex high in the atmosphere, which is speeding the breakdown of the Earth’s shield against ultraviolet rays.

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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.

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A Nobel pursuit

Real Climate

Last week, the Nobel physics prize was (half) awarded to Suki Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann for their work on climate prediction and the detection and attribution of climate change. This came as quite a surprise to the climate community – though it was welcomed warmly. But let’s go back to the beginning.

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Climate adaptation should be based on robust regional climate information

Real Climate

Chris Lennard from the University of Cape Town takes us through different aspects of climate change adaptation. The good news is that there are some initiatives on climate change adaptation which involve climate scientists such as the Infrastructure and Climate Network ( ICNet Global ).