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New Study Warns of an Imminent Spike of Planetary Warming and Deepens Divides Among Climate Scientists

Inside Climate News

James Hansen, the scientist who first sounded the climate alarm in Congress, sees a decrease in aerosol pollution driving a surge of warming and criticizes the U.N. climate science panel, drawing a backlash from other researchers.

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Global Warming Could Drive Pulses of Ice Sheet Retreat Reaching 2,000 Feet Per Day

Inside Climate News

New research of seafloor formations near Norway includes findings that keep climate scientists awake at night.

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A science-based move to climate change adaptation

Real Climate

It’s urgent because we are not even adapted to the present climate. It’s also urgent because the oceans act like a flywheel, making sure that cuts in emission of greenhouse gases will have a lagged effect on global warming. Climate scientists can help policy-makers by explaining the risks and opportunities.

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Drier Springs Bring Hotter Summers in the Withering Southwest

Inside Climate News

Like other climate scientists, he knew from research papers and worldwide storm patterns that a warming atmosphere is thirstier and sops up more moisture from oceans and the land. By Judy Fahys A question has bothered climatologist Park Williams during the decade he’s been probing drought in the Southwest.

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What’s Up With Water – December 13, 2022

Circle of Blue

The SWOT mission, as its called, will measure weekly changes in the world’s major rivers, lakes, wetlands, and oceans. For oceans, the satellite will track small-scale currents and eddies that transport nutrients, salt, and heat. Scientists have identified 468 of these transboundary groundwater basins.

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Penn State EarthTalks: April 22 Sustainable & Climate-Resilient Urban Solutions Online Program

PA Environment Daily

Sharma is also a faculty member in the Department of Climate, Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and holds a joint appointment as a climate scientist at Argonne National Laboratory.

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A Nobel pursuit

Real Climate

In this, he is in violent agreement with Isaac Held, his colleague at GFDL, and indeed most climate scientists. Manabe’s subsequent work led to the development of the GFDL GCM, initially just including the atmosphere, but eventually with an ocean, and then the transient results shown in Manabe and Stouffer (1993).