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Pacific Ocean changes may 'lock in' US megadrought for decades

New Scientist

Read more California’s groundwater drought continues despite torrential rain “We expect that as long as greenhouse gas forcing continues to increase, there will be continued meteorological drought in the western United States,” says Jeremy Klavans at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

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Reflections on “Yes they can control the weather.”

Legal Planet

People now really are discussing the possibility of making intentional interventions to change the climate — or rather, to reduce some of the climate disruptions that are happening and coming due to human elevated greenhouse gases. These interventions would not precisely offset greenhouse-gas-driven climate change.

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Nor'easters slamming New England are growing more powerful

New Scientist

This is probably due to warmer ocean temperatures. “We We know what’s causing the warming of sea surface temperature: the emission of greenhouse gases. This dynamic occurs because of how the ocean temperatures that fuel the storms interact with other factors, such as wind shear, to decide their ultimate intensity, he says.

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World’s Biggest Court Opinion on Climate

Legal Planet

To recap: The unanimous opinion found that nations of the world have a legal obligation to limit their emissions of greenhouse gases or else pay reparations for the harms of climate change. Mackintosh has closely followed the case which was first filed in 2018 by Vanuatu, an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean.

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Can Life Survive the Death of the Sun?

Scientific American

The difference exists because greenhouse gases in the air essentially trap heat from the sun, warming Earth above the calculated temperature. Our oceans will evaporate. They cool once again, eventually dropping well below the freezing point of any biologically useful molecule.

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Another dot on the graph

Real Climate

Unlike in years past, there is no longer any serious discrepancy between the records – which use multiple approaches for the ocean temperatures, the homogenization of the weather stations records, and interpolation. Southern Ocean trends. The least visited part of the ocean are the waters around Antarctica.

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What is happening in the Atlantic Ocean to the AMOC?

Real Climate

The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is a large-scale overturning motion of the entire Atlantic, from the Southern Ocean to the high north. Graph by Ruijian Gou. The AMOC is a big deal for climate. It moves around 15 million cubic meters of water per second (i.e. 15 Sverdrup). For more on this see my Review Paper in Nature.