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Why Were 2023 and 2024 So Hot?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Albedo is the total reflection of incoming solar radiation by Earth. Its a great question, but the warming effect from heat-trapping gases far outweighs the cooling effect from industrial aerosols. Here, low-level cloud cover has decreased drastically, mostly related to an increase in ocean surface temperature. What is albedo?

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The AMOC is slowing, it’s stable, it’s slowing, no, yes, …

Real Climate

Of the 24 CMIP6 models, a full 23 underestimate the sea surface cooling in the ‘cold blob’ And most of the CMIP6 models even show a strengthening of the AMOC in the historic period, which past studies have shown to be linked to strong aerosol forcing in many of these models (e.g. So what is this whiplash about?

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China Powers AI Boom with Undersea Data Centers

Scientific American

Partly to address water concerns, China is now putting a data center in the wettest place there is: the ocean. Keeping Data Centers Cool Data centers store information and perform complex calculations for businesses, whose increasing automation is steadily ramping up such needs. So they need to be constantly cooled.

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Can Life Survive the Death of the Sun?

Scientific American

Our oceans will evaporate. At the same time its surface temperature will drop, so it becomes ruddier, even as it radiates energy 2,400 times stronger than it does now. They cool once again, eventually dropping well below the freezing point of any biologically useful molecule. This transforms the sun into a red giant star.

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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. in IPCC TAR).

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AR6 of the best

Real Climate

Projections of (a) temperature (constrained), (b) Arctic sea ice area (raw CMIP6), (c) ocean pH (constrained), and sea level (d)to 2100, and (e) to 2300 (constrained). and other things worth noting – for instance, the much better and more direct graphics that they have clearly worked on a lot. Figure SPM 8. 1981) which can be seen here.

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The Rise and Fall of the “Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation”

Real Climate

Two decades ago, in an interview with science journalist Richard Kerr for the journal Science, I coined the term the “Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation” (AMO) to describe an internal oscillation in the climate system resulting from interactions between North Atlantic ocean currents and wind patterns. Background.