A first year above 2C in the mid-2030s now looks plausible. 0.5C was first passed in 1980, 1.0C in 2010 and 1.5C in 2024. The 15-year trend runs at 0.42C per decade. The 2026 and 2027 points for the current El Nino are estimates. We're not remotely ready!
Peter
@peterlie.bsky.social
Sometimes a volunteer. A work in progress, according to Ethel. Amplifying climate info that catches my eye.
What could go wrong? A lot. No idea what Google is thinking (if they are) with this.
Google Earth, a tool often used as a source of satellite imagery to verify photos and videos, has added a feature that allows you to alter satellite imagery with AI, for reasons. blog.google/products-and...
10 years until 2.0°C. And gov't policy seem all-in on getting there sooner.
Here's another graphic demonstrating that the planet has already passed 1.5°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline, this time using monthly averages, with a prediction to pass 2.0°C by late 2036.
Handy tool via Reuters - shout out to them. www.reuters.com/graphics/CLI...
Reuters Climate Monitor
How today's temperatures compare to the historic average
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Wow - the average global sea surface temperature outside of the polar regions is currently tied for the all-time absolute hottest on record (in the NOAA/OISST dataset). The record was in 2024. More graphics like this at www.climatecentral.org/climate-brie... 🌊
Global mean sea surface temperature anomalies (departure from average) so far this year ➡️ 2nd highest on record 🌊 Data from ERSSTv5 averaged over January to June.
Some progressions are good to see.
RT @NatBullard Once a solar analyst, always a solar analyst - means I can geek out on "line goes like this" chart. 1 gigawatt → 1 terawatt: 20+ years 1 terawatt → 2 terawatt: 33 months 2 terawatt → 3 terawatt: 19 months incomparable work as always from @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social & @ember_energy
It's a system with it's own scary momentum now.
After increasing by more than 20% in the 2000s, CO2 emissions today are a mere 3% higher than they were in 2013. So, if CO2 emissions are flattening, why is atmospheric concentration growing unabated? The answer is in the persistent nature of atmospheric CO2. www.theclimatebrink.com/p/plateauing...
This is perhaps the most common misconception about history out there. It does not "judge," it does not "change course." It will not have "the last laugh;" it will not "look back." History is a practice, not an entity. 🗃️
100%. History does not judge, people do. Quit deifying and anthropomorphizing history.
very frustrating that we know so much yet take so little heed.
At the end of the day, this visualization shows what's driving the rising risk of these dangerous heat waves. It's the human-caused burning of fossil fuels and the resulting increase in greenhouse gases. That's it. More climate change indicators: zacklabe.com/climate-chan...
Breaking News! Car Soup Alert! In May, the 36-month running average for "global total column precipitable water" set a new record high ... for the 20th month in a row.
OK so is it safe to say that "something is happening" ?!
This is an awesome milestone. Keep it going....
"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally." Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter, which rules).
Catching a glimpse of the future here.
europe's green industrial policy Solar --> buy Chinese Batteries --> buy Chinese, also lots of gigafactories within home EVs --> partner up with Chinese firms within Europe to preserve what remains of its industrial ecosystem, retaining jobs, know-how, supply chain relevance
Breaking News! Code Yikes! The latest CERES data for March just dropped and the planet is now at its fastest rate of heating since January, 2024. Over the last 12 months Earth warmed at a rate of about 13.16 Hiroshimas per second, or about 1.14 million Hiroshimas per day.
Key reason: risk to Oil & Gas now permanently high because US military cannot suppress Iran's fire "Markets, industries, and governments found themselves unprepared. They will not make the same mistake again." Oxford Energy Forum - Unpacking the Hormuz Crisis www.oxfordenergy.org/wpcms/wp-con...
Or they may very well know exactly how this works and they just want to break everything they can.
"there is no international travel into los angeles or new york" yeah okay sure let's press that button and see how it goes this is why you don't put extremely stupid people who don't know how anything works in charge of important agencies
Said it for a while but Americans looking over the border both north and south and seeing better and cheaper cars they are arbitrarily not allowed to buy? This is an affront to the national character that is unsustainable.
Canada is allowing 49,000 Chinese-made electric vehicles to be imported for retail sales annually at a tariff rate of 6.1%.
It's time for your monthly climate change indicator update: 🫣 + Global temperature: 📈 + Carbon dioxide (CO₂): 📈 + Methane (CH₄): 📈 + Nitrous oxide (N₂O): 📈 Download at zacklabe.com/climate-chan...
Breaking News! Code Yikes! May 21st saw yet another daily record for the global sea surface temperature, with El Nino just getting started. And the other 3 lines in that snapshot? 2023, 2024 and 2025.
🌊 Review: Transitions of the Atlantic Ocean circulation www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Transitions of the Atlantic Ocean circulation - Nature Reviews Physics
The multistable dynamics of the Atlantic Ocean circulation pose a central problem in climate physics, because instabilities of the flows can have large climate impacts. This Review uses a dynamical sy...
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