Climate Change Network

19/08/2024

Climate Scientists Flummoxed by Unexpected Bump in Global Temperatures

“We should have better answers by now.”

The 2023 temperature anomaly has come out of the blue, revealing an unprecedented knowledge gap perhaps for the first time since about 40 years ago, when satellite data began offering modellers an unparalleled, real-time view of Earth’s climate system,” wrote Gavin Schmidt, a British scientist and the director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York.

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“We should have better answers by now.”

18/08/2024

La Niña: A brief respite from the climate crisis?

Here’s how cooler temperatures could impact our planet this year

Right now, the warm phase of the cycle, known as El Niño, has just ended, and temperatures in the Pacific Ocean are steadily declining. Many researchers are now predicting that we’ll see the cycle shift to its cool phase, called La Niña, in the next few months

El Niño is officially over, and La Niña is coming back. Here’s how it could impact our health, livelihoods, and weather in the months to come.

12/08/2024

From NASA Climate Change
July 2024 ranks as the hottest July in NASA's GISTEMP record, marking the 14th consecutive month of record setting temperatures. This July was slightly higher than July 2023, the previous record holder. However, the difference is small enough that the two are effectively tied.

The global mean temperature anomaly for July 2024 was 1.21°C (2.18 °F) above the 1951-1980 July average.

Slight variations in the observations and analysis mean there is a margin of error or confidence interval around the data. July 2024's interval overlaps heavily with July 2023, so although July 2024 was the warmest July — and month — in our record, it effectively ties July 2023.

12/08/2024

Last month, areas of the U.S. sweltered through record heat and the impacts from raging wildfires, while others experienced the fury of Hurricane Beryl.

Also, through July, the U.S. has endured 19 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters — second only to 2023 for the highest amount for the first seven months of the year, according to experts from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information.

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U.S. had its 2nd-highest number of year-to-date billion-dollar disasters

10/08/2024

Strongest ocean current on Earth is speeding up and causing problems

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is the most powerful current on Earth, encircling Antarctica and influencing the global climate.

Over the last few decades, observations show that it has been speeding up. Experts were uncertain whether this was a result of human-caused warming or a natural pattern.

However, scientists have discovered that this oceanic powerhouse is getting even stronger. What does this mean for our planet’s future?

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The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is the most powerful current on Earth, encircling Antarctica and influencing the global climate.

10/08/2024

Run AMOC

A study says that an ocean current will “collapse,” adding to our climate chaos. Here’s what that means, and what you can do.

the AMOC is so important, why hadn’t I heard of it before now?

You have, actually! The AMOC collapses in the movie The Day After Tomorrow. And the famous Gulf Stream is one of the currents that contributes to the AMOC. It moves warm water from the Gulf of Mexico up toward Europe, which is why Western Europe experiences a relatively milder climate than the same latitude in North America.

And what exactly is it doing?

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We really, really do need to get climate change under control.

06/08/2024

Why is Earth's weather getting weirder?

Severe turbulence, record rainfall, killer heatwaves and raging wildfires to name but a few: is it just me, or is "Is Earth's weather getting weirder?" The answer? Yes. Well, sort of.

Wherever we look in the world it appears that extreme weather events are becoming more common. I spoke with climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe to find out what's going on and if there is anything we can do to help.

05/08/2024

America Underwater: How Rising Sea Levels Will Transform the US

The U.S.'s extensive coastline, which is densely populated, will be vulnerable to more frequent and intense flooding, coastal erosion, and the loss of critical infrastructure.

These changes will profoundly impact American life—displacing communities, reshaping coastlines, and causing widespread economic disruption.

The sinking land problem, known as land subsidence, is particularly affecting states on the East Coast. It happens partly due to natural geological processes and also from human activities such as the extraction of groundwater from deep in the earth.

Overall, states on the East Coast and Gulf Coast are likely to be worst impacted by sea level rise, such as Florida, Virginia, North Carolina and Louisiana.

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Rising sea levels, largely caused by climate change, could disrupt the lives of millions of Americans in the coming decades.

25/07/2024

Climate model suggests extreme El Niño tipping point could be reached if global warming continues

A trio of physicists and oceanologists, two with the University of Cologne's Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology and the third with the GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel, all in Germany, has found via the CESM1 climate model that an extreme El Niño tipping point could be reached in the coming decades under current emissions.

A trio of physicists and oceanologists, two with the University of Cologne's Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology and the third with the GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel, all in Germany, has found via the CESM1 climate model that an extreme El Niño tipping point could be reached i...

24/07/2024

Sunday was the hottest day on Earth in all recorded history

WASHINGTON (AP) — On Sunday, the Earth sizzled to the hottest day ever measured by humans, yet another heat record shattered in the past couple of years, according to the European climate service Copernicus Tuesday.

Copernicus’ preliminary data shows that the global average temperature Sunday was 17.09 degrees Celsius (62.76 degrees Fahrenheit), beating the record set just last year on July 6, 2023 by .01 degrees Celsius (.02 degrees Fahrenheit). Both Sunday’s mark and last year’s record obliterate the previous record of 16.8 degrees Celsius (62.24 degrees Fahrenheit), which itself was only a few years old, set in 2016.

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On Sunday, the Earth sizzled to the hottest day ever measured by humans, yet another heat record shattered in the past couple of years, according to the European climate service Copernicus Tuesday.

22/07/2024

Enough With the Arrogant Attitudes Towards Extreme Heat

Heat is deadly. Why does our culture push us to ignore it? Our attitudes about enduring extreme heat have to evolve.

In so many aspects of our culture, we view severe heat as something that should be willingly embraced, bravely endured, or blithely ignored.

It’s odd then that in so many aspects of our culture, we view severe heat as something that should be willingly embraced, bravely endured, blithely ignored, or in the case of some marginalized communities, entirely deserved.

In so many aspects of our culture, we view severe heat as something that should be willingly embraced, bravely endured, or blithely ignored.

19/07/2024

Global climate summary for June 2024

The global climate summary for June is out and here are some stats...

- June 2024 was the warmest June on record for the globe in NOAA's 175-year record.
- The June global surface temperature was 1.22°C (2.20°F) above the 20th-century average of 15.5°C (59.9°F).
- This is 0.15°C (0.27°F) warmer than the previous June record set last year, and the 13th consecutive month of record-high global temperatures. This ties with May 2015-May 2016 for the longest record warm global temperature streak in the modern record (since 1980).

BY NOAA NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION AND GLOBAL PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGY PROJECT (UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND)

PUBLISHED JULY 16, 2024
Highlights

Temperatures were above average over much of the globe with Africa, Asia and South America having their warmest June on record.

Sea surface temperatures were record warm for the 15th consecutive month.

Northern Hemisphere snow cover extent and global sea ice extent were both below average.

Global tropical cyclone activity was below average, with only two named storms.

http://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/global-climate-summary-june-2024

15/07/2024

Hey everyone, with it being I wanted to share some weather history with everyone

Credit - Unbelievable facts

Also

Here's one more interesting fact:

Clement L. Wragge is credited, certainly in Australia, as the first person to systematically give proper names to tropical cyclones and low pressure systems. He apparently began the practice in the mid-1890s with the naming of tropical cyclones.* According to secondary sources, initially he named the disturbances in alphabetical order, first using the Greck alpha-bet. Then he used characters from Greek and Roman mythology, next female names, and finally politicians (usually those he disliked but some he liked), and occasionally someone he admired, such as Melba.

Hurricanes used to be named only after women. After feminist groups protested against the implied stereotype that women alone were tempestuous and unpredictable, men’s names began being used for such weather phenomena starting in 1979.

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https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1256/wea.13.03

Credit - Now You Know

13/07/2024

Assessing the Global Climate in June 2024

13 consecutive months of record-warm global temperatures and the second-lowest June Antarctic sea ice extent

Highlights:

Temperatures were above average over much of the globe with Africa, Asia and South America having their warmest June on record.

Sea surface temperatures were record warm for the 15th consecutive month.

Northern Hemisphere snow cover extent and global sea ice extent were both below average.

Global tropical cyclone activity was below average, with only two named storms.

The global land and ocean temperature departure from average for June 2024 was the highest on record.

10/07/2024

2nd hottest Jan-June on record for the U.S. https://buff.ly/4cSkGTA

29/06/2024

Scientists just got closer to solving a major Antarctic puzzle

Two new papers find threats that climate models haven't accounted for, including a tipping point under the ice.

New research suggests that climate models have underestimated how much seas might rise in the coming decades.

28/06/2024

Rising sea levels will disrupt millions of Americans’ lives by 2050, study finds
Floods could leave coastal communities in states like Florida and California unlivable in two decades

Floods could leave coastal communities in states like Florida and California unlivable in two decades

25/06/2024

From NOAA Climate.Gov Sea surface temperatures have been record warm across the North Atlantic Ocean since March 2023.

The left map shows where sea surface temperatures across the North Atlantic on June 16, 2024, were warmer (red) or cooler (blue) than the 1971-2000 average (white). Much of the Atlantic is colored red. Temperatures are about 2 to 5 degrees Fahrenheit (about 1 to 3 degrees Celsius) warmer than normal across much of the central North Atlantic, Caribbean, and Gulf of Mexico, while areas along the U.S. East Coast (along the Gulf Stream) and across northern portions of the North Atlantic show anomalies (departures from average) close to 9 degrees Fahrenheit (5 degrees Celsius) above normal.

The right map shows the actual sea surface temperatures across the North Atlantic on June 15, 2024. Areas in white and orange show where sea surface temperatures are above 80 degrees Fahrenheit (26 degrees Celsius)—the temperature needed to fuel hurricane development. The darker the orange the closer temperatures are to 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius). Areas in blue show where the sea surface temperatures are below 80 degrees Fahrenheit. Much of the tropical Atlantic, Caribbean Sea, and Gulf of Mexico were experiencing temperatures greater than 80 degrees Fahrenheit by mid-June.

Read more: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/featured-images/more-year-north-atlantic-has-been-running-fever

21/06/2024

https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-matters/extreme-heat-risks-for-children

Climate change is driving more frequent and intense extreme heat that is especially dangerous for children.

17/06/2024

Hey everyone George here with a question? How to you keep cool? Please list your comments below.... I'm looking forward to reading your comments...

15/06/2024

https://phys.org/news/2024-06-miami-preview-future.html

It's like an unspoken social contract. When people choose to live in South Florida, they must make peace with the possibility that, thanks to hurricanes, there will be flooding and they may incur thousands of dollars to fix their homes post storm.

09/06/2024

The End of El Niño Might Make the Weather Even More Extreme

The shift from El Niño to La Niña will see temperatures drop, but when one weather system swings to the other, summers tend to be hotter than average—meaning 2024 could be even warmer and wilder than last year.

The shift from El Niño to La Niña will see temperatures drop, but when one weather system swings to the other, summers tend to be hotter than average—meaning 2024 could be even warmer and wilder than last year.

02/06/2024

Five Weather Changes You Typically See In June

At a Glance

Tropical development typically arrives in June.

The threat of severe weather shifts north and the concern for flash flooding increases.

Temperatures heat up across most of the United States, but June gloom is expected in parts of California.

https://weather.com/safety/thunderstorms/news/2024-05-31-june-weather-changes-us?cm_ven=dnt_social_facebook&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2qgzH7wAbNkNJwxQE7YZ7Evb2SUMbYVNK0yd4AT5WLd56xPpW-5Yxu3mE_aem_AfRDWfLJAa0Nr_rZJslU_X12dnoPVahO-wXR4Mx6fAYQII3DBY7nSe_ZOBbpwuuh6hzzbi_86UjZYtMQ5si0UVw5

Yes, June kicks off hurricane season, but it's not the only weather change you may notice in the month. - Articles from The Weather Channel | weather.com

31/05/2024

🌡️ The Earth’s record temperature streak continued in April for 11 months and counting.

🧊 Global sea ice extent was the tenth smallest in the 46-year record at 7.84 million square miles.

⛈️ Two named storms occurred across the globe in April, which was below the 1991–2020 average of four.

🎲 According to NCEI’s Global Annual Temperature Outlook, there is a 61% chance that 2024 will rank as the warmest year on record and a 100% chance that it will rank in the top five.

⛄ Northern Hemisphere snow cover extent in April was the smallest on record.

👀 Read the latest from the Global Climate Report for April 2024: http://bit.ly/Global202404

29/05/2024

https://fb.watch/smeQ_ryAxf/

26/05/2024

These maps compare the extent and severity of the ongoing event to the peak coral heat stress of the three prior events.

22/05/2024

Preliminary data says 859 tornadoes so far within 2024. Take a look at the graphic...

21/05/2024

Florida meteorologist goes after DeSantis over climate change rollback

A television meteorologist in Florida slammed Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) for signing a bill that will remove the requirement for the state to consider climate change when creating energy policy and roll…