Tag: climate
Sometimes weird weather isn’t due to climate change
The climate is the clothes you wear in your closet, said a climate scientist. “The climate is basically the clothes you have in your closet,” Deepti Singh, aclimate scientist at Washington State University said. ” weird weather does factor in, but isn’t as important to the average as more common conditions,” she added. “We’ve kind of put the climate on steroids,” Singh further said.
Read MoreThis is the first time in history that Earth has broken the 1.5 C climate limit
An analysis of climate data from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies has revealed that temperatures in the world’s most extreme areas in the past two years are the warmest on record. The temperature extremes were recorded between July 1 and September 30 last year and between July 1 and September 30 2021 and July 1 to September 30 2018.
Read MoreSatellite images show the damage caused by the floods in Spain
Climate scientists said that they have seen a clear link between flash floods in Spain and human-caused global warming. An analysis by Climate Central, a nonprofit research group, found that global warming likely increased temperatures in the part of the Atlantic Ocean where most of the moisture contained in the storm originated. Climate scientists have been warning about the impact of global warming on floods.
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There is evidence of human influence on snow loss in the Northern Hemisphere
The model biases in 1981–1981 are evaluated by evaluating the CMIP6 HIST ensemble mean and the mean of the products for each quantity. We run this regression at each in situ location, for all 20 combinations of gridded SWE and temperature products, for all 12 climate models (using the HIST simulations), and for all 120 basin-scale reconstructions.
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I am optimistic about COP 28
UN climate chief Christiana Figueres has said that over the past six years, the world has “failed to live up to the commitments” it made during the Paris Climate Agreement. “The US and other nations still have a long way to go,” she added. Figueres had earlier said that the world is on track to exceed the target of 2.6C of warming.
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Clean energy is good for the world’s health
A new study by the UN Environment Programme says that there is a need for a Science Community to support measures and actions in the climate, energy and sustainable development of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The study assessed 56 indicators across all 17 SDGs. It added that an international climate finance mechanism would levy fees on carbon emissions that would be redistributed through national programmes.
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