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Leon Simons
@leonsimons.com

"If this shift represents an excursion into a new normal, our future could be hotter faster than expected." A year after this insightful study was published, the albedo and net flux over the Northern Hemisphere mid-latitude oceans keep decreasing: www.science.org/stoken/autho...

Thomas Rackow 🧊@trackow.bsky.social

We have a new paper out in @science.org today, led by Helge Goessling from #AWI: The recent global temperature surge in 2023 was intensified by a record-low planetary #albedo 👉 doi.org/10.1126/scie... @thomasjung.bsky.social @ecmwf.bsky.social This is what we found (🧵1/8)

doi.orgRecent global temperature surge intensified by record-low planetary albedoIn 2023, the global mean temperature soared to almost 1.5K above the pre-industrial level, surpassing the previous record by about 0.17K. Previous best-guess estimates of known drivers including anthr...

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Rudy Sovinee
@rudysovinee.bsky.social

Eliot Jacobson caught this post nearly a week ago. After tabulating the many forces that brought the surprising temps of 2023-2024, it was at the end of the article that we get to the meaningful statement: "the 2023 heat 'may be here to stay'" Believe it.

carbonbrief.orgAnalysis: What are the causes of recent record-high global temperatures? - Carbon BriefIn this article, Carbon Brief explores four different factors that have been proposed for the exceptional warmth seen in recent years
Rudy Sovinee
@rudysovinee.bsky.social

Exactly! Greenhouse gases trap/ slow the outgoing longwave radiation. Human society knows why, but is collectively trapped by individual actions of survival and growth. How do we track the folly of societal consumption? This tracks the source, and lack of sufficient response.