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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...
Leon Simons
@leonsimons.com

Less sunlight reflected, outgoing longwave radiation doesn't keep up, more heat uptake, faster warming

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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.