By Kenneth Richard on 26. July 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterFrom 1979-2018 East Antarctica cooled -0.70°C/decade (-2.8°C), West Antarctica cooled -0.42°C/decade (-1.68°C), but the Antarctic Peninsula warmed 0.18°C/decade (0.72°C). Thus, as a whole, the Antarctic continent has cooled by about -1.5°C to -2°C during the same period CO2 rose from 337 to 410 ppm. Zhu et al., 2021 “The temperature trend from ERA5 is […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 19. July 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterSince the last day of 2001 CO2 has risen from 372 to 419 ppm. However, there have been two cooling periods of 12 years (2002-2014) and 7.5 years (2014-2021), separated by a 1.5-year El Niño-induced warming event (2015-2016). Temperature changes that proceed in step- or event-like fashion do not seem to correlate well with […]
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By P Gosselin on 13. July 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterSwiss journalist Alex Reichmuth reports on research that finds many more people die from cold than from heat. “That’s why global warming may actually be saving lives, on the balance.” Hat-tip: Die kalte Sonne. One recent study by environmental epidemiologist Ana Maria Vicedo-Cabrera from the University of Bern and Antonio Gasparrini from the London […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 12. July 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterExcept for a few pockets of warming along the West Antarctic coast, surface air temperatures have cooled profoundly across East Antarctica – most of the continent, as well as the surrounding Southern Ocean – in the last 40 years (1979-2018). About 30% of the cooling can be explained by Madden-Julian Oscillation forcing. Atmospheric CO2 […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 8. July 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterThere has been no net warming in the Rocky Mountains in the last 500 years. The southern Rocky Mountains were as warm or warmer than recent decades during the 1600s and 1700s and they have been cooling since the 1950s (Berkelhammer and Stott, 2012, Heeter et al., 2020). Image Source: Berkelhammer and Stott, 2012 […]
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By P Gosselin on 25. June 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterNot long ago, Dr. Roy Spencer posted the latest satellite Lower Troposphere Temperature as measured by satellite. Over the most recent years we have seen global temperatures drop. And we also see signs cooling is putting the brakes on global ice melt and temperature rises, which, by the way, many scientists have linked to […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 24. June 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterDue primarily to land uplift, markings on “seal rocks” show dramatic declines in relative sea level along Sweden’s coasts in the last 290 years. The explanation for falling sea levels throughout much of Northern Europe is that the land in this region of the world is rising faster than eustatic sea levels are. Written […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 10. June 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterScientists have calculated the years of life lost (YLL) attributed to exposure to “non-optimum” temperatures. It turns out that during the 2000s – supposedly the warmest years on record – people were still far more likely to die from exposure to cold temperatures than warm temperatures. The country with the largest human population has […]
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By P Gosselin on 23. May 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterOur fellow Dutch climate blogger and friend Klimaatgek writes about how cold this spring has been in the Netherlands this year, namely April and May. Not long ago I reported how Germany had seen its fourth coldest April since recordings began in 1881. May so far hasn’t been warm either as the DWD German […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 17. May 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterSea surface temperatures in the subpolar North Atlantic increased by nearly 1°C from 2015 to 2018 according to a new study (Desbruyères et al., 2021). As of 2020, this region is now almost as hot as it was in 2007, 1930, and 1890 (Birkel et al., 2018). Image Source: Desbruyères et al., 2021 Image […]
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By P Gosselin on 16. May 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterWet, cold…very little sunshine. That’s been the month of May so far for many parts of Europe The halfway point of May has been reached and Snowfan here has looked at the the mean temperature so far this month in Germany. Citing the German DWD national weather service, he reports: May in Germany so […]
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By P Gosselin on 14. May 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterBy Kirye and Pierre Gosselin The April, 2021, mean temperature data collected by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) has been tabulated and are ready to be added to our monthly plots. Today we look at the April mean temperature trends for stations which the JMA has sufficient data and which are located in northern […]
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