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This increase in Outgoing Longwave Raditation (0.75 W/m² in 20 years!) led many climate sceptics (some ill intended, many honestly and understandably confused) to doubt the role of greenhouse gases. Without the 0.85 W/m² greenhouse gas forcing increase, 1.6 W/m² would now be leaving Earth as OLR!

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Climate Chat starts three hours from now. We have a lot to discuss, please tune in.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

It’s wobbling.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

During the last glacial maximum, global sea levels were about 120 meters lower than today. Most of that water was locked up in Nort American and Eurasian ice sheets. Melting that much ice would require about 18,000 ZJ of heat, at 150 ZJ/meter of sea level rise. But hotter oceans expand and ...

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

The bigtime Arctic f&%kery, with temperatures in some parts reaching 28°C (50°F) above average, begins today and will last at least a week. Today:

submitted 24 days ago • 10 comments

Sea Surface Temperatures in this region increased more during the previous 15 years than in the preceding 150 years. This is what accelerated warming looks like:

submitted 25 days ago • 6 comments

"This Week in Democracy – Week 2: Chaos, Crashes, Firings, and Funding Freezes" Please share/support/subscribe to Zeteo's new project documenting the ongoing, week-by-week growth of authoritarianism, illegality, & general chaos in the Trump 2nd term:

submitted 24 days ago • 21 comments

Mark Carney on growing Canada's economy

submitted 24 days ago • 33 comments

In this Reality Roundtable, Nate is joined by members of the bioregioning movement, Daniel Christian Wahl, Samantha Power, and Isabel Carlisle, to discuss the necessity of reconnecting to our local places for the sake of addressing our ecological, social, and economic challenges.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Getting real close to a billion posts

submitted 26 days ago • 658 comments

Happy Brexit Day! Five years on, what is the economic impact of Brexit? My article in the Oxford Encylopedia of Economics and Finance reviews and summarises the evidence on trade, investment, immigration, and economic growth overall. (1/2) oxfordre.com/economics/di...

submitted 27 days ago • 13 comments

Manny give into that little voice voice of denial in their heads.

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

The 40 million km² of the North Atlantic have been above pre-2023 temperatures for 676 days in a row, and counting! This is unprecedented!

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Wake up!

submitted 87 days ago • 2 comments

Has global warming accelerated in recent decades? If we look at the rate of warming between 1970 and 2008 and extend it through present, we see that almost all years since 2015 are above the previous trend.

submitted 87 days ago • 18 comments

#COP29 is the biggest of all the COP wastes of time, energy, more time, human lives, biodiversity… dystopia here we are.

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments