Environment – Global Warming

41.6c

The record does not just break August records.

It breaks all temperature records across Australia for any reading in June, July and August. Ever.

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August 28, 2024

Sir David

Consider this.

The Daily Standard Deviation for Antarctic Sea Ice Extent: 1989 – 2023 show a “Six Sigma” deviation.

A 6 Sigma Deviation in Antarctic Sea Ice

July 27, 2023

419.85 R.U.F.K.M ?

CO2 concentrations at Mauna Loa continue the march…

Weather is NOT Climate, most certainly, but this is worthy of note.

For the first time temperatures of 40°C have been forecast in the UK and the Met Office has issued the first ever Red warning for exceptional heat.
MET Office – United Kingdom

The Keeling Curve is a daily record of global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration maintained by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

Late last month [May] the reading was 421.42ppm…

Readings since 1960

Readings for previous 2000 Years

ICE-Core data before 1958 Mauna Loa Data after 1958

Just a few hours prior to this article being published, Tanya Plibersek, the Australian Minister for the Environment and Water released the “State of the Environment” report, described by the Guardian Australia newspaper as showing that:

The health of Australia’s environment is poor and has deteriorated over the past five years due to pressures of climate change, habitat loss, invasive species, pollution and mining, according to a government report that warns the natural world holds the key to human wellbeing and survival.
The Guardian

The state of the environment report – a review completed by scientists last year but held back by the Morrison government until after the federal election – found abrupt changes in some Australian ecosystems over the past five years, with at least 19 now showing signs of collapse or near collapse.

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July 19, 2022

G7 and Carbon

The Group of Seven western industrialised states (G7) has committed to making their electricity systems “predominantly” carbon-free by 2035, but stopped short of setting a concrete date for exiting coal. Following their meeting in Berlin, the G7 environment, climate and energy ministers said only that they would support “an accelerated global unabated coal phase-out”.

Analysts said the announcement to decarbonise power sectors was a “big step ahead” in the fight against climate change but added that the to-do list for the G7 summit of heads of state and government next month in Bavaria remains long, given that there was also little progress on climate financing and other issues.

Source: Clean Energy Wire

The environment, climate and energy ministers of the Group of Seven western industrialised states (G7) have agreed to largely decarbonise their electricity sectors within 13 years. Following their meeting in Berlin, the ministers said they

commit to a goal of achieving predominantly decarbonised electricity sectors by 2035.
G7 Communique

May 30, 2022

Up on the Roof

The worlds warming cities.

Apologies to the Drifters…

When this old world starts getting me down
And people are just too much for me to face
I climb way up to the top of the stairs
And all my cares just drift right into space
On the roof, it’s peaceful as can be
And there the world below can’t bother me
Let me tell you now
The Drifters

Yeah, not really…

It seems like screaming at the wind for 20+ years and finally…. Someone notices…

Well done #NSW to ban black roofs.

This is, of course, in the context of Penrith recording the HOTTEST temperature on Earth [48.9c or 120.02 F] in January 2020.

Just consider that this was PLANNED and DESIGNED as a place for people to live…

Next time you go for a drive past *any* new housing estate, count the black roofs….

Think about that.

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November 19, 2021

You thought 417 was bad?

The mean carbon dioxide measured at Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii in June 2021 was 418.94ppm.

418.94ppm

If I am not mistaken, this is the highest concentration recorded since humans have been on earth?

At least it is comforting to know that such existential issues are front-of-mind for our political leaders. You know, “follow-the-science” and all that…

I thought 410 was bad in 2017?

Why, you ask?

I wrote in 2017 that,

Records show that more than 10 generations of my family up to about 1900 would have only experienced a 10-15ppm rise in CO2 levels
My father, born in 1916 experienced approximately a 50-60ppm rise.
In just my lifetime, global CO2 concentration has increased from 310 ppm to 4~~10ppm~~ 418.94ppm

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July 19, 2021

417, Yes. 417

May 2020 hit a record high, 417 parts per million (ppm) carbon dioxide as measured at the Mauna Loa Observatory, which has continually measured CO2 in the atmosphere since 1958.

The reading of 417 ppm is likely the highest it has ever been in the history of humans on Earth. On top of that, it is likely the highest concentration seen on Earth in 3 million years.

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June 11, 2020

Let’s be clear – the childhood you remember no longer exists

Outstanding work by the ABC team abcnews , storylab, the Monash Climate Change Communication Research Hub and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes to visualise climate change over time and make the global, very personal.

From top to bottom, these stripes use Bureau of Meteorology data to show how temperatures have changed in Australia since 1910. The colours indicate how much the average temperature of each year is above or below the average temperature from 1961 to 1990.

A blue line means that year was below average; red means it was above average. As you can see there is a pretty clear trend happening — from cool to warm — over the past century. Over this time the world has warmed 0.81 degrees Celsius, and Australia has warmed even more, hitting 1.14 degrees last year.

See how #climatechange has impacted the world since your childhood https://t.co/1PZbTMVB5k via @abcnews

— Bill (@billcoppinger) January 1, 2020

Consider this…

Please remind me again what the argument is against logic, reason or a more stable, predictable climate?

The research has been made with the assistance of the Monash Climate Change Communication Research Hub and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes.

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January 1, 2020

1.5? – Never was…

What is the argument against reason and logic?

The latest UN Environment Programme (UNEP) emissions gap report suggests that unless the world begins to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions the 1.5C goal of the Paris Agreement “will slip out of reach,”

The figure below, adapted from one created by CICERO’s Dr Robbie Andrews, shows emission trajectories to limit warming to below 1.5C in the absence of net-negative emissions. The different lines show the emissions reductions that would be required if emissions had peaked in each year, between 2000 and 2026, with the current year (2019) highlighted in grey.

IF

If emissions had peaked and begun to decline after the year 2000, the 1.5C target would have been much easier to achieve, only requiring reductions of around 3% per year. By contrast, limiting warming to below 1.5C starting in 2019, without net-negative emissions, would require a 15% cut each year through to 2040.

Yeah, not gunna happen…

If emissions continue at current levels for another few years, then the only way to limit warming to below 1.5C in the absence of net-negative emissions would be to immediately cut all global emissions to zero.

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November 28, 2019

Category: Environment – Global Warming

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418.94ppm

Why, you ask?

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Consider this…

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