Tag Archives Global Warming

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

Electric Vehicles

What EVs are available in Australia? There are over 30 different EV manufacturers in the world. This is a small subset of what is available globally. Here’s every new electric vehicle available for purchase in Australia, ordered from least expensive to most expensive (MSRP) as of September 1, 2022. BYD Atto 3: $44,381MG ZS EV Excite: $44,990BYD Atto 3 Extended Range: $47,381Hyundai Ioniq…

Coal and Wind

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…

Sunflower Image

Source: Geoscience Australia Just sayin... The Australian continent has the highest solar radiation per square metre of any continent in the world. That's 10,000 times LARGER than our energy consumption!Geoscience Australia

Book - Limits of Growth

The Club of Rome's report from 1972 is 50 years old. I read it when it was first published... A sobering and influential read then. What's changed in that time? World Model Standard Run as shown in The Limits to Growth The Last Call? https://youtu.be/gt4WsMfi6d0 Links Limits to Growth ... was right!The Club of Rome – Limits to Growth Is Global…

The Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report, Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis is now out.   The report addresses the most up-to-date physical understanding of the climate system and climate change, bringing together the latest advances in climate science, and combining multiple lines of evidence from paleoclimate, observations, process understanding, and global and regional climate simulations. Links Code…

CO2 Data 1960-2021

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... Source: NOAA 2021 I…

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…

Greenland

More of Greenland's ice melted in the summers of 2000-2019 than in the ones between 1979-1999.   Some data: Links National Snow and Ice Data Center and the obligatory other links... Five from Five 1.5 - Probably Not... IPCC Global Warming of 1.5c 8th of October Oh, yeah, There’s this… Zero Carbon – The Future Called… The Fork in the…

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