Climate Letter #755

The connection between record-hot ocean waters and extreme weather events.  This story from Robert Fanney is especially helpful because it reveals how extraordinary has been the recent increase in surface water temperatures in a number of places.  Anything more than 2C above normal is considered high, but now there are readings as high as plus-7C that seem to become entrenched.  (Both sides of the globe are affected, but not everything.  There are some large parts of the globe that are now below average, mainly in the Southern Hemisphere.)

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Australia is losing rainfall while setting record high temperatures.  Researchers have found a new explanation for the loss of winter rainfall, involving human factors via greenhouse gas and ozone levels, which is worrisome, although their work is admittedly unfinished.
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An update on the problems of Bangladesh.  This highly populated nation with a continental location is sure to be among the first of such to be dramatically affected by rising sea level.  Here is more of their story.  “Inevitably over time millions of people in the coastal areas will lose their livelihoods and will have to move. They simply will not be able to continue living there,” says Dr. Huq.
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Charts showing a contrast in growth of GDP and carbon emissions since1990.  How the different nations compare is interesting.  The big story is that it is possible to grow quite nicely while emissions are being reduced, as long as there is a strong motivation to do so.
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The US lacks plans and policies that would fulfill the reduction pledges it made in Paris.  The amount of effort that is needed for accomplishment is relatively large, and likely to be shaped by the results of the upcoming election.  The charts in the previous story show that the US has fallen behind some European countries in terms of its effectiveness in reducing emissions while maintaining similar GDP growth, implying a need for a stronger change of course.
Lower level governments and various private entities can always take responsibility on their own initiative:
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For students of climate history.  This study provides new information about the climate transition that began toward the end of the Miocene, some 7 million years ago.  There was a significant cooling episode that caused profound changes in ecosystems everywhere, many of them still in place.  This was a time when the very earliest types of known human ancestors took part in the adaptation process.
Carl

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