Monthly Archives: February 2020

Sorry about the accident that spoiled yesterday’s letter for purposes of later reading. Those first two images, that so dramatically showed two weather extremes side by side, simply cannot be recovered. I want to do more postings with explanations based … Continue reading →

Note (02/14/20): Unfortunately, the top two images you see here do not correspond well with the text, because they are being updated daily by the publishing system and changes are rapid. I have no way of restoring the originals. My … Continue reading →

Important new information supports estimates of major, rapid sea level rise from ice sheet melting in West Antarctica in the early part of the last interglacial period (University of New South Wales).  “The extreme ice loss caused a multi-metre rise … Continue reading →

Conditions are right for another year of heavy spring flooding in US interior states (Scientific American).  What happened last year could be repeated because so much soil is too wet for proper absorption of new rainfall.  Warmer air temperatures that … Continue reading →

The future impacts of climate change in Europe, according to the European Environmental Agency (The Guardian).  The agency has mapped out the details of what will happen if global average temperatures rise to either 1.5C or 2.0C above pre-idustrial and … Continue reading →

A brilliant comparison of CO2 emission trends from burning coal, oil and gas, and how each must change in order to meet budgeted goals (Carbon Brief).  The spotlight is on coal, which has grown the fastest in this century, is … Continue reading →

New findings about ocean currents show human causation and suggest that global climate is affected (Science – AAAS).  Global mean oceanic circulation has been speeding up since the early 1990s, mainly driven by winds, for reasons that in large part … Continue reading →

Bill McKibben has a trenchant analysis of big government hypocrisy that is in conflict with official climate mitigation policies (The Guardian).  His focus is on Canada but the same attitude, perhaps a bit less egregious, is on display all over … Continue reading →

Why scientists are anxious to make improvements in the accuracy of cloud research (NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory).  This fascinating article clearly explains how high the stakes are, following up on the spectacular results of a study from Caltech published in … Continue reading →

A comprehensive new study reveals how much the planet has been greening, and describes all of the different reasons (Boston University).  In this first of a kind study an international team took a closer look at 250 scientific studies, land-monitoring … Continue reading →