Climate Letter #744

The August global temperature report is unsettling.  It was a new record for the month, which was expected, but it was not supposed to equal July in absolute terms, for seasonal reasons.  Doing so is bad news, and we cannot blame El Nino.  Was it just a temporary fluke?  We’ll soon find out.  What happens over the remainder of this year will be of utmost importance with respect to the level of urgency needed for making changes of a truly radical nature.

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This next post has a different way of breaking the numbers down.  The red line on the third chart shows a basic trend steadily growing at 0.2C per decade for the last four decades.  See how far above that line the 12-month moving average is currently positioned.  If the line for that average does not quickly start to head back down below the red line we must look for the red line to soon perforce bend upward, and that would not be good.
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Another monster typhoon in the Pacific.  Super Typhoon Meranti hit wind speeds of 185 mph  this morning as it approached southern Taiwan.  Rainfall at a rate of twelve inches per hour is hard to imagine.  Is there any link to climate change?
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Exciting new technology for thermal energy storage, from Argonne National Laboratory.  With newly engineered materials more heat can be packed into a smaller volume of space while adding or subtracting heat much more quickly than existing methods can, at reduced cost.  It will even work for power stations operating with turbines employing supercritical temperatures.  Cheap renewable electricity available 24 hours a day may soon advance a big step forward.
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A discussion concerning the merits of negative emissions.  The views of Klaus Lackner about the need to physically remove carbon dioxide from the air are hard to push aside.  At minimum, more funding for research into more effective processes should be provided, perhaps at the level of a crash program like the Manhattan Project.  I would want a place reserved for potential low-tech solutions like regenerative agriculture (CL #742).
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How Earth’s temperature has progressed over the last 20,000 years.  This is a cleverly composed climate history lesson that starts at the very bottom of the last glaciation period.  The total gain just crossed 5C.  Now what?
Carl

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