Climate Letter #295

What is an atmospheric river? Scientific American has a good handle on this uncommon subject, which is especially of interest to Californians these days.

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Heat stress on coral reefs. 2014 was a bad year, even without a push from El Nino. That is a real worry because of the way 2015 is setting up.
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Another oil tanker catastrophe, one you probably have not heard about. Events like this, which are all too common, provide an extra reason for seeking energy alternatives.
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Utility problems with carbon capture. A huge project has run into very costly trouble, blamed partly on “learning experience.” CCS technology is the coal industry’s best hope for saving its utility market in the face of tighter regulation.
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What happens if we overshoot the 2º target for limiting global warming?” Here is a brief, up-to-date primer on the subject. For a more comprehensive look, the book, “Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet,” by Mark Lynas, published in 2008, is well-recommended. It weaves together the conclusions of several hundred scientific papers, and is very revealing..
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Note: There is a way to improve on yesterday’s discussion about thermal inertia and equilibrium temperature forecasts. Carbon sensitivity theory holds that a doubling of CO2 in the atmosphere, including normal feedbacks, but absent of other forcings and their feedbacks, will result in a global average surface temperature gain of about 3C upon reaching equilibrium. Today we have added 42% to the pre-industrial CO2 level of 280ppm. Halting further increases from this level would be consistent with an equilibrium temperature increase of 1.5C, using log-scale progression figures. Superfluous methane growth that humans have caused is an unusual forcing that could add a few tenths to that number..
Carl

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