Climate Letter #422

New record global temperature in the making.  Just through May the planet this year is 0.1C warmer than last, putting the full year on track for the same kind of breakout we saw in 1998.  The post also contains a graph for ocean heat content, which displays a frightening pattern of acceleration over the past ten years.

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El Nino is still intensifying, ” now stronger than any event since 1997-1998.”  This one factor can be enough to propel the temperature breakout discussed above.
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Drought is appearing in a vast region of western Canada.  Not quite as bad as what we have in the U.S. but “the conditions are linked to climate change and appear to be here for the long term.”  The “blob” of warm Pacific water I talked about on Friday has been linked by others to this same kind of effect.  That huge body of water reportedly keeps getting warmer and seems to have found a home, with nowhere else to go.
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Increased CO2 inhibits plants’ uptake of nutrients.  This new study differs from the one reported last week in CL#420, which predicted future declines in plant growth from a mixture of causes beyond the workings of CO2.  This study is based on actual tests of plants’ ability to absorb nitrogen, in a variety of locations, regardless of how much the plant grows or is fertilized.  “When carbon dioxide levels in the air increase, crops in the future will have a reduced nitrogen content, and therefore reduced protein levels.”  This is a finding with serious implications, which I am sure will be the subject of much further verification effort.
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Renewable liquid fuels remain a possibility.  This report from Berkeley Lab— “Our system has the potential to fundamentally change the chemical and oil industry in that we can produce chemicals and fuels in a totally renewable way, rather than extracting them from deep below the ground.”  There is still work to do, but progress keeps being reported at this and other labs that have the same basic goal.

Carl

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