Climate Letter #435

Risk of burning peat land is now in play in Alaska.  This is a growing worry in the face of extreme wildfires that can cause peat to dry out enough to burn, which then can release substantial amounts of buried carbon.  A feedback loop of this type may now be in progress.

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Here is a more complete rundown of bad things that happen when wildfires are raging.  And by the way, down here in Missouri visibility in the skies is being affected by smoke from sources far more than a thousand miles away.
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Record-breaking heat in Central Asia.  One city hit a high of 47.2C, equal to 117F, a real extreme.  (To easily convert, always remember that 40C equals 104F.  Then add or subtract 1.8 times the difference from 40, which in this case means plus-7 will round out to plus-13.)  It looks like we will be getting a good many more heat wave reports this year.  Some, like this one, are not well-publicized.
Western Europe, while not quite as extreme, is also exposed and on alert:
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A more complete survey reports new all-time heat records for June on four continents.  This is certainly  consistent with growing confidence of a new high this year for the average temperature of the globe.
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Wholesale electricity bid under 4 cents per kwh for Austin, Texas.  That’s down 20% from the best bid one year ago.  ““These bids are without question the cheapest bids ever seen in a utility solar solicitation.”  Further declines are expected, aside from likely changes in the Investment Tax Credit.
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Another new type of solar cell is under development.  This one, from the University of Texas, is most unusual and very puzzling, but the claims, if valid, make it interesting.  “Khosrow Behbehani, dean of the College of Engineering, said the groundbreaking research has the potential to positively impact on the way we generate and consume energy.”
Carl

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