Climate Letter #466

New July record for global surface temperature since 1891.  This comes from the Japan Meteorological Agency, based on preliminary data.  It breaks the July record set in 1998, which was also an El Nino year.

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Kevin Trenberth writes about the temperature hiatus phenomenon.  The paragraph that explains the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) is especially revealing.  ” As a result, more heat is sequestered in the deep ocean during the negative phase of the PDO.  GMST therefore increases during the positive phase of the PDO but stagnates during its negative phase.”   From the charts, notice that during the earlier negative PDO phase there was no increase at all in surface temperatures, but during the recent negative phase there have been further increases, albeit at a reduced pace.
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Here is a thorough and convincing explanation of how wind energy could become a far more dominating source of electric power in the U.S., and by inference elsewhere.  The energy is there to be taken, and costs keep coming down.  This is really  new information that has not yet had time to enter into either public awareness or the making of public policy.
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The price of distributed solar energy in the U.S. is dropping sharply.  This is based on actual collected data of fully installed projects, both residential and non-residential.  Most of the decline is now coming from soft costs rather than hardware, and it is noted that the U.S. has not yet caught up with how these costs are being lowered elsewhere.
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A sad review of Alaska’s fire season, as described in USA Today.
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Ocean circulation has an important impact on climate.  An interesting new study shows how deep ocean water may have had a role in quickly ending the last Ice Age.  While today’s situation is different there is much to be learned about the variety of connections between oceans and climate, and the way heat can move around.
Carl

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