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Making sense of the early-2000s warming slowdown
It has been claimed that the early-2000s global warming slowdown or hiatus, characterized by a reduced rate of global surface warming, has been overstated, lacks sound scientific basis, or is unsupported by observations. The evidence presented here...
Eric Steig
@davidappell @velardedaoiz2 @rgatess @curryja Here's that paper nature.com/articles/nclim…
Key points.
There was nothing fundamentally new or unexpected about it, but it provides a nice example of "signatures of internal decadal variability and the responses to external forcings, such as increasing GHG."
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One more data point
The climate summaries for 2019 are all now out. None of this will be a surprise to anyone who's been paying attention, but the results are stark. 2019 was the second warmest year (in analyses from GISTEMP, NOAA NCEI, ERA5, JRA55, Berkeley...
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Eric Steig
I'm old enough to remember when we were being told by Judy Curry and Richard Lindzen that "global warming stopped" in 1998.
A little reality check: realclimate.org/index.php/arch… pic.twitter.com/galW584C5a
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Could ‘Megxit’ Be a Royal Fairy Tale for Canada?
The possibility that Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, might settle in Canada has unleashed a frenzy of excitement and offers of free coffee — but also some dissent.
Landslides Mudslides
Dave Petley is the Wilson Professor of Hazard and Risk in the Department of Geography, and the Executive Director of the Institute of Hazaard, Risk and Resilience at Durham University in the United Kingdom. His blog provides a commentary on...
An Open Letter to John Lewis
As you fight a new battle, we owe you a debt of gratitude for being a moral compass for our nation.
Yale Climate Opinion Maps 2019
Discover climate opinion across XX different questions in every state, county, and Congressional district in the U.S.
Eric Steig
How, we're really alone in Seattle.
Fraction of people in US who talk about climate change "at least occassionaly".
Source: 2019 climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizations… pic.twitter.com/OzMprVmpwR
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Last remnant of North American ice sheet on track to vanish
A new study on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic shows that the Barnes Ice Cap, the last remnant of the ice sheet that once blanketed much of North America, will disappear in a few hundred years.
Deepest point on land found in Antarctica
Denman Glacier reaches down to more than 3,500m below sea level. Only ocean trenches go deeper.
Eric Steig
Incredible new work by UCIrvine colleagues Morlighem, @ERignot ignot and others on the subglacial topography of Antarctica.
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World's oldest fossil trees uncovered in New York
Fossil trees, dating back 386 million years, have been found at an abandoned quarry in New York.
Is the Sun causing global warming?
Vital Signs of the Planet: Global Climate Change and Global Warming. Current news and data streams about global warming and climate change from NASA.
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Eric Steig
I'm getting very tired of answering this question.
No, it's not the sun.
climate.nasa.gov/faq/14/is-the-… pic.twitter.com/wDfY8ZaV4C
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Ancient ice and viral videos in Antarctica
Researcher Peter Neff shares the story behind his viral "ice drop" video and drilling for ancient gases trapped in a glacier in Law Dome, Antarctica. More at...
Jared Kushner: President Trump Is Defending Jewish Students
With an executive order, he makes clear that anti-Semitism is not to be tolerated.
Feedbacks, Timescales, and Seeing Red | Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Eric Steig
@MichaelEMann Exactly. There's a nice discussion of this in Gerard Roe review paper about feedbacks
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Influence of the Tropics on the Southern Annular Mode: Journal of Climate: Vol 25, No 18
Eric Steig
@MichaelEMann @agu On interannual timescales, 25% of the SAM index is just a forced response to tropical variability. If it weren't for radiative forcing, this number would be >50% on decadal timescales.
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The hunt for ancient ice that witnessed West Antarctica’s collapse
Core from Hercules Dome site could reveal how susceptible the region’s ice is to warming.
Eric Steig
If you missed my @AGU poster yesterday you can read about it in Nature, today!
nature.com/articles/d4158…
(Not a paper -- an article about our new Hercules Dome project, just getting started).
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Eric Steig
Our Hercules Dome ice core project in one figure, from the Nature.
nature.com/articles/d4158… pic.twitter.com/oxdn4MAnG8
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Where Bicyclists, Doormen and Tourists Battle for Turf
New York City bicyclists say people who walk across bike lanes need to pay attention. But doormen at high-end hotels worry about collisions as lanes expand.
Mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet from 1992 to 2018
Mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet from 1992 to 2018
Prime Minister Boris Johnson Used The N-Word In A 2004 Comic Novel
Labour’s Diane Abbott said the choice of language proved Johnson had “deeply held racist views”.
I Was Once a Socialist. Then I Saw How It Worked.
Two cheers for capitalism, now and forever.
Eric Steig
If anyone can work "Denmark is the best" and "regulation is bad" -- all while praising the Fraser Institute (Canada's equivalent to Heartland Institute and as far from Danish in outlook as possible) -- into one article, it's @nytdavidbrooks.
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