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Climate Surprises and What You Probably Don’t Know about Climate; from “State of the Climate 2024”
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I have had a chance to read more of this 527 page report, and chat about many things in this video, such as:
- Arctic ozone
- Stratospheric cooling
- Snow cover extent reduction in the Arctic, and effect on reducing albedo which is almost on par with reduction of albedo from sea ice loss
- Stratospheric water vapor, including that from Hunga volcano in 2022
- Vanishing clouds decreasing overall Earth albedo
- Global humidity increase , especially in last few years
- Global CO increase, from incomplete combustion of wildfires
- Cool nights vanishing, replaced by many nights over 20 C making it hard to get good sleep
- Surface specific humidity increases, total column water vapor increases
- Super extreme land surface temperatures above 55 to 60 C, and with high humidity making larger fractions of land surface uninhabitable
- LST (Land Surface Temperature) monitoring from space versus from ground weather stations
- Regions threatened with uninhabitable conditions: western North America, North Africa, Arabian Peninsula, parts of South and Central Asia, Australia...
- Permafrost thawing, active layer thickness increasing, cold permafrost warming very fast, warm ice-bearing permafrost temperature increasing more slowly due to latent heat effects, until all the ice within it melts
- Ground temperature borehole measurements showing large temperature rise
- Rock glaciers on the move
- Lake Ice cover, ice formation delayed, ice thaw advanced, ice duration decreasing sharply
- Wet bulb temperatures 25 C, 27C, 29C, and 31C occurring over more land
- land and ocean precipitation extremes on rise
- cloud reduction
- river freshwater discharge in oceans greatly reduced since 2000-2005 time period
- phenology (ecological timing) monitored by PhenoCam's showing large disruption
- Many more Marine Heat Waves (MHW) and much fewer Marine Cold Spells (MCS)
- salinity changes
- global ocean phytoplankton shifts threaten ability of ocean to be a carbon sink
- tropical heat waves showing sharp rise, huge SST in tropics
- shifts in ITCZ - InterTropical Convergence Zone, and in South Pacific Convergence Zone (SPCZ)
- huge Arctic changes, North West Passage completely open in 2024
- Iceberg A23a, trillion tons on the move, ocean seafloor affects motion via Taylor Column effect, massive iceberg also spins around in about 25 days in very new phenomena
- Southern ocean changes
Links: 4 page pdf:
ametsoc.org/ams/about-ams/news/news-releases/international-state-of-the-climate-report-confirms-record-high-greenhouse-gases-global-temperatures-global-sea-level-and-ocean-heat-in-2024/pdf
Link to full 527 page report:
ametsoc.net/sotc2024/SotC2024.pdf
Please donate to PaulBeckwith.net to support my research and videos connecting the dots on abrupt climate system mayhem.
Climate Surprises and What You Probably Don’t Know about Climate; from “State of the Climate 2024”
Please donate to PaulBeckwith.net to support my research and videos connecting the dots on abrupt climate system mayhem.
I have had a chance to read more of this 527 page report, and chat about many things in this video, such as:
- Arctic ozone
- Stratospheric cooling
- Snow cover extent reduction in the Arctic, and effect on reducing albedo which is almost on par with reduction of albedo from sea ice loss
- Stratospheric water vapor, including that from Hunga volcano in 2022
- Vanishing clouds decreasing overall Earth albedo
- Global humidity increase , especially in last few years
- Global CO increase, from incomplete combustion of wildfires
- Cool nights vanishing, replaced by many nights over 20 C making it hard to get good sleep
- Surface specific humidity increases, total column water vapor increases
- Super extreme land surface temperatures above 55 to 60 C, and with high humidity making larger fractions of land surface uninhabitable
- LST (Land Surface Temperature) monitoring from space versus from ground weather stations
- Regions threatened with uninhabitable conditions: western North America, North Africa, Arabian Peninsula, parts of South and Central Asia, Australia...
- Permafrost thawing, active layer thickness increasing, cold permafrost warming very fast, warm ice-bearing permafrost temperature increasing more slowly due to latent heat effects, until all the ice within it melts
- Ground temperature borehole measurements showing large temperature rise
- Rock glaciers on the move
- Lake Ice cover, ice formation delayed, ice thaw advanced, ice duration decreasing sharply
- Wet bulb temperatures 25 C, 27C, 29C, and 31C occurring over more land
- land and ocean precipitation extremes on rise
- cloud reduction
- river freshwater discharge in oceans greatly reduced since 2000-2005 time period
- phenology (ecological timing) monitored by PhenoCam's showing large disruption
- Many more Marine Heat Waves (MHW) and much fewer Marine Cold Spells (MCS)
- salinity changes
- global ocean phytoplankton shifts threaten ability of ocean to be a carbon sink
- tropical heat waves showing sharp rise, huge SST in tropics
- shifts in ITCZ - InterTropical Convergence Zone, and in South Pacific Convergence Zone (SPCZ)
- huge Arctic changes, North West Passage completely open in 2024
- Iceberg A23a, trillion tons on the move, ocean seafloor affects motion via Taylor Column effect, massive iceberg also spins around in about 25 days in very new phenomena
- Southern ocean changes
Links: 4 page pdf:
ametsoc.org/ams/about-ams/news/news-releases/international-state-of-the-climate-report-confirms-record-high-greenhouse-gases-global-temperatures-global-sea-level-and-ocean-heat-in-2024/pdf
Link to full 527 page report:
ametsoc.net/sotc2024/SotC2024.pdf
Please donate to PaulBeckwith.net to support my research and videos connecting the dots on abrupt climate system mayhem.
