Hacker News with Generative AI: Climate Science

As a Climate Scientist, I Knew It Was Time to Leave Los Angeles (nytimes.com)
I am utterly devastated by the Los Angeles wildfires, shaking with rage and grief. The Altadena community near Pasadena, where the Eaton fire has damaged or destroyed at least 5,000 structures, was my home for 14 years.

Climate Change, California Wildfires, Climate Science, Los Angeles

15 points by vinni2 7 days ago | 5 comments

Global Climate Highlights 2024: The 2024 Annual Climate Summary (copernicus.eu)
2024 saw unprecedented global temperatures, following on from the remarkable warmth of 2023. It also became the first year with an average temperature clearly exceeding 1.5°C above the pre-industrial level – a threshold set by the Paris Agreement to significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change. Multiple global records were broken, for greenhouse gas levels, and for both air temperature and sea surface temperature, contributing to extreme events, including floods, heatwaves and wildfires.

Climate Change, Global Warming, Environment, Science, Climate Science

7 points by Gedxx 8 days ago | 0 comments

Rapid surge in global warming mainly due to reduced planetary albedo,researchers (phys.org)
2023 set a number of alarming new records. The global mean temperature also rose to nearly 1.5 degrees Celsius above the preindustrial level, another record.

Climate Change, Global Warming, Research, Climate Science, Environment

5 points by pseudolus 43 days ago | 4 comments

A recent surge in global warming is not detectable yet (nature.com)
The global mean surface temperature is widely studied to monitor climate change. A current debate centers around whether there has been a recent (post-1970s) surge/acceleration in the warming rate.

Climate Change, Global Warming, Science, Climate Science

14 points by vixen99 90 days ago | 4 comments

Since spring of 2023, the world has been warmer than climate models anticipated (e360.yale.edu)
About 18 months ago, climate scientists began to notice something strange. In March of 2023, global sea surface temperatures started to rise. In a warming world, the seas would be expected to grow hotter, but the rise, which came at a time when the Pacific Ocean was in the neutral phase of the weather pattern known as the El Niño–Southern Oscillation, or ENSO, was unusually steep. In April, 2023, sea surface temperatures set a new record.

Climate Change, Climate Science, Global Warming, Ocean Temperatures

68 points by orcul 94 days ago | 113 comments

Cloud atlas of Mars reveals an atmosphere unlike our own (newscientist.com)
Using images captured by the European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft, researchers have created a cloud atlas of Mars, to better understand the climate of the Red Planet

Space Exploration, Mars, Climate Science

34 points by Brajeshwar 127 days ago | 15 comments

Climate scientists baffled by unexpected pace of heating (theguardian.com)

Climate Change, Science, Climate Science

11 points by BerislavLopac 152 days ago | 8 comments

The Antarctic Ice Core Chronology 2023 (copernicus.org)

Antarctica, Climate Science, Ice Cores, Research, Science

6 points by psychoslave 195 days ago | 0 comments

El Niño forecasts extended to 18 months with physics-based model (phys.org)

El Niño, Weather Forecasting, Climate Science, Physics

46 points by wglb 204 days ago | 16 comments

Extreme Climate Impacts from Collapse of AMOC Could Be Worse Than Expected (insideclimatenews.org)