The climate is not changing uniformly, the Arctic is warming much faster than the rest of the world.
Data: @CopernicusEU and compares to 1981-2010 average.
Earth has a fever in more ways than one. Some places averaged + 5-7 °C warmer than normal for the ENTIRE YEAR of 2020.
An enormous area of anomalous warmth plagued Arctic Siberia effectively all year but it was not just the Arctic where we saw record shattering warmth.
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The climate is not changing uniformly, the Arctic is warming much faster than the rest of the world.
Data: @CopernicusEU and compares to 1981-2010 average.
Profound winter warmth for North America plus Europe and Asia.
The winter 'warmth' in Europe and Asia was just insane.
This was the second hottest March on record (2016 still holds the record).
Heat in the Arctic becoming quite a theme. Stick with me...
Do I need to point out northern parts of Asia any more?
Permafrost thawed and Russia suffered extreme diesel disaster. It began at the end of May. Criminal investigation ongoing: https://t.co/XC74Rx9tev
Arctic heat record: Siberian town called Verkhoyansk logged a temperature of 38° Celsius (100.4° Fahrenheit) on 6 June.
Siberia and parts of North America really in the furnace, quite literally as wildfire season blazed into unchartered territory.
1,032,648 acres were lost in the August fire complex (Northern California) alone in. Record books were re-written.
South America stepped into the furnace with the start of one of the most profound/long-lived and widespread heatwaves in Southern Hemisphere history.
Siberia still doing its thing. Greenland turned blue though.
Arctic sea ice melted to record low extent for month of October and South America and started the month with extreme heat. Eastern Europe/Asia boundary set heat records widespread.
Cool north America and developing La Nina...
Arctic looks like it is on fire here. This is not surprising given the lack of sea ice. Textbook Arctic amplification.
Cold in central Asia.
Deep cold again in Central Asia but warm pretty much everywhere else. North America, Northern Europe and Africa breaking records.
Stay tuned.
A more organised collection of graphics exists on my instagram: https://t.co/3IOp4bew5f
This thread serves as a reminder that the climate has changed and is continuing to change. Changes are not uniform, I hope everyone can see this.
I have corrected this. Happy new year 👍
Inevitably top 3. Probably at least 2nd. Could be hottest.
JMA preliminary data has 2020 at the top spot.
Often January, February and March have the largest anomalies, some of which already break the +1.5 °C anomaly (comparing to levels similar to pre-industrial times).
This might come in useful. Solar and carbon graphs combined with temperature.
https://t.co/yacwcqLhKE
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Watch along:
Will tweet along snippets. Pretty relevant to...............everything, really. #UKCarbonBudget
"Instead of being just a budget, it's a pathway we have to tread to reach net zero in 2050" @lorddeben
Just like quite a few other modelling exercises, CCC use a spectrum between behaviour change and between technological change. #UKCarbonBudget.
Both = best (just like @AEMO_Media's Step Change scenario in their ISP)
'Balanced' is what they use for their recs. "We're doing 60% of the emissions reductions in the first 15 years, and then 40% in the next".
The slinky kitty curve....good to see. No evidence of delaying action to Dec 29 2049, here. #UKCarbonBudget
"By front loading, we're minimising the UK's contribution to cumulative emissions" - really important point. A slow path to net zero - more climate harm than a fast one. #UKCarbonBudget
Watch along:
Just 15 mins until the launch event for our new advice to Government on the Sixth Carbon Budget. If you haven\u2019t registered, you can watch live on YouTube from 10am. Link: https://t.co/PjlcIDSYEC #UKCarbonBudget pic.twitter.com/1zOTfmxDVp
— Climate Change Committee (@theCCCuk) December 9, 2020
Will tweet along snippets. Pretty relevant to...............everything, really. #UKCarbonBudget
"Instead of being just a budget, it's a pathway we have to tread to reach net zero in 2050" @lorddeben
Just like quite a few other modelling exercises, CCC use a spectrum between behaviour change and between technological change. #UKCarbonBudget.
Both = best (just like @AEMO_Media's Step Change scenario in their ISP)
'Balanced' is what they use for their recs. "We're doing 60% of the emissions reductions in the first 15 years, and then 40% in the next".
The slinky kitty curve....good to see. No evidence of delaying action to Dec 29 2049, here. #UKCarbonBudget
"By front loading, we're minimising the UK's contribution to cumulative emissions" - really important point. A slow path to net zero - more climate harm than a fast one. #UKCarbonBudget
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