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Measuring the retreat of Italy's largest glacier
https://phys.org/news/2023-09-retreat-i ... acier.html
by Andrea BERNARDI

The Adamello glacier is suffering from reduced snowfall -- down 50 percent last year.

The Adamello glacier, the largest in the Italian Alps, is slowly being destroyed by global warming, with experts giving it less than a century to survive.

"From the end of the 19th century until today, the glacier has lost approximately 2.7 kilometers," said Cristian Ferrari, president of the Glaciological Commission of the Tridentine Alpinists Society.

"In the last five years, we have had average losses of 15 meters per year. But last year alone (2022) we saw the loss of 139 meters in a year."

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The CPC weekly update has Niño 3.4 up to +1.6C.


Niño 4 1.1ºC
Niño 3.4 1.6ºC
Niño 3 2.3ºC
Niño 1+2 3.2ºC


https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/ ... ts-web.pdf

strong nino!

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That does not look good at all.

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I think it is possible a large part of this is climate change. Of course we have colder years but it would be interesting to see a graph of the increase of heat build up in the Atlantic basin and another for surface temperatures in c or f since temperature collection.

I'd like to see this graph for year on year warming and possibly a major study removing the amo cycles.

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World falling dangerously short of climate goals: UN

08/09/2023

The 2015 Paris treaty has successfully driven climate action, but "much more is needed now on all fronts," said the report, which will underpin a crucial climate summit in Dubai at the end of the year.

"The world is not on track to meet the long-term goals of the Paris Agreement," including capping global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius above mid-19th century levels, the report said.

Global greenhouse gas emissions must peak by 2025 and drop sharply thereafter to keep the 1.5C target in view, the so-called stocktake said, drawing from a major scientific assessment by the UN's IPCC science advisory panel.

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/2 ... e-goals-un

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Heat waves are hitting Antarctica too now

by Yvaine Ye, University of Colorado at Boulder
https://phys.org/news/2023-09-antarctica.html

The world saw another year full of extreme weather events resulting from climate change in 2022, from intense storms to soaring temperatures and rising sea levels. Antarctica was no exception, according to new research published this week.

In the 33rd annual State of the Climate report, an international assessment of the global climate published Wednesday in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, CU Boulder researchers report that the planet's coldest and driest continent experienced both an unprecedented heat wave and extreme precipitation last year.

"My hope is that the public starts to see both the fragility and complexity of these polar regions," said Rajashree Tri Datta, a research associate in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences who contributed to sections of the report related to Antarctica and the Southern Ocean.

While Antarctica may seem isolated from the rest of the world, changes to the icy continent could significantly impact the rest of the world.

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I think it is possible a large part of this is climate change. Of course we have colder years but it would be interesting to see a graph of the increase of heat build up in the Atlantic basin and another for surface temperatures in c or f since temperature collection.

I'd like to see this graph for year on year warming and possibly a major study removing the amo cycles.

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Biden Says Climate Change Poses Greater Threat Than Nuclear War
Source: Bloomberg

President Joe Biden said the sole threat to humanity’s existence is climate change, and that not even nuclear conflict poses a similar danger. “The only existential threat humanity faces, even things more frightening than a nuclear war, is global warming,” Biden said Sunday during a news conference in Hanoi, Vietnam.

The president added “we’re going to be in real trouble” if, in the next decade or two, warming goes above the 1.5C temperature increase that scientists consider a tipping point for increasing the chances of extreme weather events. “There’s no way back from that,” Biden continued. “And so there’s a lot we can do in the meantime.”

Biden spoke following the Group of 20 summit in India, where leaders agreed to a series of climate actions, including a pledge to triple renewable energy capacity by the end of the decade.

The president’s attention this year has been consumed at times by weather and climate disasters, including deadly wildfires in Maui. The US has suffered more than a dozen billion-dollar severe weather events this year, according to the National Centers for Environmental Information.

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... uclear-war

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Absolute catastrophe in Libya –

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-africa-66691046