Climate futures, adaptation and change
And a little geology sprinkled in
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“One of the biggest concerns is the change in snowfall patterns. Earlier, heavy snowfall during December, January and February helped glaciers accumulate and retain ice. Now, snowfall is shifting towards March, April and May”
The EU’s Kaja Kallas: “We have also now verified reports that the Chinese military has been training Russian military personnel to fight in Ukraine. We are carefully assessing the implications."
If you're a European, Canadian, or Australian policymaker looking to make the case for #digitalsovereignty, the United States has just made it for you. The time for debate is over; cloud and AI sovereignty are essential if future generations are to avoid digital colonialism.
“Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime, a vicious group of very hard, terrible people. Its menacing activities directly endanger the United States” Trump, Mar26
“we assign this scenario, in which both Starship is reusable and scaled orbital data centers are highly successful, a 7% chance of happening, which is one reason our final fair value estimate of $63 is much lower than $154”
I'm not sure I've ever seen a stronger signal from the ECMWF ensemble for sustained very high 500 hPa heights across a large part of Europe at the 5-7 day lead times.
With that comes persistent hot or very hot weather in western Europe, what looks to be a high-end event.
“For too long, understanding and monitoring the Amoc was viewed as an academic pursuit. Instead, it should now be treated as what it truly is: an urgent, global priority. There is an acute and essential need to construct an alternative international funding strategy to secure long-term…monitoring’
Love what the Australian soccer team says about modern Australia. Seriously, watch this video, and you'll be cheering for them too.
EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN CENTRAL ASIA
Record heat is sweeping the whole of Asia:
MINIMUM 26.9 Ekhingol 1000M asl !
HOTTEST JUNE NIGHT EVER RECORDED IN MONGOLIA
MINIMUMS >30C in Central Asia (next days Maxes up to 46C!)
Weeks >30C in The Arctics
30.5 Abramovsk Majak RU June record
El Niño is here, which means it's time for me to dust off and refine my old collection of ENSO-related climate visualizations. Check out how much sea surface temperatures have already warmed this year across the equatorial tropical Pacific. Wow!
Data from psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded...
