Climate scientist studying drought, land surface processes, climate extremes. https://www.drbenjamincook.net/
Benjamin Cook
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Red alert: The OMB regulations could disable science permanently
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Global CO2 emissions have plateaued since 2013, leading to a slower growth in atmospheric CO2 than would have otherwise been the case. In a new analysis at The Climate Brink, I've taken look at what would have happened if emissions had continued to grow: www.theclimatebrink....
Nice reminder that the legacy of anthropogenic climate change could be LONG. Notice here temperatures still elevated by 3000 CE even in the optimistic scenario's. From this paper: eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A.... 🧪⚒️
As a follow up to yesterday’s post. This graph uses a different index (rONI) which accounts for the warming climate baseline and the tropical ocean mean outside the El Niño region during each time period. Here we see the 2026 dynamical model forecast is still the highest, but much less so… 1/
May 2026 had the second-worst May drought conditions in contiguous U.S. history, with a Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) of -6.93. The only worse May: the Dust Bowl year of 1934 (a PDSI of -7.03). Three of the top-10 months for worst U.S. drought since 1895 have been in 2026:
real bad
Gavin Schmidt
Zeke Hausfather
Gavin Foster
Jeff Berardelli
Hot Take: pages for submitting reviews for journals should have TWO (and ONLY two) elements:
(1) A box to paste the text of the review into.
(2) A drop down menu to indicate the recommendation.
