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"This note is nothing more than an annual reminder of the climate data. It’s a
reminder of how hard many people work.
ChatGPT found a Tyndall Centre reference showing that between 1990 and 2021,
130,000 journal articles dealt with some aspect of Climate Change – that’s
about 4,194 a year, which is over 11 articles a day world wide, every day for
over 30 years.
I read some of these articles. The amount of modelling and the sophistication
of the modelling is staggering.
For the science to be consensus, findings need to be triangulated and
replicated. Data monitoring from satellites from ocean buoys and from a great
many other sensors is collected unceasingly. The science doesn’t just look at
the here and now, but looks backwards as far as possible and projects forwards
as far as possible.
It’s just a massive amount of brain power that goes into understanding the
climate and yet the conclusions that are reached seem sometimes only to be paid
lip service.
Despite what the popular media might write, when you do the work you would have
to be an absolute nutter to conclude anything other than that the quality of
life for the future generations is at risk.
The ongoing concern is that a number of indicators such as ocean heat content,
sea level rise, glacier loss and the global temperature annual increase all
show signs of acceleration over the past decade.
On the positive side, there is a slow down in 2024 of the growth in emissions,
still higher than 2023 but only about 1%. Equally despite the vast wealth
created by the extraction of fossil fuels the ongoing increase in energy is
increasingly sourced from renewables.
The most cited paper in 2024 dealt with ocean circulation currents which are
part of the changes in the ocean that also have many other impacts and which
are discussed belowt. The next most cited dealt with economic impacts."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
