Global Climate Change in September and October 2023
Record warmth in September The remarkable and unprecedented surge in global temperature which began in June, continues unabated, and has actually increased since August. September smashed the record for the most extreme record month, with an anomaly of 1.47 C higher than the 1951-80 average, and 0.49 C higher than the previous record of +0.98 […]
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Friday, November 17, 2023 | Filed under: Pat's Home Page Blog, Science: Climate Change and Other Topics
Wullie Davidson: June until August, 2023 – Climate Events
Global Temperature Anomaly Globally, the June to August period was the warmest in a record going back to 1860, at 1.17 C warmer than the 1951-80 average. This beat the previous record of +0.94 C set in 2022. June beat its record by 0.16 C, July by 0.25 C and August by 0.22 C. NASA/GISS […]
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Wednesday, September 20, 2023 | Filed under: COP26 Glasgow, Climate Change, Save the Planet, Science, Biodiversity Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, Science: Climate Change and Other Topics
Wullie Davidson: Climate Change Blog – Global Warming Just Got Worse
July, 2023 Warmest June, globally, since records began in 1860 Mid 2023 seems destined to go into the record books as the period when global warming lurched forward into a higher gear. Global atmospheric and sea surface temperature (SST) records for the date climbed to record breaking levels, atmospheric temperature records beginning in late May […]
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Thursday, July 13, 2023 | Filed under: COP26 Glasgow, Climate Change, Save the Planet, Science, Biodiversity Events, Science: Climate Change and Other Topics
Wullie Davidson Climate Change Blog: Global Ocean Temperature Reaches Record High – El Nino Brewing Up
Second warmest March despite no El Nino Globally, March, 2023 was the second warmest March, since record keeping began in 1850.The warmest March was in 2016 and that temperature was boosted by a very strong El Nino. Currently, the tropical Pacific is ENSO neutral, but the average global sea surface temperature (SST) reached a record […]
Sunday, May 7, 2023 | Filed under: COP26 Glasgow, Climate Change, Save the Planet, Science, Biodiversity Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, Science: Climate Change and Other Topics
Wullie Davidson on Climate Change – European Winter Drought and More
European Winter Drought In the summer of 2022, Europe experienced its worst drought for at least 500 years. The World Weather Attribution service has stated that northern hemisphere drought was at least 20 times more likely because of climate change, and that such extremes would become more common as the world warms. In more ‘normal’ […]
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Monday, March 13, 2023 | Filed under: COP26 Glasgow, Climate Change, Save the Planet, Science, Biodiversity Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, Science: Climate Change and Other Topics
Wullie Davidson: Extreme Weather Events of 2022
La Nina The three year La Nina event in the Pacific continues to have a moderating influence on global temperatures, with 2022 being the sixth warmest year, globally, since reliable record keeping began in 1880. According to NASA, it was 0.89 C above the 1951-80 average. 2020 was the warmest year on record, at +1.02 […]
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Tuesday, January 31, 2023 | Filed under: COP26 Glasgow, Climate Change, Save the Planet, Science, Biodiversity Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, Science: Climate Change and Other Topics
Wullie Davidson’s Blog: Avian Influenza
There are various subtypes of avian influenza (bird flu) which are divided into two categories, depending on the severity of disease they cause in birds: 1) Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), which causes a large number of deaths. 2) Low pathogenic avian influenza (LPAI), which usually causes mild or asymptomatic infection. H5N1 The subtype which […]
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Sunday, January 22, 2023 | Filed under: COP26 Glasgow, Climate Change, Save the Planet, Science, Biodiversity Events, Science: Climate Change and Other Topics
Melting glaciers – the ice gives up its secrets
Throughout the world, mountain glaciers are disappearing at an accelerating pace, due to climate change, losing about 2% of their volume every year. On July 9, 2022, 11 people on a hiking trail in Italy died, when a glacier collapsed in the Alps, during a heatwave. This year, the Alps are on track to lose […]
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Saturday, September 3, 2022 | Filed under: COP26 Glasgow, Climate Change, Save the Planet, Science, Biodiversity Events, Science: Climate Change and Other Topics
Hurricane Season 2022 – Wullie Davidson
Wullie Davidson’s Blog: June, 2022 It’s now officially hurricane season. June 1st is the official starting date of the Atlantic hurricane season. In the eastern Pacific, tropical cyclones are also called hurricanes, and the official starting date there is May 15. In the Indian Ocean, and south west Pacific, they are called cyclones, while in […]
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Friday, June 3, 2022 | Filed under: COP26 Glasgow, Climate Change, Save the Planet, Science, Biodiversity Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, Science: Climate Change and Other Topics
Wully Davidson: Developments in Global Climate Change 2022
‘Nothing provokes societal unrest more than hunger… It seems likely that we will see an increase in social unrest.’ Polar heat anomalies March saw quite extraordinary temperatures at both the Antarctic and Arctic, described by scientists as ‘unprecedented’. In Antarctica, a new world record for the largest temperature excess above normal (+38.5 C/+69.3 F) ever […]
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Sunday, April 3, 2022 | Filed under: COP26 Glasgow, Climate Change, Save the Planet, Science, Biodiversity Events, Science: Climate Change and Other Topics
Wullie Davidson’s Blog: Extreme Global Weather Events of 2021
Global Cooling Effect of the Ongoing La Nina Event The global cooling effect of the ongoing La Nina event in the tropical Pacific means that 2021 was ‘only’ the sixth warmest year, globally, in a record going back to 1880. The El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) has two phases, the warm El Nino, which boosts […]
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Wednesday, January 12, 2022 | Filed under: Pat's Home Page Blog, Science: Climate Change and Other Topics
Wullie Davidson’s Blog: COP26
COP26 – The 26th Conference of the Parties The 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) gets under way in Glasgow’s Scottish Exhibition Centre on Sunday, October 31, ending on November 12. The conference will be attended by 30,000 delegates from 196 countries. Glasgow has around 15,000 hotel rooms, so many delegates will be required to […]
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Monday, November 1, 2021 | Filed under: COP26 Glasgow, Climate Change, Save the Planet, Science, Biodiversity Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, Science: Climate Change and Other Topics
Glasgow Connects, Glasgow Science Festival 2021
1 – 30 September, 2021 GSF is back throughout September with Glasgow Connects, featuring a programme of events inspired by the international COP26 climate conference. With socially distanced activities at the Glasgow Botanic Gardens (4th to 12th Sept, 11-2pm daily) and at the Paisley Rd West Festival (24th to 26th Sept). As well as popping […]
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Wully Davidson: Tropical Cyclones in a Warming World
Tropical Cyclones and Climatic Factors Tropical cyclones are the result of a number of climatic factors, but high sea surface temperatures (SSTs) are perhaps the most fundamental. It’s therefore logical that, as the seas get warmer, there will be more, and stronger, tropical cyclones. There does seem to have been an increase in the number […]
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Sunday, June 6, 2021 | Filed under: Science: Climate Change and Other Topics
Uptick in Global Volcanic Activity: Climate Change – Wully Davidson
Source http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/about/pglossary/LavaFountain.php J.D.Griggs Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii Global volcanic activity has recently increased by 125%…. will it have any effect on climate change? There seems to have been an uptick in news stories of volcanoes erupting around the globe, recently. One small, but quite spectacular example, is the appearance of new fissures spewing lava from Geldingadalur […]
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Monday, April 19, 2021 | Filed under: Pat's Home Page Blog, Science: Climate Change and Other Topics
Some of the Effects of Global Warming
Californians face unprecedented fire blackouts in January, 2021 “In an unprecedented move, California utilities are warning they may need to cut power to more than 280,000 homes and businesses to prevent live wires from sparking wildfires as high winds are set to sweep through the drought-weary state. Edison International’s Southern California Edison said 277,078 customers […]
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Sunday, April 4, 2021 | Filed under: Science: Climate Change and Other Topics
Global Warming
Polar scientist wary of impending satellite gap. Scientists are concerned that the two satellites monitoring Arctic, Antarctic and glacial ice volumes, CryoSat-2 and IceSat-2, will expire before their successor, the EC/Esa Cristal is launched in 2027/28 This could mean a 2-5 year gap in our knowledge of how much annual ice loss is occurring. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/…29 […]
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Climate Change – The Hurricane Season
Today (June 1st) is the official start of the Atlantic hurricane season. The eastern Pacific’s first named storm of the year, Amanda, has tracked across central America, causing a lot of flash flood damage, and is now entering the Bay of Campeche, after staying offshore and drenching the Yucatan peninsula. The US National Hurricane Center […]
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Climate Change – 2020 was this the warmest year?
It’s early days, but 2020 is shaping up to be the warmest year, globally, since records began in the 19th century, and very probably the warmest year Earth has experienced since the end of the last Ice Age, 11,500 years ago. Usually, when a new record is set, it coincides with an above average […]
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