Climate Science

Although ERA5 is still missing a week of data, it is already clear that June 2023 will not break the record for the hottest June by a small margin, but by a large margin. pic.twitter.com/3pC2dUi5nM

— Mika Rantanen (@mikarantane) June 29, 2023

Smoke pollution from wildfires in Canada returns to the USA with "unhealthy" and "very unhealthy" levels of particulates affecting the midwest and parts of the east coast. pic.twitter.com/Y8iPYomaON

— Dr. Robert Rohde (@RARohde) June 29, 2023

The dearth of Saharan dust this June across the tropical Atlantic is exceptional. Compare the extent to a typical June, last June, or June 2020 for a recent dusty example. Dustiness explains ~35% of SST variability in the summer so less dust generally means a toastier Atlantic. pic.twitter.com/wYbf9yKMgN

— Michael Lowry (@MichaelRLowry) June 29, 2023

Time for a bit of climate hope.

Solar power is the fastest growing energy technology in history, and wind is not far behind.

This graph shows how rapidly different energy technologies expanded after reaching their first exajoule of energy production, on a logarithmic scale. pic.twitter.com/3r8b1c0VLs

— Dr. Robert Rohde (@RARohde) June 27, 2023

Great Bloomberg piece on the need for regulation of CDR and the critical importance of MRV. Also nice to see the verification confidence levels we developed with @carbonplanorg out in the wild! https://t.co/VWWsApbfCT

— Zeke Hausfather (@hausfath) June 27, 2023