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- neverscared2
What Does Global Land Climate Look Like at 2°C Warming?
Abstract
Constraining an increase in global mean temperature below 2°C compared to pre-industrial levels is critical to limiting dangerous and cascading impacts of anthropogenic climate change. Understanding future climatic changes and their spatial heterogeneity at 2°C warming is thus important for policy makers to prepare actionable adaptation and mitigation plans by identifying where and to what extent lives and livelihoods will be impacted. This study uses the recently released NASA Earth eXchange Global Daily Downscaled Projections (NEX-GDDP) CMIP6 data to provide a broad overview of projected changes in six key climate variables and two climate impact indicators at a time when warming exceeds 2°C. Analysis of global mean temperature changes indicates the 2040s as the decade when most CMIP6 models reach 2°C warming with respect to a pre-industrial period (1850–1900). During the 2040s, we find that global mean temperature, precipitation, relative humidity, downwelling shortwave and longwave radiation, and wind speed over land under the high emission scenario are projected to change by +2.8°C, +22.4 mm/year, −0.73%, −2.23 , +15.9 W/m2, and −0.04 m/s, respectively. Many of the future changes are expected to exacerbate climate impacts including heat stress and fire danger. Our analysis shows geographic patterns of policy-relevant climatic changes, as parts of the globe will experience significant climate impacts even if the goal to keep warming below 2°C goal is achieved. Our results highlight the urgent need for further studies focused on identifying key hotspots and advancing region-specific actionable adaptation and mitigation plans.- oh noes!zardoz
- i know i know u enjoy migrants drowning in the sea and koalas getting burned .. a double morbid douche.. climate change and human rights denier in one personneverscared
- Yes the rates of deforestation in Australia are pretty shameful.MrT
- That panda looks like shit.BK
- Nairn1
Mmmm, saline sat in plastic results in volatiles that you can taste, yum.
- neverscared2
Parts of tropical rainforests could get too hot for photosynthesis, study suggests
Some leaves in tropical forests from South America to South East Asia are getting so hot they may no longer be able to photosynthesize, with big potential consequences for the world’s forests, according to a new study.
Leaves’ ability to photosynthesize – the process by which they make energy from carbon dioxide, sunlight and water – begins to fail when their temperature reaches around 46.7 degrees Celsius (116 Fahrenheit).
While this may seem high, leaves can get much hotter than the air temperature, according to the report published Wednesday in Nature by a group of scientists from countries including the US, Australia and Brazil.
- the singularity is happening.. no more photosynthesis in the jungle ...huzzah huzzah we gonna do it....neverscared
- good, we're the shitties species that's ever existed, the sooner we go extinct the better for the planet._niko
- speak for yourself, eco-loonzardoz
- Nairn4
First the earthquake in Morocco and now the flooding and dam failure in Eastern Libya - nearly 5000 lives lost in a week in North Africa.
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(approx location above video was taken from - the biggish building half way through is the school that's across what was a small ravine: https://goo.gl/maps/Y72V7uAd9Ra2…)
- grimPhanLo
- Oh shit, why didn't that link do it's usual magic thing? DRGGGGS
Here:
https://i.imgur.com/…Nairn - A friend's family lost someone in the quake. The floods in Libya look even worse. Horrible.Fax_Benson
- damnYakuZoku
- sadutopian
- NBQ00-1
- Nairn0
Oh Great, something else to worry about. I'd read that salting of roads in Canada was genderbending toads or salmon or something, but this is a whole new level of OhFFS.
- it's rusting cars. stop already with the saltimbecile
- https://i.imgur.com/…pango
- hover cars would have fixed this issue by 2015.BabySnakes
- yuekit0
*Sniff
- yuekit0
Daryl Hall files restraining order against John Oates in legal feud
- neverscared1
Extremely high-energy particle detected falling to Earth
Amaterasu particle, one of highest-energy cosmic rays ever detected, is coming from an apparently empty region of spaceAstronomers have detected a rare and extremely high-energy particle falling to Earth that is causing bafflement because it is coming from an apparently empty region of space.
The particle, named Amaterasu after the sun goddess in Japanese mythology, is one of the highest-energy cosmic rays ever detected.
Only the most powerful cosmic events, on scales far exceeding the explosion of a star, are thought to be capable of producing such energetic particles. But Amaterasu appears to have emerged from the Local Void, an empty area of space bordering the Milky Way galaxy.
“You trace its trajectory to its source and there’s nothing high energy enough to have produced it,” said Prof John Matthews, of the University of Utah and a co-author of the paper in the journal Science that describes the discovery. “That’s the mystery of this – what the heck is going on?
- u can always count on the void... Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.neverscared
- https://www.youtube.…ApeRobot
- is that why I'm feeling down for the last couple of days?Beeswax
- u should feel up...neverscared
- Bluejam1
‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza
Permissive airstrikes on non-military targets and the use of an artificial intelligence system (called “Habsora” - “The Gospel”) have enabled the Israeli army to carry out its deadliest war on Gaza.