'It's really fundamentally a problem of changing conditions, not changing ignitions.' Zeke Hausfather on the role of climate change in the 'zombie' fires reigniting in Canada after a record-setting year for fire and heat

Temperature Update for April 2024

Warmest April to be directly measured.

Our 12-month moving-average now stands at 1.65 °C (2.97 °F) above the 1850-1900 average.

El Niño weakens further, ending soon.

2024 likely be the warmest or 2nd warmest year.

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2020: Microsoft sets goal to be carbon negative by end of the decade.

2023: Microsoft's emissions are 30% higher than in 2020.

Main cause? The relentless push to meet AI demand, which requires carbon-intensive steel, cement, chips.

Story with Dina Bass: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The summer of 2023 was the warmest in the Northern Hemisphere extra-tropical regions in the past 2,000 years, according to a study published in nature. go.nature.com/4aASD9L

Democracy and insurance on The Climate Brink
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The amount of fundamental radiative transfer work done by the US Air Force – and the role its had in measuring the heat-trapping properties of CO2 and other greenhouse gases – is an under-appreciated story. We still use the HITRAN database today: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HITRAN

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Just to confirm:
- Climate change is unprecedented risk
- Mass adoption of EVs is vital
- Adoption has slowed bc lack of low-priced options
- US companies unable/unwilling to make low-priced EVs
- China is global leader in low-priced EVs
- US to hit China with 100% EV tariffs

protesting electric vehicles is like protesting chemotherapy for not only killing cancer cells

i'm no musk fangirl but blocking the people who are building solutions to the climate crisis is actually INSANE

do you want fossil energy dependency? bc this is how you get it