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Leon Simons
@leonsimons.com

I just updated this NASA CERES graph. The regional level of Absorbed Solar Radiation increased by 4.2 W/m² in 20 years!! That's more than the global greenhouse gas forcing increase since 1750! The 2 W/m² Net Flux increase indicates that there is a lot more regional warming in the pipeline.

Thomas Rackow 🧊@trackow.bsky.social

We have a new paper out in @science.org today, led by Helge Goessling from #AWI: The recent global temperature surge in 2023 was intensified by a record-low planetary #albedo 👉 doi.org/10.1126/scie... @thomasjung.bsky.social @ecmwf.bsky.social This is what we found (🧵1/8)

doi.orgRecent global temperature surge intensified by record-low planetary albedoIn 2023, the global mean temperature soared to almost 1.5K above the pre-industrial level, surpassing the previous record by about 0.17K. Previous best-guess estimates of known drivers including anthr...

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Leon Simons
@leonsimons.com

Note that I had to extend my Y-axis AGAIN.. Latitudes as reference to insightful @nature.com study by Helge Goessling, @trackow.bsky.social and @thomasjung.bsky.social: bsky.app/profile/trac...

Thomas Rackow 🧊@trackow.bsky.social

@carbonbrief.org lists our December paper among the most featured 2024 papers, current score 2,644 - top of the charts for @altmetric.com mentions on @bsky.app 🤯 📈 www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-the... 🔓A free-access reprint link to our paper can be found on Helges website www.awi.de/en/about-us/...

carbonbrief.orgAnalysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2024 - Carbon BriefThousands of peer-reviewed journal articles were published over 2024, helping shape online discourse around climate change.