james hansen 2020

Hansen says.

Thom Porter: Correct. As you add more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, you increase the heating of the surface.

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Think of the Earth as an automobile with an internal combustion engine. Thanks to international cooperation in the Argo floats program, we are able to measure ocean heat content change, which makes up about 90% of Earth’s energy imbalance. It's a torrid 2020 and it was forecast 32 years ago. The largest fires were ignited by storms, but because the air is so dry the rain evaporated before it reached the ground, leaving chief porter fighting dry lightning. 2 0 obj

Here's what he means. This increased warming rate is reason for concern, but not reason for despair. CleanTechnica is the #1 cleantech-focused news & analysis website in the US & the world, focusing primarily on electric cars, solar energy, wind energy, & energy storage. We are sad to announce that on October 9, 2020 we had to say goodbye to James Ronald Hansen of Hot Springs, South Dakota, born in Yankton, South Dakota. This season, nearly four million acres have burned so far. So, at the times and places where it's dry you get more extreme droughts. But I expected that governments would be wise enough that they would begin to adopt policies to preserve the future for young people. Fifty million Americans on the West Coast suffered through weeks of the worst air quality on the planet.

Butte County, California, Volunteer Fire Station 61. “However, we are in the process of doing no such thing,” Hansen says. But I don't think that's our future. © 2015   Sustainable Enterprises Media, Inc. Red State Voices and Blue State Voices coming together for GREEN, Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window). They're already beginning that process of collapse. Hansen and many of his colleagues have been vilified by highly paid activists in the employ of the fossil fuel industry. California's Karuk Tribe leads effort to fight racism and climate change... with fire! We would lose our coastal cities.

Dr. James Hansen, formerly Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, where he directs the Program on Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions. Thom Porter: Every acre in California can and will burn someday. From COVID-19 to the climate emergency: Lessons from this global crisis for the next one, Trump's USDA is serving up diseased chicken, The importance of a regenerative food system for sustainable agriculture. In 2010, he came across a paper written by von Schuckmann, Gaillard and Le Traon entitled Global hydrographic variability patterns during 2003-2008.

But the warming climate has intensified heat and drought. Want to publish a press release on CleanTechnica? He is 79 years old and is a Aries. Let's look at the big picture, the warming of the planet a little less than 2 degrees Fahrenheit warming of the planet since pre-industrial time. Effective mitigation requires good data. Dr. Hansen periodically posts commentary on his recent papers and presentations and on other topics of interest to an e-mail list. I don't want that to be our future. He is 79 years old and is a Aries. “Within the paper there was a graph of what seemed to be the most reliable data until then of the increasing heat storage in the ocean.” A decade ago, Hansen and his colleagues were struggling to understand why the cooling effect of increased aerosols in the atmosphere after the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991 did not prevent average global temperatures from rising.

And folks were discouraged from even spending any time outdoors. The oceans have been warming during the post-Industrial Revolution period, the data revealed, and their ability to absorb more heat is diminishing. RedGREENandBlue is part of the Important Media network of blogs working to make the world a better, greener place. It is already happening now.”. by Steve Hanley, Somehow, CleanTechnica has wound up on Dr. James Hansen’s e-mail distribution list. What we need is to have an increasing price on the fossil fuels and do it in a way that the public will accept. He's on the school board and built his home with his own hands. The content produced by this site is for entertainment purposes only. The oceans have absorbed more than 80% of that excess heat but the latest research from van Shuckmann and her colleagues shows they are getting close to their theoretical ability to absorb more heat.

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