Carbon dioxide is rising faster than ever ... why?

Friday 29 November 2024

As we saw in Chapter 6, the amount of carbon dioxide in the air rises and falls on an annual rhythm, highest each year in the month of May, and lowest in September. In May 2023, the monthly mean value was 423.78 ppm. This year it was 426.7 ppm. The...

Extreme heat - a new estimate of how heatwaves will be distributed around the world

Friday 29 November 2024

Climate models have been well supplied with observational data and physical theory so they can predict steadily worsening heatwaves. But, specially in the last couple of decades, extreme heat events have turned up around the world that exceeded any...