Notices by Eric Maugendre (maugendre@mas.to)

"The amount of heat transported to the north Atlantic is huge. […] It’s enough to warm the entire region by 4.5°C on average which means that I’m cutting the grass in November rather than shovelling snow. It also means the northern hemisphere is about 1.4°C warmer than the southern hemisphere and why the thermal equator is at 10°N which positions the tropical rain belts further north than they would otherwise be."

https://drtomharris.substack.com/p/amoc-weakening-declared-a-national by Tom Harris after @rahmstorf

#AMOC #climateChange

A new study suggests that the Atlantic overturning circulation AMOC “is on tipping course”

"It’s observational data from the South Atlantic which suggest the AMOC is on tipping course. Not the model simulation, which is just there to get a better understanding of which early warning signals work, and why."

Stefan Rahmstorf: https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2024/02/new-study-suggests-the-atlantic-overturning-circulation-amoc-is-on-tipping-course/ @climate

#AMOC #EWS #warningSignals #climateChange #dataViz #maps #map #Scotland #Iceland #Norway #Denmark #climate #ColdBlob #NorthSea #Atlantic

A flood event in Powodz #Poland today:

via @energisch_ @climatebrad

#ALT4you #floods #flooding #flood #submersion #Europe #weather #rain

"Previous IMF interventions may have reduced a country’s ability to invest in transition. Now, the IMF’s response to, or management of, an economic crisis must also consider solutions that are not building the fragilities of the future.

[…] The IMF is facing a steep learning curve."

#E3G: https://www.e3g.org/news/navigating-a-coming-storm-the-imf-and-the-climate-transition/

#IMF #finance #energyTransition #transitioning #transition #promises #money #Georgieva

"This analysis makes clear that the pat notion of “affordable clean #energy” views the world through a narrow keyhole that is blind to innumerable economic, ecological, and social costs. These undesirable #externalities can no longer be ignored. To achieve #sustainability and salvage civilization, society must embark on a planned, cooperative descent from an extreme state of overshoot in just a decade or two."
https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/15/4508 @climate

#transition #renewables #EnergyTransition #capacity