Honey, I mitigated climate change by Ari Jokimäki garnered the most comments of the articles posted on SkS during the past week. Coming in second was Rob Painting's Climate Models Show Remarkable Agreement with Recent Surface Warming. The third most commented upon article was Cherry picked and misrepresented climate science undermines FiveThirtyEight brand by Dana, Albatross, and Thingsbreak.
h/t to I Heart Climate Scientists
"There is no standstill in global warming," said WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud. "The warming of our oceans has accelerated and at lower depths. More than 90 percent of the excess energy trapped by greenhouse gases is stored in the oceans. Levels of these greenhouse gases are at record levels, meaning that our atmosphere and oceans will continue to warm for centuries to come.
"While the challenges facing the next generations are enormous, the opportunities for addressing them have never been greater," Jarraud said.
No Standstill Found in Global Warming or Extreme Weather by Christina Reed and ClimateWire, Scientific American, Mar 24, 2014
The SkS graphic, The Escalator is embedded in A possible “told you so” moment? posted on the And Then There's Physics blog.
The findings of Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature (John Cook et al, Environmental Research Letters) are referenced and linked to in:
In his blog post, 2036 and Climate Change, Greg Laden uses the graphic of various estimates of climate sensitivity contained in the Advanced version of the SkS rebuttal article How sensitive is our climate? to introduce a video by Michael Mann.
Momentum for Change is an initiative spearheaded by the UN Climate Change secretariat to shine a light on the enormous groundswell of activities underway across the globe that are moving the world toward a low-carbon future. Momentum for Change looks for innovative and transformative solutions that address both climate change and wider economic, social and environmental challenges.
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Want to learn more? Hollywood actor and climate champion Mark Ruffalo explains what Momentum for Change is all about in a short, animated video posted on the Momentum for Change website.
Posted by John Hartz on Sunday, 30 March, 2014
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