Dana's The Wall Street Journal downplays global warming risks once again received the most comments of the articles posted on SkS during the past week. Attracting the second highest number of comments was the repost of Roz Piscock's Carbon Brief article, Your questions on climate sensitivity answered.
h/t to I Heart Climate Scientists
"Go back in your life to think about the hottest, most traumatic event you have experienced," Mora* said in an interview with the New York Times recently. "What we are saying is that very soon, that event is going to become the norm."
*Camilo Mora, University of Hawaii
Floods, forest fires, expanding deserts: the future has arrived by Robin McKie, The Observer/The Guardian, Sep 27, 2014
SEATTLE - The National Climate Prediction Center says a weak El Nino should be with us through December at least.
El Nino has the effect of keeping the fall and winter climate in the Pacific Northwest warmer and drier than normal. El Nino forms when a warm pool of water at the surface of the Pacific Ocean along the equator builds up along the west coast of South and Central America. This El Nino is expected to be weak.
The bigger effect is coming from something like El Nino and much closer to the Pacific Northwest. It's called "the blob," another big pool of warmer than normal water. The blob is off the Washington coast and goes north, pretty much filling the Gulf of Alaska. At its warmest point, it's five degrees warmer than normal, and as the air blows across it, that air also becomes warmer as it heads over land. El Nino's effects are largely confined to the fall and winter months, but "the blob" helped create a warmer summer than normal.
El Nino and warm water 'blob' affecting Northwest weather by Glenn Farley, KING 5 News, Sep 26, 2014
Posted by John Hartz on Sunday, 28 September, 2014
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