James Hansen

Global temperature for 2025 should decline little, if at all, from the record 2024 level. Absence of a large temperature decline after the huge El Nino-spurred temperature increase in 2023-24 will provide further confirmation that IPCC’s best estimates for climate sensitivity and aerosol climate forcing were both underestimates. Specifically, 2025 global temperature should remain near or above +1.5C relative to 1880-1920, and, if the tropics remain ENSO-neutral, there is good chance that 2025 may even exceed the 2024 record high global temperature.

Het internationaal afgesproken klimaatdoel van maximaal 2° C opwarming is "dood". Dat zegt de gerenommeerde klimaatwetenschapper James Hansen. Volgens hem is de snelheid waarmee de Aarde opwarmt zwaar onderschat en dreigen we versneld af te stevenen op extreme weerfenomenen en klimaatrampen.

Les températures de la Planète augmenteront pendant les prochaines décennies. Les catastrophes climatiques s’aggraveront au cours de cette période. A 2°C, il y aura beaucoup plus d’inondations et des vagues de chaleur plus fortes. Nous les subirons de plein fouet, probablement au cours des vingt prochaines années (James E.Hansen).

Global temperature leaped more than 0.4°C (0.7°F) during the past two years, the 12-month average peaking in August 2024 at +1.6°C relative to the temperature at the beginning of last century (the 1880-1920 average). This temperature jump was spurred by one of the periodic tropical El Niño warming events, but many Earth scientists were baffled by the magnitude of the global warming, which was twice as large as expected for the weak 2023-2024 El Niño.

... An “acid” test of our interpretation will be provided by the 2025 global temperature: unlike the 1997-98 and 2015-16 El Ninos, which were followed by global cooling of more than 0.3°C and 0.2°C, respectively, we expect global temperature in 2025 to remain near or above the 1.5°C level. Indeed, the 2025 might even set a new record despite the present weak La Nina. There are two independent reasons. First, the “new” climate forcing due to reduction of sulfate aerosols over the ocean remains in place, and, second, high climate sensitivity (~4.5°C for doubled CO2) implies that the warming from recently added forcings is still growing significantly.

Un nouvel article du grand climatologue James Hansen affirme que le réchauffement a accéléré il y a quelques années. La réduction des aérosols liés au fuel des navires en serait la cause. La fonte du Groenland dépasse les prévisions et mènera à un arrêt de la circulation océanique dans 20 -30 ans, ce qui provoquera plus tard une importante montée du niveau de la mer. Il suggère des prévisions climatiques complémentaires à celles du GIEC, qui s’appuieraient plus sur les observations de la réalité.

De werkelijke omvang van de opwarming van de aarde is jarenlang gemaskeerd door vervuiling. "Nu wordt de werkelijke mate van opwarming zichtbaar", zegt James Hansen, een wetenschapper die in de jaren tachtig al waarschuwde voor klimaatverandering.

An engaging discussion on groundbreaking research that reveals the unexpected drivers behind the recent unprecedented rise in global temperatures. Moderated by SDSN President Professor Jeffrey Sachs, this virtual event explored Dr. James Hansen and colleagues' findings in the latest publication, “Global Warming Has Accelerated,” their implications for climate sensitivity, and the urgent need for alternative approaches to mitigate the looming "point of no return."

Il est trop tard. Pour l'ancien climatologue de la Nasa, James Hansen, maintenir le réchauffement sous les 2°C est impossible.

Prof James Hansen says pace of global heating has been significantly underestimated, though other scientists disagree

Breathless reporting on when the present global heat anomaly will begin to fall is understandable, given heat suffering around the world. However, fundamental issues are in question and a reflection on time scales is in order, for the sake of understanding ongoing climate change and actions that need to be taken.

Global temperature (12-month mean) is still rising at 1.56°C relative to 1880-1920 in the GISS analysis through April (Fig. 1). [Robert Rohde reports that it is 1.65°C relative to 1850-1900 in the BerkeleyEarth analysis.[3]] Global temperature is likely to continue to rise a bit for at least a month, peak this summer, and then decline as the El Nino fades toward La Nina. Acceleration of global warming is now hard to deny. The GISS 12-month temperature is now 0.36°C above the 0.18°C/decade trend line, which is 3.6 times the standard deviation (0.1°C). Confidence in global warming acceleration thus exceeds 99%, but we need to see how far temperature falls with the next La Nina before evaluating the post-2010 global warming rate.

James Hansen affirme que la limite sera dépassée « à toutes fins utiles » d’ici au mois de mai, bien que d’autres experts prévoient que cela se produira dans les années 2030. Le seuil convenu au niveau international pour empêcher la Terre d’entrer dans une nouvelle ère de surchauffe sera « dépassé à toutes fins utiles » en 2024, a prévenu celui que l’on appelle le parrain de la science du climat. James Hansen, l’ancien scientifique de la Nasa à qui l’on doit d’avoir alerté le monde sur les dangers du changement climatique dans les années 80, a déclaré que le réchauffement planétaire causé par la combustion des combustibles fossiles, amplifié par le phénomène climatique El Niño qui se reproduit naturellement, fera grimper d’ici au mois de mai les températures jusqu’à 1,7 °C (3 °F) au-dessus de la moyenne enregistrée avant l’industrialisation.

James Hansen says limit will be passed ‘for all practical purposes’ by May though other experts predict that will happen in 2030s

Global warming is accelerating because the drive for warming, Earth’s energy imbalance, has doubled in the past decade. Measurement of the acceleration is hampered by unforced tropical (El Nino/La Nina) variability, but a good measuring stick is provided by warming between successive large El Ninos. Strengthening of the current (2023-24) El Nino has raised it to a level similar to the 1997-98 and 2015-16 El Ninos. The first six months of the current El Nino are 0.39°C warmer than the same six months of the 2015-16 El Nino, a global warming rate of 0.49°C/decade, consistent with expectation of a large acceleration of global warming. We expect the 12-month mean temperature by May 2024 to eliminate any doubt about global warming acceleration. Subsequent decline of the 12-month temperature below 1.5°C will likely be limited, confirming that the 1.5°C limit has already been passed.

James Hansen est un des plus grand climatologues du monde. Il a alerté le gouvernement des Etats-Unis sur le réchauffement climatique. Dans cette vidéo, les plus grands spécialistes actuels témoignent de l’excellence de ses prévisions climatiques. Il a aussi une énorme expérience du domaine. Je trouve son travail scientifique sur la montée du niveau de la mer publié en 2016 (lien, lien) très convaincant, plusieurs de ses conclusions et postulats ont été confirmés ces dernières années. Il se bat pour le climat depuis des décennies, et a été arrêté pour lors de manifestations pour le climat devant la Maison Blanche. Il a des grandes connaissances de climatologie. J’hésite donc réellement à le contredire mais j’ai quelques objections. Son travail apporte évidemment de nombreux éléments utiles, et il a le mérite d’être disponible aujourd’hui. Vu la situation climatique, nous ne pouvons pas attendre le prochain rapport du GIEC.

September 2023 smashed the prior global temperature record. Hand-wringing about the magnitude of the temperature jump in September is not inappropriate, but it is more important to investigate the role of aerosol climate forcing – which we chose to leave unmeasured – in global climate change. Global temperature during the current El Nino provides a potential indirect assessment of change of the aerosol forcing. Global temperature in the current El Nino, to date, implies a strong acceleration of global warming for which the most likely explanation is a decrease of human-made aerosols as a result of reductions in China and from ship emissions. The current El Nino will probably be weaker than the 1997-98 and 2015-16 El Ninos, making current warming even more significant. The current near-maximum solar irradiance adds a small amount to the major “forcing” mechanisms (GHGs, aerosols, and El Nino), but with no long-term effect. More important, the long dormant Southern Hemisphere polar amplification is probably com

Selon James Hansen – le scientifique des Etats-Unis qui a alerté le monde sur l’effet de serre dans les années 1980 – le monde est en train de basculer vers un climat surchauffé jamais vu l’existence de l’homme, parce que «nous sommes de sacrés imbéciles» pour ne pas avoir réagi aux avertissements concernant la crise climatique.

James Hansen, who testified to Congress on global heating in 1988, says world is approaching a ‘new climate frontier’

Improved knowledge of glacial-to-interglacial global temperature change implies that fastfeedback equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) is 1.2 ± 0.3°C (2σ) per W/m2 . Consistent analysis of temperature over the full Cenozoic era – including “slow” feedbacks by ice sheets and trace gases – supports this ECS and implies that CO2 was about 300 ppm in the Pliocene and 400 ppm at transition to a nearly ice-free planet, thus exposing unrealistic lethargy of ice sheet models. Equilibrium global warming including slow feedbacks for today’s human-made greenhouse gas (GHG) climate forcing (4.1 W/m2) is 10°C, reduced to 8°C by today’s aerosols. Decline of aerosol emissions since 2010 should increase the 1970-2010 global warming rate of 0.18°C per decade to a post-2010 rate of at least 0.27°C per decade. Under the current geopolitical approach to GHG emissions, global warming will likely pierce the 1.5°C ceiling in the 2020s and 2°C before 2050. Impacts on people and nature will accelerate as global warming pumps up hydr