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The European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) earlier this year issued a forecast of a strong (“Super”) El Nino to begin later this year and peak in early 2027, as we have discussed in two earlier posts.3,4 El Ninos are important because of the large effects that they have on global weather, even though those effects are not always consistent from one El Nino to another. El Ninos have even greater effect in combination with ongoing global warming, e.g., Radfar et al.5 find that the combination of an El Nino with increasingly prevalent marine heat waves results in tropical cyclones consistently producing higher maximum wind speeds, storm surges, and precipitation rates, and Liu et al.6 describe evidence of El Ninos strengthened control over global climate anomalies in a warmer world

Models are converging on prediction of an El Nino beginning this year, peaking in early 2027. After overlooking the possibility of an El Nino this year, some reporting is jumping on a “Super El Nino” bandwagon. El Nino strength and frequency are important, especially the issue of whether these are modified by global warming. However, the more important knowledge that needs to be extracted from near-term global warming concerns interpretation of ongoing, extraordinary, acceleration of ocean surface warming. Impacts of this ocean warming include a factor of two greater warming over land, increased extreme precipitation, and poleward movement of subtropical conditions.

James Hansen : « Ce à quoi nous assistons aujourd'hui, c'est à une réticence scientifique poussée...

James Hansen - Climate Reckoning in ATLAS25, Operaatio Arktis, Helsinki, Finland

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 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."

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.

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.

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