#ClimateDiary 2/3
#Climatologists tell us that much of western #NorthAmerica is in the throes of a 1,000 year #drought. #Farmers in the #Midwest are facing deepening drought conditions putting wheat harvests at risk. #Kansas #PublicRadio reports that wheat harvests there may be the lowest in over 60 years! I have seen smoke this once before in #LakeTahoe in 2021. But as an easterner it's easy to rationalize that: "it's the west, the west is subject to forest fires." Long Island is not the west.

A team of #researchers, including #climatologists and an #astronomer, has utilized an enhanced #computermodel to recreate the #iceagecycles that occurred between 1.6 and 1.2 million years ago. The findings indicate that the #glacialperiods were primarily influenced by #astronomicalforces in quite a different way than it works in the present day.

https://scitechdaily.com/cosmic-clockwork-the-outer-space-origin-of-ice-age-cycles/

Well I predicted this 12 years ago on my TV station, and on my blog #Messenger for #Mother 3Earth.
The oceans have been record-warm for the past four years, #scientists reported in January. Then in mid-March, #climatologists noted that global sea surface temperature climbed to a new high.
The incredible trend worries experts about what could lie ahead, especially as forecasts predict El Niño is on its way starting this summer – and along with it, impacts like extreme heat, dangerous tropical #cyclones and a significant threat to fragile coral reefs.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/01/world/el-nino-forecast-weather-climate-impacts

#BBC #EU #Europe #America #Guardian #DW #Bild #France24 #Asia #Africa #China #Australia #Klimakrise #COP15 #COP28 #Climate #ClimateCrisis #CNN #Rainforest #Amazon #ClimateChange #ExtinctionRebellion

"Climategate" is the most common term that the media and blogosphere gave to a relatively effective #manufactroversy (in the US, at least) that followed the November 2009 release of thousands of illegally-obtained e-mails from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. Global-warming denialists immediately pounced on the story, claiming that much of the data supporting the existence of global warming were fabricated. The media quoted many of the e-mailsout of context to make it seem as if there was huge disagreement among #climatologists and that they'd faked or hidden their data.

By 2011, nine separate investigations by the British government and by multiple independent ethics committees had been completed. None found any evidence of fraud or manipulation of data. The CRU data was also independently replicated.

#RationalWIki #ClimateChange #denialism #UK
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Climategate

@reuters

Alex Jones types pounding the table screaming that the video if a "fake" designed by the deep state to lull us into becoming fans of #climatologists

If so, it's working.

Imma loving it. #climatechangeisreal #climatescience Have you hugged a #climatescientisttoday

Major paper released on sidelines of the COP27 #climate summit in Egypt has started a countdown. At current rate of #globalemissions #ParisAgreement goal of limiting global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels will likely be permanently out of reach in 9 years, study found. The paper, published on Nov 11 and written by dozens of leading #climatologists assesses what scientists call #carbonbudget https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/14/4811/2022/

@Doug_Bostrom Along the same lines of thinking. It would be constructive to have a #ScienceConsensus instance.

For example, ask a majority of biologists - the consensus is cell theory, natural selection, etc.

Ask a majority of #climatologists - the consensus is that humans are changing the #climate.

The ScienceConsensus #fediverse instance could be a very useful resource for laypeople.

FYI - Ask the climate if humans are changing it. It won't reply! But it's going to change societies.