Leon Simons (looking up)
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Host of Climate Chat | Plain climate science & DATAVIZ | Mission: To Understand and Protect the Home Planet (Recycled from @NASA) | Support me on Patreon
On a rapidly changing planet
Joined September 2010
I posted this 2 years ago. After which we experienced 2 years of 1.6°C above the Paris' pre-industrial (1850-1900) baseline. We expected a big jump in global warming because greenhouse gas emissions keep increasing, aerosols decreased and Earth's Energy Imbalance had doubled.
This might be the year everything changes, as those who don't count joules and radiative fluxes are too starting to feel the heat from reducing air-pollution. Many great scientists have tried to inform on this in the past decades (e.g. James Hansen, James Lovelock, Paul Crutzen.
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RT @LeonSimons8: Look, a 400 page European Climate risks assessment report that doesn't even mention the biggest contributor to near term c….
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Europe is the fastest warming continent in the world, and climate risks are threatening its energy and food security, ecosystems, infrastructure, water resources, financial stability, and people’s...
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The most fun image & video creation tool in the world is here. Try it for free in the Grok App.
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RT @LeonSimons8: @ThierryAaron With regards to sulphur emissions, they used the wrongest pathway of all, SSP3-7.0. This impacts boreal fir….
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What the f*ck @Google!. No one ever asked you to turn keyword search into a 10-30X energy hoarding, AI shitshow. (Link cited by AI is dead, making it impossible to validate the accuracy of this energy intensive excretion)
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My mother passed away recently. I'm glad she still got to see the beautiful documentary made of our brother, her son, Floris. It broadcast again on Dutch TV today. We lost so many loving people in the past years, it's hard to bear.
My brother Floris passed away in Madagascar, where he was helping local farmers to grow malaria medication (Artemisia annua 👇). The story of his life will air on Thursday, October 3, at 20:20, as part of the Break Free documentary series, on Dutch tv @NPO3 and online.
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We've been merely tuning our instruments. 'The crescendo of our mass extinction' will be deafening to life on Earth.
Your 'moment of doom' for Aug. 19, 2025 ~ Might?. "Given how catastrophic the impact of humans on the biosphere has been already, it’s chilling to think that the crescendo of our mass extinction might still lie in front of us.".
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Climate models don't take this into account .
"The sudden collapse of carbon sinks was not factored into climate models – and could rapidly accelerate global heating"
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Carbon sinks are turning into sources . We can’t expect nature to clean up our mess. Portugal and Canada are burning too:
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This SINGLE WEEK of Spanish wildfire emissions surpassed ANNUAL total carbon emissions of each of the 100 lowest emitting countries in the world‼️
We're going to need a bigger y-axis. Again. '343,000 hectares have been destroyed this year in Spain, setting a new national record, according to the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS)'. Our white car is covered in soot from South European wildfire smoke.
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RT @LeonSimons8: @JackLee16921415 Tell me you didn't watch the video without saying you didn't watch the video 👆. How much warmer are these….
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We're going to need a bigger y-axis. Again. '343,000 hectares have been destroyed this year in Spain, setting a new national record, according to the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS)'. Our white car is covered in soot from South European wildfire smoke.
Los repetidores de "los fuegos de siempre" lo tienen muy complicado con esta gráfica.
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Dr James Hansen talked about the Venus Syndrome (greenhouse effect is about +500°C! 🤯) and using the climate of Venus as an indicator of Earth's climate, which is now 'just right'. See the fulll Climate Chat covering Hansen's recent work linked below.
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This is when experts in the Netherlands start checking the astronomical tide:.The worst flooding happens when a strong Western storm increases sea-level and waves, and when the moon is closest to the sun, or furthest away, as that's when the tides are highest:
Erin will generate massive 40 to 50 foot waves across the Atlantic over the next week, including up to around 20 feet near Bermuda. Eventually, the stormy conditions may reach Ireland!
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Climate Chat with James Hansen is now live!.
What Everyone Must Know About Climate Sensitivity. Check this YouTube link for the time in your region, and subscribe and hit the bell button to get a notification when we go live:.
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What Everyone Must Know About Climate Sensitivity. Check this YouTube link for the time in your region, and subscribe and hit the bell button to get a notification when we go live:.
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Climate Chat with James Hansen starts in two hours. See link below.
What Everyone Must Know About Climate Sensitivity.How sensitive is Earth's climate really to our perturbations?. This Sunday on Climate Chat, we will speak with world leading climate scientist @DrJamesEHansen about the crucial climate research he has led the past 5 years. Based
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