The transition to high-res and the accompanying change in the interpolation scheme resulted in a somewhat lower temperature change since preindustrial. (This is mostly a change in the estimate of the 1850-1900 baseline.)

That's not entirely clear actually. The effect on atmospheric circulation and wind patterns is dominated by temperature differences. So relative may actually forecast that better. But the effect on precipitation and atmospheric water vapor probably follows the absolute value better.

The ocean as a whole has warmed almost 1 °C over the last 50 years.

Temperatures in the Central Pacific El Niño region are the hottest ever measured (top panel), and far above any other El Niño at this time of year. But, if you adjust for the warming of the global ocean, the current trajectory is not so different from other very strong events.

There are times when I am glad that I don't work for either the government nor a public university.

There is something extra annoying about finding a government "open data" portal that has exactly the data you're looking for and then discovering that only nationals of that country are actually able to use it.

I mean "independently?" in the sense that I don't know if the agent itself was responsible for deciding who to email and what to discuss, or if a human was telling it specifically who to write and what topic to discuss. The former is more of an escalation for spam than the latter.

So this is the future, huh? An AI Agent emailed me (independently?) to share the results of their research.

This is what a monster El Niño on an ocean already warmed by climate change looks like.

Trump's strategy for reducing global oil use wasn't what I would have recommended, but it does seem to be effective.

This year produced the hottest summer in the history of modern France. Some of that record is down to the specific weather patterns that occurred this year, but global warming deserves a large share of the credit for generally making French summers hotter over time.

We don't have any funding for building warning systems and raising money to build and sustain such things is often quite hard in general, especially when the target is an event type that occurs very rarely. Its not a good idea, but its also not easy to accomplish.

I once had a prominent spelling mistake in a video that went viral to millions.

Not that I recall this week, though "grifter" and similar themes were certainly represented, even if not that specific slur.

This site is practically boring. I posted a whole thread related to climate and have yet to be called a retard, moron, clown, grifter, or "slimy MF".

As far as I'm aware they don't know. The failure of the land and ice were contemporaneous, but whether the rock slope failed first and brought down the ice, or the ice failed first and the shifting weight triggered a larger landslide isn't resolved as far as I know.