Climate models can’t explain 2023’s huge heat anomaly — we could be in uncharted territory

2024/03/19 by Gavin A. Schmidt, Gavin Schmidt · 2 voices · 16 citations
Energy · #Global Energy and Sustainability Research

paper · pdf · doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00816-z

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• Accounting for known effects still leaves a warming ‘gap’ of roughly 0.2°C (doi.org/10.1038/d415...) @climateofgavin.bsky.social We argue that our planet has become darker, in particular in 2023, be [bsky, 47 points, 2 comments]
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