Victor Venema @VictorVenema@fediscience.org

Simon Evans (of Carbon Brief on 🐦):

"Wow – China just built more offshore wind capacity, in 2021 alone, than the rest of the world had managed in the last 5 years put together.

Its 26GW now accounts for half of the world's 54GW total.

Also, it added twice as much in 2021 as IEA had forecast in…December 2021"

To add: The International Energy Agency is notorious for downplaying future growth of renewable energy.

#IEA #OffshoreWind #Windpower

#Potholer54: Are prominent environmentalists buying beachside properties? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deVkQB6jb7g

Not sure this is news, but here you go.

Hottest ocean temperatures in history recorded last year https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/11/oceans-hottest-temperatures-research-climate-crisis

The #IPCC has opened registration to review the first draft of the Synthesis Report of the Sixth Assessment Report.

Experts are welcome to register to review the draft, which closes on 13 March 2022.

Interested experts can register here https://apps.ipcc.ch/comments/ar6syr/fod/register.php

#WeltKlimaRat #ClimateReport

If Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones run in the Republican presidential primary:

4 people think Trump would win
1 voted for Tucker and
1 voted for Alex Jones.

As long as the US "news" and social media system does not change, people are frustrated by having nearly no political influence (because the donors have nearly all power), the candidate most willing to blame everything on the Democrats has the best cards.

I like making interesting predictions. So I go with Tucker or Jones.

NASA-GISS director Gavin Schmidt on #DontLookUp https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2022/01/dont-look-up/

"The scene where Dr. Mindy indulges in some righteous twittering when arguing with idiots is very real. ...

One thing that I thought was funny, but not real, was the implication that all #climate science communicators are at all times just a moment away from screaming that “we’re all #doomed!” and it’s only the niceties of polite society that prevent us from telling everyone what we ‘really’ think."

Seconded.

The Republican presidential primary is ramping up with regular concealed (?) attacks on Trump by Tucker Carlson and now an open war started by Alex Jones.

If all three run (and maybe more), who of them would get most primary delegates?

Review by Mark Boslough: Hollywood Finally Listened to Scientists https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/hollywood-finally-listened-to-scientists/

"Sadly, I’d never seen another movie with a scientist character that came close to the authenticity of Contact’s [Jodie Foster character Eleanor (“Ellie”) Arroway] again. Until now. Don’t Look Up nailed it. ...

It was obvious to me while watching the film that [Amy Mainzer] advice went far beyond astronomy and that she’d schooled the filmmakers on how scientists think and what words they use."

Record snowfall and heavy rains lash west coast from Oregon to southern California https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/27/record-snowfall-heavy-rains-blanketed-west-coast

The German national TV news (Tagesschau) mentioned that the Central Sierra Nevada Snow Lab had a power failure. 🤡

This kind of problems makes observations of extremes more uncertain than normal weather conditions. Add to that that they are rare, this makes seeing changes in extremes really hard.

* They likely have people there who can make manual measurements to fill the gap.