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The Crisis Report — 18

I am predicting that the next few years are going to be disastrously HOT. That doesn’t make me a “Doomer”.

Richard Crim
24 min readApr 14, 2023

It makes me realistic about what’s happening with the Climate System.

This graph shows the downward trend in Earth’s albedo, as measured by earthshine (black) and CERES data (blue) in watts per square meter. Image credit: Goode et al. (2021), Geophysical Research Letters.

So,

Last year I wrote a “Climate Assessment Report” in January/February. The report is in four parts with two addendums’.

Living in Bomb Time — 16

If we are going to have meaningful votes on Climate Change policy, people need to understand it. Right now, that’s not easy.

Living in Bomb Time — 17

How much has the Earth warmed up since the “preindustrial” period? Surprisingly it’s hard to get a straightforward answer to that question.

Living in Bomb Time — 18

Global Warming accelerated between 2010 and 2020. It’s catastrophically bad news. Do you know the current “rate of warming” for Global Warming? You should, that number is the NUMBER that controls what the rest of your life is going to be like.

Living in Bomb Time — 19

Consider the Earth’s Oceans, that’s where all the heat goes. Global Warming is Actually “Ocean Warming”.

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Richard Crim
Richard Crim

Written by Richard Crim

My entire life can be described in one sentence: Things didn’t go as planned, and I’m OK with that.

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