2010 brought CO2 record – 450 Scenario does not allow any further growth

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

We really thought we had all the climate records for 2010 neatly piled, but had all forgotten about this one. Deforestation and other land use changes excluded, simply burning fossil fuels in 2010 we emitted 30,600,000,000 tonnes of CO2. That’s … Continue reading →

Arctic update: 2011 indeed lowest winter ice extent

Posted on April 10, 2011 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

The Arctic sea ice maximum of the winter of 2010-2011 is the lowest ever recorded.

2010 Amazon drought still visible from space

Posted on April 3, 2011 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

2011 lowest ice maximum remains uncertain – Arctic April makes cold start

Posted on April 3, 2011 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

2010 Amazon drought record: 8 Gt extra CO2

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

The 2005 Amazon drought was unprecedented. It was thought to occur just once in a century. But last year was even worse, leading to massive biomass degradation and CO2 emissions. And yet another 2010 climate record.

Greenland lost record-breaking 0.5 trillion tons of ice in 2010 – to surface melting only

Posted on January 23, 2011 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

In 2010 Greenland lost more surface ice mass than in any other year since modern observations began, researchers of City College New York reported on Friday.

NASA GISS leading dataset shows 2010 temperature record

Posted on January 22, 2011 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

With all 2010 data collected and analysed, research groups are bombarding reports about climate record breaking year 2010.

WMO confirms 2010 hottest year

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

2010 was 0.01 degrees Celsius hotter than the number two hottest year 2005 and 0.02 degrees Celsius hotter than the third hottest year, 1998. Having combined the datasets of Met Office’s Hadley Centre/Climatic Research Unit (HadCRU), NOAA’s National Climatic Data … Continue reading →

NOAA: 2010 hottest year on record

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

Indeed. Last year’s land surface temperature record is shared down to the second decimal with the year 2005, today’s NOAA report states.

Autumn 2010 Arctic sea ice lowest ever

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

Short news, but relevant to a possible temperature record for 2010 and to spicing up the current UN climate negotiations in Cancún:

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