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Luciana Prado
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Climate Scientist | Paleoclimate | Climate Variability and Change | Professor of Climate Sciences at Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil | IPCC AR7 Lead Author |
Born @ 342 ppm. Personal profile. Books & Climate.
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The ESM forcing files for #CMIP7 #ScenarioMIP are now up on the Earth System Grid for the two advanced-priority scenarios High (H) and Very Low (VL). CMIP7 H is significantly lower emissions than CMIP6's SSP585 - and VL has more radical near-term decarbonisation than anything we had in CMIP6.
January 8, 2026 at 11:05 AM
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Looks like this data was quietly updated in the fall for the latest numbers through 2024 - Annual Greenhouse Gas Index (AGGI) produced by NOAA...

It is now up to a 54% increase in the influence of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere since 1990 (AGGI = 1.54; heat trapping)
January 5, 2026 at 8:53 PM
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New study by @doniff.bsky.social et al. shows that long-term #ClimateChange systematically alters small-scale #wind variability and its vertical velocity, influencing #cloud microphysics and the Earth’s radiative balance. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Trends in vertical wind velocity variability reveal cloud microphysical feedback - Nature Communications
This study shows that long-term climate change systematically alters small-scale wind variability and its vertical velocity, influencing cloud microphysics and the Earth’s radiative balance.
www.nature.com
January 5, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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Q&A: What does China’s new Paris Agreement pledge mean for climate action? | @anikanpatel.carbonbrief.org @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org

Read here: buff.ly/ge8mlcu
January 3, 2026 at 11:32 AM
Happy 2026!
First daylight of 2026 reaches the entire Atlantic (visible on GOES-19 satellite at (www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/fulldis...)

A #HappyNewYear to all of my @bsky.app followers! Thank you for another year of thoughtful interactions. I learn so much from you all every day. Cheers to 2026!
January 1, 2026 at 2:59 PM
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Plastics have infiltrated every recess of the planet, including your lungs, kidneys and other sensitive organs

go.nature.com/4j1dLeY
Your brain is full of microplastics: are they harming you?
Plastics have infiltrated every recess of the planet, including your lungs, kidneys and other sensitive organs. Scientists are scrambling to understand their effects on health.
go.nature.com
December 31, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Check out this year's extreme sea surface temperatures and recent warming across the North Pacific... 🌊

This graph shows the average for a band across the midlatitudes for every average January-November period from 1854-2025 using ERSSTv5 data.
December 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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A paper published in Nature in September suggests a quarter of heatwave events from 2000-23 would have been near impossible without anthropogenic climate change. The paper also indicates that major carbon emitters are responsible for around 50% of the increase in intensity of these events. ⚒️ 🧪
Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors - Nature
Climate change made 213 historical heatwaves reported over 2000–2023 more likely and more intense, to which each of the 180 carbon majors (fossil fuel and cement producers) substantially contributed.
go.nature.com
December 28, 2025 at 11:28 PM