Climate Scientists Struggle to Explain Why 2023 Was 0.2°C Hotter Than Expected
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Summary
NASA climate scientist Gavin Schmidt expressed humility in Nature about scientists' inability to fully understand why 2023 was approximately 0.2°C hotter than expected, with cleaner emissions from ships and power plants paradoxically contributing to the warming trend.
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· 4 pulledGavin Schmidt, a leading climate modeller and the boss of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Science (GISS) in New York City, is not noted for his humility.
Nevertheless, writing in Nature, a journal, in March 2024, he confessed to being humbled by his inability, and that of his colleagues, to understand the extraordinary year through which they had just lived
2023 had been around 0.2°C (0.4°F) hotter than had been expected.
Paradoxically, cleaner emissions from ships and power plants are playing a role
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