The upcoming El Niño
The above image was created using data up to September 2022. La Niña has since continued, as illustrated by the NOAA image on the right. NOAA adds that the dashed black line indicates that La Niña is expected to transition to ENSO-neutral during January-March 2023.
[ image adapted from NOAA ] |
An analysis in an earlier post warns that the rise in sunspots from May 2020 to July 2025 could make quite a difference, as the upcoming El Niño looks set to coincide with a high number of sunspots.
The current cycle of sunspots is forecast to reach a maximum in July 2025. Recent observations are higher than expected, as illustrated by the images on the right, adapted from NOAA, confirming a study mentioned in the earlier post that warns that the peak of this cycle could rival the top few since records began, which would further increase the difference.
Observed values for December 2022 are already very close to or above the maximum values that NOAA predicts will be reached in July 2025. If this trend continues, the rise in sunspots forcing from May 2020 to July 2025 may well make a difference of more than 0.25°C, a recent analysis found.
A 2023 study calculates that the submarine volcano eruption near Tonga in January 2022, as also discussed at facebook, will have a warming effect of 0.12 Watts/m² over the next few years.
The joint impact of a strong El Niño, high sunspots and the volcano eruption near Tonga could make a difference of more than 0.87°C. This rise could trigger further developments and feedbacks that altogether could cause a temperature rise from pre-industrial of as much as 18.44°C by 2026, as illustrated by the image at the top and as discussed below.
A combination of further developments and feedbacks could cause a huge temperature rise. An example of this is the decline of the cryosphere, i.e. the global snow and ice cover.
The currently very rapid decline in sea ice concentration around Antarctica is also illustrated by the animation of Climate Reanalyzer images on the right, showing Antarctic sea ice on November 16, November 29, December 15, 2022 and January 4, 2023.
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As illustrated by the image on the right, adapted from NSIDC, Arctic sea ice extent was second lowest for the time of year on January 6, 2023.
The image below shows dust as high as 9.1887 τ, i.e. light at 550 nm as a measurement of aerosol optical thickness due to dust aerosols, on January 23, 2023 01:00 UTC (at the green circle).
[ see the Extinction page ] |
The image on the right, from the extinction page, includes a potential rise of 1.9°C by 2026 as the sulfate cooling effect falls away and of 0.6°C due to an increase in warming aerosols by 2026.
In the video below, Guy McPherson discusses our predicament.
Final conclusions and reflections
It’s important to use terminology that causes confusion. The image below shows some terms that may cause confusion, and terms that could be considered to be used instead.
The situation is dire and threatens to turn catastrophic soon. The right thing to do now is to help avoid or delay the worst from happening, through action as described in the Climate Plan.
Links
• Copernicus temperature
• NASA – La Niña Times Three
• NOAA Climate Prediction Center – ENSO: Recent Evolution, Current Status and Predictions
• NOAA – Monthly temperature anomalies versus El Niño
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/sunspots.html
• Cataclysmic Alignment
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2022/06/cataclysmic-alignment.html
• NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, State of the Climate: Monthly Global Climate Report for October 2022, retrieved November 16, 2022
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/monthly-report/global/2022010/supplemental/page-4
• Tonga volcano eruption raises ‘imminent’ risk of temporary 1.5C breach https://www.carbonbrief.org/tonga-volcano-eruption-raises-imminent-risk-of-temporary-1-5c-breach
• Tonga eruption increases chance of temporary surface temperature anomaly above 1.5 °C – by Stuart Jenkins et al.
• NSIDC – National Snow and Ice Data Center – Charctic Interactive Sea Ice Graph
https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-ice-graph
• Climate Reanalyzer
• Meltwater Intrusions Reveal Mechanisms for Rapid Submarine Melt at a Tidewater Glacier – by Rebecca Jackson et al. (2019)
• Greenland’s Glaciers Might Be Melting 100 Times As Fast As Previously Thought (2022)
https://news.utexas.edu/2022/12/15/greenlands-glaciers-might-be-melting-100-times-as-fast-as-previously-thought
• An Improved and Observationally-Constrained Melt Rate Parameterization for Vertical Ice Fronts of Marine Terminating Glaciers – by Kirstin Schulz et al. (2022)
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2022GL100654
• National Institute of Polar Research, Japan
https://ads.nipr.ac.jp/vishop/#/extent
• NOAA – Climate at a Glance Global Time Series
• Critical Tipping Point Crossed In July 2019
• Another Year of Record Heat for the Oceans – by Lijing Cheng et al.
• Methane – section 16. Methane rising from Arctic Ocean seafloor
https://www.tropicaltidbits.com
• The upcoming El Nino and further events and developments
• Cold freshwater lid on North Atlantic
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/pre-industrial.html
• Invisible ship tracks show large cloud sensitivity to aerosol – by Peter Manhausen et al.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05122-0
• Methane keeps rising
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2022/10/methane-keeps-rising.html
• Global warming in the pipeline – by James Hansen et al.
https://export.arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2212/2212.04474.pdf
• Latent Heat
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/latent-heat.html
• Extinction
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/extinction.html
• When will we die?
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2019/06/when-will-we-die.html
• When will humans go extinct?
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