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With this announcement, @NOAA and @CommerceGov continue to move toward the goal of conserving 30% of the U.S. ocean by 2030. https://twitter.com/noaacomms/status/1639369878489677825
Just in: Following President Biden’s Call, U.S. Department of Commerce Announces Plan to Initiate Process to Designate Marine Sanctuary in Pacific Remote Islands
https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2023/03/following-president-bidens-call-us-department-commerce-announces-plan
via @CommerceGov
@NOAA @sanctuaries @noaaocean
My yearly winter outlook verification post is out! Come for the stats, stay for how I managed to use an ice cream cone and French bulldog in an analogy.
At the ENSO Blog, it's time for their yearly explainer on how scientists grade seasonal outlooks including a look back at this past winter's temperature and precipitation outlook.
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/verification-2022-2023-us-winter-outlook
If you are wondering why 2022 sea level rise (0.27cm) is less than the trend (0.44cm per year), you can probably blame La Niña/nIOD. Heavy rains over Australia and Asia actually remove water from the oceans and place it over land. In 2010-12 La Niña sea level dropped 0.5cm! https://twitter.com/omgnasa/status/1637149665262198785
The rising oceans measured by satellites. Sea levels have gone up globally by over 9 centimeters in 30 years and the rate of rise has more than doubled in that time. #sealevelrise #NASA
Really nice essay on El Nino, and the model/obs disagreement that we covered at the ENSO Blog https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/how-pattern-trends-across-tropical-pacific-ocean-critical-understanding-future
The possibility of an El Niño later this year was an excuse to write about other issues too, esp. the possibility that models may be getting trends wrong in the tropical Pacific.
https://time.com/6263513/el-nino-may-test-understanding-climate-change/
