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Indicators of Global Climate Change 2024

Indicators of Global Climate Change 2024 is the third in a series of annual updates on the state of the climate system and human influence.

The report, published in Earth System Science Data, was compiled by an international team of climate scientists and serves as an annual synthesis of key climate measures inbetween the IPCC assessment reports. According to the authors, they follow methods as closely as possible to those used in the IPCC AR6 Working Group 1 report.

The report provides estimates for key climate indicators related to forcing of the climate system:

  • emissions of greenhouse gases and short-lived climate forcers
  • greenhouse gas concentrations
  • radiative forcing
  • the Earth’s energy imbalance
  • surface temperature changes
  • warming attributed to human activities
  • the remaining carbon budget
  • estimates of global temperature extremes
  • global land precipitation
  • global mean sea level rise

Journalists came to this online SMC briefing to hear from some of the report’s authors.

 

 

Speakers included:

Prof Piers Forster, Director of the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures, University of Leeds

Prof Joeri Rogelj, Director of Research at the Grantham Institute and Professor of Climate Science & Policy at the Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London

Dr William Lamb, Senior Scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)

Dr Matthew Palmer, Joint Director of the UK National Climate Science Partnership (UKNCSP) at Met Office Hadley Centre, and Associate Professor at the University of Bristol

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