Scientists Call for Common Ground on Climate Change
Extreme heat, drought, storms and other weather disasters are increasingly fueled by climate change and affect everyone regardless of political affiliation. Now two scientists—one who has usually voted for Republicans, the other for Democrats—have come together to urge leaders of both parties to find bipartisan solutions to human-caused climate change.
About the Scientists
Peter C. Frumhoff is director of science and policy at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), and chief scientist of the UCS climate campaign. A global change ecologist, Dr. Frumhoff has published and lectured widely on climate change topics and was a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC’s) 2007 Fourth Assessment Report.
Read Peter's biography.
Kerry A. Emanuel is a professor of atmospheric science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He specializes in atmospheric convection, with a particular interest in the mechanisms that act to intensify hurricanes and is the author or co-author of more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers.
Learn more about Kerry's work.
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Earth had its second-warmest year on record in 2020, just 0.02 degrees Celsius (0.04°F) behind the record set in 2016, and 0.98 degrees Celsius (1.76°F) above the 20th-century average, NOAA reported January 14.
Figure 1. Departure of temperature from average for 2020, the second-warmest year the globe has seen since record-keeping began in 1880, according to NOAA. Record-high annual temperatures over land and ocean surfaces were measured across parts of Europe, Asia, southern North America, South America, and across parts of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific oceans. No land or ocean areas were record cold for the year. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
Figure 2. Total ocean heat content (OHC) in the top 2000 meters from 1958-2020. Cheng et al., Upper Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High in 2020, Advances in Atmospheric Sciences
Figure 3. Departure of sea surface temperature from average in the benchmark Niño 3.4 region of the eastern tropical Pacific (5°N-5°S, 170°W-120°W). Sea surface temperature were approximately one degree Celsius below average over the past month, characteristic of moderate La Niña conditions. Tropical Tidbits
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