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A 50-Year-Old Global Warming Forecast That Still Holds Up
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of my mentor, climatologist Mikhail Budyko (1920–2001). Fifty years ago, when the science of climate change prediction was in its infancy, this scientist from the Soviet Union made a series of climate predictions that have proven to be surprisingly on target in the years since. These predictions were not as well known as some of his other work. The reason for this had to do, as Budyko recalled in a 1990 interview, with most of his colleagues at the time rejecting the idea of unavoidable, long-term global warming as something absolutely impossible. It took almost 20 years for the scientific establishment to accept this paradigm. ....
2020 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #50 Posted on 13 December 2020 by John Hartz Story of the Week. Toon of the Week. Reports of Note. Coming Soon on SkS. Poster of the Week. SkS Week in Review. Story of the Week. Minister tells more than 80 world leaders that not enough is being done Narendra Modi vowed to cut CO2 by 2047 but made no pledge on coal production. Photograph: John Giles/PA The world is still not on track to fulfil the 2015 Paris climate agreement, the UK’s business secretary Alok Sharma warned, after a summit of more than 70 world leaders on the climate crisis ended with few new commitments on greenhouse gas emissions. ....