Weather conditions may see some abrupt changes in the United Kingdom due to an uncertain stratospheric polar vortex and regions across England and Wales may probably see some abrupt and heavy rains at the end of April 2024.
We were right in our prognosis of the classic wave-2 split polar vortex bringing winter to Western Maryland and the Potomac Highlands in January, but wow did the snow exceed
Open access notables
The distortionary effects of unconstrained for-profit carbon dioxide removal and the need for early governance intervention, Grubert & Talati, Carbon Management:
In our government/NGO section this week, Brown University’s Climate and Development Lab report Discourses of Climate Delay in the Campaign Against Offshore Wind: A Case Study from Rhode Island applies earlier work by Lamb (Discourses of Climate Delay) and Cook (FLICC taxonomy) to put the bright lights on a organization attempting to fossilize energy supplies, finding archetypal examples of both systems littering that organization s rhetoric :