State of the climate – summer 2023

State of the climate – summer 2023 - by Judith Curry, Jim Johnstone, Mark Jelinek

• A deep dive into the causes of the unusual weather/climate during 2023. 
•  People are blaming fossil-fueled warming and El Nino, and now the Hunga-Tonga eruption and the change in ship fuels. 
•  But the real story is more complicated...

Figure 9. Data from CERES

• Bottom line.  The recent warming in spring/summer 2023 is associated with a spike in the net radiation flux at the top of the atmosphere...