I’ve not looked at this specific research project, so I can’t comment on it specifically yet but I’d be surprised if a single attempt at revision of a single area obviates all the research around the world that seems to come to the same conclusion.

But, when the ice cubes in a drink melt, the drink will continue to get warmer because the room air is warmer still. So with the globe.

For the globe, this does give us some extra time. How much is impossible to say at present. But this would only matter if the heat imbalance were somehow corrected soon. Prospects for that appear dim.

By the way, this is not “amelioration.” That word implies a permanent fix for some problem.

We have recently hosted a debate about global warming and I was surprised how personal and aggressive it could get. I can not see how this can resolve in the upcoming years.

The problem is the research itself. There are many theoretical flaws and biased researches nowadays.

My own goal is to promote veganism – it is probably the first reasonable step to reducing CO2 after the heavy industry and many coal plants that are still in work.

Changing our lifestyle can have a serious impact on how global warming proceeds. And I don’t even mention the problem with droughts and the shrinkage of the drinking water in many regions of the world.

Mainly because of the large amount of heat the oceans hold and therefore the time they take to heat up, there are some huge lags in the system.

We have yet to see the extra heating from the Arctic Sea Ice that has already disappeared. No sea ice, less albedo, more heat stays in.

As well as all the CO2 we emit, we are also emitting aerosols. These aerosols are masking about half of the impact of the CO2 we have put up there. If we stopped polluting today they would wash out in twelve months or so.

So when we stop polluting, it will get worse and get worse very quickly. The longer we leave, it the higher the price of our Faustian bargain.

Forget the Eemian, we are headed to the Pliocene at a rate a biosphere will not be able to keep up with.

The key thing will be what happens to the jet stream. If it simply moves poleward, then Tornado Alley will probably shift poleward as well. But if we see more meandering, as has been the case the last few years, the likely result will be more tornadoes over a wider area than previously. That would be bad news for places like the Canadian prairie and New England, where tornadoes have been rare (although the Canadian prairie is the only place outside the US that has ever seen an F5/EF5 tornado).