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The Advertiser
4 days ago
- Science
- The Advertiser
Clue to record-breaking temperatures in clearer skies
Disappearing clouds are contributing to faster global warming and tumbling temperature records. Scientists have seen a decline of somewhere between 1.5 per cent and three per cent in the world's storm cloud zones each decade over the past 24 years. The shrinking coverage, observed by a National Aeronautics and Space Administration-led team, results in less sunlight reflected back into space, allowing more in to boost global warming. Overall clearer skies, a trend driven by evolving wind patterns, the expanding tropics and other shifts linked to climate change, is now thought to be the largest contributor to the planet's higher absorption of solar radiation. Christian Jakob, a co-author of the study and director at the Monash-led Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather, said the major heating consequences of shrinking cloud cover was now evident. "It's an important piece in the puzzle of understanding the extraordinary recent warming we observed, and a wake-up call for urgent climate action," Professor Jakob said. Last year was the hottest on record, the United Nation's World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said, clocking in at about 1.55 degrees above the pre-industrial era average. A single year above 1.5C is not enough to breach the Paris Agreement, however, as the global pact's goals are based on long-term averages measured over decades. The UN weather agency expects temperatures to keep rising, with a 70 per cent chance the 2025-2029 five-year mean will exceed 1.5C. Unprecedented ocean heating has been felt particularly acutely in the waters surrounding Australia, leading to coral bleaching, fish kills and algal blooms. The elevated rate of warming is due to global greenhouse gas emissions holding at all-time highs, largely due to burning fossil fuels and deforestation, according to the latest Indicators of Global Climate Change study released on Thursday. If current emissions trends continue, the report prepared by dozens of scientists from around the world says there will be just over three years left in the carbon budget to achieve 1.5C of heating. Policymakers and experts have gathered in Germany for a mid-year convention ahead of the main UN Climate Change Conference in Brazil scheduled for November. Disappearing clouds are contributing to faster global warming and tumbling temperature records. Scientists have seen a decline of somewhere between 1.5 per cent and three per cent in the world's storm cloud zones each decade over the past 24 years. The shrinking coverage, observed by a National Aeronautics and Space Administration-led team, results in less sunlight reflected back into space, allowing more in to boost global warming. Overall clearer skies, a trend driven by evolving wind patterns, the expanding tropics and other shifts linked to climate change, is now thought to be the largest contributor to the planet's higher absorption of solar radiation. Christian Jakob, a co-author of the study and director at the Monash-led Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather, said the major heating consequences of shrinking cloud cover was now evident. "It's an important piece in the puzzle of understanding the extraordinary recent warming we observed, and a wake-up call for urgent climate action," Professor Jakob said. Last year was the hottest on record, the United Nation's World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said, clocking in at about 1.55 degrees above the pre-industrial era average. A single year above 1.5C is not enough to breach the Paris Agreement, however, as the global pact's goals are based on long-term averages measured over decades. The UN weather agency expects temperatures to keep rising, with a 70 per cent chance the 2025-2029 five-year mean will exceed 1.5C. Unprecedented ocean heating has been felt particularly acutely in the waters surrounding Australia, leading to coral bleaching, fish kills and algal blooms. The elevated rate of warming is due to global greenhouse gas emissions holding at all-time highs, largely due to burning fossil fuels and deforestation, according to the latest Indicators of Global Climate Change study released on Thursday. If current emissions trends continue, the report prepared by dozens of scientists from around the world says there will be just over three years left in the carbon budget to achieve 1.5C of heating. Policymakers and experts have gathered in Germany for a mid-year convention ahead of the main UN Climate Change Conference in Brazil scheduled for November. Disappearing clouds are contributing to faster global warming and tumbling temperature records. Scientists have seen a decline of somewhere between 1.5 per cent and three per cent in the world's storm cloud zones each decade over the past 24 years. The shrinking coverage, observed by a National Aeronautics and Space Administration-led team, results in less sunlight reflected back into space, allowing more in to boost global warming. Overall clearer skies, a trend driven by evolving wind patterns, the expanding tropics and other shifts linked to climate change, is now thought to be the largest contributor to the planet's higher absorption of solar radiation. Christian Jakob, a co-author of the study and director at the Monash-led Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather, said the major heating consequences of shrinking cloud cover was now evident. "It's an important piece in the puzzle of understanding the extraordinary recent warming we observed, and a wake-up call for urgent climate action," Professor Jakob said. Last year was the hottest on record, the United Nation's World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said, clocking in at about 1.55 degrees above the pre-industrial era average. A single year above 1.5C is not enough to breach the Paris Agreement, however, as the global pact's goals are based on long-term averages measured over decades. The UN weather agency expects temperatures to keep rising, with a 70 per cent chance the 2025-2029 five-year mean will exceed 1.5C. Unprecedented ocean heating has been felt particularly acutely in the waters surrounding Australia, leading to coral bleaching, fish kills and algal blooms. The elevated rate of warming is due to global greenhouse gas emissions holding at all-time highs, largely due to burning fossil fuels and deforestation, according to the latest Indicators of Global Climate Change study released on Thursday. If current emissions trends continue, the report prepared by dozens of scientists from around the world says there will be just over three years left in the carbon budget to achieve 1.5C of heating. Policymakers and experts have gathered in Germany for a mid-year convention ahead of the main UN Climate Change Conference in Brazil scheduled for November. Disappearing clouds are contributing to faster global warming and tumbling temperature records. Scientists have seen a decline of somewhere between 1.5 per cent and three per cent in the world's storm cloud zones each decade over the past 24 years. The shrinking coverage, observed by a National Aeronautics and Space Administration-led team, results in less sunlight reflected back into space, allowing more in to boost global warming. Overall clearer skies, a trend driven by evolving wind patterns, the expanding tropics and other shifts linked to climate change, is now thought to be the largest contributor to the planet's higher absorption of solar radiation. Christian Jakob, a co-author of the study and director at the Monash-led Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather, said the major heating consequences of shrinking cloud cover was now evident. "It's an important piece in the puzzle of understanding the extraordinary recent warming we observed, and a wake-up call for urgent climate action," Professor Jakob said. Last year was the hottest on record, the United Nation's World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said, clocking in at about 1.55 degrees above the pre-industrial era average. A single year above 1.5C is not enough to breach the Paris Agreement, however, as the global pact's goals are based on long-term averages measured over decades. The UN weather agency expects temperatures to keep rising, with a 70 per cent chance the 2025-2029 five-year mean will exceed 1.5C. Unprecedented ocean heating has been felt particularly acutely in the waters surrounding Australia, leading to coral bleaching, fish kills and algal blooms. The elevated rate of warming is due to global greenhouse gas emissions holding at all-time highs, largely due to burning fossil fuels and deforestation, according to the latest Indicators of Global Climate Change study released on Thursday. If current emissions trends continue, the report prepared by dozens of scientists from around the world says there will be just over three years left in the carbon budget to achieve 1.5C of heating. Policymakers and experts have gathered in Germany for a mid-year convention ahead of the main UN Climate Change Conference in Brazil scheduled for November.
Perth Now
4 days ago
- Science
- Perth Now
Clue to record-breaking temperatures in clearer skies
Disappearing clouds are contributing to faster global warming and tumbling temperature records. Scientists have seen a decline of somewhere between 1.5 per cent and three per cent in the world's storm cloud zones each decade over the past 24 years. The shrinking coverage, observed by a National Aeronautics and Space Administration-led team, results in less sunlight reflected back into space, allowing more in to boost global warming. Overall clearer skies, a trend driven by evolving wind patterns, the expanding tropics and other shifts linked to climate change, is now thought to be the largest contributor to the planet's higher absorption of solar radiation. Christian Jakob, a co-author of the study and director at the Monash-led Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather, said the major heating consequences of shrinking cloud cover was now evident. "It's an important piece in the puzzle of understanding the extraordinary recent warming we observed, and a wake-up call for urgent climate action," Professor Jakob said. Last year was the hottest on record, the United Nation's World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said, clocking in at about 1.55 degrees above the pre-industrial era average. A single year above 1.5C is not enough to breach the Paris Agreement, however, as the global pact's goals are based on long-term averages measured over decades. The UN weather agency expects temperatures to keep rising, with a 70 per cent chance the 2025-2029 five-year mean will exceed 1.5C. Unprecedented ocean heating has been felt particularly acutely in the waters surrounding Australia, leading to coral bleaching, fish kills and algal blooms. The elevated rate of warming is due to global greenhouse gas emissions holding at all-time highs, largely due to burning fossil fuels and deforestation, according to the latest Indicators of Global Climate Change study released on Thursday. If current emissions trends continue, the report prepared by dozens of scientists from around the world says there will be just over three years left in the carbon budget to achieve 1.5C of heating. Policymakers and experts have gathered in Germany for a mid-year convention ahead of the main UN Climate Change Conference in Brazil scheduled for November.
Fox Sports
6 days ago
- Sport
- Fox Sports
Jakob Ingebrigtsen's father convicted of 1 count of minor assault, acquitted of other abuse charges
Associated Press SANDNES, Norway (AP) — Gjert Ingebrigtsen, the father of Norwegian track star Jakob Ingebrigtsen, was convicted Monday of one count of assault against his daughter and given a suspended prison sentence. A court acquitted Gjert of other charges including abusing Jakob, a multiple Olympic and world middle-distance champion. In a trial that started in March and has gripped Norway, Gjert, 59, was accused of an alleged years-long campaign of domestic abuse toward Jakob and younger sister, Ingrid. Gjert denied the charges against him. A verdict in the case was delivered in writing by Soer Rogaland District Court and Gjert was convicted of a single incident of minor assault against his daughter, his legal team confirmed to The Associated Press. He was handed a 15-day suspended sentence and ordered to pay NOK 10,000 ($1,010) in compensation. John Christian Elden and Heidi Reisvang, defense attorneys from Elden Law Firm, said it was the court's conclusion that there 'was no evidence to show that Gjert Ingebrigtsen created a continuous fear in his children.' 'There are no winners in this case,' Reisvang, who was assisting counsel during the trial, told the AP. 'He (Gjert) hopes that one day he will have contact and a relationship with his family again.' Gjert became a prominent media figure in Norway in 2016 following his involvement in the TV documentary series Team Ingebrigtsen, in which he was seen coaching his three track-and-field sons, Jakob, Filip and Henrik. The series ran until 2021. By 2022 the trio had parted ways with their coach-father and the following year co-signed a column in the national newspaper, VG, accusing Gjert of physical violence and intimidation. The police opened an investigation, with court proceedings eventually brought relating to Gjert's treatment of Jakob and Ingrid. Gjert continued coaching after the split with his sons and now guides Jakob's 1500-meter Norwegian rival, Narve Gilje Nordas. The 24-year-old Jakob won Olympic gold in the 1,500 meters at the Tokyo Games in 2021 and the 5,000 at the Paris Games in 2024. He was world champion at the 5,000 in 2022 and '23. He listed his achievements on the track in a post on Instagram — published soon after the verdict in the trial was announced — in which he said the goal he most cares about is that his daughter, Filippa, 'will love and respect me for her upbringing.' ___ AP sports: recommended in this topic
New Straits Times
6 days ago
- Sport
- New Straits Times
Olympic champ Ingebrigtsen's father acquitted of abusing son
OSLO: A Norway court on Monday acquitted Gjert Ingebrigtsen of abusing his son, Olympic champion runner Jakob Ingebrigtsen, but convicted him and handed him a 15-day suspended sentence for assaulting his daughter on one occasion. Gjert Ingebrigtsen, 59, acted as trainer until 2022 to Jakob, 24, who won Olympic golds in the 5,000m in Paris in 2024 and the 1,500m in Tokyo in 2021. He was accused of physical and psychological violence against Jakob and his sister Ingrid, 19, between 2008 and 2022, but denied the charges. At the conclusion of the lengthy trial that lasted from March 24 to May 15 at the Sandnes court, he was acquitted of the abuse alleged by Jakob. The court however found him guilty of one violent incident involving his daughter Ingrid. In her testimony, Ingrid told the court her father hit her in the face with a wet towel in January 2022 – a picture taken that day showed her with a red cheek. He said he was aiming for her finger, which she was pointing at him during a row. In addition to a 15-day suspended prison sentence, Ingebrigtsen Sr was ordered to pay Ingrid 10,000 kroner ($1,000) in damages. Prosecutors had called for him to be jailed for two and a half years, "They didn't say they were disappointed. They said they were surprised," Mette Yvonne Larsen, Jakob's and Ingrid's lawyer, told reporters when describing her clients' reactions to the verdict. Meanwhile, the accused's lawyers noted that "what was decisive for the court's conclusion was the lack of evidence proving that Gjert Ingebrigtsen had instilled constant fear in his children." "The court specifically highlighted that several close family members as well as external witnesses had neither observed nor witnessed mistreatment," they said in a statement. The parties have 14 days to appeal the verdict. Throughout the trial, Jakob referred to his father as "the accused" and told the court he stopped calling him "dad" at the age of 11 or 12. "My upbringing was very much characterised by fear," he told the court. "I felt like I had no free choice and I wasn't allowed to speak my mind. Everything was controlled and decided for me. An enormous amount of manipulation," he said. He recounted several episodes of physical violence, including slaps and kicks to the stomach, some of which occurred when he was seven years old. Ingebrigtsen Sr has called the trial a "textbook case of character assassination." He told the court he had been an "overly protective" father who had given his seven children a "traditional and patriarchal" upbringing. He was keen to contribute to their success but received only ingratitude in return, he said. Jakob and two of his brothers, Henrik and Filip, who are also athletes, shocked Norway in October 2023 when they used a newspaper article to accuse their father of using physical violence during their upbringing. The police investigated claims about all seven Ingebrigtsen siblings but retained only those relating to Jakob and Ingrid. Jakob – who claimed the 1,500m and 3,000m world indoor titles right before the opening of the trial in March – along with Henrik and Filip cut ties with their father in 2022. On the final day of the trial, Jakob told the court the proceedings had "profound and heartbreaking consequences" for the siblings regardless of the verdict.
Hindustan Times
7 days ago
- Sport
- Hindustan Times
Gjert Ingebrigtsen, father of two-time Olympic champion, convicted of assaulting daughter; receives suspended sentence
Gjert Ingebrigtsen, who is the father and former coach of Norway's two-time Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen, was convicted on Monday for assaulting his daughter, and was also handed a suspended prison sentence. Gjert was acquitted by a court of other charges, which also included abusing his son Jakob. Other than Olympic success, Jakob is also a two-time World Championships gold medallist, and has also bagged two silver medals. The trial, which started in March, caught the attention of Norway. Gjert, who is 59-years-old, was accused of alleged of years-long domestic abuse towards Jakob and his younger sister Ingrid. The Soer Rogaland District Court delivered the case verdict in writing, and handed conviction to Gjert for only a single incident of assault against his daughter, as confirmed by AP. A 15-day sentence was also handed to him, and he has also been ordered to pay NOK 10,000 ( ₹86,977 approximately) in compensation. Gjert's lawyer John Christian Elden told Reuters, 'He is relieved and hopes the matter will be resolved quickly.' Meanwhile, Heidi Reisvang, who was also representing Gjert, told AP that there 'was no evidence to show that Gjert Ingebrigtsen created a continuous fear in his children.' 'There are no winners in this case. 'He (Gjert) hopes that one day he will have contact and a relationship with his family again.' According to reports, Jakob parted ways with his father in February 2022, when he hit Ingrid wih a towel. He told reporters, 'Our siblings came together when we returned to Sandnes in February 2022. Everyone was distressed, and we discussed what to do.' 'Ingrid wanted to contact the police and file a report, but we didn't know what to do or what was best.' Ingrid, who is now 19-years-old, moved out of the family home to live with elder brother Kristoffer from January 5, 2022, and has been in voluntary foster care since March of that year.
