'We should have better answers by now': climate scientists baffled by unexpected pace of heating

The leap in temperatures over the past 13 months has exceeded the global heating forecasts - is this just a blip or a systemic shift?Analysis: Cities have to avoid a dangerous trapIn a remarkably candid essay in the journal Nature this March, one of the world's top climate scientists posited the alarming possibility that global heating may be moving beyond the ability of experts to predict what happens next."The 2023 temperature anomaly has come out of the blue, revealing an unprecedented knowledge gap perhaps for the first time since about 40 years ago, when satellite data began offering modellers an unparalleled, real-time view of Earth's climate system," wrote Gavin Schmidt, a British scientist and the director of the Nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. Continue reading...