​I made some 2021 climate change predictions in a video this January, so let’s see how I did! Covering topics including COP26, wildfires in the USA, and the “post covid” recovery, and then a few more that I didn’t predict, including the IPCC sixth assessment report. I review the big developments in climate science and climate policy this year – including the Biden administration and China’s pledge on coal – and make a few predictions about what 2022 may have in store for the climate…

LINKS
(1) https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions
(2) https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02645-w
(3) https://ourworldindata.org/energy/country/china
(4) https://www.breakthroughenergy.org/articles/we-need-to-pass-build-back-better
(5) https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/us-drought-monitor-update-may-4-2021
(6) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/10/wildfire-climate-emergency-us-west
(7) https://library.wmo.int/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=21982
(8) https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press-release/state-of-climate-2021-extreme-events-and-major-impacts
(9) https://www.carbonbrief.org/state-of-the-climate-summer-2021-sets-new-high-for-average-land-temperature
(10) https://www.carbonbrief.org/in-depth-qa-the-ipccs-sixth-assessment-report-on-climate-science
(11) https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2021/summary/
(12) https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-do-cop26-promises-keep-global-warming-below-2c
(13) https://keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
(14) https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/
(15) https://iri.columbia.edu/our-expertise/climate/forecasts/enso/current/?enso_tab=enso-cpc_plume

Simon Clark