Hippy Steve<p>Soil moisture–atmosphere coupling accelerates global warming <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-40641-y" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/s41467-023</span><span class="invisible">-40641-y</span></a></p><p>This is a <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/compounding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>compounding</span></a> factor often ignored or inadequately accounted for in <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/ClimateEmergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateEmergency</span></a> predictions.</p><p>as the atmo warms, it becomes a bigger sponge essentially sucking moisture out of <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/soils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>soils</span></a>. Without surface moisture to evaporate (thus cooling surrounding air) during heatwaves temperatures are as much as 30% higher than if soils were moist - an additional 0.5C of global warming by 2100.</p>