{"id":26481,"date":"2026-05-01T08:23:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/?p=26481"},"modified":"2026-05-01T08:23:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:23:22","slug":"unforced-variations-may-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2026\/05\/unforced-variations-may-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Unforced Variations: May 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"kcite-section\" kcite-section-id=\"26481\">\n\n<p>This month&#8217;s open thread on climate topics. <a href=\"https:\/\/iri.columbia.edu\/our-expertise\/climate\/forecasts\/enso\/current\/\" title=\"El Ni\u00f1o coming\">El Ni\u00f1o coming<\/a> (shades of 2023), <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/hausfath.bsky.social\/post\/3mknvbii4us2j\" title=\"competitive predictions\">competitive predictions<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/04\/24\/climate\/amoc-bering-strait-dam.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dVA.bnY_.w9ilHD1_r86E&amp;smid=nytcore-ios-share\" title=\"ill-advised geo-engineering ideas\">ill-advised geo-engineering ideas<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carbonbrief.org\/clean-energy-pushes-fossil-fuel-power-into-reverse-for-first-time-ever\/?utm_content=bufferc2648&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\" title=\"massive shifts in renewable energy roll out\">massive shifts in renewable energy roll out<\/a>. Surely something there to discuss&#8230;  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<!-- kcite active, but no citations found -->\n<\/div> <!-- kcite-section 26481 -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month&#8217;s open thread on climate topics. El Ni\u00f1o coming (shades of 2023), competitive predictions, ill-advised geo-engineering ideas, and massive shifts in renewable energy roll out. Surely something there to discuss&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,39,47],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-climate-science","7":"category-open-thread","8":"category-solutions","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26482,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26481\/revisions\/26482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}