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Richard Betts

Auckland
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Nasty, brutish and short. Columnist, @nzlistener, other words elsewhere. Now mostly to be found @ bsky.app/profile/ricardaonz.bsky.social
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Dry-Season Water Deficits in the Southwestern Amazon Under High Emissions

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By Chris Jones, Richard Betts, Débora J. Dutra
| Wiley Online Library Verified
1 Introduction Climate change is projected to increase the frequency and intensity of extreme events, including droughts, and to alter the spatial and temporal patterns of precipitation and temperature (IPCC 2023a, 2023b). The Amazon rainforest regulates precipitation dynamics across South America (Nobre et al. 1991; Fearnside 2008; Marengo et al. 2016) and is a major global carbon sink (Carvalho et al. 2010).
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Shared leadership failure, no oversight

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By Richard Betts
| Clinton Herald Verified
At the April 23 Easton Valley Board meeting, Superintendent Chris Fee proposed adding two more shared administrators — a Special Education Director and a Curriculum Coordinator — to a growing list of six already shared employees across Easton Valley, Delwood, and Andrew districts. The public must pay attention. These six shared employees include the superintendent, business manager, HR director, transportation director, nutrition director, and technology director.
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Regional Impacts Poorly Constrained by Climate Sensitivity

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By Ranjini Swaminathan, Jacob Schewe, Jeremy F. Walton, Klaus F. Zimmermann, Colin Jones, Richard Betts, Chantelle Burton, Chris Jones, Matthias Mengel, Andrew Turner, Katja Weigel
| Wiley Online Library Verified
1 Introduction The use of climate projections for impact assessment often exploits numerous climate and Earth system models (ESMs). The Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (Veronika Eyring et al., 2016) (CMIP) provides underpinning simulations to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) analysis of climate projections (Lee et al., 2021), changes in climate impact drivers (Ranasinghe et al., 2021), and assessment of impacts and vulnerability (IPCC, 2022).
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