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19th Mar 2010 > Unforced variations 3
Another open thread. OT comments from the Amazon drying thread have been moved over. As usual, substantive comments only please and no abuse.
15th Mar 2010 > Up is Down, Brown is Green (with apologies to Orwell)
In the alternate universe of Fox News, Anthony Watts, and many others, up is down. Now, it appears, brown is green. Following the total confusion over the retraction of a paper on sea level, claims of another “mistake” by the IPCC are making the rounds of the blogosphere. This time, the issue is the impact [...]
12th Mar 2010 > Why we bother
A letter from a reader (reproduced with permission):
Dear RealClimate team:
I have a background in biology and studied at post-grad level in the area of philosophy of science. For the last few years, I have been working on a book about the logic of argument used in debates between creationists and evolutionists.
About a year ago [...]
11th Mar 2010 > Sealevelgate
Imagine this. In its latest report, the IPCC has predicted up to 3 meters of sea level rise by the end of this century. But ?climate sceptics? websites were quick to reveal a few problems (or ?tricks?, as they called it).
First, although the temperature scenarios of IPCC project a maximum warming of 6.4 ºC (Table [...]
9th Mar 2010 > More on sun-climate relations
Four new papers discuss the relatiosnhip between solar activity and climate: one by Judith Lean (2010) in WIREs Climate Change, a GRL paper by Calogovic et al. (2010), Kulmala et al. (2010), and an on-line preprint by Feulner and Rahmstorf (2010). They all look at different aspects of how changes in solar activity may influence [...]
6th Mar 2010 > A mistaken message from IoP?
Institute of Physics, CRU inquiry, transparency
6th Mar 2010 > Arctic Methane on the Move?
Methane is like the radical wing of the carbon cycle, in today’s atmosphere a stronger greenhouse gas per molecule than CO2, and an atmospheric concentration that can change more quickly than CO2 can. There has been a lot of press coverage of a new paper in Science this week called ?Extensive methane venting to [...]
3rd Mar 2010 > Climate change commitments
Climate change commitment, Matthews and Weaver, adaptation and mitigation. CO2 emissions and concentrations.
24th Feb 2010 > Close Encounters of the Absurd Kind
Ben Santer, IPCC, SAR, Chapter 8, discernible influence, "scientific cleasning", Guardian, Fred Pearce, Douglass and Christy
24th Feb 2010 > The Guardian disappoints
The Guardian, Fred Pearce, Douglas Keenan, Tom Wigley, Phil Jones, Mike Mann, Keith Briffa, Chinese weather stations, fraud, peer review
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