https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2024/10/unforced-variations-oct-2024/comment-page-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=unforced-variations-oct-2024
RealClimate: This month's open thread for climate topics. Please stay vaguely on topic and do not abuse other commenters.
realclimatevariationsoct
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2015/07/unforced-variations-july-2015/
RealClimate: This month's open thread. How about a focus on cimate science this time? Data visualizations anyone?
realclimatevariationsjuly
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2011/01/2010-updates-to-model-data-comparisons/
RealClimate: As we did roughly a year ago (and as we will probably do every year around this time), we can add another data point to a set of reasonably...
model datarealclimateupdatescomparisons
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2023/09/old-habits/
RealClimate: Media awareness about global warming and climate change has grown fairly steadily since 2004. My impression is that journalists today tend to...
old habitsrealclimate
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2008/01/new-rule-for-high-profile-papers/comment-page-2/
RealClimate: New rule: When declaring that climate models are misleading in a high profile paper, maybe looking at some model output first would be a good...
high profilerealclimatenewrulepapers
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005/12/natural-variability-and-climate-sensitivity/
RealClimate: One of the central tasks of climate science is to predict the sensitivity of climate to changes in carbon dioxide concentration. The answer...
natural variabilityclimate sensitivityrealclimate
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2011/07/how-soon-is-now/
RealClimate: Willie Soon is a name that pops up every so often in climate 'debate'. He was the lead author on the Soon and Baliunas (2003) paper (the only...
realclimatesoon
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2013/04/the-answer-is-blowing-in-the-wind-the-warming-went-into-the-deep-end/comment-page-2/
RealClimate: There has been an unusual surge of interest in the climate sensitivity based on the last decade's worth of temperature measurements, and a lengthy...
realclimateanswerblowingwindwarming
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2016/12/unforced-variations-dec-2016/
RealClimate: This month's open thread. Roll on 2017...
realclimatevariationsdec
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2012/08/extreme-metrics/comment-page-3/
RealClimate: There has been a lot of discussion related to the paper and the accompanying op-ed in the Washington Post last week. But in this post, I'll try...
realclimateextrememetrics
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2020/09/new-studies-confirm-weakening-of-the-gulf-stream-circulation-amoc/
RealClimate: Many of the earlier predictions of climate research have now become reality. The world is getting warmer, sea levels are rising faster and faster,...
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https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2019/07/unforced-variations-july-2019/comment-page-3/
RealClimate: This month's open thread for climate science discussions.
realclimatevariationsjuly
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/05/my-review-of-books/
RealClimate: I've finally got round to reading a number of the many climate change-related books that have been published in recent months. These books seem to...
realclimatereviewbooks
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2021/07/rapid-attribution-of-pnw-heatwave/
RealClimate: It was almost impossible for the temperatures seen recently in the Pacific North West heatwave to have occurred without global warming.
realclimaterapidattributionpnwheatwave
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2013/08/unforced-variations-august-2013/comment-page-2/
RealClimate: This month's open thread. Since there are two main topics (Advocacy and Methane bombs) buzzing around the blogo-twitter-sphere this week, perhaps...
realclimatevariationsaugust
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/02/happy-birthday-charles-darwin/comment-page-6/
RealClimate: Charles Darwin was born on February 12, 1809. The events commemorating Darwin's birthday anniversary last Sunday, together with the recent...
happy birthdaycharles darwinrealclimate
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/08/musings-about-models/comment-page-3/
RealClimate: With the blogosphere all a-flutter with discussions of hundredths of degrees adjustments to the surface temperature record, you probably missed a...
realclimatemusingsmodels
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2022/08/climate-impacts-of-the-ira/
RealClimate: With the signing of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) on Tuesday Aug 16, the most significant climate legislation in US federal history (so far)...
climate impactsrealclimateira
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2011/10/the-moscow-warming-hole/comment-page-2/
RealClimate: This week, PNAS published our paper Increase of Extreme Events in a Warming World, which analyses how many new record events you expect to see in...
realclimatemoscowwarminghole
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2024/06/unforced-variations-june-2024/
RealClimate: This month's open thread on climate topics. Please stay focused, minimize repetitive comments, and maintain a half-way decent level of decorum....
realclimatevariationsjune
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2010/01/lindzen-and-choi-unraveled/
RealClimate: Lindzen and Choi, Trenberth Fasullo, O'Dell and Wang, tropical ocean temperatures, TOA radiative fluxes, climate sensitivity
realclimatelindzenchoiunraveled
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2004/12/contributors/
RealClimate: The current contributors to content on this site are: Gavin Schmidt Michael Mann Rasmus Benestad Stefan Rahmstorf Eric Steig William Connolley was...
realclimatecontributors
https://www.realclimate.org/?ref=zeronaut.be
RealClimate:Climate science from climate scientists...
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https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/04/aerosol-effects-and-climate-part-ii-the-role-of-nucleation-and-cosmic-rays/comment-page-2/
RealClimate: Guest post by Bart Verheggen, Department of Air Quality and Climate Change , Energy research Institute of the Netherlands (ECN) In Part I, I...
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https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/09/uncertainty-in-polar-ozone-depletion/
RealClimate: Guest commentary by Drew Shindell The unique chemistry that causes dramatic ozone depletion in the polar springtime lower stratosphere has been...
ozone depletionrealclimateuncertaintypolar
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2012/11/climatedialogue-exploring-different-views-on-climate-change/
RealClimate: This is a guest posting from some Dutch colleagues on a new online experiment in fostering dialogue on climate change. Bart Verheggen has asked us...
climate changerealclimateexploringdifferentviews
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005/11/chaos-and-climate/
RealClimate: By James Annan and William Connolley In this post, we will try to explain a little about chaos theory, and its relevance to our attempts to...
realclimatechaos
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2012/06/unforced-variations-june-2012/comment-page-9/
RealClimate: This month's open thread...
realclimatevariationsjune
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/04/hit-the-brakes-hard/comment-page-3/
RealClimate: There is a climate splash in Nature this week, including a cover showing a tera-tonne weight, presumably meant to be made of carbon (could it be...
realclimatehitbrakeshard
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/category/climate-science/greenhouse-gases/page/16/
Issues related to the greenhouse gases that are affected by human activity
greenhouse gasesrealclimate
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2012/08/extreme-metrics/comment-page-2/
RealClimate: There has been a lot of discussion related to the paper and the accompanying op-ed in the Washington Post last week. But in this post, I'll try...
realclimateextrememetrics
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2012/06/methane-game-upgrade/?wpmp_tp=1
RealClimate: Walter Anthony et al (2012) have made a major contribution to the picture of methane emissions from thawing Arctic regions. Not a game-changer...
realclimatemethanegameupgrade
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2011/03/blogging-climate-scientists/comment-page-3/
RealClimate: The newest arrival in the climate science blogosphere is Isaac Held. This is notable in a number of respects. First, Isaac is a top-tier climate...
climate scientistsrealclimateblogging
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2014/04/nenana-ice-classic-update/
RealClimate: Somewhat randomly, my thoughts turned to the Nenana Ice Classic this evening, only to find that the ice break up had only just occurred (3:48 pm...
nenana ice classicrealclimateupdate
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/08/new-public-opinion-poll-on-global-warming/
RealClimate: There is a new Zogby poll on public attitudes in the US towards global warming and the potential connection between severe weather events and...
public opinion pollglobal warmingrealclimatenew
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2011/05/an-incremental-step-blown-up/
RealClimate: New results from the University of Aarhus in Denmark and the Danish National Space Institute allegedly show that particles from space create cloud...
realclimateincrementalstepblown
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005/07/barton-and-the-hockey-stick/comment-page-2/
RealClimate: by Gavin Schmidt and Stefan Rahmstorf Many readers will be aware that three scientists (two of which are contributors to this site, Michael Mann...
realclimatescientistsrespondbarton
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/09/chinese-whispers-in-australia/
RealClimate: We decided months ago that we would not comment on leaks of the draft of the upcoming IPCC report (due Feb 2007) but we are prepared to correct...
chinese whispersrealclimateaustralia
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2012/01/an-online-model-of-methane-in-the-atmosphere/
RealClimate: I've put together an easy-to-play-with online model of methane in the atmosphere. I'm going to use it for teaching along with the rest of the...
online modelrealclimatemethaneatmosphere
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2008/01/what-if-you-held-a-conference-and-no-real-scientists-came/
RealClimate: Over the past days, many of us have received invitations to a conference called "The 2008 International Conference on Climate Change" in New York....
realclimateheldconference
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2011/
realclimate
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2024/12/nature-2023-part-ii/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nature-2023-part-ii
RealClimate: This is a follow-on post to the previous summary of interesting work related to the temperatures in 2023/2024. I'll have another post with a quick...
part iirealclimatenature
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2010/06/the-uncertainty-prayer/
RealClimate: Seen at a meeting yesterday: Grant us... The ability to reduce the uncertainties we can; The willingness to work with the uncertainties we cannot;...
realclimateuncertaintyprayer
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2014/04/labels-for-climate-data/
RealClimate: "These results are quite strange", my colleague told me. He analysed some of the recent climate model results from an experiment known by the...
climate datarealclimatelabels
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2010/11/one-year-later/
RealClimate: Recalling the impact of the climate scientist email hack, 'Climategate', CRU and the RealClimate response.
one year laterrealclimate
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2016/01/blizzard-jonas-and-the-slowdown-of-the-gulf-stream-system/
RealClimate: Blizzard Jonas on the US east coast has just shattered snowfall records. Both weather forecasters and climate experts have linked the high...
gulf streamrealclimateblizzardjonasslowdown
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2019/
realclimate
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/02/sir-nicholas-shackleton/
RealClimate: With the recent death of Sir Nicholas Shackleton, paleoclimatology lost one of its brightest pioneers. Over the last ~40 years, Nick made numerous...
sir nicholas shackletonrealclimate
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/category/communicating-climate/skeptics/page/2/
realclimateskeptics
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2010/05/what-we-can-learn-from-studying-the-last-millennium-or-so/
RealClimate: With all of the emphasis that is often placed on hemispheric or global mean temperature trends during the past millennium, and the context they...
realclimatelearnstudyinglastmillennium
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2021/07/rapid-attribution-of-pnw-heatwave/comment-page-5/
RealClimate: It was almost impossible for the temperatures seen recently in the Pacific North West heatwave to have occurred without global warming.
realclimaterapidattributionpnwheatwave
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/tag/ira/
realclimateira
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/tag/scafetta/
realclimate
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2010/10/solar-spectral-stumper/comment-page-2/
RealClimate: Solar forcing of climate. SORCE mission, SIM data.
realclimatesolarspectralstumper
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005/02/strange-bedfellows/
RealClimate: Here's a curious observation. Some commentators who for years have been vocally decrying the IPCC consensus are lining up to support the...
strange bedfellowsrealclimateencompagnie
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2023/08/the-amoc-tipping-this-century-or-not/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-amoc-tipping-this-century-or-not
RealClimate: A few weeks ago, a study by Copenhagen University researchers Peter and Susanne Ditlevsen concluded that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning...
realclimateamoctippingcentury
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/author/group/page/3/
grouprealclimate
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2004/12/rasmus-e-benestad/
RealClimate: I am a physicist by training and have affiliations with the Norwegian Meteorological Institute [My views here are personal and may not necessarily...
realclimaterasmus
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2014/03/unforced-variations-mar-2014-part-ii/
RealClimate: This is mid-month open-thread for all discussions, except those related to Diogenes' comments. People wanting to discuss with commenter Diogenes...
part iirealclimatevariationsmar
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2012/08/extreme-metrics/comment-page-4/
RealClimate: There has been a lot of discussion related to the paper and the accompanying op-ed in the Washington Post last week. But in this post, I'll try...
realclimateextrememetrics
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2008/03/a-galactic-glitch/comment-page-8/
RealClimate: Knud Jahnke and Rasmus Benestad After having watched a new documentary called the 'Cloud Mystery' - and especially the bit about the galaxy...
realclimategalacticglitch
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/06/g8-summit-declaration/
RealClimate: We assume that many of our readers will be interested in the declaration of the G8 summit in Heiligendamm (Germany), which was agreed yesterday by...
realclimatesummitdeclaration
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005/08/et-tu-lt/
RealClimate: In previous posts we have stressed that discrepancies between models and observations force scientists to re-examine the foundations of both the...
et turealclimatelt
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2008/12/2008-year-in-review/
RealClimate: Way back at the end of 2006, we did a review of the year's climate science discussion. It's that time of year again and so we've decided to give...
realclimateyearreview
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005/05/
mayrealclimate
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2017/06/what-do-you-need-to-know-about-climate/
RealClimate: What do you need to know about climate in order to be in the best position to adapt to future change? This question was discussed in a European...
realclimateneedknow
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2008/05/climate-change-and-tropical-cyclones-yet-again/
RealClimate: By Rasmus Benestad & Michael Mann Just as Typhoon Nargis has reminded us of the destructive power of tropical cyclones (with its horrible death...
climate changetropical cyclonesrealclimateyet
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/08/musings-about-models/comment-page-2/
RealClimate: With the blogosphere all a-flutter with discussions of hundredths of degrees adjustments to the surface temperature record, you probably missed a...
realclimatemusingsmodels
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2013/04/the-answer-is-blowing-in-the-wind-the-warming-went-into-the-deep-end/comment-page-5/
RealClimate: There has been an unusual surge of interest in the climate sensitivity based on the last decade's worth of temperature measurements, and a lengthy...
realclimateanswerblowingwindwarming
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2020/06/sensitive-but-unclassified-part-ii/
RealClimate: The discussion and analysis of the latest round of climate models continues - but not always sensibly. In a previous post, I discussed the...
part iirealclimatesensitiveunclassified
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/02/nigel-calder-in-the-times/
RealClimate: As a prelude to a new book, Nigel Calder (who was the editor of New Scientist for four years in the 1960s) has written an op-ed for the Times (UK)...
nigel calderrealclimatetimes
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/02/wall-street-journal-again/comment-page-2/
RealClimate: The Wall Street Journal has published another fair and balanced critique of climate change science and negotiations, in a Business World...
wall street journalrealclimate
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005/08/the-tropical-lapse-rate-quandary/
RealClimate: Guest commentary by Steve Sherwood There are four independent instrumental records of sufficient length and potential accuracy to tell us about...
lapse raterealclimatetropicalquandary
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2025/12/unforced-variations-dec-2025/
RealClimate: This month's open thread on climate topics as 2025 wraps up. Please be courteous to each other. Tis the season!
realclimatevariationsdec
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2010/10/cuccinelli-goes-fishing-again/comment-page-3/
RealClimate: Cuccinelli witch hunts and abuse of power against UVa
realclimatecuccinelligoesfishing
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2010/06/recent-trends-in-co2-emissions/
RealClimate: CO2 emissions, growth rates, SRES scenarios, LeQuere and Manning
recent trendsrealclimateemissions
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2013/04/movie-review-switch/
RealClimate: This year, the Geological Society of America is rolling out their SWITCH Energy Awareness campaign . The centerpiece of the campaign is a...
movie reviewrealclimateswitch
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2015/04/how-long-does-it-take-antarctica/
RealClimate: Eric Steig A series of large and abrupt climate changes occurred during the last ice age, most clearly expressed in ice cores from Greenland and...
realclimatelongtakeantarcticanotice
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2021/08/sea-level-in-the-ipcc-6th-assessment-report-ar6/
RealClimate: My top 3 impressions up-front: The sea level projections for the year 2100 have been adjusted upwards again. The IPCC has introduced a new...
sea levelassessment reportrealclimateipcc
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2013/09/the-new-ipcc-climate-report/
RealClimate: The time has come: the new IPCC report is here! After several years of work by over 800 scientists from around the world, and after days of...
climate reportrealclimatenewipcc
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2014/02/exploring-crutem4-with-google-earth/
RealClimate: Guest commentary by Tim Osborn and Phil Jones The Climatic Research Unit (CRU) land surface air temperature data set, CRUTEM4, can now be explored...
google earthrealclimateexploring
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/category/extras/tutorials/
Tutorials on climate science
realclimatetutorials
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2010/10/cuccinelli-goes-fishing-again/comment-page-2/
RealClimate: Cuccinelli witch hunts and abuse of power against UVa
realclimatecuccinelligoesfishing
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2014/06/unforced-variations-june-2014/comment-page-5/
RealClimate: June is the month when the Arctic Sea Ice outlook gets going, when the EPA releases its rules on power plant CO2 emissions, and when, hopefully,...
realclimatevariationsjune
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/tag/sat/
realclimatesat
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2025/01/comparison-update-2024/
RealClimate: One more dot on the graphs for our annual model-observations comparisons updates. Given how extraordinary the last two years have been, there are...
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