Unforced variations: Dec 2020

This month’s open thread. Topics might include the record breaking hurricane season, odds for the warmest year horse race (and it’s relevance or not), or indeed anything climate science related.

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Thinking, small and big

The point that climate downscaling must pay attention to the law of small numbers is no joke. The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) will become a ‘new’ WCRP with a “soft launch” in 2021. This is quite a big story since it coordinates much of the research and the substance on which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) builds....

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Unforced Variations: Nov 2020

This month’s open thread for climate science. As if there wasn’t enough going on, we have still more hurricanes in the Atlantic, temperature records tumbling despite La Niña, Arctic sea ice that doesn’t want to reform, bushfire season kicking off in the Southern Hemisphere while we are barely done with it in the North… Welcome to the new normal,...

Nov 2020

Forced Responses: Oct 2020

Bimonthly open thread for discussing climate policy and solutions. Climate science discussion should go here.

Oct 2020

Unforced Variations: Oct 2020

This month’s open thread.

Oct 2020

New studies confirm weakening of the Gulf Stream circulation (AMOC)

Many of the earlier predictions of climate research have now become reality. The world is getting warmer, sea levels are rising faster and faster, and more frequent heat waves, extreme rainfall, devastating wildfires and more severe tropical storms are affecting many millions of people. Now there is growing evidence that another climate forecast is...

Sep 2020

Unforced variations: Sep 2020

This month’s open thread on climate science topics. Things to look for – Arctic sea ice minimum, boreal wildfires and the Atlantic hurricane season – you know, the usual…

Sep 2020

Denial and Alarmism in the Near-Term Extinction and Collapse Debate

Guest article by Alastair McIntosh,  honorary professor in the College of Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. This is an excerpt from his new book, Riders on the Storm: The Climate Crisis and the Survival of Being Mostly, we only know what we think we know about climate science because of the climate science. I have had...

Aug 2020

How to spot “alternative scientists”.

Recently, a so-called “white coat summit” gave me a sense of dejavu. It was held by a group that calls itself ‘America’s Frontline Doctors’ (AFD) that consisted of about a dozen people wearing white coats to the effect of achieving an appearance of being experts on medical matters. The AFD apparently wanted to address a “massive disinformation...

Aug 2020

Forced Responses: Aug 2020

This is the bimonthly thread on climate solutions. Climate Science discussions should go here.

Aug 2020