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Plugging the leaks

17 mai, par group

Guest commentary by Beate Liepert, NWRA Clouds and water vapor accounts for only a tiny fraction of all water on Earth, but in spite of it, this moisture in the atmosphere is crucially important to replenishing drinking water reservoirs, crop yields, distribution of vegetation zones, and so on. (...)

Greenland Glaciers — not so fast !

15 mai, par eric

There have been several recent papers on ice sheets and sea level that have gotten a bit of press of the journalistic whiplash variety (“The ice is melting faster than we thought !” “No, its not !”). As usual the papers themselves are much better than the press about them, and the results less (...)

Yamalian yawns

11 mai, par gavin

Steve McIntyre is free to do any analysis he wants on any data he can find. But when he ladles his work with unjustified and false accusations of misconduct and deception, he demeans both himself and his contributions. The idea that scientists should be bullied into doing analyses McIntyre (...)

The legend of the Titanic

3 mai, par rasmus

It’s 100 years since the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic, and it’s still remembered today. It was one of those landmark events that make a deep impression on people. It also fits a pattern of how we respond to different conditions, according to a recent book about the impact of environmental (...)

Unforced variations : May 2012

1er mai, par group

New open thread for this month : misrepresentations of wind farm impacts on local climate ? Clouds and contrarians ? or whatever…

Unlocking the secrets to ending an Ice Age

28 avril, par group

Guest Commentary by Chris Colose, SUNY Albany It has long been known that characteristics of the Earth’s orbit (its eccentricity, the degree to which it is tilted, and its “wobble”) are slightly altered on timescales of tens to hundreds of thousands of years. Such variations, collectively known as (...)

Another well-deserved honor : Oeschger medal awarded to Michael Mann

23 avril, par group

As many will have already heard, our colleague, RC co-founder and friend Michael Mann will receive the Oeschger medal from the European Geosciences Union this week in Vienna. We are delighted to announce this and to congratulate Mike. Hans Oeschger was a Swiss scientist originally trained as a (...)

HadCRUT4 data now available

17 avril, par gavin

Just a quick note to point out that the HadCRUT4 data are now fully available for download. Feel free to discuss (or point to) any analyses you’d like to see done in the comments, and perhaps we’ll update this post with the more interesting (...)

Arctic Sea Ice Volume : PIOMAS, Prediction, and the Perils of Extrapolation

11 avril, par group

Guest Commentary by Axel Schweiger, Ron Lindsay, and Cecilia Bitz We have just passed the annual maximum in Arctic sea ice extent which always occurs sometime in March. Within a month we will reach the annual maximum in Arctic sea ice volume. After that, the sea ice will begin its course (...)

Evaluating a 1981 temperature projection

2 avril, par group

Guest commentary from Geert Jan van Oldenborgh and Rein Haarsma, KNMI Sometimes it helps to take a step back from the everyday pressures of research (falling ill helps). It was in this way we stumbled across (pdf). In 1981 the first author of this post was in his first year at university and (...)

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