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RealClimate: How robust is our accelerometer? www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

RealClimate: EPA’s final* ruling on CO2 www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

RealClimate: The Climate Science reference they don’t want Judges to read www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

RealClimate: Koonin’s Continuing Calumnies www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

RealClimate: 2025 Updates www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

RealClimate: A peek behind the curtain… www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

RealClimate: AI/ML climate magic? www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

RealClimate: 1.5ºC and all that www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

RealClimate: Who should pay? www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

RealClimate: Time and Tide Gauges wait for no Voortman RealClimate: Here we go again. An obscure, methodologically poor, paper published with little to no review makes a convenient point and gets elevated into supposedly 'blockbusting' science by the merc...

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RealClimate: Lil’ NAS Express RealClimate: The fast-tracked update of the 2009 EPA Endangerment finding from the National Academies for Science, Engineering and Mathematics (NASEM), has now been released. Unsurprisingly, it has co...

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RealClimate: DOE CWG Report “Moot”? RealClimate: Somewhat breaking news. A court filing (from 9/4) from DOE has noted that the Climate Working Group has been disbanded (as of 9/3). This was done to make the EDF/UCS lawsuit moot, but it ...

RealClimate: DOE CWG Report “Moot”? www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

RealClimate: Critique of Chapter 6 “Extreme Weather” in the DOE review RealClimate: Guest commentary by Kerry Emanuel Executive Summary Chapter 6 of the draft DOE report examines whether global warming exacerbates extreme weather. It rightly notes that because events suc...

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RealClimate: Climate Scientists response to DOE report RealClimate: As we've mentioned, Andrew Dessler and Robert Kopp have been coordinating a scientific peer review of the DOW 'CWG' Critique of Climate Science. It is now out. The comments are available ...

RealClimate: Climate Scientists response to DOE report www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

RealClimate: Critiques of the ‘Critical Review’ RealClimate: The first somewhat comprehensive reviews of the DOE critical review are now coming online. First out of the gate is a nice interactive from CarbonBrief based on direct input from scientis...

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RealClimate: Are direct water vapor emissions endangering anyone? RealClimate: In the EPA EF reconsideration document there is a section on p62 where they attempt to make the argument that the CO2 endangerment finding would also apply to direct water vapor emissions...

RealClimate: Are direct water vapor emissions endangering anyone? www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

RealClimate: The Endangerment of the Endangerment Finding? RealClimate: The EPA, along with the "Climate Working Group" (CWG) of usual suspects (plus Judith Curry and Ross McKitrick) at DOE, have just put out a document for public comment their attempt to res...

RealClimate: The Endangerment of the Endangerment Finding? www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

RealClimate: Ocean circulation going South? RealClimate: Some intriguing new measurements of salinity in the oceans around Antarctica have set off reams of sensationalist speculations. Maybe some context is helpful... What we've been seeing The...

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RealClimate: Melange à Trois RealClimate: In honor of the revelation today, that Koonin, Christy and Spencer have been made Special Government Employees at the Dept. of Energy, we present a quick round up of our commentary on the...

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RealClimate: Predicted Arctic sea ice trends over time RealClimate: Over multiple generations of CMIP models Arctic sea ice trend predictions have gone from much too stable to about right. Why? The diagnostics highlighted in our model-observations compari...

RealClimate: Predicted Arctic sea ice trends over time www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

RealClimate: The most recent climate status RealClimate: The Arctic Council’s Arctic Monitoring and assessment Programme (AMAP) recently released a Summary for PolicyMakers’ Arctic Climate Change Update 2024. It is one of several stock taking e...

RealClimate: The most recent climate status www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

RealClimate: WMO: Update on 2023/4 Anomalies RealClimate: The WMO released its (now) annual state of the climate report this week. As well as the (now) standard set of graphs related to increasing greenhouse gas concentrations, rising temperatur...

RealClimate: WMO: Update on 2023/4 Anomalies www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

RealClimate: Andean glaciers have shrunk more than ever before in the entire Holocene RealClimate: Glaciers are important indicators of climate change. A recent study published in the leading journal Science shows that glaciers in the tropical Andes have now retreated further than at a...

RealClimate: Andean glaciers have shrunk more than ever before in the entire Holocene www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

RealClimate: Climate change in Africa RealClimate: [latexpage] While there have been some recent set-backs within science and climate research and disturbing news about NOAA, there is also continuing efforts on responding to climate chang...

RealClimate: Climate change in Africa www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

RealClimate: We need NOAA now more than ever RealClimate: Guest commentary by Robert Hart, Kerry Emanuel, & Lance Bosart The National Weather Service (NWS) and its parent agency, the National Oceanic and AtmosphericAdministration (NOAA), deliver...

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RealClimate: How will media report on this new AMOC study? RealClimate: I’ve been getting a lot of media queries about a new paper on the AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation), which has just been published. In my view this large media interest i...

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Unforced Variations: Feb 2025 This month's open thread on climate-related topics.

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Comparison Update 2024 One more dot on the graphs for our annual model-observations comparisons updates. Given how extraordinary the last two years have been, there are a few highlights to note. First, we have updated...

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The AMOC is slowing, it’s stable, it’s slowing, no, yes, … There's been a bit of media whiplash on the issue of AMOC slowing lately - ranging from the AMOC being on the brink of collapse to it being more stable than previously thought. AMOC, of course, refers...

RealClimate: The AMOC is slowing, it’s stable, it’s slowing, no, yes, …

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2024 Hindsight To no-one's surprise 2024 was the warmest year on record - and by quite a clear margin. Another year, another data point. Unlike the previous year, 2024 was anticipated to be a record breaker...

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