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Unforced variations: Mar 2022

5 Mar 2022 by group

This month’s open thread on climate science issues.

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Unforced Variations: Feb 2022

1 Feb 2022 by group

February in Central Park

This month’s open thread on climate science issues. Please be constructive, non-abusive and on-topic.

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread

Forced responses: Jan 2022

1 Jan 2022 by group

A bi-monthly open thread related to climate solutions.

PS. New year, new moderation policy. Please be substantive – sniping, insults, and tedious repetition will just be culled. We want to maintain a civil and productive discourse here, but the comment threads may need to be re-evaluated if that doesn’t happen.

Filed Under: Open thread, Solutions

Unforced Variations: Jan 2022

1 Jan 2022 by group

This month’s open thread on climate science topics. Note that summaries of annual climate data from 2021 will start to appear in a couple of weeks, and updates to the model/observations comparisons will appear a week or so after that.

PS. New year, new moderation policy. Please be substantive – sniping, insults, and tedious repetition will just be culled. We want to maintain a civil and productive discourse here, but the comment threads may need to be re-evaluated if that doesn’t happen.

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread

Unforced Variations: Dec 2021

1 Dec 2021 by group

This month’s open thread on climate science topics.

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread

Forced responses: Nov 2021

3 Nov 2021 by Gavin

A bi-monthly open thread related to climate solutions. This month will start off with COP-26 and many targets and plans and mechanisms will be proposed and discussed. Look out for the updated impacts of the evolving NDCs such as this one from Climate Resource, suggesting that the world could be on track for just a little less than 2ºC warming (relative to the pre-industrial) (if everyone does what they pledge and we are lucky with respect to climate sensitivity). Please be respectful and constructive.

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Unforced variations: Nov 2021

3 Nov 2021 by group

This month’s open thread. The first two weeks will be dominated by COP-26, and various science updates that will be announced there, including this year’s Global Carbon Project report. Curiously, there is some archival interest in the climategate affair possibly in connection to COP-26 (a BBC dramatization “The Trick“, a BBC radio series on the security aspects “The Hack that Changed the World”, and a couple of months ago, a podcast episode of “Cheat!”). Please stick to science-related topics on this thread.

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread

Unforced Variations: Oct 2021

1 Oct 2021 by group

Fall is here (in the northern hemisphere at least), along with articles about the impact of climate change on autumnal colors. LandSat9 successfully launched to continue an almost 50 year long series of remote sensing (since 1972!), and the World Economic Forum has proposed and Earth Operations Center to monitor greenhouse gases and climate change. Please stick to climate science topics, and remember that (most) other commenters are real people.

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread

Forced responses: Sep 2021

9 Sep 2021 by group

A bimonthly open thread for discussions related to climate solutions. Note that open discussions of climate science are here. Possible topics of interest are the trial carbon-capture effort in Iceland and the discussions in the lead up to COP26. Please be constructive and substantive.

Filed Under: Open thread, Solutions

Unforced Variations: Sep 2021

1 Sep 2021 by group

This month’s open thread for climate science topics. Not sure about you, but we are still reading the details of the IPCC report.  We are watching the unfolding hurricane season with trepidation, with particular concern related to the impacts of compound events (and not just those associated with climate), and anticipating another low, if not record, Arctic sea ice minimum.  

PS. At some point this month we will be switching Internet service providers, so don’t be surprised if there are some oddities as we switch everything over.

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread

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