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Archives for August 2018

Are the heatwaves caused by climate change? 

9 Aug 2018 by rasmus

I get a lot of questions about the connection between heatwaves and climate change these days. Particularly about the heatwave that has affected northern Europe this summer. If you live in Japan, South Korea, California, Spain, or Canada, you may have asked the same question.

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Filed Under: Climate Science, heatwaves

Musing about Losing Earth

4 Aug 2018 by Gavin

The NY Times Magazine has a special issue this weekend on climate change. The main article is “Losing the Earth” by Nathaniel Rich, is premised on the idea that in the period 1979 to 1989 when we basically knew everything we needed to know that climate change was a risk, and the politics had not yet been polarized, we missed our opportunity to act. Stated this way, it would probably be uncontroversial, but since the article puts the blame for this on “human nature”, rather than any actual humans, extensive Twitter discussion ensues…

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Filed Under: Climate impacts, Climate Science, Communicating Climate, Reporting on climate

Unforced Variations: Aug 2018

2 Aug 2018 by group

This month’s open thread for climate science issues.

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread

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