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The established ground and new ideas

8 Feb 2023 by rasmus

Science is naturally conservative and the scepticism to new ideas ensures high scientific quality. We have more confidence when different scholars arrive at the same conclusion independently of each other. But scientific research also brings about discoveries and innovations, and it typically takes time for such new understanding to receive acknowledgement and acceptance. In the meanwhile, it’s uncertain whether they really represent progress or if they are misconceived ideas. Sometimes we can shed more light on new ideas through scientific discussions.

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Filed Under: Climate Science, Scientific practice, statistics

2022 updates to model-observation comparisons

3 Feb 2023 by Gavin

Our annual post related to the comparisons between long standing records and climate models.

As frequent readers will know, we maintain a page of comparisons between climate model projections and the relevant observational records, and since they are mostly for the global mean numbers, these get updated once the temperature products get updated for the prior full year. This has now been completed for 2022.

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Filed Under: Climate modelling, Climate Science, Featured Story, Instrumental Record, Model-Obs Comparisons Tagged With: CMIP, SAT, TMT

Unforced variations: Feb 2023

2 Feb 2023 by group

This month’s open thread for climate related topics. Please be constructive, polite, and succinct.

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread, Solutions

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