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Unforced Variations: Sep 2025

1 Sep 2025 by group 220 Comments

This month’s open thread. As usual try to remain substantive and avoid insults and personal attacks on other commenters. Any sock-puppetry or abusive comments will just be deleted on sight. Also, please don’t outsource your comments to ChatGPT – cut-and-pastes of long-winded LLM output are tedious and add precisely nothing to the conversation. There are real things happening in climate – please focus on them.

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread, Solutions

Unforced Variations: Aug 2025

1 Aug 2025 by group

This month’s open thread. Please try and stay focused on substance rather than personalities. There are many real issues that are particularly salient this month, and so maybe we can collectively try not to have the comments descend into tedium.

Note: Moderation will be applied to over-frequent and pointless commenters (you know who you are, and no, we don’t care to argue about it).

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread, Solutions

Unforced variations: July 2025

1 Jul 2025 by group

This month’s open thread. Try to stick to climate topics.

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread, Solutions

Unforced variations: Jun 2025

1 Jun 2025 by group

This month’s open thread. Please stay on climate topics and try to be constructive.

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread, Solutions

Unforced variations: May 2025

1 May 2025 by group

This month’s open thread. Note that the Nenana Ice challenge break up date graph has been updated, and the Yukon river ice break up is imminent (or may have already happened! [Update – it already had]). Please stay focused on climate issues.

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread, Solutions

Unforced Variations: Apr 2025

1 Apr 2025 by group

This month’s open thread for climate topics. Please try to stay focused on climate instead of generic (and tedious) political sniping.

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread, Solutions

Unforced Variations: Mar 2025

1 Mar 2025 by group

This month’s open thread on climate topics. Despite everything going on, please avoid generic political arguments – there are many other places on line for that. Impacts on climate science or actions from the layoffs in the US federal government are, however, very much on topic.

Filed Under: Climate Science, climate services, Open thread, Solutions

Unforced Variations: Feb 2025

3 Feb 2025 by group

This month’s open thread on climate-related topics.

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread, Solutions

Unforced Variations: Jan 2025

1 Jan 2025 by group

This month’s open thread on climate topics. Please remember to be substantive, respectful and vaguely on topic.

Note that we’ll have an update to the various observational datasets after Jan 10th, and hopefully an update to all the model-observation comparisons the week following (depending on other things not getting in the way).

Happy New Year to you all! (Our 20th!).

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread, Solutions

Unforced Variations: Dec 2024

30 Nov 2024 by group

This month’s open thread on *climate* topics. Obviously, last month’s events lent themselves to broader discussions, but this month (and going forward), we remind you that comments have to be climate-related.

Note too that there are plenty of dying websites where you can troll to your heart’s content and post tedious partisan talking points, but here they will be unceremoniously deleted. Similarly, self-indulgent and repetitive comments to make the point that everyone is an deluded idiot except you, will also be binned.

Be substantive, be relevant, be concise, and most of all, be nice.

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread, Solutions

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