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Unforced Variations: Jan 2017

2 Jan 2017 by group

The first open thread of the new year. Your resolution will be to keep the comments focused on science. Try to keep it longer than your resolution to exercise more…

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Unforced variations: Dec 2016

1 Dec 2016 by group

This month’s open thread. Roll on 2017…

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Unforced variations: Nov 2016

8 Nov 2016 by group

This month’s open thread. Usual rules apply…

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Unforced Variations: Oct 2016

1 Oct 2016 by group

Here’s hoping for no October climate surprises…

Carry on. Usual rules.

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Unforced variations: Sep 2016

1 Sep 2016 by group

To come this month: Arctic sea ice minimum, decisions from the IPCC scoping meeting on a report focused on the 1.5ºC target, interesting paleo-climate science at #ICP12 and a chance to stop arguing about politics perhaps.

Usual rules apply.

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Unforced variations: Aug 2016

1 Aug 2016 by group

Sorry for the low rate of posts this summer. Lots of offline life going on. ;-)

Meantime, this paper by Hourdin et al on climate model tuning is very interesting and harks back to the FAQ we did on climate models a few years ago (Part I, Part II). Maybe it’s worth doing an update?

Some of you might also have seen some of the discussion of record temperatures in the first half of 2016. The model-observation comparison including the estimates for 2016 are below:




It seems like the hiatus hiatus will continue…

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Unforced variations: July 2016

1 Jul 2016 by group

A week is a long time in politics climate science: Nonsense debunked in WaPo, begininngs of recovery in the ozone hole, revisiting the instrumental record constraints on climate sensitivity…

Lots of lessons there.

Usual rules apply.

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread

Unforced Variations: June 2016

1 Jun 2016 by group

June already? Cripes…

Usual rules apply.

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Unforced variations: May 2016

4 May 2016 by group

This month’s open thread. Usual rules apply.

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Unforced Variations: Apr 2016

2 Apr 2016 by group

This month’s open thread. Standard rules apply…

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