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Unforced Variations: Feb 2016

1 Feb 2016 by group

This month’s open thread.

Just so you know, a lot of people have complained that these threads have devolved – particularly when the discussion has turned to differing visions of solutions – and have therefore become much less interesting. Some suggestions last month were for a side thread for that kind of stuff that wouldn’t clog interesting issues of climate science. Other suggestions were for tighter moderation. The third suggestion is that people really just stay within the parameters of what this site has to offer: knowledgeable people on climate science issues and context for the science that’s being discussed elsewhere. For the time being, let’s try the last one, combined with some moderation. The goal is not to censor, but rather to maintain somewhere where the science issues don’t get drowned out by the noise.

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread

Unforced variations: Jan 2016

1 Jan 2016 by group

Happy New Year, and happy new open thread.

As per usual, nuclear energy is off-topic – it’s not that it’s uninteresting, but it ends up dominating conversation to the total exclusion of everything else and just becomes repetitive and dull. Recent excursions on this topic shows what happens when we relax the moderation, so back to being strict about this. If you want to discuss this, please go somewhere else.

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread

Unforced Variations: Dec 2015

13 Dec 2015 by group

This is a belated open thread for this month, for anything non-COP21 and non-AGU related.

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread

#COP21

30 Nov 2015 by group

Apparently there is a climate conference of some sort going on. Happy to answer any science questions as they arise…

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Unforced Variations: Nov 2015

2 Nov 2015 by group

This month’s open thread.

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread

Unforced variations: Oct 2015

2 Oct 2015 by group

This month’s open thread. Since most climate related discussion this month will be focussed on the COP21…

What is (or should be) the role of climate science in the upcoming negotiations? Discuss.

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread

Unforced Variations: Sept. 2015

2 Sep 2015 by group

This month’s open thread.

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread

Unforced variations: Aug 2015

3 Aug 2015 by group

This month’s open thread. A traditional time to discuss the Arctic sea ice minimum. But NH summer heatwaves, and to be fair, snow in the southern hemisphere, are also fair game…

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread

Unforced variations: July 2015

3 Jul 2015 by group

This month’s open thread. How about a focus on cimate science this time? Data visualizations anyone?

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread

Unforced Variations: June 2015

1 Jun 2015 by group

This month’s open thread. Some interesting trends in ocean heat content, surface temperatures, multiple oddly reported papers (which are often linked to ambiguous press releases…) etc. But at least we aren’t working in political science…

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread

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