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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

Unforced Variations: May 2015

11 May 2015 by group

This month’s open thread.

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread

Unforced Variations: April 2015

3 Apr 2015 by group

April already? Time for a new climate science open thread…

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread

Unforced variations: March 2015

6 Mar 2015 by group

This month’s open thread. We’ve burned out on mitigation topics (again), so please focus on climate science issues this month…

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread

Unforced Variations: Feb 2015

7 Feb 2015 by group

This month’s open thread.

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Unforced Variations: Jan 2015

7 Jan 2015 by group

This month’s open thread. Sorry for the slow start – you know what it’s like after the holidays…

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread

Unforced variations: Dec 2014

3 Dec 2014 by group

This month’s open thread. Think history, Lima, and upcoming additions of a single data point to timeseries based on arbitrary calendrical boundaries.

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread

Unforced variations: Nov 2014

2 Nov 2014 by group

This month’s open thread. In honour of today’s New York Marathon, we are expecting the fastest of you to read and digest the final IPCC Synthesis report in sub-3 hours. For those who didn’t keep up with the IPCC training regime, the Summary for Policy Makers provides a more accessible target.

Also in the news, follow #ArcticCircle2014 for some great info on the Arctic Circle meeting in Iceland.

Filed Under: Climate Science, IPCC, Open thread

Unforced variations: Oct 2014

4 Oct 2014 by group

This month’s open thread.

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread

Unforced variations: September 2014

2 Sep 2014 by group

This month’s open thread. People could waste time rebunking predictable cherry-picked claims about the upcoming Arctic sea ice minimum, or perhaps discuss a selection of 10 climate change controversies from ICSU… Anything! (except mitigation).

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread

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