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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

Unforced variations: Nov 2024

2 Nov 2024 by group

This month’s open thread on climate change topics. How are we in November already? And why is it still so warm… ?

Anyway, please stay on topic and avoid insulting other commenters.

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread, Solutions

Unforced Variations: Oct 2024

1 Oct 2024 by group

This month’s open thread for climate topics. Please stay vaguely on topic and do not abuse other commenters.

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread, Solutions

Unforced Variations: Sep 2024

1 Sep 2024 by group

This month’s open thread on climate topics. Try to be constructive!

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread, Solutions

Unforced variations: Aug 2024

1 Aug 2024 by group

This month’s open thread on climate topics.

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread, Solutions

Unforced variations: July 2024

30 Jun 2024 by group

This month’s open thread on climate science topics.

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread, Solutions

Unforced variations: June 2024

1 Jun 2024 by group

This month’s open thread on climate topics. Please stay focused, minimize repetitive comments, and maintain a half-way decent level of decorum. Thanks!

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread, Solutions

Unforced Variations: May 2024

30 Apr 2024 by group

This month’s open thread on climate topics. Many eyes will be focused on whether April temperatures will be the 11th month in row of records…

Note that we have updated the data and figures from the Nenana Ice Classic and Dawson City river ice break up pools (the nominal 13th and 5th earliest break-ups (or 15th and 4th, w.r.t. to the vernal equinox) in their respective records)).

And a quick note about moderation: If your comment is a personal attack on another commenter instead of a substantive argument, it will just be deleted. As will your subsequent complaints. Ain’t nobody got time for that.

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread, Solutions

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