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“The Arctic Council is not dead”
The 4th UArctic congress on the Faroe islands finished with the message that the Arctic Council is still alive. It has overcome recent setbacks with difficulties concerning two of its member states, Russia and the US. The Arctic Council represents 8 nations together with indigenous peoples and has observers from around the world, and this wide-ranging diversity of course coloured the congress. It was allegedly the largest scientific conference on the Faroe islands ever, as it was combined with the Oceans Connectivity Conference.

Scenarios, schmenarios…
The fantasy version of the normal updating of scenarios for a new round of CMIP simulations doing the rounds is bad faith BS.
[Read more…] about Scenarios, schmenarios…Unforced Variations: May 2026
This month’s open thread on climate topics. El Niño coming (shades of 2023), competitive predictions, ill-advised geo-engineering ideas, and massive shifts in renewable energy roll out. Surely something there to discuss…
Unforced Variations: Apr 2026
A reflection on reflection
Confirmation bias and a profound lack of curiosity mark the latest ABC (Anything But Carbon) contrapalooza in DC this week and a decade-old albedo error trips them up.
[Read more…] about A reflection on reflectionSpencer’s Shenanigans: Part II
We previously highlighted Roy Spencer’s poor practices in comparing models with observations, but we’ve now dug down a little deeper, and it’s not pretty.
[Read more…] about Spencer’s Shenanigans: Part IIThe Puzzling Pleistocene
The mystery of why the last million or so years of glacial variability are so different to what came before just got more mysterious…
[Read more…] about The Puzzling PleistoceneHow robust is our accelerometer?
Guest commentary from Nathan Lenssen (Colorado School of Mines)
A new analysis of historical temperatures suggests that things are getting warmer faster, but what does it mean for the future?
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