{"id":17376,"date":"2014-08-05T08:58:39","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T13:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/?p=17376"},"modified":"2014-09-02T06:59:22","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T11:59:22","slug":"unforced-variations-aug-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2014\/08\/unforced-variations-aug-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Unforced variations: Aug 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This month’s open thread. Keeping track of the Arctic sea ice minimum<\/a> is interesting but there should be plenty of other climate science topics to discuss (if people can get past the hype about the Ebola outbreak or imaginary claims about anomalous thrusting<\/a>). As with last month, pleas no discussion of mitigation strategies – it unfortunately does not bring out the best in the commentariat. <\/p>\n\n<\/div> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This month’s open thread. Keeping track of the Arctic sea ice minimum is interesting but there should be plenty of other climate science topics to discuss (if people can get past the hype about the Ebola outbreak or imaginary claims about anomalous thrusting). As with last month, pleas no discussion of mitigation strategies – it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-climate-science","category-open-thread","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t