{"id":23352,"date":"2021-01-01T10:00:25","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/?p=23352"},"modified":"2021-02-01T07:34:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T12:34:44","slug":"unforced-variations-jan-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2021\/01\/unforced-variations-jan-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Unforced Variations: Jan 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"kcite-section\" kcite-section-id=\"23352\">\n\n<p>According to the somewhat<sup>*<\/sup> arbitrary customs of our age, the 1st of January marks the beginning of a new year, a new decade and, by analogy, a new start in human affairs.  So shall it be at RealClimate too<sup>**<\/sup>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This month&#8217;s topics will no doubt include the summaries of the 2020 climate (due Jan 14th or so), ongoing efforts to understand and predict extreme weather in a climate context,  and the shift by the weather organizations (WMO, NWS) to a new set of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncdc.noaa.gov\/data-access\/land-based-station-data\/land-based-datasets\/climate-normals\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ncdc.noaa.gov\/data-access\/land-based-station-data\/land-based-datasets\/climate-normals\">climate normals<\/a> (i.e. moving from 1981-2010 to 1991-2020). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the spirit of this new year, please make a renewed effort to stay vaguely on climate science topics, try to stay constructive even when you disagree, refrain from posting abuse, and don&#8217;t bother with cut-and-paste climate denial (that stuff was tedious enough when it was originally wrong, and is simply boring now). Thanks!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*completely<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>**Seriously, we are thinking about how to update\/re-position this blog, and would welcome constructive suggestions from readers.<\/p>\n<!-- kcite active, but no citations found -->\n<\/div> <!-- kcite-section 23352 -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the somewhat arbitrary customs of our age, the 1st of January marks the beginning of a new year, a new decade and, by analogy, a new start in human affairs.  So shall it be at RealClimate too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23352","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-climate-science","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23353,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23352\/revisions\/23353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}