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realclimate.org - 3 days ago
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This is a continuation of the last thread
which is getting a little unwieldy. The emails cover...
a 13 year period in which many things happened, and very few people are up to speed on some of the long-buried issues. So to save some time, I’ve ...
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The CRU hack: Context
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The ‘ Copenhagen Diagnosis ‘, a report by 26 scientists from around the world was released today. The report is intended as an update to the IPCC 2007 Working Group 1 report . Like the IPCC report, everything in the Copenhagen Diagnosis is from the peer-reviewed ...
Environment
realclimate.org - 5 days ago
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As many of you will be aware, a
large number of emails from the University of East...
Anglia webmail server were hacked recently (Despite some confusion generated by Anthony Watts, this has absolutely nothing to do with the Hadley Centre which is a ...
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The CRU hack
One thing a scientist doesn’t want to mess up is the problem of multiplicity (also known as ‘ field significance ‘). It’s just like rolling a die 600 times, and then getting excited about getting roughly 100 sixes. However, sometimes it’s much more subtle than just ...
Environment
Some of the highest growing trees in the world are also the oldest—bristlecone pines (Pinus longaeva) from the Great Basin in the western United States (eastern California, Nevada and Utah). The oldest example is more than 4800 years old. Because of their longevity and growth at high elevations ...
Environment
Well, it’s not really all about me. But methane has figured strongly in a couple of stories recently and gets an apparently-larger-than-before shout-out in Al Gore’s new book as well. Since a part of the recent discussion is based on a paper I co-authored in Science , it is probably ...
Environment
realclimate.org - 10 days ago
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We’ve often discussed the how’s and why’s of
correcting incorrect information that is occasionally found in the...
peer-reviewed literature. There are multiple recent instances of heavily-promoted papers that contained fundamental ...
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Muddying the peer-reviewed literature
Guest post by Mauri Pelto
It is popularly understood that glaciologists consider West Antarctica the biggest source of uncertainty in sea level projections. The base of the 3000-m thick West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) – unlike the much larger East Antarctic Ice Sheet – lies below ...
Environment
realclimate.org - 27 days ago
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Dear Mr. Levitt, The problem of global warming
is so big that solving it will require creative...
thinking from many disciplines. Economists have much to contribute to this effort, particularly with regard to the question of how various means of ...
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An open letter to Steve Levitt
realclimate.org - 24 days ago
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Guest Commentary by Andrew Monaghan and Marco Tedesco
Our study published in mid October in Geophysical Research...
Letters (Tedesco and Monaghan, 2009) documents record minimum snowmelt for Antarctica during austral summer 2008-2009 and ...
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Putting the recent Antarctic snowmelt minimum into context
realclimate.org - 24 days ago
