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A reflection on reflection

13 Apr 2026 by Gavin 16 Comments

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.

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Filed Under: Climate modelling, Climate Science, Featured Story, Instrumental Record, Scientific practice, skeptics Tagged With: albedo, CMIP5, CMIP6, Earth's Energy Imbalance, Heartland Institute, John Clauser, Willie Soon

Spencer’s Shenanigans: Part II

4 Apr 2026 by Gavin 45 Comments

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.

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Filed Under: Climate modelling, Climate Science, Featured Story, Instrumental Record, Model-Obs Comparisons, skeptics Tagged With: CWG, Roy Spencer

The Puzzling Pleistocene

18 Mar 2026 by Gavin 56 Comments

The mystery of why the last million or so years of glacial variability are so different to what came before just got more mysterious…

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Filed Under: Carbon cycle, Climate Science, Featured Story, Greenhouse gases, Oceans, Paleoclimate Tagged With: mid-pleistocene transition

How robust is our accelerometer?

8 Mar 2026 by group 99 Comments

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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Filed Under: Climate modelling, Climate Science, El Nino, Featured Story, Greenhouse gases, Instrumental Record, Model-Obs Comparisons, statistics Tagged With: acceleration, CMIP6

EPA’s final* ruling on CO2

13 Feb 2026 by group

The EPA has announced its final* ruling on the CO2 Endangerment Finding.

*not even close to final.

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Filed Under: Climate modelling, Climate Science, Featured Story, Solutions Tagged With: DOE, Endangerment Finding, EPA

The Climate Science reference they don’t want Judges to read

9 Feb 2026 by group

For the first time, the Federal Judicial Center (FJC) commissioned a chapter on climate science for the manual they put out (with the NASEM) for judges, the Reference on Scientific Evidence (4th Edition). This week, a month after it was published, they pulled the chapter out after being pressured by 27 Republican Attorneys General. You can nonetheless read it here.

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Filed Under: Climate modelling, Climate Science, climate services, Featured Story, In the News, Instrumental Record Tagged With: attribution, climate law, DOE, FJC, Jessica Wentz, Radley Horton

Koonin’s Continuing Calumnies

7 Feb 2026 by Gavin

At a public event debating the DOE CWG report, Steve Koonin embarrasses himself further.

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Filed Under: Climate modelling, Climate Science, Featured Story, Instrumental Record, Model-Obs Comparisons, skeptics Tagged With: CMIP6, CWG, DOE, Scafetta, Steve Koonin

2025 Updates

27 Jan 2026 by group

Our various graphics and model-observation comparisons have been updated with 2025 data. There are a few version updates that make some difference (particularly in sea ice extent), but the basic story is similar to last year. Feel free to comment and/or suggest changes for the future, including potential new comparisons.

Filed Under: Climate modelling, Climate Science, Featured Story, Instrumental Record, Model-Obs Comparisons Tagged With: CMIP3, CMIP5, CMIP6, MSU, SSU

A peek behind the curtain…

23 Jan 2026 by group

New email releases from the EDF/UCS lawsuit against the DOE provide a rarely-seen behind the curtain look at how the climate contrarians work.

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Filed Under: Climate Science, Featured Story, In the News, Scientific practice, skeptics Tagged With: DOE, Endangerment Finding

AI/ML climate magic?

5 Jan 2026 by rasmus

There has been a frenzy around artificial intelligence and deep machine learning (AI/ML) since the “ChatGPT Moment” in 2022, and AI/ML is for sure going to affect us all. It strikes me that this buzz also looks more like a science fiction story (utopy/dystopy) than the old-fashion Clondyke goldrush craze. 

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Filed Under: Climate modelling, Climate Science, downscaling, Featured Story, Scientific practice

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