A new paper undermines totally inaccurate claims in the DOE report.
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This new El Niño is different
There is a new El Niño out there and it was officially declared already on June 11 by NOAA. This is both unusually early in the year and very soon since the last El Niño in 2023-24. Another remarkable thing is the seasonal forecasts, which for a couple of months have indicated that it may well be at strengths by the end of the year that we have not seen before. All these three aspects combined seem to make this El Niño different to the previous ones.
[Read more…] about This new El Niño is different“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.
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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?
[Read more…] about How robust is our accelerometer?EPA’s final* ruling on CO2
The EPA has announced its final* ruling on the CO2 Endangerment Finding.
*not even close to final.
[Read more…] about EPA’s final* ruling on CO2The Climate Science reference they don’t want Judges to read
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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