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Cold extremes do in fact decrease under global warming

6 Oct 2024 by Gavin

The title of this post might seem like a truism, but for about a decade some people have claimed the opposite, and many people have spent much time and effort trying to understand why. Much of that effort was wasted.

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Filed Under: Arctic and Antarctic, Climate modelling, Climate Science, Instrumental Record Tagged With: Arctic amplification, extreme events, replication, reproduction

Watching the detections

25 Sep 2022 by Gavin

The detection and the attribution of climate change are based on fundamentally different frameworks and shouldn’t be conflated.

We read about and use the phrase ‘detection and attribution’ of climate change so often that it seems like it’s just one word ‘detectionandattribution’ and that might lead some to think that it is just one concept. But it’s not.

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Filed Under: Climate impacts, Climate modelling, Climate Science, climate services, Featured Story, heatwaves, Instrumental Record, IPCC, statistics Tagged With: attribution, detection, extreme events

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