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Many readers will remember our critique of a paper by Douglass et al on tropical tropospheric temperature trends late last year, and the discussion of the ongoing revisions to the observational datase
Posted 6 days ago
The theme of this year's annual meeting of the European Meteorological Society (EMS) [European Congress on Applied Climatology (ECAC)] was adaptation to climate change. So what's more appropriate then
Posted 1 week ago
Guest commentary from Mauri PeltoChanges occurring in marine terminating outlet glaciers of the Greenland Ice Sheet and ice shelves fringing the Antarctic Peninsula have altered our sense of the possi
Posted 1 week ago
Here at RealClimate we understandably have an intense interest in the positions of the Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates regarding global warming and carbon emissions. What the stance bode
Posted 2 weeks ago
Dennis Bray and Hans von Storch have been making surveys of climate scientists for a number of years with the reasonable aim of seeing what the community thinks (about IPCC, climate change, attributio
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Posted 3 weeks ago
What reduces emissions more?A. Someone swapping their old SUV (which gets 12 miles per gallon) for a hybrid version (18 mpg) orB. someone upgrading their 25 mpg compact to a new 46 mpg Prius?(ignore f
Posted 3 weeks ago
In a recent post about sea level rise, we highlighted a paper by the University of Colorado's Tad Pfeffer and others in which they show that one can rule out more than 2 meters of sea level rise in th
Posted 5 weeks ago
Guest commentary by Spencer R. Weart, American Institute of PhysicsI often get emails from scientifically trained people who are looking for a straightforward calculation of the global warming that gr
Posted 5 weeks ago
is the question people have been putting a lot of thought into since the IPCC AR4 report came out. We analysed what was in the report quite carefully at the time and pointed out that the allowance
Posted 6 weeks ago
What makes science different from politics? That's not the start of a joke, but it is a good jumping off point for a discussion of the latest publication on paleo-reconstructions of the last couple of
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