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RealClimate is a commentary site on climate science by working climate
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political or economic implications of the science.Contributors editors: Gavin A. Schmidt is a climate modeller at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York and is interested in modeling past, present and future climate. Michael E. Mann is a member of the Penn State University faculty, holding joint positions in the Departments of Meteorology and Geosciences, and the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute (ESSI). He is also director of the Penn State Earth System Science Center (ESSC). Caspar Amman is a climate scientist working at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Rasmus E. Benestad a physicist by training and work with climate analysis on a Norwegian project called RegClim. Raymond S. Bradley is director of the Climate System Research Center at the University of Massachusetts. William M. Connoley is a climate modeller with the British Antarctic Survey. Stephan Rahmstorf is a physicist and an oceanographer by training, Stefan Rahmstorf has moved from early work in general relativity theory to working on climate issues. Eric Steig is an isotope geochemist at the University of Washington in Seattle. Thibault de Garidel is currently a post-doctoral associate at the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University. David Archer is a computational ocean chemist at the University of Chicago. Raymond T. Pierrehumbert is the Louis Block Professor in Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago, having earlier served on the atmospheric science faculties of MIT and Princeton. |
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Avery and Singer: Unstoppable hot air24 Nov, 2006 03:00 pm Last week I attended a talk by Dennis Avery, author with Fred Singer of Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1500 Years (there is a summary here)... | ||
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Revealed: Secrets of Abrupt Climate Shifts15 Nov, 2006 08:00 am This story is the dream of every science writer. It features some of the most dramatic and rapid climate shifts in Earth?s history,... | ||
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The trouble with sunspots19 Sep, 2006 09:54 am Solar forcing of climate is a subject that gets far more attention than any new observations or improved understanding would warrant... | ||
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Tropical SSTs: Natural variations or Global warming?15 Sep, 2006 12:00 am Roughly a year ago, we summarized the state of play in the ongoing scientific debate over the role of anthropogenic climate change in the observed trends... | ||
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Is Antarctic climate changing?2 Sep, 2006 12:00 am As we've reported in earlier posts, getting accurate answers to these questions is non-trivial, because the available instrumental data remain sparse and... | ||
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Influence de l'activit? volcanique sur le climat ?17 May, 2006 12:00 am Beaucoup d'articles ont ?t? ?crits r?cemment sur l'activit? volcanique, notamment ? propos de Merapi en Indon?sie et de Bezymianny dans la p?... | ||
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Current volcanic activity and climate?17 May, 2006 12:00 am There has been a lot in the news recently about current volcanic activity - Merapi in Indonesia and Bezymianny in the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia,... | ||
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Gray and Muddy Thinking about Global Warming27 Apr, 2006 12:00 am Anybody who has followed press reporting on global warming, and particularly on its effects on hurricanes, has surely encountered various contrarian pronouncements... | ||
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Lessons from Venus12 Apr, 2006 12:00 am A special report in The Observer on Sunday (April 9) titled 'Venus - The Hot Spot', provides a well-written account on a mission called the Venus Express... | ||
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Global Dimming and Climate Models11 Apr, 2006 12:00 am On April 18th PBS will air the NOVA documentary ?Dimming the Sun? which stirred up lively discussions among scientists and non-scientists when originally... | ||
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Significant Warming of the Antarctic Winter Troposphere1 Apr, 2006 12:00 am The "iconic" Antarctic temperature trends are the large warming seen on the Antarctic Peninsula, which has had various repercussions including the collapse... | ||
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Another Study on Solar Influence27 Mar, 2006 12:00 am In a recent paper in Geophysical Research Letters, Scafetta & West (S&W) estimate that as much as 25-35% of the global warming in the 1980-2000 period... | ||
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How Much Future Sea Level Rise?26 Mar, 2006 12:00 am Lots of press has been devoted to four papers in this week's Science, on the topic of ice sheets and sea level. We've already discussed the new evidence... | ||
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Climate Sensitivity: Plus ?a Change?24 Mar, 2006 12:00 am Almost 30 years ago, Jule Charney made the first modern estimate of the range of climate sensitivity to a doubling of CO2... | ||
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Reactions to tighter hurricane intensity/SST link22 Mar, 2006 12:00 am There was another twist to the hurricanes/global warming issue in Science Express on Friday where a new paper from the Webster/Curry team just appeared... | ||
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Meteors, Nuclear Tests and Global Warming17 Mar, 2006 12:00 am What is one to make of a recent press release and submitted preprint blaming global warming on the Tunguska meteor event in 1908? Well,... | ||
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The Greenland Ice2 Mar, 2006 12:00 am In a recent paper in Science, Eric Rignot and Pannir Kanagaratnam present new satellite observations of the speed of glaciers of Greenland,... | ||
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Cloudy outlook for albedo?23 Feb, 2006 12:00 am In the past few years several attempts have been made to assess changes in the Earth?s planetary albedo, and claims of global dimming and more recently... | ||
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Happy Birthday, Charles Darwin!16 Feb, 2006 12:00 am Charles Darwin was born on February 12, 1809. The events commemorating Darwin's birthday anniversary last Sunday, together with the recent conclusion of... | ||
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New Take on an Old Millennium9 Feb, 2006 05:21 am The subject of reconstructions of temperature variations of the past millennium has been discussed many times before on this site... | ||
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Wall Street Journal Again3 Feb, 2006 05:45 am The Wall Street Journal has published another fair and balanced critique of climate change science and negotiations, in a Business World commentary by... | ||
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Can 2?C warming be avoided?31 Jan, 2006 08:31 pm Yesterday?s BBC article on the "Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change" report of the Exeter meeting last year, carried two messages that have left some a little... | ||
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