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Operationalizing Climate Science

Real Climate

2023) we proposed updating the forcings datasets and redoing much of the attribution work that had been done before to focus specifically on explaining the trends in the CERES time period (2003 to present). So for 2007 report, the CMIP3 simulations were carried out around 2003, and so history stopped at the end of 2000.

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Predicted Arctic sea ice trends over time

Real Climate

One of the most high profile ‘misses’ in coupled modeling over the last few decades was the failure of the model projections in CMIP3 (circa 2003/4 vintage) to match the rapid losses in Arctic sea ice that started to become apparent in the middle of that decade (Stroeve et al.,

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What Are Distributed Energy Resources?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Total centralized capacity grows from 33 MW in 1900 to 1,281,892 MW in 2023, while total distributed capacity grows from 0 MW in 2003 (before data collection began) to 122,518 MW in 2023. A log-scale plot showing the change over time of centralized and distributed generation capacity. Data source: U.S. Energy Information Agency.

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As Soon as Possible

Real Climate

Purported updates to these series were themselves plagued by arithmetic errors which negated their conclusions ( Laut, 2003 ). 801-812, 2003. correlation was marred by an unreported shift in the smoothing method towards the end of the series ( Laut and Gundermann, 2000 ). Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali , vol.

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PA Resources Council To Hold Nov. 9 Household Chemical Collection Event Sponsored By PPG & Pittsburgh Penguins; Last Of The Season

PA Environment Daily

PRC and partners provide residents with numerous options for recycling materials not accepted in curbside pickup, and since 2003 we’ve facilitated the safe management of more than six million pounds of household chemicals.”

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Murray Edwards: The Fossil Fuel Fanatic

Enviromental Defense

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ExxonMobil Accurately Projected Rising Temperatures While Publicly Disparaging Climate Science

Union of Concerned Scientists

The lightest lines are from the earliest projections, the lightest grey being from 1977, and the darker colors are later with the black line being from 2003. Let’s dig into what Supran et al.’s Source: Supran et al.,