Real Climate

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

And finally, he claims that the ‘original’ 2003 National Academies report (a bit unclear what this means) made a ‘whole series of mistaken statements’ about clouds. He, however, goes seriously off the rails when he estimates the impact of clouds on the radiation budget.

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Real Climate

MARCH 4, 2021

About five years later, analysis of an extended simulation of yet another climate model–the coupled ocean-atmosphere model run by the Hadley Centre within the UK Meteorological Office, yielded evidence for a similar oscillation, albeit with a longer (roughly 100 year) period, and a more global signature (Knight et al.,

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Physics World

JULY 17, 2021

The impact of cosmic radiation is not always as trivial as determining who wins a Super Mario game, or as positive in its outcome. The culprit, again, was most likely cosmic radiation. An SEU bit flip was also held responsible for errors in an electronic voting machine in Belgium in 2003 that added 4096 extra votes to one candidate.

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Environmental Progress

AUGUST 3, 2020

That talk helped the [National Center for Atmospheric Research] scientists to see the big picture clearly and early on.” Where just a few years earlier, Malthusians had demanded limits on energy consumption by claiming fossil fuels were scarce; now they demanded limits by claiming the atmosphere was scarce.” Why else use it?

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