Real Climate
MAY 31, 2025
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.,
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
A simple statement that masks just how complicated the issues are: mixing politics, economics, livelihoods, fisheries and endangered species in the ocean body that is the Gulf of Maine. He was on to something And the lobsterman was correct: we can blame carbon emissions for ocean acidification and warming in the Gulf of Maine.
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Real Climate
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
Purported updates to these series were themselves plagued by arithmetic errors which negated their conclusions ( Laut, 2003 ). If the land data was contaminated by urban heating effects, we wouldn’t see similar warming in the ocean. 801-812, 2003. Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali , vol. 11-21, 2022.
Real Climate
MARCH 4, 2021
Two decades ago, in an interview with science journalist Richard Kerr for the journal Science, I coined the term the “Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation” (AMO) to describe an internal oscillation in the climate system resulting from interactions between North Atlantic ocean currents and wind patterns. Ammann and Naveau (2003) ).
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Some sites and traditional practices that need protection for future generations are recognized under UNESCO’s 1972 World Heritage Convention , and the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Heritage , and more are being added to the protected lists every year.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 20, 2023
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.,
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. However, not only is there an obvious energy imbalance (as seen by the growth of ocean heat content), it’s actually accelerating Loeb et al.,
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