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A distraction due to errors, misunderstanding and misguided Norwegian statistics

Real Climate

In other words, the claim shows a lack of knowledge and is a well-known old argument that I commented on Realclimate.org in 2007. While temperatures provide a measure of the Earth’s climate, it is even better to use the global sea level , which provides a far more reliable measure. See for instance Benestad (2016).

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Late 2018 — Bits and Pieces

Smith Enviorment

Also elephants, giraffes, rhinos (of the non-political variety), Cape buffalo, baboons, uninvited monkeys at lunch, hippos, wildebeests, hyenas, warthogs and an unexpected (to me) penguin colony. Reduce energy use per square foot in state-owned buildings by 40% from 2002-2003 levels. Leopard: Thornybush Game Preserve (photo G.Whaley).

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Loss and Damage

Legal Planet

Even before adoption of the 1992 Framework Convention, the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) had proposed an “International Insurance Pool” to pay vulnerable countries based on observed sea level rise. The first explicit use of the term L&D was in the 2007 Bali Action Plan , in a section on enhanced action for adaptation.