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A distraction due to errors, misunderstanding and misguided Norwegian statistics

Real Climate

The most important problem with the sun-climate explanation is that there has been no long-term change in either solar activity or cosmic radiation over the last hundred years that can explain the global warming we are now seeing. It feels like we start from scratch again because of inexperienced and lazy newcomers.

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The unconventional scientist who predicted that rising carbon dioxide levels would change the climate

Physics World

The correlation had been shown in a paper by an author outside the conventional scientific community, so, for good measure, Simpson added that a non-expert could not properly appreciate how atmospheric circulation affects the absorption of radiation. 139 1961 ). Magic smartphone trees: technology for a circular economy.

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Getting physical with the climate crisis

Physics World

“One key challenge is to quantify the different combinations of heat and humidity, then to link them with different health outcomes,” says Eunice Lo, a physicist-turned-climate scientist at the University of Bristol , UK. tonnes over the last decade and ditching concrete is unlikely anytime soon.

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AR6 of the best

Real Climate

As climate scientists we tend to look at the IPCC reports a little differently than the general public might. Here are a few things that mark this report out from previous versions that relate to issues we’ve discussed here before: Extreme events are increasingly connected to climate (duh!) 1981) which can be seen here.

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