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A distraction due to errors, misunderstanding and misguided Norwegian statistics

Real Climate

Presumably Dagsvik and Moen are used to this kind of model, but they seem to be inexperienced with the models used for weather and climate, which on the other hand are based on the laws of physics. See for instance Benestad (2016). The global sea level acts like the mercury in a thermometer because warmer water expands.

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Deciphering the ‘SPM AR6 WG1’ code

Real Climate

I think in hindsight that my concerns from 2013 to some extent were supported by the fact that the IPCC organised an Expert Meeting on Communication, Oslo, Norway, 9–10 February 2016. The cause of our changing climate is the increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations that we have released into the air.

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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!) Figure SPM 8.

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October 2019 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Court Dismissed Counterclaims in Climate Scientist’s Defamation Lawsuit. Superior Court dismissed counterclaims brought by an individual writer against the climate scientist Michael Mann in Mann’s defamation lawsuit against National Review, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and two individuals. California v.

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Using Attribution Science to Evaluate the Effects of Oil and Gas Emissions on Endangered and Threatened Species

Law Columbia

Bernhardt’s reasoning was that it would be impossible to establish the requisite causal link between GHG emissions, global climate change, and specific localized effects on species and their habitat due to the “complex and independent processes active in the atmosphere and the ocean acting on GHGs.” square meters of September sea-ice.

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March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The court stated: “Plaintiffs’ claims for public nuisance, though pled as state-law claims, depend on a global complex of geophysical cause and effect involving all nations of the planet (and the oceans and atmosphere). Arizona Court Ordered Production of Climate Scientists’ Emails Under Arizona’s Public Records Law.

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Policy News: July 18, 2022

ESA

Next week, the House is expected to consider another six spending bills, including a bill funding the National Science Foundation and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 6654 ) from Chair Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) permanently authorizing National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers. She has a Ph.D. 13, 2022).

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