This month’s open thread on climate change topics. How are we in November already? And why is it still so warm… ? Anyway, please stay on topic and avoid insulting other commenters. The post Unforced variations: Nov 2024 first appeared on RealClimate.

An interesting commentary addressing a rather odd prior commentary makes some very correct points. Back a few months there was a poorly argued and rather confusing commenary by Ulf Büntgen (Buntgen, 2024) that started: I am concerned by climate scientists becoming climate activists, because scholars should not have a priori...

The title of this post might seem like a truism, but for about a decade some people have claimed the opposite, and many people have spent much time and effort trying to understand why. Much of that effort was wasted. A decade ago, Nature Geoscience published Cohen et al (2014), a review paper on potential connections between the...

This month’s open thread for climate topics. Please stay vaguely on topic and do not abuse other commenters. The post Unforced Variations: Oct 2024 first appeared on RealClimate.

A truly impressive paper was published this week with a new reconstruction of global temperatures over the last ~500 million years. There is something tremendously satisfying about seeing a project start, and then many years later see the results actually emerge and done better than you could have imagined. Especially one as challenging...

This month’s open thread on climate topics. Try to be constructive! The post Unforced Variations: Sep 2024 first appeared on RealClimate.