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Other Gardening News (A-J) (29)Other Gardening News (K-Z) (30)Climate science commentary by actual climate scientists... 20 Nov 09 The CRU hack As many of you will be aware, a large number of emails from the University of East Anglia webmail server were hacked recently (Despite some confusion generated by Anthony Watts, this has absolutely nothing to do with the Hadley Centre which is a completely separate institution)... 20 Nov 09 A problem of multiplicity One thing a scientist doesn’t want to mess up is the problem of multiplicity (also known as ‘field significance‘). It’s just like rolling a die 600 times, and then getting excited about getting roughly 100 sixes... 17 Nov 09 A Treeline Story Some of the highest growing trees in the world are also the oldest?bristlecone pines (Pinus longaeva) from the Great Basin in the western United States (eastern California, Nevada and Utah). The oldest example is more than 4800 years old... 11 Nov 09 It?s all about me (thane)! The impact of indirect impacts of methane emissions on ozone, aerosols and stratospheric water vapour increase the historical attribution of climate forcing to methane, but CO2 is still the dominant forcing and will continue to be for many decades... 11 Nov 09 Muddying the peer-reviewed literature We’ve often discussed the how’s and why’s of correcting incorrect information that is occasionally found in the peer-reviewed literature. There are multiple recent instances of heavily-promoted papers that contained fundamental flaws that were addressed both on blogs and in submitted comments or follow-up papers (e... 9 Nov 09 Is Pine Island Glacier the Weak Underbelly of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet? Guest post by Mauri Pelto ... 29 Oct 09 An open letter to Steve Levitt Dear Mr. Levitt, The problem of global warming is so big that solving it will require creative thinking from many disciplines. Economists have much to contribute to this effort, particularly with regard to the question of how various means of putting a price on carbon emissions may alter human behavior... 27 Oct 09 Putting the recent Antarctic snowmelt minimum into context Guest Commentary by Andrew Monaghan and Marco Tedesco Our study published in mid October in Geophysical Research Letters (Tedesco and Monaghan, 2009) documents record minimum snowmelt for Antarctica during austral summer 2008-2009 and lower-than-normal melt for several recent years, based on a 30-year satellite microwave record... 27 Oct 09 350 I was quoted by Andrew Revkin in the New York Times on Sunday in a piece about the 350.org International Day of Climate Action (involving events in 181 countries). The relevant bit is: Gavin A. Schmidt, a climate scientist who works with Dr... 20 Oct 09 Climate Cover-Up: A (Brief) Review We often allude to the industry-funded attacks against climate change science, and the dubious cast of characters involved, here at RealClimate. In recent years, for example, we’ve commented on disinformation efforts by industry front groups such as the “Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Cato Institute, the Fraser Institute, and a personal favorite, The Heartland [...
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