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Nov 20
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 no...
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Nov 20
A problem of multiplicity : One thing a scientist doesn’t want to mess up is the problem of multiplicity (also known as ‘field significance‘)....
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Nov 17
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)....
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Nov 11
It’s all about me (thane)! : Well, it’s not really all about me. But methane has figured strongly in a couple of stories recently and gets an apparently-larger-than-before shout-out in Al Gore’s new book as well....
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Nov 11
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....
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Nov 9
Is Pine Island Glacier the Weak Underbelly of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet? : Guest post by Mauri Pelto It is popularly understood that glaciologists consider West Antarctica the biggest source of uncertainty in sea level projections....
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Oct 29
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....
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Oct 27
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 s...
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Oct 27
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....
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