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Unforced variations: Oct 2025

1 Oct 2025 By group 306 Comments

Time and Tide Gauges wait for no Voortman

18 Sep 2025 By Gavin 61 Comments

Here we go again. An obscure, methodologically poor, paper published with little to no review makes a convenient point and gets elevated into supposedly 'blockbusting' science by the merchants of bullshit, sorry, doubt. Actual scientists drop everything to respond, but not before the (convenient) … Read Full Article about Time and Tide Gauges wait for no Voortman

Lil’ NAS Express

17 Sep 2025 By group 47 Comments

The fast-tracked update of the 2009 EPA Endangerment finding from the National Academies for Science, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM), has now been released. … Read Full Article about Lil’ NAS Express

DOE CWG Report “Moot”?

10 Sep 2025 By Gavin 119 Comments

Somewhat breaking news. A court filing (from 9/4) from DOE has noted that the Climate Working Group has been disbanded (as of 9/3). This was done to make the EDF/UCS lawsuit moot, but it also means that DOE is withdrawing the report, no-one will respond appropriately to the comments submitted, and … Read Full Article about DOE CWG Report “Moot”?

Climate Scientists response to DOE report

2 Sep 2025 By Gavin 71 Comments

Critique of Chapter 6 “Extreme Weather” in the DOE review

2 Sep 2025 By group 60 Comments

Guest commentary by Kerry Emanuel Executive Summary Chapter 6 of the draft DOE report examines whether global warming exacerbates extreme weather. It rightly notes that because events such as hurricanes are rare, detecting their response to climate change in short and imperfect historical … Read Full Article about Critique of Chapter 6 “Extreme Weather” in the DOE review

Unforced Variations: Sep 2025

1 Sep 2025 By group

This month's open thread. As usual try to remain substantive and avoid insults and personal attacks on other commenters. Any sock-puppetry or abusive comments will just be deleted on sight. Also, please don't outsource your comments to ChatGPT - cut-and-pastes of long-winded LLM output are tedious … Read Full Article about Unforced Variations: Sep 2025

Critiques of the ‘Critical Review’

14 Aug 2025 By group

Unforced Variations: Aug 2025

1 Aug 2025 By group

This month's open thread. Please try and stay focused on substance rather than personalities. There are many real issues that are particularly salient this month, and so maybe we can collectively try not to have the comments descend into tedium. Note: Moderation will be applied to over-frequent … Read Full Article about Unforced Variations: Aug 2025

Are direct water vapor emissions endangering anyone?

31 Jul 2025 By group

In the EPA EF reconsideration document there is a section on p62 where they attempt to make the argument that the CO2 endangerment finding would also apply to direct water vapor emissions to the atmosphere, which is (according to them) obviously absurd. But both claims are bogus. … Read Full Article about Are direct water vapor emissions endangering anyone?