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How Climate Science Lost Its Way on Scenarios

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The scenarios driving climate projections — the foundational assumptions about our collective future — described a world so removed from plausible reality that the projections built on them tell us more about a hypothetical future than about the one we are actually navigating.…

You Can’t Trust ‘Climate Economics’

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Governments, banks and other institutions have based policies on models unconnected to reality.…

The Paper That Breaks Climate Economics

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Curtin-Burgess ask a straightforward question: Can we actually measure how climate affects the economy from the historical record? Their answer is no.…

Revenge of the Climate Realists

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For years, those who questioned the calamity of climate change were treated like pariahs. Now, their day of vindication has come.…

How science became so political in the United States

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... how it came to be that those leading the U.S. government have come to view scientists and universities as an enemy, which should be destroyed ...…

Hauptkritikpunkte an Ferenc Miskolczis Theorie

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Die Theorie von Ferenc Miskolczi stellt eine radikale Alternative zum konventionellen Verständnis des Treibhauseffekts der Erde dar. Sie postuliert einen selbstregulierenden atmosphärischen Mechanismus, der eine Erwärmung durch Treibhausgase wie CO2 begrenzt.…

Surprise! Ice is rebounding at BOTH poles — climate is more complex than we know

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Two new studies show that the Earth’s climate is far more complex than often acknowledged, reminding us of the importance of pragmatic energy and climate policies.…

Forscher erklären 100'000-Jahre-Zyklus der Eiszeiten

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Warum es alle hunderttausend Jahre zu einer Eiszeit kommt, konnte bisher nicht komplett erklärt werden. Nun hat ein internationales Forscherteam mit Schweizer Beteiligung die Faktoren identifiziert: Neben der Sonne spielt die Wechselwirkung von Klima und Gletschern eine Rolle.…

The Underappreciated Importance of Climate Variability

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One of the most pervasive misunderstandings of climate is the belief that any long-term trend in a measured climate variable indicates a change in climate, as defined by the IPCC. In practice, “long-term” is often defined to be only a few decades worth of observations.…

Oceans Giving Back a Little C02

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Carbon dioxide is indeed the ‘stuff of life’, underpinning photosynthesis, boosting plant growth, enhancing agricultural yields, and enabling practical applications in industry.…