The study of weather conditions and patterns as averaged over a given period of time.
Questions tagged [climatology]
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Can mountains surrounding a certain region protect it from rain/wind/cold?
It's 'common knowledge' that certain cities/regions have mild weather because they're surrounded by mountains. E.g. this page Sitges Tourist Guide claims that:
Ask any Sitges resident about the weather in their town and they will
proudly tell you…
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Did Willie Soon fail to disclose a conflict of interest with the fossil fuel lobby?
Willie Soon recently co-authored a paper that criticised the big computer models used for many projections of future climate (which in turn have fed the IPCC process that drive consensus climate policy).
The majority of comment in the mainstream…
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Does Carbon Dioxide mix well in the atmosphere?
At Skeptical Science, they explain:
Mauna Loa is often used as an example of rising carbon dioxide levels because its the longest, continuous series of directly measured atmospheric CO₂. The reason why it's acceptable to use Mauna Loa as a proxy…
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Are Easterbrook's oxygen-isotope paleo-temperature reconstructions credible?
In this video of a presentation given at a climate-skeptic Heartland Institute conference, Don Easterbrook presents his view of recent climate history. He compares his own projections of future climate with IPCC forecasts and claims them to be…
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Does the temperaure anomaly correlate with solar irradiance?
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Just wanted to know of its validity. Would be helpful.
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