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Have global surface temperatures not shown significant warming since the late 1990s?
Those skeptical about the science of global warming have frequently alleged that the surface temperature record has "paused" since about 1998 and showed no significant warming trend (see this recent wattsupwiththat post as a representative…
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Can some simple, old models of the effect of CO₂ predict temperature better than complex modern climate simulations?
A recent post on the climate skeptic blog climateaudit.org showed some comparisons of the relationship between world temperature and CO2 over the 20th century from a simple model originally published in the 1930s and a recent complex model from the…
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Are current climate models too vague to be physically or scientifically meaningful?
In a recent article on the climate skeptic site Watts Up With That backed up with a published paper in Energy and Environment, Pat Frank argues that current climate simulation models are scientifically useless. In his words:
the huge uncertainty…
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Does physics give a climate sensitivity to carbon dioxide of about 3°C?
A letter to the editor of the Economist from Professor Anders Levermann of the
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research stated the following:
The IPCC’s range on sensitivity is supported by, but not merely based on, models. It is deeply rooted…
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Could COVID-19 infect ~78 million Mexicans?
This Imagen TV video (posted 27 February) (Spanish) reports a claim by Mexico's Undersecretary of Health, Hugo López-Gatell,
that approximately 78 million Mexicans could end up with COVID-19, ~8 to 10 million infected people would show symptoms and…
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