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As Soon as Possible

Real Climate

Purported updates to these series were themselves plagued by arithmetic errors which negated their conclusions ( Laut, 2003 ). 801-812, 2003. correlation was marred by an unreported shift in the smoothing method towards the end of the series ( Laut and Gundermann, 2000 ). Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali , vol.

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HOTSPOTS H2O: Failing Rains in Darfur Foster Conflict and Displacement

Circle of Blue

In 2003 a culmination of five consecutive years of drought, exacerbated by global warming, produced crisis levels of food insecurity. Rainfall has decreased by an estimated 20% reduction since the 1970s.

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Operationalizing Climate Science

Real Climate

2023) we proposed updating the forcings datasets and redoing much of the attribution work that had been done before to focus specifically on explaining the trends in the CERES time period (2003 to present). So for 2007 report, the CMIP3 simulations were carried out around 2003, and so history stopped at the end of 2000.

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More solar shenanigans*

Real Climate

However, as we discussed last time, this result was an artifact of the smoothing procedure (Laut, 2003) and despite some further efforts by those authors to rescue it, there turns out to be no relationship to temperature at all. Furthermore, the last index is rather poorly described and may just be noise.

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Clauser-ology: Cloudy with a chance of meatballs

Real Climate

And finally, he claims that the ‘original’ 2003 National Academies report (a bit unclear what this means) made a ‘whole series of mistaken statements’ about clouds.

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Texas Correction Deed Statute Revisited

Energy & the Law

In 2003 the Holcomb’s and Tom and Trudy Anderson signed a farm and ranch sale contract in which the Anderson’s were to acquire surface rights only in six tracts of a ranch and Holcomb’s were to reserve the minerals. The 2003 GWD conveyed the surface only. Trudy did not execute the correction deed because she had passed away.

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ExxonMobil Accurately Projected Rising Temperatures While Publicly Disparaging Climate Science

Union of Concerned Scientists

The lightest lines are from the earliest projections, the lightest grey being from 1977, and the darker colors are later with the black line being from 2003. Let’s dig into what Supran et al.’s Source: Supran et al.,