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A distraction due to errors, misunderstanding and misguided Norwegian statistics

Real Climate

Solar activity provides no alternative explanation for today’s climate change Dagsvik and Moen claim that recent research indicates that variations in the sun’s magnetic field are of great importance for long-term fluctuations in solar activity. Our job is to be thorough and verify questionable results. It has taken time.

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Using Clouds to Fight Climate Change

HumanNature

But this simplified pathway misses a key step in cloud formation–and one that could help us combat climate change. But if they are thin and transparent, they reflect very little sunlight and instead trap a lot of the heat radiating from the Earth, resulting in a net warming effect. C temperature target. 2010, November 2).

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We are not reaching 1.5ºC earlier than previously thought

Real Climate

Of all the troubling headlines emerging from the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) WG1 report, one warning will surely dominate headlines in the next days and weeks: Earth is likely to reach the crucial 1.5? That’s also in line with earlier research (Henley and King, 2017) on the high RCP8.5