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The heat content of the oceans is growing and growing.  That means that the greenhouse effect has not taken a pause and the cold sun is not noticeably slowing global warming. NOAA posts regularly updated measurements of the amount of heat stored...

By Andrew Freedman, Michael Lemonick, and Dan Yawitz From unprecedented heat waves that shattered "Dust Bowl" era records from the 1930s, to Hurricane Sandy, which devastated coastal New Jersey and New York, 2012 was the year Mother Nature had it out...

This post is part 3 of a three part series exploring the Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) scenarios that have replaced the IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES).  To view the full guide as an on-line...

It's the new year, 2013, and I will start it with some sort of "hardcore skeptic bashing". Needless to say, it's not the first time when you can read a text on this blog that could be described in this way. Your humble correspondent is balanced when...

David Roberts had an interesting article in Vox recently which discusses the very severe limitations of the sorts of models economists typically use to study climate change (Integrated Assessment Models or IAMs). (The title of the article is awful,...