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From noise, all this
A new paper has appeared on arXiv: Generative deep learning improves reconstruction of global historical climate records. It uses, as you might guess from the title, generative deep learning to reconstruct global historical climate records. It does temperature and precipitation, but I’m largely interested in temperature. This is a good thing to try because This… Continue reading
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It looks like you’re writing an IPCC assessment report?
The climate science literature is big and getting bigger. Data volumes are increasing. Assessment reports like the IPCC assessment reports, which synthesise that literature, are also big and getting bigger. The scope of it all is sprawling. Honestly, what is one to do? These days in such a situation, one’s thoughts turn inevitably to AI… Continue reading
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Quelle annee
Another year of blogging without any particular aim or purpose, amounting to 72 posts that amassed 20,000 views from over 10,000 visitors… and 147 likes. How many of those views were people and how many were from indifferent token counting machines, I will never know. Once again, the traffic was attracted primarily by a few… Continue reading
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Memo? No, you mo.
I find the wording of the Paris Agreement rather hard to keep in my head, but I do remember the bit about “in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty” and “in a manner that does not threaten food production” and, well, there’s something about climate too. In the large and varied… Continue reading
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A tower of babble
Ahead of COP – the annual UNFCCC climate conference rather than any of the other COPs – multiple reports vie for our attention. I’ve lost count, but in the past few days I’ve seen: There are others no doubt that I have missed or forgotten and there will be more. One can’t move this time… Continue reading
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D and A and I and H
Detection and attribution is back in the news for all the wrong reasons. Pielke Junior is once again pushing the line that anyone wanting to say anything about extreme weather has to prove all over again that climate change is happening. There are tedious arguments about emergence and detection and attribution and what exactly they… Continue reading
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Open Ocean #9
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Bonferroni of the vanities
A recent paper on sea level change concludes that “approximately 95% of the suitable locations show no statistically significant acceleration of the rate of sea level rise. The investigation suggests that local, non-climatic phenomena are a plausible cause of the accelerated sea level rise observed at the remaining 5% of the suitable locations.” Having read… Continue reading
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Interesting preprint and thesis on observational uncertainty and climate sensitivity
Google scholar still seems to be working. It offered me a thesis by Vikrant Sapkota of Penn State University on Leveraging Historical Observational Data and Climate Models to Understand Uncertainties in Global Climate Diagnostics and Regional Climate Impacts. There’s also a preprint paper on “Influence of Observational Temperature Datasets on ECS and TCR Estimates“. It… Continue reading
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What more can we do to get heard?
This plea came across my timeline while most of the rest of Bluesky was speculating gleefully about the death of Donald Trump. One answer, I suppose, is to read my blog though I wouldn’t generally recommend that as any kind of solution to anything. I wrote not just one post on the comms around this,… Continue reading
Diagram Monkey 