Gavin Schmidt … Speaking up and Speaking Out by Bruce Lieberman has generated a lively discussion and attracted the most comments of the articles posted on SkS this past week. The article was originally posted on the Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media.
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Deke Arndt, chief of the climate monitoring branch of the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C., said caution is needed when comparing El Niño and non-El Niño years.
"There is no universally accepted definition of El Niño-Southern Oscillation and much less an 'El Niño year,'" Arndt said in an email.
Arndt said that from an El Niño perspective, as well as looking at how monthly global average temperatures have played out this year, 2013 more closely resembles 2005 than either 2010 or 1998.
"If you think of the annual temperature like a 12-lap race (one lap per month), 1998 and 2010 got off to big early (warm!) leads and 'hung on' in the later laps," he said. "2005, and 2013 so far, started a bit more modestly and gained ground in the middle and late laps."
Toasty November Vaults 2013 Into Top 5 Warmest Years by Andrew Freedman, Climate Central, Dec 17, 2013
Phil Plait at Slate Bad Astronomy featured Cowtan & Way (2013) and The Escalator.
Joe Romm at Climate Progress talked about why the 4 Hiroshima atomic bombs per second metaphor is an effective form of climate communication.
The Cook et al. (2013) consensus paper was cited in Arctic marine fishes and their fisheries in light of global change.
Nathan Allen on Grist, Climate Progress, The Guardian (three times), and HotWhopper referenced the Cook et al. (2013) 97% consensus result.
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Posted by John Hartz on Sunday, 22 December, 2013
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