Category Archives: IPCC

Global Temperatures for 2023

Posted on January 13, 2024 by Clive Best

December saw a rise in the global average temperature anomaly to 1.27C resulting in a final annual value of 1.13C for the year 2023. This represents an increase of just under 0.3C  since 2022, the warmest year so far (as … Continue reading →

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30 years of IPCC assessment reports – How well have they done?

Posted on January 2, 2020 by Clive Best

Over the last 30 years there have been 5 IPCC assessment reports on climate change.  I decided to compare each  warming predictions made at the time of publication to the consequently measured  temperatures. The objective is twofold. Firstly how well … Continue reading →

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Whatever happened to the Global Warming Hiatus ?

Posted on June 24, 2019 by Clive Best

The last IPCC assessment in 2013 showed a clear pause in global warming lasting 16 years from  1998 to 2012 – the notorious hiatus. As a direct consequence of this  AR5 estimates of climate sensitivity were reduced and CMIP5 models … Continue reading →

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