Category Archives: Significance

Less evidence for a global warming hiatus, and urging more use of Bayesian model averaging in climate science

Posted on 14 February 2018 by

(This post has been significantly updated midday 15th February 2018.) I’ve written about the supposed global warming hiatus of 2001-2014 before: “‘Overestimated global warming over the past 20 years’ (Fyfe, Gillett, Zwiers, 2013)”, 28 August 2013 “Warming Slowdown?”, Azimuth, Part … Continue reading →

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