Alexis Tantet

Postdoctoral researcher, Hamburg University, Meteorologisches Institut

Expertise: Climate dynamics, Climate sensitivity

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Qualifying publication(s): see criteria

publication   http://www.earth-syst-dynam.net/5/1/2014/

ARTICLES REVIEWED

Analysis of “Why are climate-change models so flawed? Because climate science is so incomplete”

in The Boston Globe, by Jeff Jacoby

— 16 Mar 2017

"The facts given by the author regarding the skills of climate models and the state of the art are mostly wrong. The most important processes are not understood by the author and h..

Analysis of “2014 Breaks Heat Record, Challenging Global Warming Skeptics”

in The New York Times, by Justin Gillis

— 29 Jan 2015

"This article does a good job of putting the 2014 temperature record in context with quotes from experts and good descriptions of relevant issues such as El Nino."

CLAIMS REVIEWED

Earth is not at risk of becoming a hothouse like Venus, as Stephen Hawking claimed

CLAIM
Trump's action could push the Earth over the brink, to become like Venus, with a temperature of two hundred and fifty degrees, and raining sulphuric acid.

SOURCE: Stephen Hawking, BBC

Published: 06 Jul 2017

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