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Open access notables Publicly expressed climate scepticism is greatest in regions with high CO2 emissions, Pearson et al., Climatic Change:

In newly released emails from a 2020 deposition, Michael Mann contacted and directed a journal's editor to assign a paper to hostile reviewers.

This is scaring so many people, but is full of mistakes and has no scientific credibility. Its written by a couple of businessmen, with a foreword by a retired admiral, and no scientific peer review.

Anomalies of tropospheric columns of ozone (O3), carbon monoxide (CO), acetylene (C2H2), formaldehyde (H2CO), and ethane (C2H6) are quantified during the 2020 stringent COVID-19 world-wide lockdown using multiple ground-based Fourier-transform infrared spectrometers covering urban and remote conditions. We applied an exponential smoothing forecasting approach to the data sets to estimate business-as-usual values for 2020, which are then contrasted with actual observations. The Community Atmosphe...

Once again I have seen an unjustified attack on both Alec, BizNews and Rob Hersov following Hersov's gas interview.