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Gavin Schmidt, the Glossary

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American Geophysical Union

The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization of Earth, atmospheric, ocean, hydrologic, space, and planetary scientists and enthusiasts that according to their website includes 130,000 people (not members).

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American Museum of Natural History

The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) is a natural history museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City.

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American Scientist

American Scientist (informally abbreviated AmSci) is an American bimonthly science and technology magazine published since 1913 by Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society.

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Climate

Climate is the long-term weather pattern in a region, typically averaged over 30 years.

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Climate model

Numerical climate models (or climate system models) are mathematical models that can simulate the interactions of important drivers of climate.

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Climatic Research Unit email controversy

The Climatic Research Unit email controversy (also known as "Climategate") began in November 2009 with the hacking of a server at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) by an external attacker, copying thousands of emails and computer files (the Climatic Research Unit documents) to various internet locations several weeks before the Copenhagen Summit on climate change.

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Climatology

Climatology (from Greek κλίμα, klima, "slope"; and -λογία, -logia) or climate science is the scientific study of Earth's climate, typically defined as weather conditions averaged over a period of at least 30 years.

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Collège de France

The, formerly known as the or as the Collège impérial founded in 1530 by François I, is a higher education and research establishment in France.

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Columbia University

Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City.

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Effects of climate change

Effects of climate change are well documented and growing for Earth's natural environment and human societies.

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Erdős number

The Erdős number describes the "collaborative distance" between mathematician Paul Erdős and another person, as measured by authorship of mathematical papers.

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Fred Pearce

Fred Pearce (born 30 December 1951) is an English science writer and public speaker based in London.

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Gavin Schmidt

Gavin A. Schmidt is a British climatologist, climate modeler and Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York, and co-founder of the climate science blog RealClimate. Gavin Schmidt and Gavin Schmidt are 21st-century science writers, atmospheric physicists, British climatologists, British expatriate academics in the United States, climate communication, environmental bloggers, intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change contributing authors and science bloggers.

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General circulation model

A general circulation model (GCM) is a type of climate model.

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Goddard Institute for Space Studies

The Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) is a laboratory in the Earth Sciences Division of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center affiliated with the Columbia University Earth Institute.

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Hockey stick graph (global temperature)

Hockey stick graphs present the global or hemispherical mean temperature record of the past 500 to 2000 years as shown by quantitative climate reconstructions based on climate proxy records.

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Ice core

An ice core is a core sample that is typically removed from an ice sheet or a high mountain glacier.

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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an intergovernmental body of the United Nations.

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IPCC Fourth Assessment Report

Climate Change 2007, the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), was published in 2007 and is the fourth in a series of reports intended to assess scientific, technical and socio-economic information concerning climate change, its potential effects, and options for adaptation and mitigation.

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James Hansen

James Edward Hansen (born March 29, 1941) is an American adjunct professor directing the Program on Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. Gavin Schmidt and James Hansen are atmospheric physicists.

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Jeffrey Sachs

Jeffrey David Sachs (born November 5, 1954) is an American economist and public policy analyst, professor at Columbia University, where he was former director of The Earth Institute.

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Jesus College, Oxford

Jesus College (in full: Jesus College in the University of Oxford of Queen Elizabeth's Foundation) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.

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Michael E. Mann

Michael Evan Mann (born 1965) is an American climatologist and geophysicist. Gavin Schmidt and Michael E. Mann are 21st-century science writers, environmental bloggers and science bloggers.

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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.

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Nature (journal)

Nature is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London, England.

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New York Academy of Sciences

The New York Academy of Sciences (originally the Lyceum of Natural History) is a nonprofit professional society that claims to, “Advance scientific research and knowledge, support scientific literacy, and promote science-based solutions to global challenges.” Founded in January 1817 as the Lyceum of Natural History, it is the fourth-oldest scientific society in the United States.

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Ocean

The ocean is the body of salt water that covers approx.

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Oxygen-18

Oxygen-18 (Ω) is a natural, stable isotope of oxygen and one of the environmental isotopes.

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Paleoclimatology

Paleoclimatology (British spelling, palaeoclimatology) is the scientific study of climates predating the invention of meteorological instruments, when no direct measurement data were available.

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Peer review

Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work (peers).

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Peter Thorne (climatologist)

Peter William Thorne is a climatologist and professor of physical geography in the Department of Geography, Maynooth University.

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Phil Jones (climatologist)

Philip Douglas Jones (born 22 April 1952) is a former director of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) and a professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA) from 1998, having begun his career at the unit in 1976. Gavin Schmidt and Phil Jones (climatologist) are British climatologists and intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change contributing authors.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (often abbreviated PNAS or PNAS USA) is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary scientific journal.

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Radiative forcing

Radiative forcing (or climate forcing) is a concept used in climate science to quantify the change in energy balance in Earth's atmosphere.

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RealClimate

RealClimate is a commentary site (blog) on climatology.

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Science (journal)

Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine, is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals.

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Scientific American

Scientific American, informally abbreviated SciAm or sometimes SA, is an American popular science magazine.

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Temperature record of the last 2,000 years

The temperature record of the last 2,000 years is reconstructed using data from climate proxy records in conjunction with the modern instrumental temperature record which only covers the last 170 years at a global scale.

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The Corsham School

The Corsham School is a large secondary school, with a sixth form, in Corsham, Wiltshire, England.

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The Earth Institute

The Earth Institute is a research institute at Columbia University created in 1995 for addressing complex issues facing the planet and its inhabitants, with a focus on sustainable development.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Holocene

The Holocene is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers research in the field of environmental studies, in particular environmental change over the last years, particularly the interface between the long Quaternary record and the natural and human-induced environmental processes operating at the Earth's surface today.

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University College London

University College London (branded as UCL) is a public research university in London, England.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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2007 Nobel Peace Prize

The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (founded in 1988) and United States former vice president, Al Gore (b. 1948) "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change".

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Schmidt

Also known as Gavin A. Schmidt.

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