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  • 20 Jun 2020
    Manfred Mudelsee

    The Big Question (Statistical Analysis of Climate Extremes: The Blog about the Book. Part 4)

    “Climate extremes cost human lives. They do harm to the economy. Examples are the Elbe flood in 2002, the European heatwave in 2003 or hurricane Katrina in 2005. The big question is how global climate change influences climate extremes. This plagues decision-makers as well as climate researchers.” This is how the preface starts. How to […]

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  • 5 Jun 2020
    Colin Heydt

    Blame and Creating Risks for Others

    Before turning to the pandemic, allow me to tell a story. One of my cousins—let’s call him “Walt”—grew up loving cars. As a 12-year-old, Walt could name the make and model of every car we passed in his rural New Hampshire town. When Walt got old enough to drive, he and his friends would modify […]

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  • 25 May 2020
    Manfred Mudelsee

    Statistical Analysis of Climate Extremes: The Blog about the Book. Part 2: The Cover

    What picture to show on the cover of a book about climate extremes? Such events have a big potential to cost human lives and harm the economy. Illustrate this danger? A photo of a starving child in a desert? The chaos in a city hit by a hurricane? Certainly not. Photo selection is an intimate […]

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  • 18 May 2020
    Manfred Mudelsee

    Statistical Analysis of Climate Extremes: The Blog about the Book. Part 1: Corona

    Writing a blog article about a book on climate extremes in these weeks or months or years of SARS-CoV-2, the Corona virus? At the beginning of this job, I feel embarrassed since I am doing fine as regards health and work, while other humans are suffering. I am a self-employed climate researcher and have the […]

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