The present issue 6.1 covers publications accepted during the first half of 2026. It contains five research articles, two essays, one invited address and one corrigendum. The contributions address a broad range of subjects, including paleoclimatic temperature variability, the statistical analysis of possible climate drivers, ocean heat-content and Earth Energy Imbalance estimates, the economic and…

Science of Climate Change (SCC) is an independent, peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal dedicated to advancing rigorous scientific understanding of the Earth’s climate system and its governing processes. The journal is founded on the principle that climate science progresses through continuous scrutiny of prevailing assumptions, critical examination of explanatory frameworks, and the testing of competing ideas…

Volume 5 consists of two regular issues 5.1 and 5.3 with publications over the first and second half of 2025 and two extra issues 5.2 and 5.4. Sub-volume 5.2 is a Reprint of Pattern Recognition in Physics (Special Issue 1 2013/14) – Pattern in Solar Variability, their Planetary Origin and Terrestrial Impacts. Sub-volume 5.4 collects…

This is a Special Issue first published in Pattern Recognition in Physics (PRP: Vol. 1 & 2, 2013-2014) where various aspects of the Planetary–Solar–Terrestrial interaction are highlighted in 12 independent papers. PRP was published by Copernicus Publications but was terminated without discussion when this Special Issue was published. For a long period, the papers were…

Volume 5.1 starts with an Invited Article of W. A. van Wijngaarden and W. Happer. Theybriefly review the dominant role of clouds in Earth’s climate with earliest observational studies of heat transfer through Earth’s atmosphere. Then they summarize the new 2n-stream radiation transfer theory for quantitatively analyzing how clouds scatter radiation.A Review Article about the…