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Monthly Archives: December 2016
2016: A year in blogging
Since the year is almost over, I thought I would summarise some of what has gone on here. January was a rather quiet month. I wrote about a poignant essay by Piers Sellers, who sadly passed away just before Christmas. … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, Global warming, Research, Science
Tagged 2016, 2017, Blog, Guest posts, Year in review
28 Comments
Merry Christmas
Just a quick post to wish everyone a Merry Christmas (or whatever season’s greeting seems most appropriate). Given what’s happening in the Arctic, the cartoon on the right seems apt. I really do hope that everyone has a very pleasant … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Science
Tagged Arctic, Father Christmas, Relax, Season's greeting
20 Comments
Tipping Point
So the tipping point was social. That thought — a wrong one I hope — came to mind in the aftermath of a US election that set back prospects for reducing greenhouse gas emissions before major ecosystem or physical tipping … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Politics, Research
36 Comments
Why should anyone care?
Steve Fuller, who is a sociologist at the University of Warwick, recently wrote an article in the Guardian called Science has always been a bit post-truth. I thought it was confused. Others were somewhat blunter I have rarely read a … Continue reading
No, stabilising emissions will not stabilise concentrations!
I’ve written before about stabilising temperatures; stabilising temperatures requires getting net anthropogenic emissions pretty close to zero. See, for example, this Realclimate post, or Solomon et al. (2008). Stabilising atmospheric concentrations, however, would not require getting emissions to zero, but … Continue reading
Rose down the rabbit hole
To follow-up on his previous article, where he claimed that stunning new data indicates El Nino drove record highs in global temperatures suggesting rise may not be down to man-made emissions, David Rose has a new article in which he … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, ENSO, Research, Science, The scientific method
Tagged David Rose, El Nino events, ENSO events, HadCRUT4, Mail Online, Record warm years
175 Comments
They’re coming for climate scientists!
Doug McNeall had a bit of a tweet-storm yesterday about some personal thoughts on communicating climate science, which he titled So, they’re coming for climate scientists (hence, my title). It caused some discussion on Twitter, and on another blog, to … Continue reading
Poor Roger!
I wrote a post about Roger Pielke Jr’s recent Wall Street Journal article about his [u]nhappy life as a climate heretic, but it was rather long and rambling, so I can’t actually bring myself to post it. Instead, I’ll just … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, Research, Roger Pielke Jr, Science
Tagged Critics, James Annan, Joe Romm, Roger Pielke Jr, Stoat, Wall Street Journal
163 Comments
Open data
Since I’m sitting at the station waiting for a train that is delayed 40 minutes, I thought I would post on something that I’ve been thinking about for the last couple of days. There is quite a lot of discussion … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, Global warming, Research
Tagged David Rose, El Niño, Global warming, James Delingpole, Mail Online, Open Science, Ross Clark, Spetator
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