Monthly Archives: July 2017

Off for a couple of weeks

Posted on July 15, 2017 by

I’m leaving for a meeting early tomorrow morning and then heading out on holiday as soon as I’m back, so posting – from me, at least – will probably be light for a couple of weeks. To be quite honest, … Continue reading →

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Doomsday scenarios

Posted on July 13, 2017 by

There’s been a bit of a furore over an article called The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells. The goal was clearly to investigate some of the extreme scenarios, but – unfortunately – the article got a number of things wrong … Continue reading →

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Reconciling climate sensitivity estimates – part III, or IV?

Posted on July 11, 2017 by

I mentioned in a recent post that there was a new paper that claims to reconciles climate sensitivity estimates. The basic issue is that observationally-based climate sensitivity estimates have a range of about 1.5oC to about 3oC, while climate model … Continue reading →

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Proposing A Non-Cynical Red Team Exercise

Posted on July 7, 2017 by

(Guest posting by Michael Tobis. Opinions expressed here are mt’s only.) Some people who dismiss the climate change issue like to call it “the CAGW hypothesis” for “Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming”. The name is quadruply irritating, inasmuch as 1) a … Continue reading →

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Hawking is wrong

Posted on July 7, 2017 by

I guess the big alarmist news at the moment is that Stephen Hawking has been quoted as saying: Trump’s action could push the Earth over the brink, to become like Venus, with a temperature of two hundred and fifty degrees, … Continue reading →

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Temperature targets

Posted on July 6, 2017 by

I realise Michael Tobis is planning a follow-up to his post, but I thought would quickly pen this post about temperature targets, for example the Paris target of keeping the increase in global average temperature to well below 2°C above … Continue reading →

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The Only Way Not To Lose Is to Play

Posted on July 3, 2017 by

In Climateball, the only way to lose is not to play. Consequently the only way not to lose is to play. Continue reading →

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