Monthly Archives: September 2017

A bit more about carbon budgets

Posted on September 27, 2017 by ...and Then There's Physics

I’ve been mostly at home today since we had a power cut at work and the site ended up being closed. So, I thought I would post a few more thoughts about the Millar et al. 1.5oC carbon budget paper. … Continue reading →

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Climateball, GWPF style

Posted on September 25, 2017 by ...and Then There's Physics

I came across a Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF) post called climate scientists shoot the messenger. That it’s from the Forum, rather than the Foundation, may be relevant. It discusses the recent Millar et al. paper (that I discussed here … Continue reading →

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Assessing global warming

Posted on September 23, 2017 by ...and Then There's Physics

A couple of years ago I wrote a joint post with Roger Pielke Sr that discussed assessing anthropogenic global warming. The post basically used changes in ocean heat content to assess anthropogenic global warming. The basic idea (which is not … Continue reading →

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Own goal

Posted on September 22, 2017 by ...and Then There's Physics

I thought I might comment a bit further on the recent Millar et al. paper, [e]mission budgets and pathways consistent with limiting warming to 1.5 °C, that I discussed in this post. I’ve found the whole public dialogue about this paper … Continue reading →

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Andy Skuce

Posted on September 21, 2017 by ...and Then There's Physics

As many probably already know, Andy Skuce passed away last week. Andy was someone I greatly respected who made a significant, positive contribution to the dialogue about climate and energy. Andy was a key contributor to Skeptical Science, and wrote … Continue reading →

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More time …. really?

Posted on September 19, 2017 by ...and Then There's Physics

A recent paper about [e]mission budgets and pathways consistent with limiting warming to 1.5 °C essentially argues that it is still possible to follow an emission pathway that will give us a good chance of keeping warming below 1.5oC. More specifically, … Continue reading →

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Avoiding dangerous to catastrophic climate change

Posted on September 16, 2017 by ...and Then There's Physics

I haven’t really had much to say, hence the lack of posts. I still don’t, but I thought I would quickly highlight a recent paper by Xu and Ramanathan called Well below 2 °C: Mitigation strategies for avoiding dangerous to … Continue reading →

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It’s complicated, and it’s coupled

Posted on September 11, 2017 by ...and Then There's Physics

Matt Ridley, whose writings I’ve discussed before, has a new article in The Times called we are more than a match for hurricanes, that essentially argues that [w]hether or not tropical storms are becoming fiercer, our growing wealth and ingenuity … Continue reading →

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The Portable POMO

Posted on September 10, 2017 by Willard

Five paragraphs from Michel Foucault ought to be enough to dig POMO. Let’s take those that start his concluding remarks to the Seminar Discourse and Truth: the Problematization of Parrhesia. Parrhesia refers to the act of speaking candidly: My intention was … Continue reading →

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Prior knowledge

Posted on September 9, 2017 by ...and Then There's Physics

Something I have been bothered about for some time now, is how we best discuss climate change in the context of extreme events. Given the devastation from Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, damaging floods in South Asia and Nigeria, and the … Continue reading →

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