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Monthly Archives: November 2017
Going Nuclear
An epic tweetspat with pseudo-modern engineers made me think of the following confutation of the Breakthrough playbook: First, nuclear energy needs to compete with fossil fuels, not renewables like wind or solar. This point rests on the basic observation that the … Continue reading
Posted in economics, GRRRROWTH
Tagged Breakthrough Institute, Ecomodernism, Kevin Anderson, Scott Denning
188 Comments
Combining different ECS estimates
I wanted to briefly highlight a new paper by Nic Lewis and Peter Grünwald called [o]bjectively combining AR5 instrumental period and paleoclimate climate sensitivity evidence. You may want, however, to be cautious of the term objective. As the title indicates, … Continue reading
Carbon budget constraints
I’d been meaning to highlight a statement from Kevin Anderson for quite some time. A brief lull in postings gives me a chance to do so. It relates to the Paris goal of keeping global warming below 2oC. I haven’t … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, ethics, Global warming, Policy, Politics
Tagged Carbon brief, Carbon budgets, Emission reductions, Kevin Anderson, Paris agreement
26 Comments
Climate communicators in Edinburgh
It was a bit of a weekend of climate communication in Edinburgh. Yesterday morning I went along to Dynamic Earth, where the Natural Environment Research Council was hosting an event called UnEarthed. Ed Hawkins was there with a display about … Continue reading
Mertonian norms
There are a set of norms of science, first presented by Robert K Merton and known as the Mertonian norms. I found what seems to be a good description of them here. There are four Mertonian norms, called universalism, communalism, … Continue reading
A real time global warming index
This is a guest post by Karsten Haustein, a researcher in the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford. The post is about a new paper that discusses their real time global warming index. Have you … Continue reading
I’m confused….
Recently, Warren Pearce and colleagues published a paper called [b]eyond climate consensus which I wrote about here. There was a response from John Cook, one from Naomi Oreskes, and a Guardian article by multiple authors. Pearce et al. have now … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, Global warming
Tagged Consensus messaging, Consensus studies, so-called pause, Warren Pearce
130 Comments
