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Monthly Archives: June 2018
S S Sagaing
I’m on the train back from a meeting in Leicester, so have a bit of free time to write a post. I thought I might write about something a bit different to my normal posts. My father contacted me a … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged Atlantis, Captain Kenneth Macleod, Kemmendine, S S Sagaing, Sri Lanka, Trincomalee, World War II
28 Comments
No, Hansen wasn’t wrong!
It’s 30 years since James Hansen testified before the US Congress about climate change. In the same year, he published a paper that produced some forecasts. I wasn’t going to write about this as there are a number of articles … Continue reading
Planetary thinking
I was wanting to write a brief post about a recent Adam Frank article in the New York times called Earth Will Survive. We May Not. I also have a post about an earlier Adam Frank article, and I also … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Scientists
Tagged Adam Frank, Exoplanets, Joe Rogan, New York Times, Thinking like a planet
74 Comments
low-probability, high-impact outcomes
There’s an interesting Earth System Dynamics Discussion paper presenting a a simple proposal to improve the contribution of IPCC WG1 to the assessment and communication of climate change risks. Essentially, one can estimate the risk of some outcome by considering … Continue reading
Airtime for policy experts
As I discussed in this post, there’s been a lengthy discussion on Twitter about climate scientists publicly discussing policy/solutions. In response to this, David Roberts tweeted the following: I think a) the over-reliance on climate scientists to do all the … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, economics, Policy, Scientists
Tagged Climate economics, Climate policy, consensus position, David Roberts, Energy Policy, Glen Peters
110 Comments
Science and Skepticism
oarobin posted a comment highlighting a video of a talk about Science and Skepticism by Steven Goodman. It essentially disusses the issue of reproducibility in science, and mentions some issues that I have myself. Ultimately, science is about unconvering “truth”. … Continue reading
The #scicomm merry-go-round
Katharine Hayhoe has an article in Science about facts not being enough. It’s basically about how to effectively communicate to an audience that might have a tendency to reject the need to do something about climate change. As a result, … Continue reading
