Monthly Archives: September 2018

The goal of science communication

Posted on September 29, 2018 by ...and Then There's Physics

Since I’ve discussed research informing rather than influencing I thought I would briefly highlight a blog post I found about facts, risks, and emotions. It’s by Alex Freeman, who is the Executive Director of the Winton Centre for Risk and … Continue reading →

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Hurricanes and carbon cuts

Posted on September 23, 2018 by ...and Then There's Physics

I was wanting to quickly comment on a recent Bjorn Lomborg article in the New York Post called No, global warming isn’t causing worse hurricanes. It’s mainly a response to another article in the New York Post called Climate change … Continue reading →

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The time evolution of climate sensitivity

Posted on September 20, 2018 by ...and Then There's Physics

I wanted to just post this figure from a new paper by Philip Goodwin called On the time evolution of climate sensitivity and future warming. It uses a modified energy balance approach in which multiple climate feedbacks evolve independently over … Continue reading →

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We Are Science

Posted on September 17, 2018 by Willard

After a few days of presentations on (gasp!) science communication, a party was being held in Iceland. Many dignitaries, a few allocutions, among them one by a lady from the banking industry, more exactly a PR big boss from a … Continue reading →

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Disasters and Climate Change – part 2

Posted on September 12, 2018 by ...and Then There's Physics

Since I have a bit of free time, I thought I would expand a little on my Review of Roger Pielke Jr’s book about Disasters and Climate Change. As I mentioned in my earlier post, there were a number of … Continue reading →

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Disasters and Climate Change

Posted on September 8, 2018 by ...and Then There's Physics

Roger Pielke Jr emailed me an advance copy of the 2nd edition of his book on Disasters and Climate Change. Roger’s email ended with I welcome your reactions, comments, critique. Past experience makes me slightly dubious, but I will take … Continue reading →

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The ECS is probably above 2K

Posted on September 1, 2018 by ...and Then There's Physics

I have quite a large conference starting tomorrow, so will probably be too busy to write. To keep things ticking over I thought I would post this seminar given by Andrew Dessler, discussing his recent work on constraining the Equilibrium … Continue reading →

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