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Monthly Archives: May 2019
J R Oppenheimer Asks: Can Science Provide Better Models for Democracy?
I came across a collection of 1950’s vintage essays by Robert Oppenheimer that’s been lurking quietly unattended in my book collection for who knows how long. Reading essays by scientifically accomplished people from long ago is always an eye-opener. Bits … Continue reading
Posted in physicists, Policy, Politics, Uncategorized
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Models are failed hypotheses!
John Christy has written a report for the Global Warming Policy Foundation called climate models have been predicting too much warming. The basic conclusion of the report is that climate models predict far more warming in the tropical troposphere than … Continue reading
The Carbon Cycle
Robert Rohde, who is lead scientist for Berkeley Earth, has created a really nice illustration of the carbon cycle. It shows how the CO2 cycles between the different carbon reservoirs, and how our emissions have perturbed the carbon cycle so … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Research, Science
Tagged atmospheric CO2, Berkeley Earth, Carbon cycle, Revelle factor, Robert Rohde, Sedimentation
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The impact of 4C of global warming
On a number of occasions I’ve highlighted Kevin Anderson saying At 4oC most of the scientists I talk to about this, and the social scientists as well, would say it’s incompatible with organised global community. I don’t know if this … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Environmental change, Global warming
Tagged Gaia Vince, Johan Rockstrom, Ken Caldeira, Kevin Anderson, The Guardian
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The Guardian’s new style guide
It seems that the Guardian is changing the language it uses about the environment. It’s updated it’s preferred terms to include climate emergency, crisis or breakdown, instead of climate change and global heating, instead of global warming. Maybe most controversially, … Continue reading
Shifting the Overton window
Stoat has a new post about there being two sorts of people in the world in which he says the GND is not just stupid but would in the unlikely event of it being imposed be actively harmful; and at … Continue reading
If it seems obvious, it probably isn’t
There’s an interesting paper that someone (I forget who) highlighted on Twitter. It’a about when science becomes too easy. The basic idea is that there are pitfalls to popularising scientific information. Compared to experts, laypeople have not undergone any specialized … Continue reading
