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Monthly Archives: June 2019
Vienna
I’m spending a couple of weeks in Vienna while attending a workshop on planet formation. Spent yesterday doing a bike tour, and wine tasting, in the Wachau Valley, and then spent today visiting some of the attractions in Vienna. The … Continue reading
Rachel’s Bike
Rachel used to hang around with us at AT’s. She also moderated the blog for a while. She runs a blog in which she talks about her life in Scotland, with a focus on living a low-carbon life, especially biking … Continue reading
Kooninisms
Gavin Schmidt has a Realclimate post about a recent talk given by Steve Koonin. Somewhat bizarrely, Koonin has a response to Gavin’s post that he has posted on WUWT. Given that Koonin has no climate expertise, presumably he thinks that … Continue reading
Extreme weather event attribution
This is a joint post between myself and Eric Winsberg, Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Florida. Eric has just published, together with Naomi Oreskes and Elisabeth Lloyd, a paper called Severe Weather Event Attribution: Why values won’t … Continue reading
Estragon and the Expert
An abstract stakeholder’s dialog. Vladimir, or V, is the expert. Estragon is E. [V] You have cancer.[E] OK.[V] …[E] Is it curable?[V] Yes, I guess.[E] …[V] …[E] How?[V] There’s A or B.[E] What would you suggest.[V] If you do A … Continue reading
Posted in advocacy, ClimateBall, Politics, Roger Pielke Jr
Tagged Jonathan Gilligan, Michael Tobis, Roger Pielke Junior
110 Comments
A human extinction denier?
Mike Hulme has a new essay that some are promoting on Twitter. He suggests that he is a human extinction denier and objects to the climate emergency narrative. Although I have my own concerns about some of the extreme rhetoric, … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, ethics, Policy, Politics
Tagged Climate emergency, Existential threat, Extinction rebellion, Human extinction, Mike Hulme
114 Comments
Promises and perils of the Paris agreement?
A few people were sharing, on Twitter, a Science article called Promises and Perils of the Paris Agreement. It mostly seemed unobjectionable. It discusses the linear relationship between warming and emissions, and how this allows one to define carbon budgets … Continue reading
Posted in Carbon tax, Climate change, Policy, Science
Tagged Carbon budgets, Kevin Anderson, Mark Lawrence, NDCs, Paris agreement, science, Stefan Schafer, Temperature targets
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...and Then There's Physics 