Search Results for: IAMs

IAMs – Open Thread

Posted on September 21, 2019 by

There’s been an interesting debate about IAMs. IAMs are Integrated Assessment Models that are used to develop mitigation pathways. In this article, Kevin Anderson argues that IAMs are simply the wrong tools for the job, while Jessica Jewel clarifies the … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon tax, Climate change, economics, GRRRROWTH, Philosophy for Bloggers, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , | 103 Comments

The Neoclassical Economics of Climate Change

Posted on June 28, 2020 by

I thought I would advertise a post by Steve Keen, that may be of interest to some of my regular readers. It’s about Neoclassical Economics of Climate Change and is extremely criticial of the assumptions used to drive Integrated Assessment … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate change, economics, The scientific method | Tagged , , , , | 39 Comments

But RCPs

Posted on February 9, 2020 by

Just as I thought I was out the ClimateBall Gods pull me back in. The “but RCP” flythe club got the best of me. For the time lost I found talking points for my Bingo. More on this project in … Continue reading →

Posted in ClimateBall, ClimateBall Bingo | 194 Comments

Climate sensitivity in CMIP6 GCMs

Posted on January 5, 2020 by

Anyone who is aware of what’s going on in climate science should have heard that the latest generation of climate models, known as CMIP6, seem to be suggesting a somewhat higher climate sensitivity than suggested by the previous CMIP5 models. … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate sensitivity, Gavin Schmidt, Research, Scientists, The scientific method | Tagged , , , , , , , | 63 Comments

2019: A year in review

Posted on December 31, 2019 by

The end of another year, so time to do another round-up of this year’s posts. My main impression of 2019, unfortunatey, is that the climate debate is moved from disagreements with people who either deny climate change or the need … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate change, Personal, Scientists, The philosophy of science | Tagged , , , | 27 Comments

Estimates of the economic impact of climate change

Posted on October 31, 2019 by

I realise Stoat has already covered this, but I thought I would also briefly discuss it here. I posted a couple of tweets, that got quite a lot of responses, about the economic impacts of climate change, that tried to … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon tax, Climate change, economics, Global warming, Philosophy for Bloggers | Tagged , , , , , , , | 200 Comments

The Plausibility of RCP8.5 – part II

Posted on March 10, 2019 by

A while ago I wrote a post about the plausibility of RCP8.5. It was essentially pointing out that there are a range of emission pathways, and hence cumulative emissions, that could lead to an RCP8.5 concentration pathway. Some of them … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate change, Global warming, GRRRROWTH | Tagged , , , , , | 39 Comments

Guest post: On coral alarmism

Posted on March 5, 2019 by

This is a guest post by Geoff Price, who blogs at pressing wax and tweets as @geoffmprice. The post first appeared here and starts now. Even pretty staggering changes in the natural world can struggle to compete for attention amid the … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate change, Contrarian Matrix, Environmental change, Global warming | Tagged , , , , , | 208 Comments

Eric’s Memes

Posted on January 29, 2019 by

Eric Winsberg teaches philosophy at the University of South Florida. He specializes in philosophy of science, in particular computer simulations in science. He wrote a book that may interest AT’s readers, called Philosophy and Climate Science. We met over teh … Continue reading →

Posted in Interview, The philosophy of science, We Are Science | Tagged , , , , | 38 Comments

Climate impacts

Posted on October 7, 2018 by

Carbon brief has a very nice interactive report that show the impacts of climate change at 1.5C, 2C and beyond. It presents the various projected climatic, ecological, and economic changes on both global and regional scales. It is an impressive … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate change, economics, Environmental change, Science, The philosophy of science | Tagged , , , , , , , | 60 Comments