Search Results for: IAMs

IAMs – Open Thread

Posted on September 21, 2019 by ...and Then There's Physics

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

Deferential?

Posted on February 3, 2021 by ...and Then There's Physics

I was listening to a podcast interview with Steve Keen, whose work I’ve written about before. It was about his paper the appallingly bad neoclassical economics of climate change. I have a lot of sympathy with what he’s presenting. Some … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate change, economics, Environmental change, physicists, Policy, Scientists | Tagged , , , | 53 Comments

The impact of climate change, and the cost of climate policies

Posted on December 27, 2020 by ...and Then There's Physics

There’s been a reasonable amount of discussion about Bjorn Lomborg’s fairly recent paper [w]elfare in the 21st century: Increasing development, reducing inequality, the impact of climate change, and the cost of climate policies. A key part of the paper is … Continue reading →

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The Neoclassical Economics of Climate Change

Posted on June 28, 2020 by ...and Then There's Physics

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 , , , , | 41 Comments

But RCPs

Posted on February 9, 2020 by Willard

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 ...and Then There's Physics

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 ...and Then There's Physics

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 →

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Estimates of the economic impact of climate change

Posted on October 31, 2019 by ...and Then There's Physics

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 ...and Then There's Physics

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 ...and Then There's Physics

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