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Category Archives: Carbon tax
Ignoring the Economists?
Andrew Dessler had an article in Rolling Stone suggesting that [t]he first step to saving the planet is ignoring the economists. Stoat has already written about it and, as you might imagine, doesn’t seem to like it. Even if suggesting … Continue reading
Posted in Carbon tax, economics, Philosophy for Bloggers, Policy
Tagged Andrew Dessler, Climate policy, Cost-benefit analyses, IAMs, Rolling Stone
142 Comments
The tragedy of climate change science?
Since my last post was about how scientists failed the pandemic test, I thought I might comment on another paper highlighting the tragedy of climate change science. The basic premise of the article is that society has failed to take … Continue reading
Listen to the (political) science
I’ve been meaning to post a review of 2019, but wanted to first comment on something else. I quite often see criticism of how some people approach the issue of climate change. For example, in the Guardian yesterday, there was … Continue reading
Posted in Carbon tax, Climate change, Policy, Politics, Science, Scientists
Tagged Activism, Carlo Invernizzi-Accetti, Climate policy, Greta Thunberg, The Guardian
78 Comments
Stocks and Flows
Sitting at home waiting for a delivery, so just a quick post. There’s been a new narrative, on social media at least, that we may be heading for a plateau in global emissions. The suggestion, then, is that we are … Continue reading
Estimates of the economic impact of climate change
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
Flight free talk
I gave my first ever public climate science talk at a Flight Free event in Edinburgh. If you’re interested in seeing my talk slides, you can download them here. The idea behind Flight Free is to encourage people to pledge … Continue reading
Posted in Carbon tax, Climate change, Greenhouse effect, Personal, Scientists
Tagged Anna Hughes, Edinburgh, Flight free 2020, Flight Free UK, Joanna Haig
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Worst case scenarios, or not?
I’ve been thinking a bit more about the debate around high emission scenarios, which I found rather frustrating. I think it’s an important issue, but the manner in which some people choose to frame this does make it difficult to … Continue reading
IAMs – Open Thread
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
Sigh
There’s been a rather contentious Twitter thread about RCP8.5, a concentration/forcing pathway I’ve discussed before. It started with a claim that it was “bollox” followed by a suggestion that it was mainly used for generating headlines, scaring gullible folk and … Continue reading
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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