Category Archives: ClimateBall

The GRRRRROWTH Institute

Posted on October 18, 2019 by

Posit an opiniator O* from the Super Wonderful Punditry think tank SWP. Deadlines displease him. The international community failed to meet so many since 1995 that such call becomes self-defeating, or so O* worries. To interpret IPCC deliverables, time for … Continue reading →

Posted in ClimateBall, economics, GRRRRROWTH, Philosophy for Bloggers, Satire | 45 Comments

Stepping outside my comfort zone

Posted on October 14, 2019 by

I noticed that I was getting some flack in the comments on another climate blog (to which I won’t link), with some commenters claiming I’d lost whatever credibility I had. This seemed a little surprising, as I didn’t think I … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, Environmental change, Personal, Policy, Scientists, The philosophy of science | Tagged , , | 170 Comments

Extinction rebellion

Posted on October 7, 2019 by

I’ve written about extinction rebellion before. Although I think they get some of the science wrong, and some of their demands seem unrealistic (we can’t get emissions to zero in 7 years), they are having an impact. We keep getting … Continue reading →

Posted in advocacy, Climate change, ClimateBall | Tagged , , | 114 Comments

Worst case scenarios, or not?

Posted on October 6, 2019 by

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 →

Posted in Carbon tax, Climate change, Climate sensitivity, ClimateBall | Tagged , , , , , | 47 Comments

Moderation at The Conversation

Posted on September 18, 2019 by

The Conversation has a new set of moderation policies which is motivated by a desire to improve [their] climate change coverage. It involves a zero tolerance approach to moderating climate change deniers, and sceptics. Not only will their comments be … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, Personal, Sound Science (tm) | Tagged , , , , , | 61 Comments

Propagation of nonsense – part II

Posted on September 10, 2019 by

I thought I would look again at Pat Frank’s paper that we discussed in the previous post. Essentially Pat Frank argues that the surface temperature evolution under a change in forcing can be described as where is an enhancement factor … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate sensitivity, ClimateBall, physicists, Research, Satire, Scientists | Tagged , , , , | 122 Comments

Propagation of nonsense

Posted on September 8, 2019 by

A couple of years ago, I had a guest post about Pat Frank’s suggestion that the propagation of errors invalidate climate model projections.. The guest post was mainy highlighting a very nice video that Patrick Brown had produced so as … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, Comedy, Pseudoscience, The philosophy of science, Watts Up With That | Tagged , , , , , | 50 Comments