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Category Archives: ClimateBall
Plausible scenarios
New Scientist has a recent article about [t]he worst-case climate scenarios are no longer plausible today. This is a topic that has been covered here before, and is partly motivated by a paper discussed in this post. The basic premise … Continue reading
Revkin and Lomborg
I was listening to a podcast hosted by Lex Fridman with guests Andy Revkin and Bjorn Lomborg. The podcast was billed as a Climate Debate, but it wasn’t really. It was mostly two guest who seemed to largely agree with … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, Global warming, Resilience
Tagged Andy Revkin, Bjorn Lomborg, Lex Fridman, Vulnerabilities
133 Comments
Beyond Catastrophe
Since some commenters on my previous post have mentioned this, I though I might comment on David Wallace-Wells’ recent article in the New York Times. It’s called Beyond Catastrophe, and argues that Thanks to astonishing declines in the price of … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, Global warming, Roger Pielke Jr
Tagged Catastrophe, David Wallace-Wells, Matt Ridley, New York Times, RCP8.5
149 Comments
Responses to Considering Catastrophe
A while ago I wrote a post about a paper by Luke Kemp, and colleagues, suggesting that we should put more effort into exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios. There’s now been a response by Burgess et al. suggesting that Catastrophic … Continue reading
How To Lord Comment Sections
On the 2022-10-03, Christopher Walter Monckton, 3rd Viscount of Brenchley (viz. Christopher) wrote a piece at Tony’s showcasing a paper he allegedly wrote two years ago. Nobody ever read it. It has not been published anywhere. Co-authors are unnamed, yet … Continue reading
No, a cherry-picked analysis doesn’t demonstrate that we’re not in a climate crisis
This is a repost of an article that I wrote for Skeptical Science, with help from @TheDisproof, who has been very active on Twitter debunking various climate myths. A group of Italian scientists recently published a paper in which they … Continue reading
Considering Catastrophe
There’s been quite a lot of recent coverage of a paper suggesting that climate endgames, such as global societal collapse or human extinction, have been dangerously unexplored. For those who recall the contentious RCP8.5 debate, this may seem a surprising … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Climate sensitivity, ClimateBall, Gavin Schmidt, Policy, Research, Uncategorized
Tagged Climate endgames, Luke Kemp, RCP8.5, Tim Lenton, worst-case scenarios
92 Comments
FAIL Better
Recently AT reminded us of FLICC, a taxonomy of contrarian tactics introduced in 2007 by MarkH. His bro’s Deck still shines. As a first post of a science blog, it does the job. As a permanent classifier, it deserves some … Continue reading
Posted in ClimateBall, how-to, Pseudoscience, SpeedoScience
Tagged Albert Camus, Don Quixote, John Cook, Mark Hoofnagle, Paul Grice, Samuel Beckett, Skeptical Science
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Scenarios
Just before the release of the IPCC’s AR6 WGIII report (Mitigation of Climate Change) Joeri Rogelj had a Carbon Brief guest post on how not to interpret the emission scenarios in the IPCC report. It might have been to try … Continue reading
...and Then There's Physics 