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Category Archives: Environmental change
Maybe a little science denial is actually in order?
I ended up in a brief discussion on Twitter with Matthew Nisbet, Professor of Communication, Public Policy, and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University, and Sander van der Linden, Professor of Social Psychology in Society at the University of Cambridge. Matthew Nisbet … Continue reading
Cumulative and (probably) irreversible
This post may be written more in frustration than anything else, but I’ve had some recent discussions that have made me wonder if even those who spend their time thinking/writing/commenting about climate change fully appreciate that it’s a cumulative problem … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Environmental change, Global warming, Policy
Tagged Carbon budget, Cumulative emissions, Net zero, No Planet B
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Vulnerability and resilience
I’m starting to better understand why some reasonable people are often concerned about the way in which the impact of extreme weather events are sometimes framed. It’s quite well explained in this recent paper by Myanna Lahsen and Jesse Ribot … Continue reading
Implications for mitigating methane emissions in agriculture
Since I was discussing methane in yesterday’s post, I thought I would highlight a paper on [u]nderstanding the implications for mitigating methane emissions in agriculture (H/T Miles King). The reason I found it interesting, is that it uses GWP* (which … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Environmental change, Policy
Tagged agricultural emissions, Cinaro Costa Jr, GWP*, GWP100, GWP20, Methane
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Independent SAGE – Climate
Sir David King, who has been leading the Independent SAGE group, is planning to set up a similar group that will focus on climate change (H/T Doug McNeall). It will apparently have 14 experts, from 10 nations, and every continent. … Continue reading
Halting the vast release of methane is critical
A week or so ago there was a New York Times article called Halting the Vast Release of Methane Is Critical for Climate, U.N. Says. As the title suggests, it was reporting on a United Nations Report that (according to … Continue reading
Some thoughts about net-zero
There’s been a reasonable vigorous, but pleasant, debate on Twitter about “net-zero”. It was largely motivated by a Conversation article by James Dyke, Robert Watson, and Wolfgang Knorr called Climate scientists: concept of net zero is a dangerous trap. The basic … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Environmental change, Policy, Research, Scientists
Tagged James Dyke, Negative emissions, net-zero, NETs, Robert Watson, The Conversation, Wolfgang Knorr
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‘Net zero’
There’s been some recent debate about the term ‘net-zero’. Just to give some basic background, given that the zero emission commitment is close to zero (i.e., when we get anthropogenic emissions to zero, global surface temperatures should soon stabilise) means … Continue reading
Losing the sky
Andy Lawrence, who happens to be a colleague, has just published a book called Losing the Sky. Andy also gave a brief presentation about it, which is what motivated me to write this post. The book is very reasonably priced … Continue reading
Posted in Environmental change, Scientists
Tagged Andy Lawrence, Astronomy, SpaceX, Starlink, Tragedy of the Commons
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Deferential?
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
...and Then There's Physics 