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Have CO2 emissions peaked?
I noticed, as has Stoat, that Ken Caldeira and Ted Nordhaus have a bet about whether or not we’ve reached peak CO2 emissions. Specifically, the bet is Between 2021 and the end of 2030, annual fossil fuel emissions (excluding carbonation) … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, ethics, Global warming, Philosophy for Bloggers
Tagged Climate bet, CO2 emissions, Ken Caldeira, Peak emissions, Ted Nordhaus
91 Comments
Climate change doesn’t work like that
A couple of years ago I wrote a post where I tried to explain why I thought climate change was a different kind of problem when compared to most of the other issues we might face today. I find it … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Environmental change, ethics, Policy, Science
Tagged AGW, atmospheric CO2, Jessica Tierney, Jody Freeman, Jonathan Gilligan, Pliocene
70 Comments
Superior
Something I’ve done on this blog quite a lot is push back against the narrative that science is social. This doesn’t mean that I think individual scientists can’t be biased, or that we won’t sometimes go down the wrong path … Continue reading
Apocalypse never?
I guess the current entertainment in the climate world relates to Michael Shellenberger’s new book, Apocolypse Never, which is due to come out next month and is already doing well on Amazon. In a somewhat amusing twist, Michael wrote a … Continue reading
Growth?
Just over a year ago, I wrote a post about limits to growth that focussed on an article written by Michael Liebreich. I found his argument particularly silly as it seemed to suggest that the economy could grow until the … Continue reading
Potentially habitable?
The exciting news in astronomy is the discovery of water in the atmosphere of a relatively small planet, known as K2-18b, that happens to lie in what we often to as the habitable zone of its parent star. The result … Continue reading
Retract!
I’ve been on holiday for a week or so. While I’ve been away there’s been quite a lot of media coverage of the paper that I discussed in this post and that we discussed extensively in this pubpeer thread. It … Continue reading
A human extinction denier?
Mike Hulme has a new essay that some are promoting on Twitter. He suggests that he is a human extinction denier and objects to the climate emergency narrative. Although I have my own concerns about some of the extreme rhetoric, … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, ethics, Policy, Politics
Tagged Climate emergency, Existential threat, Extinction rebellion, Human extinction, Mike Hulme
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Democracy
I’ve mostly avoided writing about Brexit, as it’s a pretty depressing situation. There are many aspects of this issue that I find frustrating, but something I find particularly irritating is when politicians claim that not leaving the EU would be … Continue reading
Posted in ethics, Personal, Politics
Tagged Brexit, EU, EU referendum, Leaving the EU, Parliamentary democracy, UKIP
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An STS perspective
I saw something a while ago that I been thinking about and thought I would write a short post in the hopes of clarifying my understanding (which is sorely lacking). The suggestion was that all those involved with climate change … Continue reading