Category Archives: Global warming

Revkin and Lomborg

Posted on November 20, 2022 by ...and Then There's Physics

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 →

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Giving up on 1.5C?

Posted on November 19, 2022 by ...and Then There's Physics

One of the talking points of COP27 is giving up, or compromising, on the 1.5oC target. The main reason is simply that the remaining carbon budget is very small. Essentially, to stop global warming requires getting human emissions to (net) … Continue reading →

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Beyond Catastrophe

Posted on October 29, 2022 by ...and Then There's Physics

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 →

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No, a cherry-picked analysis doesn’t demonstrate that we’re not in a climate crisis

Posted on October 7, 2022 by ...and Then There's Physics

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 →

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The ‘hot model’ problem

Posted on June 10, 2022 by ...and Then There's Physics

Zeke Hausfather and colleagues recently wrote a Nature comment with suggestions about how to deal with what is called the ‘hot model’ problem. The issue is that some of the latest group of climate models have somewhat higher than expected … Continue reading →

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The Greenhouse Effect

Posted on April 20, 2022 by ...and Then There's Physics

I’ve ended up in a rather silly discussion/debate on Twitter about the Greenhouse Effect. I realise it’s rather pointless, in that those who dispute it are very unlikely to accept its reality. However, it’s still interesting to think about how … Continue reading →

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Techniques of climate denial

Posted on April 3, 2022 by ...and Then There's Physics

Steve Koonin, who I’ve written about before, had an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal a few months ago claiming that Greenland’s melting ice is no cause for climate-change panic. The article uses a graph of mass loss rate to … Continue reading →

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A coupled climate-social system

Posted on February 24, 2022 by ...and Then There's Physics

I came across an interesting paper by Frances Moore and colleagues that considers [d]eterminants of emissions pathways in the coupled climate–social system. In the context of climate science, models that consider both the climate and society tend to not be … Continue reading →

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An international solar geoengineering non-use agreement

Posted on January 24, 2022 by ...and Then There's Physics

I wrote about Solar Radiation Managment, or solar geoengineering, earlier this year. It’s become a rather contentious topic, with some regarding it as worth exploring, and others almost seeming to regard it as something we should avoid at all costs. … Continue reading →

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Cumulative and (probably) irreversible

Posted on December 23, 2021 by ...and Then There's Physics

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 →

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