Category Archives: Global warming

Consensus messaging, an update

Posted on January 14, 2020 by

If you’re a regular follower of this blog, you’ll know that some of the most active threads have concerned the scientific consensus about climate change and, more specifically, the issue of consensus messaging. Recently, a new book has been released … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, Global warming, Philosophy for Bloggers, The philosophy of science, The scientific method | Tagged , , , , , , | 209 Comments

Zharkova et al.: an update

Posted on January 13, 2020 by

Last year I wrote a couple of posts about a paper by Valentina Zharkova and colleagues, which suggested that global warming was partly due to the Earth moving closer to the Sun as the Sun moves around the Solar System … Continue reading →

Posted in Global warming, Philosophy for Bloggers, Research, Sound Science (tm), The philosophy of science | Tagged , , , , , | 21 Comments

Stocks and Flows

Posted on December 4, 2019 by

Sitting at home waiting for a delivery, so just a quick post. There’s been a new narrative, on social media at least, that we may be heading for a plateau in global emissions. The suggestion, then, is that we are … Continue reading →

Posted in advocacy, Carbon tax, Climate change, Global warming, Policy | Tagged , , , , , | 120 Comments

Tipping points/elements

Posted on November 30, 2019 by

There has been quite lot of discussion recently about climate tipping points, or tipping elements. It’s mostly motivated by a recent Nature comment suggesting that Climate tipping points [are] too risky to bet against. The suggestion is that some the … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate change, Global warming, Philosophy for Bloggers, Policy, Severe Events | Tagged , , , , , , | 249 Comments

Methane

Posted on November 23, 2019 by

I’ve always been a little confused as to why so much attention is paid to methane emissions. It’s short-lived, so isn’t it maybe somewhat less important that CO2 emissions, which are long-lived? One reason it is quite prominent is because … Continue reading →

Posted in Environmental change, Global warming, Policy, Research, Scientists | Tagged , , , , , | 241 Comments

Estimates of the economic impact of climate change

Posted on October 31, 2019 by

I realise Stoat has already covered this, but I thought I would also briefly discuss it here. I posted a couple of tweets, that got quite a lot of responses, about the economic impacts of climate change, that tried to … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon tax, Climate change, economics, Global warming, Philosophy for Bloggers | Tagged , , , , , , , | 200 Comments

Societal tipping points

Posted on October 24, 2019 by

Noami Oreskes and Nicholas Stern have a New York Times Opinion piece called Climate Change will cost us even more than we think. Some are very critical, others are a little more circumspect. I, on the other hand, think that … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate change, economics, Global warming, Policy, Politics, Severe Events | Tagged , , , , | 172 Comments