Category Archives: Policy

School strike for climate

Posted on February 15, 2019 by

I thought I would try to briefly write about today’s school strike for climate. I mostly think this is a really good thing. I don’t think we should be relying on school children. I don’t think that school children should … Continue reading →

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Common ground?

Posted on February 7, 2019 by

Judith Curry testified before the US House of Representatives. You can read her evidence and post. In a follow up post Judith suggests that there is some common ground that we can build on. I’m not really convinced that there … Continue reading →

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We have 12 years

Posted on January 9, 2019 by

Patrick Brown has a recent blog post about whether, or not, the IPCC claims that we have 12 years to avoid catastrophic global warming. As his post highlights, there are a number of problems with this claim. Firstly, the IPCC … Continue reading →

Posted in advocacy, Climate change, Philosophy for Bloggers, Policy, Scientists, The philosophy of science | Tagged , , , , , , | 31 Comments

What bothers, and confuses, me about climate change

Posted on January 6, 2019 by

Since this blog is mainly a place for me to express my views, I thought I would try explain something that bothers, and confuses, me about the whole climate change issue. Maybe others feel the same as I do, maybe … Continue reading →

Posted in advocacy, Carbon tax, Climate change, Environmental change, Personal, Philosophy for Bloggers, Policy | Tagged , , , , | 273 Comments

There was no “pause” in global warming!

Posted on December 19, 2018 by

There are a couple of new papers that essentially analyse the various analyses of the supposed “pause” in global warming. One, lead by James Risbey considers fluctuation[s] in surface temperature in historical context: reassessment and retrospective on the evidence. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate sensitivity, ClimateBall, Gavin Schmidt, IPCC, Policy, Research, The philosophy of science, The scientific method | Tagged , , , , , | 291 Comments

Decarbonising the electric power sector

Posted on December 16, 2018 by

Since I’ve been trying to better understand some other aspects of the climate change topic, I recently read a paper by Jesse Jenkins, Max Luke, and Samuel Thernstrom. It’s about Getting to Zero Carbon Emissions in the Electric Power Sector, … Continue reading →

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Tame and Wicked Problems

Posted on December 7, 2018 by

Reiner Grundmann has a new paper on The rightful placeful of expertise. It’s rather long, but there were a couple of things I wanted to highlight, and it gives me chance to try and stress something I was trying to … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, Global warming, Policy, Scientists, The scientific method | Tagged , , , , , | 88 Comments