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Category Archives: Policy
Climate change and social justice
The Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) recently released a called Deny, Deceive, Delay: Documenting and responding to climate disinformation at COP26 and beyond. It highlighted a number of people who will be familiar to those who have followed the public … Continue reading
Scenarios
Just before the release of the IPCC’s AR6 WGIII report (Mitigation of Climate Change) Joeri Rogelj had a Carbon Brief guest post on how not to interpret the emission scenarios in the IPCC report. It might have been to try … Continue reading
Ignoring the Economists?
Andrew Dessler had an article in Rolling Stone suggesting that [t]he first step to saving the planet is ignoring the economists. Stoat has already written about it and, as you might imagine, doesn’t seem to like it. Even if suggesting … Continue reading
Posted in Carbon tax, economics, Philosophy for Bloggers, Policy
Tagged Andrew Dessler, Climate policy, Cost-benefit analyses, IAMs, Rolling Stone
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Moral models
I thought I would highlight a recent video presentation by Eric Winsberg, called Moral Models, Crucial Decisions in the Age of Computer Simulations. Some may remember that Eric co-wrote a post here about extreme weather event attribution. The theme of … Continue reading
Posted in ethics, Policy, Scientists, The philosophy of science
Tagged eric winsberg, Imperial College model, Modelling, Models, Report 9
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A coupled climate-social system
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
Posted in Climate change, Global warming, Policy, Research
Tagged coupled climate-social models, emission trajectories, Frances Moore, nature
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An international solar geoengineering non-use agreement
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
Posted in Climate change, Global warming, Policy, Uncategorized
Tagged Dan Miller, Frank Biermann, Solar Radiation Management, SRM, Termination shock
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How scientists failed the pandemic test
Philip Ball has an interesting article about UK science advice called [q]uiet, uncritical, obedient: how the UK’s scientists failed the pandemic test. It make some good points about there appearing to have been collusion between the science advisors and the … Continue reading
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
...and Then There's Physics 