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Category Archives: Roger Pielke Jr
Plausible emission scenarios
A paper by Roger Pielke Jr, Matthew Burgess and Justin Ritchie has been submitted that suggests that the most plausible 2005-2040 emission scenarios project less than 2.5oC of warming by 2100. It’s generated a bit of debate on social media, … Continue reading
Posted in ClimateBall, Global warming, Policy, Roger Pielke Jr
Tagged IPCC, RCP, RCP8.5, Representative Concentration Pathways, Shared Socioeconomic Pathways, SSP
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Scenario use in climate research
If you’ve been following the blog for a while, you will be aware that I’ve commented on a number of occasions about the whole RCP8.5 issue. You may also be aware that one of the chief protagonists in that whole … Continue reading
Estragon and the Expert
An abstract stakeholder’s dialog. Vladimir, or V, is the expert. Estragon is E. [V] You have cancer.[E] OK.[V] …[E] Is it curable?[V] Yes, I guess.[E] …[V] …[E] How?[V] There’s A or B.[E] What would you suggest.[V] If you do A … Continue reading
Posted in advocacy, ClimateBall, Politics, Roger Pielke Jr
Tagged Jonathan Gilligan, Michael Tobis, Roger Pielke Junior
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The Honest Broker
In discussions about science and policy, it is quite common for people to refer to The Honest Broker, a book by Roger Pielke Jr. I realise that it is now a little old, but I’ve only just had the chance … Continue reading
Disasters and Climate Change – part 2
Since I have a bit of free time, I thought I would expand a little on my Review of Roger Pielke Jr’s book about Disasters and Climate Change. As I mentioned in my earlier post, there were a number of … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, Policy, Roger Pielke Jr
Tagged anthropogenic emissions, attribution, Extreme events, Patrick Brown
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Disasters and Climate Change
Roger Pielke Jr emailed me an advance copy of the 2nd edition of his book on Disasters and Climate Change. Roger’s email ended with I welcome your reactions, comments, critique. Past experience makes me slightly dubious, but I will take … Continue reading
Rethinking climate policy
Roger Pielke Jr has been promoting his new paper in Issues in Science and Technology. The paper is called opening up the climate policy envelope and Roger has been suggesting that people should read it. I’ve read it a couple … Continue reading
Posted in advocacy, Carbon tax, IPCC, Policy, Roger Pielke Jr
Tagged BECCS, Climate policy, IAMs, Issues in Science and Technology, Negative emissions
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Criticising the critics
I’ve recently come across a number of examples of people objecting to the manner in which some people engage in public criticism. There is a podcast with Sam Harris and Ezra Klein. It relates to a situation in which a … Continue reading
Posted in ClimateBall, Personal, Policy, Roger Pielke Jr
Tagged Ezra Klein, Jordan Peterson, Public discourse, Roger Pielke Jr, Sam Harris, Vox
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...and Then There's Physics 