Category Archives: Science

Off for a couple of weeks

Posted on July 15, 2017 by

I’m leaving for a meeting early tomorrow morning and then heading out on holiday as soon as I’m back, so posting – from me, at least – will probably be light for a couple of weeks. To be quite honest, … Continue reading →

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Doomsday scenarios

Posted on July 13, 2017 by

There’s been a bit of a furore over an article called The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells. The goal was clearly to investigate some of the extreme scenarios, but – unfortunately – the article got a number of things wrong … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate change, Global warming, Michael Mann, Policy, Science, Scientists | Tagged , , , | 135 Comments

Reconciling climate sensitivity estimates – part III, or IV?

Posted on July 11, 2017 by

I mentioned in a recent post that there was a new paper that claims to reconciles climate sensitivity estimates. The basic issue is that observationally-based climate sensitivity estimates have a range of about 1.5oC to about 3oC, while climate model … Continue reading →

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Hawking is wrong

Posted on July 7, 2017 by

I guess the big alarmist news at the moment is that Stephen Hawking has been quoted as saying: Trump’s action could push the Earth over the brink, to become like Venus, with a temperature of two hundred and fifty degrees, … Continue reading →

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Temperature targets

Posted on July 6, 2017 by

I realise Michael Tobis is planning a follow-up to his post, but I thought would quickly pen this post about temperature targets, for example the Paris target of keeping the increase in global average temperature to well below 2°C above … Continue reading →

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Meeting people

Posted on June 29, 2017 by

I was away all of last week on a mini UK-research tour. I had some work to do with people in Leicester, including with somone who has just finished doing a PhD with me and who has a couple of … Continue reading →

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The Science Police

Posted on June 27, 2017 by

Keith Kloor has an article in Issues in Science and Technology called The Science Police. I became aware of it because he linked to one of my posts so as to highlight a comment by Michael Tobis. I tried to … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, Research, Roger Pielke Jr, Science, Scientists, The philosophy of science, The scientific method | Tagged , , , , , | 57 Comments