Recent Comments
Bob Loblaw on Superior dikranmarsupial on Superior dikranmarsupial on Superior dikranmarsupial on Superior dikranmarsupial on Superior Steven Mosher on Superior ...and Then There's… on Superior Steven Mosher on Superior Steven Mosher on Superior Steven Mosher on Superior 
Rachel Squirrel- Aberdeen back in lockdown August 5, 2020
- Rabett Run
- Tobis shellacs Shellenberger July 15, 2020
- HotWhopper
- Apologies August 4, 2020
- Variable Variability
- RealClimate
- Forced Responses: Aug 2020 August 1, 2020
- Stoat
- Into the distance disappear the mounds of human heads July 22, 2020
- Open Mind
- COVID-19: Failure July 23, 2020
- Climate denial crock of the week
- robertscribbler
- Moyhu
- July global surface TempLS down 0.039°C from June. August 4, 2020
- uknowispeaksense
- An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Try again later.
- Real Sceptic
- Choosing Alternative Medicine To Treat Cancer Is Deadly October 25, 2017
- Musings on Quantitative Palaeoecology
- Simplistic and Dangerous Models April 20, 2020
- James’s Empty Blog
- Could R still be less than 1? August 5, 2020
- Isaac Held’s Blog
- 73. Tuning to the global mean temperature record November 28, 2016
- More than just data
- Digital conferences – how might they work? May 10, 2020
- Mallemaroking
- A comment piece on the SROCC September 26, 2019
- Symptons of the Universe
- Round and Round: Do Electrons Really Spin? July 21, 2020
Tag Archives: AGW
Extreme event attribution and the nature-culture duality
I’ve been reading a paper by Shannon Osaka and Rob Bellamy called Weather in the Anthropocene: Extreme event attribution and a modelled nature–culture divide. I’ve written about event attribution before, and I’m largely in favour of the storyline approach; given … Continue reading
Outgoing longwave radiation
Something that often strikes me is that when I think I understand something quite well, there often turns out to be an aspect that I haven’t understood particularly well. I sometimes think that this is can be an important thing … Continue reading
AGW in One GIF
An image is said to be worth a thousand words. A GIF encapsulates many images. This one may not cover all ClimateBall players said, but I like it: Which words would that GIF be worth? If you got another illustration … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Global warming, We Are Science
Tagged AGW, dinosaurs, GIF, Open Thread, trampolines
21 Comments
Tame and Wicked Problems
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
Sea level rise
There’s a bizarre article in the Wall Street Journal by Fred Singer called, The Sea Is Rising, but Not Because of Climate Change. It’s actually so bonkers that it’s quite hard to know where to start. I’ll give it go, … Continue reading
ECS from a modified energy balance approach
Andrew Dessler’s paper (technically Dessler and Forster), which he mentioned in this comment, has now appeared as a pre-print. Essentially, they use an energy balance approach to estimate equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS), but – as I mentioned in this post … Continue reading
Galactic cosmic rays
There’s a recent Nature Communications paper by Svensmark et al. called [i]ncreased ionization supports growth of aerosols into cloud condensation nuclei. The basic idea is that cosmic rays (energetic particles typically accelerated by shock waves) can influence the growth of … Continue reading
Assessing global warming
A couple of years ago I wrote a joint post with Roger Pielke Sr that discussed assessing anthropogenic global warming. The post basically used changes in ocean heat content to assess anthropogenic global warming. The basic idea (which is not … Continue reading
Avoiding dangerous to catastrophic climate change
I haven’t really had much to say, hence the lack of posts. I still don’t, but I thought I would quickly highlight a recent paper by Xu and Ramanathan called Well below 2 °C: Mitigation strategies for avoiding dangerous to … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Climate sensitivity, Science
Tagged AGW, Catastrophic, Emission reductions, Existential threat, Zero emissions
71 Comments
Extreme weather events
Gavin Schmidt had an interesting Twitter thread about discussing the link between extreme weather events and climate change. I’ve included an image of the thread on the right (click on it to expand) but the basic suggestion (with which I … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, Science, Scientists
Tagged AGW, Climate change, Extreme precipitation, Hurricanes, Kerry Emmanuel, Storm surges, Tropical cylones
156 Comments
