Tag Archives: atmospheric co2 concentration

Maximum warming

Posted on January 4, 2015 by ...and Then There's Physics

There’s an interesting new paper by Katharine Ricke and Ken Caldeira called Maximum warming occurs about one decade after a carbon dioxide emission. The basic result of the paper is that the median time between the emission of some CO2 … Continue reading →

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Excellence!

Posted on December 19, 2014 by ...and Then There's Physics

Unless you’re a UK-based academic, you may not know that yesterday was an important day in UK academia; it was the release of the results from the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) exercise. This is an assessment of most of … Continue reading →

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Henry’s Law

Posted on October 28, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

Update – 03 March 2019: This post is really a bit simplistic. I’ve since covered this in more detail and written a series of posts. You can find them here, here and here. Murry Salby is doing a tour of … Continue reading →

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Atmospheric CO2 lifetime

Posted on August 11, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

The Hockey Schtick appears to be excited about a new paper that finds that the lifetime of CO2 in atmosphere is only 5.4 years. This appears to actually be an abstract for a conference presentation, rather than an actual paper. … Continue reading →

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