Tag Archives: Irreversible climate change

Existential threat?

Posted on April 4, 2019 by ...and Then There's Physics

I had a discussion with someone recently who asked if climate change really was an existential threat for humans. I responded that it wasn’t. However, I added that this didn’t mean that it couldn’t be severely disruptive or that it … Continue reading →

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The benefits of acting now, rather than later

Posted on November 4, 2018 by ...and Then There's Physics

This is a post that I’ve been thinking about for a while, but have been somewhat reluctant to actually write. This is partly because maybe I’m wrong, partly because it is clearly going to be a bit too simplistic, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon tax, Climate change, Environmental change, ethics, Policy, Science, Severe Events | Tagged , , , , | 177 Comments

Multi-millenial climate change

Posted on February 21, 2016 by ...and Then There's Physics

I was wanting to post a figure from a recent paper by Clark et al. called Consequences of twenty-first-century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea-level change. The figure is below, and it highlights two related things that I’ve been trying … Continue reading →

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