Scientifically intriguing?
Last week, Judith Curry had a guest post about causality and climate. I was initially a little confused, because I thought it was about a paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, that...
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Staggering!
There are climate scientists all over social media highlighting how staggering September 2023’s global surface temperature anomaly has been. It’s about 1.75oC above the pre-industrial reference...
View ArticleWhat does net-zero actually mean?
Roger Pielke Jr had a recent guest post on his substack by Tom Wigley called Net-Zero Does Not Mean What You Think it Does. The post concluded that CO2 emissions do not need to be eliminated to meet...
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RCP4.5/SSP2-4.5
I messed up something on Twitter so, of course, I now have to write a blog post. There seems to be this narrative developing that we’re either tracking well below RCP4.5/SSP2-4.5, or that it’s now a...
View ArticleIs the ECS very high?
Since I’ve written about climate sensitivity quite a lot, I though I would briefly comment on Sabine Hossenfelder’s recent video, I wasn’t worried about climate change. Now I am. In this context,...
View ArticleDoubling down?
I wrote a post a little while ago commenting on a Sabine Hossenfelder video suggesting that she was now worried about climate change because the Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity (ECS) could be much...
View ArticleA bit inactive…..
Since I managed to write a post a couple of days ago, I thought I might add another about why I haven’t been very active. The main reason is that I’m just simply too busy. I’ve taken over as head of...
View ArticleScenarios
After the whole RCP8.5 fiasco, that some may remember, I got interested in thinking more formally about modelling scenarios. I even contacted a philosophy colleague to discuss the possibility of...
View ArticleClimate risk
I realise that I haven’t written anything for a while and am unlikely to become particularly prolific again anytime soon. However, there’s something I’ve been thinking about and thought that I would...
View ArticleAdvocacy by scientists
I was reading a paper about scientists engaging in advocacy and thought I would briefly comment on it here. The paper is called Advocacy – defending science or destroying it? Interviews with 47...
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