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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...
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Stoat, who I do still sometimes read, had a recent post about the state of the blogging game. Some resonated with me, which I why I thought I would write this post. It does feel that the “blogging...
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...
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Gliese 12 b
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is a satellite mission aimed at detecting planets around other stars using the transit method. A particular focus is small planets around stars...
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 ArticleCovid origins debate
A couple of days ago I retweeted, or re-Xed, an article about how gain of function research did not cause COVID-19. My understanding is that even if we can’t rule out some kind of laboratory accident,...
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...
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