The Gulf Stream
Quite often in the media there will be articles claiming that global warming could cause the Gulf Stream to shutdown, or collapse. This is technically not correct, which is explained really nicely, in...
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The Escalator
One of the most well-known graphics from Skeptical Science is the escalator. It illustrates how contrarians tend to cherry-pick short time intervals so as to argue that there’s been no warming, while...
View ArticleMethane, again.
I ended up in quite an interesting Twitter discussion about methane and CO2. I got involved when someone mentioned this thread from Ken Caldeira. The point being made is that because CO2 has a long...
View ArticleHow we frame extreme weather events
To maybe move the discussion on from the origins of Covid, I thought I’d write a post about detection and attribution. It is somewhat motivated by a brief dicsussion with Ted Nordhaus, from the...
View ArticleClintel report Bingo.
Clintel, a group who thinks there is no climate emergency, and whose name – rather ironically – stands for Climate Intelligence, has published an analysis of the IPCC. You can download it here, if...
View ArticleRCP8.5 and net-zero
There’s a narrative that seems to be developing that suggests that the requirement to reach (net) zero emissions is largely based on the high-emission RCP8.5 scenario. Since this is (according to...
View ArticleThey made me do it!
Patrick Brown, who some may recall had an excellent response to some of Pat Frank’s nonsense, has written an article claiming that he left out the full truth to get his climate change paper published....
View ArticleScientifically 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 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 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...
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