No, it probably isn’t mostly due to changes in clouds!
I haven’t done a paper debunk for a while, but a reader got in touch to ask about a recent paper by Hans Rolf-Dübal and Fritz Vahrenholt, so I thought I would have a quick look. The paper is Radiative...
View ArticleConsidering Catastrophe
There’s been quite a lot of recent coverage of a paper suggesting that climate endgames, such as global societal collapse or human extinction, have been dangerously unexplored. For those who recall...
View ArticleApproximate net zero
Since I have a few free moments, I thought I would briefly highlight a paper by Jenkins et al. on [t]he Multi-Decadal Response to Net Zero CO2 Emissions and Implications for Emissions Policy. Recent...
View ArticleHansen’s 10C
A recent comment asked about James Hansen’s recent paper in which it is claimed that equilibrium global warming for today’s GHG level is 10°C. I’ve finally had a chance to look at it and I think I...
View ArticleSome more about Hansen et al.
I thought I would expand a bit on my previous post about the recent Hansen et al. paper. Something I did like is that the paper highlighted that there is no known paleoclimate analogues for the...
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 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 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...
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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