RCP8.5 update
If you’ve been paying attention to the climate debate on social media you might have noticed the RCP8.5 debate rearing it’s ugly head again. This is because a new set of emission/concentration...
View ArticleSTFC funding crisis ….. again!
When I first came to work in the UK, Astronomy research was mostly funded through the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC). In 2007, PPARC was merged with the Council for the...
View ArticleDirect Air Capture
I thought I’d written about this before, but can’t seem to find a post. Either, my searching ability is poor, or my memory is poor. I mostly wanted to highlight an interesting YouTube video by David...
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A “controversial” methane metric?
There’s a recent Carbon Brief article about a supposedly controversial methane metric. The metric in question is GWP*, which I’ve actually written about before. Methane emissions are typically...
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Emergence vs Detection & Attribution
Since effective communication often involves repeating things, I thought I would repeat what others have pointed out already. The underlying issue is that there is a narrative in the climate...
View ArticleKoonin providing clarity on climate?
It seems that the US Department of Energy has now disbanded the Climate Working Group that drafted the report that I discussed in this post. However, about a week ago, Steven Koonin – one of the...
View ArticleSome thoughts about doing science
I’ve often thought that science communicators should spend a bit more time discussing what we might call the scientific method and a bit less time highlighting what are seen as exciting scientific...
View ArticleClimate sensitivity
In 2020, a large group of scientists published a paper in which they used multiple lines of evidence to assess Earth’s climate sensitivity. The lines of evidence they used were the physical processes...
View ArticleAnother pause?
It seems that a slowdown in the melting of Arctic sea ice is now being used to suggest that climate science is melting. This is very silly and is remininsence of the claims of a pause in global...
View ArticleGetting climate risk wrong
Ted Nordhaus has a recent article in The EcoModernist about why he stopped being a climate catastrophist. His basic argument is that we used to think that we were heading for 5oC of warming, which...
View ArticleIs there a conspiracy to ignore challenging new ideas?
A narrative associated with the new DOE report is that there are ideas that are being ignored by the research community and scientists who are being shunned for promoting these ideas. The suggestion...
View ArticleReaping the whirlwind?
Since I’ve been accussed of being one of his greatest critics, I thought I would comment on Roger Pielke Jr’s appearance in a recent Telegraph article on [h]ow a ‘misinformation-peddling’ government...
View ArticleElon and the Royal Society
There’s an Open Letter to the President of the Royal Society expressing dismay at the continued silence and apparent inaction from the Royal Society over the Fellowship awarded in 2018 to Elon Musk....
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...
View ArticleProsocial censorship?
I’ve had a number of pingbacks from various iterations of a post on prosocial censorship. If you really want to, you can read one here. Prosocial censorship is form of scientific criticism aimed at...
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 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 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 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...
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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...
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