Conversations
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 ArticleHow to Cavil Like Cranks
§1. Thesis. Hard to tell when Climateball scuffles kick off. Players often seem surprised to get caught in the middle of them. In one comment they exchange ideas, in the next they trade insults. This...
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...
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 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 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 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 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...
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