environment
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Index to impact to index
Reading a paper looking at the definition of extreme events as relates to the impacts on climate vulnerable communities. Continue reading
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It never rains…
In which I look at a paper and weep. Continue reading
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Synecdoche ain’t okey dokey
Analysing extreme events, as important as they are, can only every provide a partial view of climate-related impacts. Continue reading
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Seeping
This is quite an old paper – Seepage: Climate change denial and its effect on the scientific community – dating back to 2015, but it popped up today so I dusted off my old notes. It contends that the “pause” was a contrarian idea that “seeped” into proper scientific discourse where it didn’t belong. It’s… Continue reading
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Paris disagreements
The recent nonsense paper that divines global temperature change from a handful of sea sponges has at least found a pressure point in the argument about the Paris Agreement goals. By quoting a number comfortably past the lower of the two Paris limits – global temperature changes is ~1.7°C above pre-industrial according to the deeply… Continue reading
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Flawed communication
A paper came out recently in Nature Climate Change. It presents a series of global mean temperature going back to 1700. Their series shows that global temperature had already reached 1.7 ± 0.1 °C above pre-industrial levels by 2020. We have gone whooshing past 1.5°C without even realising it. Huge – as they say – if true. Of… Continue reading
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FAR from the same thing
An interesting paper came out in September in “nature communications” about “The global costs of extreme weather that are attributable to climate change“. They calculate that “US$143 billion per year of the costs of extreme events is attributable to climatic change“. As with all figures this large, I don’t know if that’s a lot or… Continue reading
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Making it official
In the next few days and weeks (and probably in the past few) you are going to hear the phrase “it’s official”. It’s official! The global temperature for 2023 was the highest on record. That kind of thing. It’s worth bearing in mind that there is no single officially official global temperature record. There are… Continue reading