Plus Ultra!
I know Brian said that we’d posted our last, but I couldn’t let the very kind words on the thread announcing our closure to go un-remarked. I also thought it somewhat incumbent on me as founder of the blog to […]
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These posts are intended to share information and ideas about climate change and hence act as a roundtable for readers to contribute items of interest. Again, I do not want to spend time in comments rehashing whether human activity causes […]
Copping out at COP 19 in Warsaw
Back in 2002 an Earth Summit (World Summit on Sustainable Development) nick-named “Rio + 10″ was held in Johannesburg. As I recall there was a big push on to transfer the main carriage for environmental matters from the UN to […]
You’ve been warned!
I did have a restful Christmas, albeit wrapped in the warmth of Brisbane’s humidity, but in the still of the night reality has a way of breaking through. I’ll begin with the ending of this story, as it were, by […]
Climate clippings 90
These posts are intended to share information and ideas about climate change and hence act as a roundtable for readers to contribute items of interest. Again, I do not want to spend time in comments rehashing whether human activity causes […]
Experts have a say on sea level rise
The recent IPCC report estimated sea level rise (SLR) thus: For the scenario RCP8.5 (the most likely) the rise by the year 2100 is 0.52 to 0.98m, with medium confidence. A new study (Horton, Engelhart and Kemp) asked experts in […]
If a tree falls in the forest…
…does anybody hear? Unless you’ve been living under a rock in the past few days you will have heard/seen Joe Hockey say that the budget is in terrible shape and he’ll have to clean up Labor’s mess. You see it’s […]
Real clothes for the emperor
“When I look at this [CO2] data, the trend is perfectly in line with a temperature increase of 6 degrees Celsius, which would have devastating consequences for the planet.” Fatih Birol, IEA chief economist That’s one of the favourite quotes […]
Deja vue all over again: the new NBN
Laura Tingle reckons the arrival of Turnbull’s NBN Strategic Review is deja vu all over again: The raw politics of this is that, no matter how much the Coalition can complain that it has been left to clean up a […]
Assessing dangerous climate change
Seventeen high-profile academics with expertise across the climate research spectrum, from atmospheric science, earth science and environmental science, to economics, global change and public health led by James Hansen, now at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, have published a paper Assessing […]
Climate clippings 89
These posts are intended to share information and ideas about climate change and hence act as a roundtable for readers to contribute items of interest. Again, I do not want to spend time in comments rehashing whether human activity causes […]