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Loss of old certainties hobbles IPCC

A comparison of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report on the science of climate change with the First Assessment from 1990 raises some awkward questions.

Published September 30, 2013
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged climate science, ipcc

Lord Stern calls for new generation of climate models

Lord Stern says that shortcomings in climate models handicap decision-making by politicians. But he concedes that new models will not be ready in time.

Published April 8, 2013
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged climate science

Give this conference the third degree on global warming

The Planet Under Pressure 2012 conference is in need of a legacy. Scientists should be encouraged to say what they think about the prospects for limiting global warming to two degrees. The consequences could be profound.

Published March 29, 2012
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged climate science, global governance, planetary boundaries, sustainable development

Clutching at straws of climate data

Rebuilding colonial-era networks of meteorological stations is a consistent refrain of climate adaptation plans in Africa.

Published August 11, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged climate science, rwanda

Hansen strikes fear into Nansen conference

Dr James Hansen had a serious message inbetween the apocalpytic scenarios of his presentation at the Nansen Conference in Oslo.

Published June 7, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged climate science, loss and damage

I am no longer a climate change sceptic

Climate change sceptics should watch Michel Jarraud talk about the Russian heat wave of 2010. The Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization told the Cancun climate conference that the temperatures were “off the scale.”

Published December 7, 2010
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged climate science, russia, wmo

McKibben can revive moody Monbiot

George Monbiot sounds very depressed at recent events. Bill McKibben of 350.org seems inspired. Perhaps the two should compare notes.

Published March 22, 2010
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged activism, climate science

Do-it-yourself climate forecasting

Climate change scientists may be adopting new tactics in the fightback against scepticism. The weather is already changing so rapidly that we don’t need those complicated predictions of the future.

Published March 8, 2010
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged climate science, morocco, UK

Make haste for IPCC Fifth Assessment

Climate change sceptics tell us not to worry so much whilst many respected scientists such as James Lovelock warn that it’s too late. We won’t know who to believe until the science improves.

Published December 29, 2009
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged books, climate science

Time to snap out of the two degree trance

Vulnerable nations such as Tuvalu made some progress at Copenhagen last week in questioning the right of rich countries to regard two degrees as the safe limit of global warming. More momentum could scupper the talks.

Published December 14, 2009
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged climate science, unfccc

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Heaviness of being. And poetry
Sluggish in the doldrums of what happens.
Me waiting until I was nearly fifty
To credit marvels. Like the tree-clock of tin cans
The tinkers made. So long for air to brighten,
Time to be dazzled and the heart to lighten.

Seamus Heaney, from Seeing Things