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2019-04-23

Melting permafrost in Arctic will have $70tn climate impact?

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Or so claims the Graun . Being totally shit journos they don't even include a link to the paper that is their source, but the answer is...
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2019-04-22

Carbontaxwatch: Edenhofer, tax, trading, obligations, gilets, FFF

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Another note in the long Carbon Tax wars . This is  Otmar "director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research" Edenhof...
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2019-04-19

ECS is 5 oC?

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So, it would appear, CMIP6 first results show 1 . This appears a touch implausible to me, and is waay out of line with previous results fro...
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2019-04-16

L'affaire Peter Ridd, part 2

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[Update 2019/09: Peter Ridd awarded $1.2m in unfair dismissal case against James Cook University .] [No time to post right now but it look...
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2019-04-10

The Great Miscalculator

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There's a niceish article The Great Miscalculator by Arnold Kling, mostly about markets. But I think: When a firm's costs are do...
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2019-04-09

Can Law Save Us From Climate Change?

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No. Because it isn't against the law. However calltothebar.org would have it otherwise, writing : On April 18, 2019, a group of lead...
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2019-03-22

Top oil firms spending millions lobbying to block climate change policies?

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The largest five stock market listed oil and gas companies spend nearly $200m (£153m) a year lobbying to delay, control or block policies t...
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2019-03-19

Skolstrejk för klimatet

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Trigger warning: negativity. If you want to think happy thoughts, go elsewhere . Continued at:  At Davos we will tell world leaders to aba...
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2019-03-16

Governance is hard

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Getting a good government is hard. This is becoming increasingly obvious in the world, perhaps for two interconnected reasons: people are l...
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Brexit schmexit

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We appear to be reaching the End Times , so I feel the need for another post. I was hoping that nice Dr Annan would spare me the trouble bu...
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Godwin's law

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Godwin's law , strictly speaking, is merely an Internet adage asserting that "As an online discussion grows longer, the probabilit...
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2019-03-13

Climate Litigation Watch?

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Life is dull after Lents. Ah well, I can but look forward to Mays and the future. In the meantime, I run across Climate Litigation Watch , ...
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2019-03-11

Minor note re IPCC 1990 fig 7.1(c)

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Listening to the usual idiots bleating about adjustments to the temperature record , I was struck by a comment in the Jones et al. paper w...
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2019-03-10

Lents 2019

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Another fine Lents, this one happily not truncated by inclement weather. Stars of the show were Caius who went head on their first day. Acco...
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2019-03-03

Two creaky sci-fi books about Mars

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By slightly odd co-incidence, I'm currently reading two creaky old sci-fi books about Mars. I've finished neither, but never mind, ...
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2019-02-25

Jobs. Are. Going. Away. Growth no longer creates jobs. Pardon?

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My headline comes from a twit by mt 4 , except for the last word and the associated mark of interrogation , which are not his. I'm not ...
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A child’s garden of wikipedia, part II

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Piers " mad as a bagful of badgers " Corbyn is sad because I  24/7 replaced good stuff with smears & lies in [his] so-call...
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