How Many ‘Wedges’ Does It Take to Solve the Climate ‘Problem’?
Updated: 2013-01-11 15:41:44
In An Inconvenient Truth (pp. 280-281), Al Gore enthused about a Science magazine study by Princeton economists Robert Socolow and Stephen Pacala. The study concluded that, “Humanity already possesses the fundamental scientific, technical, and industrial know how to solve the carbon and climate problems for the next half century.” Gore claimed the policies Socolow and Pacala recommend, “all of which [...]
This is Part 2 of my thoughts on the state of sea-level research. Here is Part 1. Sea-level cycles? A topic that keeps coming up in the literature is the discussion on a (roughly) 60-year cycle in sea level data; a nice recent paper on this is . One thing I like about this paper [...]
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Progress has been made in recent years in understanding the observed past sea-level rise. As a result, process-based projections of future sea-level rise have become dramatically higher and are now closer to semi-empirical projections. However, process-based models still underestimate past sea-level rise, and they still project a smaller rise than semi-empirical models. Sea-level projections were [...]
The recent warming has been more pronounced in the Arctic Eurasia than in many other regions on our planet, but argues that only one out of 109 temperature records from this region exhibits a significant warming trend. I think that his conclusions were based on misguided analyses. The analysis did not sufficiently distinguish between signal [...]
That fossil fuels are bad for people and the planet is a cardinal tenet of both mainstream and radical environmentalism. Cato Institute scholar Indur Goklany offers a dramatically different assessment in Humanity Unbound: How Fossil Fuels Saved Humanity from Nature and Nature from Humanity. Global average life expectancy (the best single indicator of health) hardly changed through most of human [...]
A number of blogs were excited after having leaked the second-order draft of IPCC document, which they interpreted as a “game-changing admission of enhanced solar forcing”. However, little evidence remains for a link between galactic cosmic rays (GCR) and variations in Earth’s cloudiness. recently provided an extensive review of the study of the GCR and [...]
Eric Steig Regular followers of RealClimate will be aware of our publication in 2009 in Nature, showing that West Antarctica — the part of the Antarctic ice sheet that is currently contributing the most to sea level rise, and which has the potential to become unstable and contribute a lot more (3 meters!) to sea [...]
The wind energy production tax credit (PTC) expires at the stroke of midnight, Dec. 31, unless Congress votes to renew the tax break. A one-year extension would add an estimated $12.1 billion to deficit spending over 10 years. A six-year extension, advocated by the wind industry, could add $50 billion. The fiscal cliff looms and the [...]