by Judith Curry
The Paris Agreement and, more generally, climate change policy, almost perfectly illustrate the contradictions of the post-modern industrialized world risk society, characterized by perceived threats confirmed by politicized science and governed by sub-politics beyond democratic control. – Lucas Bergkamp
Posted in Policy
by Judith Curry
Campus unrest, viewpoint diversity, and freedom of speech are issues that have been of increasing concern to me.
Posted in Ethics
by Judith Curry
The American Meteorological Society has issued a draft report on the results from a survey of the views of their membership on climate change.
Posted in Consensus
by Judith Curry
A new thread for this discussion.
Posted in Politics
by Planning Engineer and Rud Istvan
Just because something works in one place’s circumstances does not mean it will work elsewhere under different circumstances. Continue reading
Posted in Energy
by Judith Curry
The National Academies has published a new report: Attribution of extreme weather events in the context of climate change.
Posted in Attribution, Extreme events
by Peter Lang
A revolution could be achieved with nuclear power if we remove the factors that caused the large cost increases during and since the 1970’s, i.e. return to the learning rates demonstrated before 1970.
Posted in Energy
by Greg Goodman
Inappropriate use of linear regression can produce spurious and significantly low estimations of the true slope of a linear relationship if both variables have significant measurement error or other perturbing factors. This is precisely the case when attempting to regress modelled or observed radiative flux against surface temperatures in order to estimate sensitivity of the climate system. Continue reading
Posted in Sensitivity & feedbacks
Energy security is complicated, and multi-dimensional. It goes beyond over-simplified notions of energy self-sufficiency or energy independence. It’s about where our energy comes from and its the cost, reliability, sustainability, and scale of our energy use. Technical, economic, geopolitical and other factors all play a role, and one needs to understand how they interact. Energy security is not just a matter of energy; it’s about how energy affects national security.
Posted in Energy
