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Climate adaptation follies. Part II: scenarios of future sea level rise

by Judith Curry How did the state of New Jersey come to adopt sea level rise projections for their adaptation planning that are more than twice as high as the IPCC’s values?

Climate adaptation follies. Part I: The New Jersey challenge

by Judith Curry New Jersey has a sea level rise problem.  How should this be managed?

Sea level rise whiplash

by Judith Curry Some recent sea level rise publications, with implications for how we think about the worst case scenario for the 21st century.

Climate adaptation sense. Part III: Dynamic Adaptation Policy Pathways

by Judith Curry Best practices in adapting to sea level rise use a framework suitable for decision making under deep uncertainty.

Assessment of climate change risk to the insurance sector

by Judith Curry The insurance sector is abuzz with a new report from AIR Worldwide on the insurance risk from the impact of climate change on hurricanes.  Insurance industry clients of my company, Climate Forecast Applications Network (CFAN), have requested … Continue reading

Challenges of the clean energy transition

by Judith Curry This morning I participated Conference on Energy and Decarbonization – A New Jersey Business Perspective. https://njbia.regfox.com/energy-summit. UPDATE: full recording of the conference [here]

Week in review – science edition

by Judith Curry A few things that caught my these past few weeks.

Week in review – science edition

by Judith Curry A few things that caught my eye over the past several weeks.

Week in review – science edition

by Judith Curry A few things that have caught my eye these past few weeks

Week in review – science edition

by Judith Curry A few things that have caught my eye these past several weeks.

Special Report on Sea Level Rise

by Judith Curry I have now completed my assessment of sea level rise and climate change.

Week in review – science edition

by Judith Curry A few things that caught my eye this past week

Sea level rise: what’s the worst case?

by Judith Curry Draft of article to be submitted for journal publication.

How we have mischaracterized climate risk

by Judith Curry “The current thinking and approaches guiding this conceptualization and description have been shown to lack scientific rigour, the consequence being that climate change risk and uncertainties are poorly presented. The climate change field needs to strengthen its … Continue reading

Week in review – science edition

by Judith Curry A few things that have caught my eye this past 12(!) weeks.

Sea levels, atmospheric pressure and land temperature during glacial maxima

by Alan Cannell The new tropical lands: a carbon sink during formation and huge source of carbon dioxide and methane when lost to the sea.

Week in review – science edition

by Judith Curry A few things that caught my eye these past few weeks

The Sun-Climate Effect: The Winter Gatekeeper Hypothesis (IV). The climate shift of 1997

by Javier Vinós & Andy May “These shifts are associated with significant changes in global temperature trend and in ENSO variability. The latest such event is known as the great climate shift of the 1970s.” Anastasios A. Tsonis, Kyle Swanson … Continue reading

Winter Gatekeeper Hypothesis: New support for the effect of solar activity on lower atmospheric circulation

by Javier Vinós A recent paper by Svetlana Veretenenko provides important support for the effect of solar activity on the lower atmospheric circulation through its effect on the polar vortex. Veretenenko’s paper is an important step in demonstrating the solar … Continue reading

Week in review – climate edition

by Judith Curry A few things that caught my eye these past weeks

Week in review – science edition

by Judith Curry A few things that caught my eye these past few weeks

Sea level rise: isostatic adjustment

by Judith Curry A discussion thread to ponder the uncertainties in glacial isostatic adjustment and the implications for past and future sea level rise.

Week in review – climate edition

by Judith Curry A few things that caught my eye these past weeks

The blame game

by Judith Curry How the ‘blame game’ gets in the way of solving complex societal problems.

Week in review – science edition

by Judith Curry A few things that caught my eye these past few weeks.