DE STAAT VAN HET KLIMAAT
Quiz: who wrote this and when?
Much is being written about the failure of Rio+20. A must read is this article by George Monbiot and the reaction of Reiner Grundmann at Klimazwiebel. Today I was reading a slightly older piece that could have been written just after Rio. I couldn't have said it better, so I just post a selection below. The [...]
The end of peak oil?
Andrew Revkin paid attention on his blog to what looks to be a really interesting report on the near future oil production. The report is written by Leonardo Maugeri, a fellow of the Belfer Center of Harvard University. In the past he worked for the Italian oil company Eni. His homepage mentions that Maugeri for [...]
Paltridge: postmodern science is a dangerous beast
There is an excellent op-ed by Garth Paltridge on the Australian Financial Review. I agree with almost everything he writes. I also much enjoyed his short book The Climate Caper. Paltridge explains why climate science is far from settled: Attempts to resolve the arguments are plagued with problems, a lot of which are inherently insoluble. [...]
McKitrick: models inaccurate by ignoring socioeconomic effects
I referred (in Dutch) last week to an interesting op-ed of Ross McKitrick on the regional performance of climate models. In that post he mentions an upcoming paper. That paper as well as a press release are now put online on McKitrick’s webpage. The paper is a logical next step following several papers in which McKitrick [...]
Richard Tol: groene groei is een loze belofte
Richard Tol publiceerde gisteren wederom een interessant opiniestuk in NRC over de milieuconferentie in Rio. Hieronder met zijn toestemming het artikel, dat iets kan een kleine beetje afwijken van de tekst in NRC. […]
Paul Bain ‘denier paper’ fits well in Nature tradition
Nature Climate Change published an article by Paul Bain titled Promoting pro-environmental action in climate change deniers. Both Bishop Hill and WUWT criticized the article for using the term ‘denier’ instead of the more neutral label ‘sceptic’. The word ‘denier’ is used 41 times in the paper. Bishop Hill wrote to the editor of Nature Climate [...]
McKitrick: klimaatmodellen falen op regionaal niveau
Ross McKitrick heeft een eerste van twee opiniestukken over klimaatmodellen gepubliceerd in de Canadese Financial Post (een versie met literatuurverwijzingen staat hier). Aanleiding is een aanstaande publicatie in een klimaattijdschrift waarin hij zal voortborduren op eerder werk, waarin McKitrick aantoonde dat temperatuurtrends op land goed te verklaren zijn met socio-economische factoren en dus minder klimaat-gerelateerd [...]
