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Mainstream Climate Science: The New Denialism? - Jonathon Porritt

  2024-03-07 by in jonathonporritt.com

This is a bit of a long one! So here’s my “Executive Summary” so you can decide whether to commit the time to the rest of it: mainstream climate scientists run the risk of becoming the new climate deniers.

  Tagged under: The Paris Agreement | IPCC | Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Science | Activism | Disinformation and Misinformation


Global heating will pass 1.5C threshold this year, top ex-Nasa scientist says

  2024-01-08 in The Guardian

James Hansen says limit will be passed ‘for all practical purposes’ by May though other experts predict that will happen in 2030s

  Tagged under: Global Warming | IPCC | El Niño


Why did the IPCC choose 2° C as the goal for limiting global warming?

  2023-12-04 (or before) in MIT Climate Portal

Scientists and policymakers have long agreed that global warming beyond 2° C above the pre-industrial average would pose large and escalating risks to human life as we know it on Earth, and governments have used that number as an organizing principle.

  Tagged under: Global Warming | IPCC


Global Warming of 1.5 ºC

  2023-09-24 (or before) in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

  Tagged under: Global Warming | IPCC


Envisioning a future with climate change - Nature Climate Change

  2023-09-06 (or before) in Nature

Climate change research and assessments, including the most recent IPCC report, paint an increasingly dire picture of the future. However, the assumption that the future will be worse than the present may be wrong for many aspects of human well-being.

  Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change


AR6 Synthesis Report: Climate Change 2023

  2023-08-25 (or before) in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

  Tagged under: Climate Change | IPCC


What frightens me about the climate crisis is we don’t know how bad things really are | Roger Harrabin

  2023-07-25 in The Guardian

As the barrage of bad news from places like Greece continues, all we can be certain of is there are many surprises lying ahead, says analyst Roger Harrabin

  Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change | Wildfires | Greece


FAQ Chapter 1 — Global Warming of 1.5 ºC

  2023-07-02 (or before) in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

  Tagged under: IPCC


A history of the global carbon budget

  2023-06-21 (or before) in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews

The near-linear relationship between cumulative carbon emissions and global temperature rise, as illustrated in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report on 1.5°C (IPCC, 2018, p. 1...

  Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change


What is important for achieving 2 °C? UNFCCC and IPCC expert perceptions on obstacles and response options for climate change mitigation - IOPscience

  2023-06-21 (or before) in IOPscience

  Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change | Climate Change Mitigation


Envisionation Interview: David Wasdell On the IPCC & Scientific Voice

  2023-06-14 (or before) in YouTube

www.envisionation.co.ukInterview with David Wasdell from the Apollo Gaia Foundation. IPCC as a governmental body as opposed to a scientific forum. Percepti...

  Tagged under: Climate Change | IPCC


Indicators of Global Climate Change 2022: annual update of large-scale indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence

  2023-06-08 (or before) in Earth System Science Data

Abstract. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessments are the trusted source of scientific evidence for climate negotiations taking place under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), including the first global stocktake under the Paris Agreement that will conclude at COP28 in December 2023. Evidence-based decision-making needs to be informed by up-to-date and timely information on key indicators of the state of the climate system and of the human influence on the global climate system. However, successive IPCC reports are published at intervals of 5–10 years, creating potential...

  Tagged under: COP28 | IPCC | Climate Change | Earth Energy Imbalance


Against climate hypocrisy: why the IPCC needs its own net-zero target

  2023-05-25 (or before) in Nature

A robust strategy to slash the IPCC’s carbon emissions would be a testbed for international climate policy — and serve as an example of effective action. A robust strategy to slash the IPCC’s carbon emissions would be a testbed for international climate policy — and serve as an example of effective action.

  Tagged under: IPCC | Net Zero


SHEEP IN WOLVES CLOTHING — THE IPCC’S (LATEST) FINAL WARNING | by Jackson Damian - the psychology of climate change | Medium

  2023-05-02 (or before) in Medium

How they hide the truth and what scientists can do about it

  Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change


New IPCC Report: “Further Delay Too Dangerous, Current Climate Plans Inadequate,” Scientists Say | Future Earth

  2023-04-24 (or before) in Future Earth

  Tagged under: IPCC


Down to Earth: The path to radically lower emissions tucked away inside the devastating IPCC report

  2023-04-20 in The Guardian

In this week’s newsletter: The world has no choice but to halve carbon output by 2030 – one chart shows the way forward

  Tagged under: IPCC


Climate change: multi-country media analysis shows scepticism of the basic science is dying out

  2023-04-18 by in The Conversation

We watched 30 news programmes in five countries to see how they covered an IPCC report.

  Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change


What does the latest IPCC Report mean for rebels?

  2023-04-15 in Robin Boardman

The 2023 report is the final update from the IPCC before the end of the decade and it highlights the urgent need for strong progress by 2030 to mitigate the worst of climate chaos. Given that its primary audience, Governments, are failing abysmally to act on that advice, I've summarised

  Tagged under: IPCC


IPCC Synthesis Report: What does it say? What does it mean? | IPCC FINAL REPORT 2023

  2023-04-09 (or before) in YouTube

JOIN XRUK THIS APRIL 21-24 AT THE HOUSE OF PARLIAMENTDr Charlie Gardner and Clare Farrell discuss the latest IPCC synthesis report, the final report in the m...

  Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change | Fossil Fuels | Activism | Extinction Rebellion | Extinction | Biodiversity Loss


IPCC’s conservative nature masks true scale of action needed to avert catastrophic climate change

  2023-04-04 in Geography Directions - Geographical expertise applied to the issues that matter most

By Kevin Anderson, University of Manchester This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Cha…

  Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change


The Media's Recent Turn to “Climate Optimism” Is a Cruel Fantasy

  2023-04-03 in The Nation

Beneath the upbeat messaging, the latest UN climate report makes it clear that while the means to save the planet may still be available, the political will is nowhere in sight.

  Tagged under: IPCC | Fossil Fuels


The IPCC Report on the Impacts of Climate Change is Depressing

  2023-04-01 (or before) in The Breakthrough Institute

As a climate scientist, with nine of my own research papers referenced in the IPCC report, I value sober, even-handed analysis above all else. What drew me to science and what gives science its authority in society is the notion that it at least strives to deliver objective analysis rather than…

  Tagged under: Nuclear Power | IPCC | Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts


Global warming in the pipeline

  2023-03-31 (or before) in arXiv.org e-Print archive

Improved knowledge of glacial-to-interglacial global temperature change implies that fast-feedback equilibrium climate sensitivity is at least ~4°C for doubled CO2 (2xCO2), with likely range 3.5-5.5°C. Greenhouse gas (GHG) climate forcing is 4.1 W/m2 larger in 2021 than in 1750, equivalent to 2xCO2 forcing. Global warming in the pipeline is greater than prior estimates. Eventual global warming due to today's GHG forcing alone -- after slow feedbacks operate -- is about 10°C. Human-made aerosols are a major climate forcing, mainly via their effect on clouds. We infer from paleoclimate data that ae...

  Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | IPCC | Climate Change | Geoengineering


National contributions to climate change due to historical emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide since 1850 - Scientific Data

  2023-03-30 (or before) in Nature

Anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) have made significant contributions to global warming since the pre-industrial period and are therefore targeted in international climate policy. There is substantial interest in tracking and apportioning national contributions to climate change and informing equitable commitments to decarbonisation. Here, we introduce a new dataset of national contributions to global warming caused by historical emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide during the years 1851–2021, which are consistent with the latest findings of the IPCC. ...

  Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change | Methane | Decarbonisation


10 Big Findings from the 2023 IPCC Report on Climate Change

  2023-03-29 (or before) in World Resources Institute

The latest IPCC report details the devastating consequences of climate change and highlights pathways to avoid dangerous and irreversible risks from rising greenhouse gas emissions.

  Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change


UK scientists urge Rishi Sunak to halt new oil and gas developments

  2023-03-29 in The Guardian

Call comes on eve of revised net zero strategy that allows drilling in North Sea and boosts ‘unproven’ carbon capture

  Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change | Rishi Sunak | Net Zero


Corporate Interests ‘Watered Down’ the Latest IPCC Climate Report, Investigations Find - Inside Climate News

  2023-03-28 by in Inside Climate News

Fierce negotiations between countries working to protect their financial and political interests ultimately “watered down” a landmark climate report released last week by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, according to a series of recent reports and investigations.  The findings highlight what activists have long warned is hampering meaningful global action to curb […]

  Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change | Activism


The meat industry got the IPCC to edit a climate change report

  2023-03-26 (or before) in Quartz | Make business better

A leaked draft revealed how the meat industry is obstructing efforts to curb climate change

  Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change | Cattle and Dairy Farming | Climate Change Mitigation


Facing Up to the Climate Reckoning Ahead

  2023-03-24 in The Nation

The IPCC’s forecast of fast-approaching climate catastrophe requires us to think, and organize, in urgent new ways.

  Tagged under: IPCC


Eight things the world must do to avoid the worst of climate change

  2023-03-21 in The Guardian

Latest IPCC report highlights key measures countries must take to avoid climate catastrophe

  Tagged under: Methane | IPCC | Climate Change Mitigation


IPCC report: the world must cut emissions and urgently adapt to the new climate realities | Blog by Bronwyn Hayward

  2023-03-20 in CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity

Already, climate change plays out in all parts of the world. Every further increment of warming will bring rapidly escalating hazards, exacerbating more intense heatwaves and floods, ocean warming …

  Tagged under: Oceans | IPCC | Climate Change | Heatwaves


Samoa PM urges world to save Pacific people from climate crisis obliteration

  2023-03-19 in The Guardian

Fiame Naomi Mata’afa pleads for action before landmark IPCC report is expected to issue ‘final warning’

  Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change | Pacific Ocean


Arctic climate modelling too conservative

  2023-03-14 (or before) in Hem | Gšteborgs universitet

Climate models used by the UN’s IPCC and others to project climate change are not accurately reflecting what the Arctic’s future will be. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg argue that the rate of warming will be much faster than projected.

  Tagged under: Arctic | IPCC | Climate Change


Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change

  2022-11-01 (or before) in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

  Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change | Climate Change Mitigation


European Commission aims to end secret system protecting fossil fuel holdings

  2022-10-08 in The Guardian

Proposal aims to reform energy charter treaty that protects multi-billion-pound investments in Europe

  Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change | Fossil Fuels


High-profile paper on “catastrophic” climate impacts echoes our "What Lies Beneath" analysis on fat-tail, existential risks and IPCC reticence, published four years ago

  2022-08-10 by in resilience

There is a need to outline current knowledge about the likelihood of extreme climate change, and to develop a research agenda.

  Tagged under: Extreme Weather | IPCC | Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts


Documents Show How Polluting Industries Mobilized to Block Climate Action

  2022-07-31 (or before) in The Intercept

Since its inception, the IPCC itself has been the target of corporate obstructionism.

  Tagged under: Coal | IPCC


Oxford climate scientists: No doubt about climate change. | University of Oxford

  2022-07-05 (or before) in Oxford University

Leading Oxford climate scientists today insisted there can be no doubt that human-driven climate change is a fact and urgent action is needed, as the IPCC’s report is released showing emissions are driving up temperatures.

  Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change


“It’s a Very Western Vision of the World” - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung

  2022-06-25 (or before) in RLS - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung

How ideological bias and structural inequality prevent the IPCC from exploring possibilities for fundamental transformation

  Tagged under: IPCC


We cannot adapt our way out of climate crisis, warns leading scientist

  2022-06-01 in The Guardian

Katharine Hayhoe says the world is heading for dangers people have not seen in 10,000 years of civilisation

  Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Greenhouse Gases | IPCC | Climate Change


Degrowth in the IPCC AR6 WGIII – Timothée Parrique

  2022-05-27 (or before) in TimothŽe Parrique

  Tagged under: IPCC | Degrowth


IPBES/IPCC: Tackling the biodiversity and climate crises together, and their combined social impacts

  2022-05-27 (or before) in EurekAlert! Science News Releases

The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) launch a peer-reviewed report based on a 4-day virtual workshop on addressing the biodiversity and climate crises together involving 50 jointly-selected international experts.

  Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts


The kids are not OK | Guest blog by Julia Steinberger

  2022-05-11 in CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity

Very recently, IPCC lead author Prof Julia Steinberger went to give a climate talk at her old high school in Geneva—and—in her own words—was given a masterclass in our failings. This is the story o…

  Tagged under: IPCC


Carbon Dioxide Removal from our oceans. Can we achieve 20 BILLION tonnes per year?

  2022-05-08 (or before) in YouTube

Carbon Dioxide Removal is the latest buzz phrase in the climate world. The IPCC tell us it will be essential to meet the goals of the Paris Accord. But it's ...

  Tagged under: Oceans | IPCC | Ocean Acidification | Carbon Capture and Storage


Climate change: IPCC scientists say it's 'now or never' to limit warming - BBC News

  2022-05-07 (or before) in The BBC

Staving off the worst impacts of climate change is possible, say scientists, but immediate action is needed.

  Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts


Climate simulations: recognize the ‘hot model’ problem

  2022-05-04 in Nature

The sixth and latest IPCC assessment weights climate models according to how well they reproduce other evidence. Now the rest of the community should do the same. The sixth and latest IPCC assessment weights climate models according to how well they reproduce other evidence. Now the rest of the community should do the same.

  Tagged under: Science | IPCC


Heat waves likely to last ‘25 times longer’ in India by another 2-4 decades, says climate report

  2022-05-02 (or before) in Down To Earth | Environment & science issues | India, South Asia

 The heatwaves will last over five times longer if global temperature rise is constrained to about 2°C, says report launched ahead of G20 summit

  Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Heatwaves | Greenhouse Gases | IPCC | Climate Change | India


Climate change: IPCC scientists to examine carbon removal in key report - BBC News

  2022-03-21 (or before) in The BBC

There's likely to be a new emphasis on technology to suck CO2 from the air in IPCC report on mitigation.

  Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change | Climate Change Mitigation | Carbon Capture and Storage


The First Step Toward Saving the Planet Is Ignoring the Economists

  2022-03-04 by in Rolling Stone - Music, Film, TV and Political News Coverage

The U.N.’s latest climate report shows that we don’t know how expensive the climate crisis will be, which means cost-benefit analyses weighing how to combat it are pointless

  Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change | Economics


We cling to our memory of the perfect summer – before flood, fire and plague. But the past is gone and we have to wake up | Brigid Delaney

  2022-03-03 in The Guardian

Signs of collapse are everywhere, and if we think it’s possible to return to ‘normal’, then we are deluded

  Tagged under: Bushfires | Extreme Weather | IPCC | Climate Change | Flooding | Collapse


IPCC Risk Analysis Shows Safe Limits Have Already Been Passed - The Energy Mix

  2022-03-02 in The Energy Mix - The climate news you need

Humankind is not just heading for a more dangerous future: for some people, the safe limits have already been passed, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shows in its climate impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability report this week.

  Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts


'Managed retreat' from coastal living could soon be reality, climate report warns

  2022-02-28 in ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

The world's scientists declare climate change is now a threat to human wellbeing, warning we are about to miss the window to "secure a liveable and sustainable future for all".

  Tagged under: Bushfires | IPCC | Climate Change | Extinction


IPCC issues ‘bleakest warning yet’ on impacts of climate breakdown

  2022-02-28 in The Guardian

Report says human actions are causing dangerous disruption, and window to secure a liveable future is closing

  Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts


Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

  2022-02-28 (or before) in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

  Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts


WGII Summary for Policymakers Headline Statements

  2022-02-28 (or before) in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

  Tagged under: IPCC


In-depth Q&A: The IPCC's sixth assessment on how climate change impacts the world - Carbon Brief

  2022-02-28 by in Carbon Brief

The sixth report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says the threat that climate change poses to human well-being and the health of the planet is “unequivocal”.

  Tagged under: IPCC | Health | Climate Change Impacts


Worst-Case Climate Change Scenarios Are Highly Implausible, Argues New Study

  2022-02-09 in Reason Magazine - Free Minds and Free Markets

Global temperature to rise to around 2.2°C above the pre-industrial average by 2100.

  Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Coal | IPCC | Climate Change


"Have reverence for life" - Interview with ecocentrist Fred Hageneder on climate disruption, species extinction and our future on Earth

  2022-01-22 in Pressenza - International Press Agency

Heat waves, droughts, floods and wildfires are on the rise, the IPCC and the UN are sounding the alarm bells. Recently, even a report by the National

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Drought | IPCC | Extinction


Despite climate emergency, the United States, Canada, and Norway "pumping more oil than ever" - Oil Change International

  2022-01-19 in Oil Change International

Last year the world’s leading climate scientists, the IPCC,  issued a “code red” for humanity and outlined how we had to stop oil and gas drilling if we wanted a liveable future. But still we drill. Take three countries who like to see themselves as climate leaders...

  Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change


Co-designing engaging and accessible data visualisations: a case study of the IPCC reports - Climatic Change

  2022-01-05 (or before) in Springer Verlag

Creating scientifically rigorous and user-friendly data visualisations can play a critical role in making complex information more accessible to wider audiences and supporting informed decision-making. ‘Co-design’ encapsulates a way of approaching data visualisation that ensures a deep and shared understanding between those creating the visuals (e.g. information designers, content experts, cognitive scientists) and the audience/users. This essay describes co-designing data visualisations with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). A multidisciplinary design team made up of information designers and cog...

  Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change


Top climate scientists are sceptical that nations will rein in global warming

  2022-01-02 (or before) in Nature

A Nature survey reveals that many authors of the latest IPCC climate-science report are anxious about the future and expect to see catastrophic changes in their lifetimes. A Nature survey reveals that many authors of the latest IPCC climate-science report are anxious about the future and expect to see catastrophic changes in their lifetimes.

  Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change


Burning embers: towards more transparent and robust climate-change risk assessments - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

  2021-12-21 (or before) in Nature

Burning embers figures are used to represent climate-change risk and their transitions. This Review outlines the history and evolution of the burning embers concept, focusing on methodological shifts that increase transparency and allow for a more systematic elicitation process in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports.

  Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change


Context and Early Origins of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - Climatic Change

  2021-11-19 (or before) in Springer Verlag

Climate change is a problem which is global both in terms of causes and consequences. The uncertainties are large and likely to persist. Meanwhile, the political and economic stakes of both action and inaction are much higher than those in other transboundary concerns such as acid rain and ozone depletion. The public policy impact of scientific opinions on climate change, therefore, not only depends upon what is being said, but also, who is advancing those conclusions and how they were arrived at. This was the rationale behind the setting up of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1988. The paper examines the ...

  Tagged under: Economics | IPCC | Climate Change | Public Opinion


We’re Heading Straight for a Demi-Armageddon

  2021-11-04 (or before) by in The Atlantic

What happens when we do something—but not enough—to stop climate change?

  Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Joe Biden | IPCC | Climate Change | Electricity | Russia | Sea Level | Climate Change Impacts | Electricity Grid | Activism


IPCC Scientist Survey Shows Most Expect Climate Catastrophe Soon

  2021-11-02 (or before) in Gizmodo | The Future Is Here

A survey of the world’s top climate researchers shows a stark finding: Most expect catastrophic levels of heating and damage soon—very soon.

  Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change


Leaked documents reveal the fossil fuel and meat producing countries lobbying against climate action

  2021-10-21 in Greenpeace UK - Unearthed

Leaked documents detail how some of the world’s biggest coal, oil and meat producing nations are lobbying to weaken a key UN climate report

  Tagged under: Coal | IPCC | Greenpeace


The climate science behind wildfires: why are they getting worse? – video explainer

  2021-08-20 by in The Guardian

The Guardian's global environment editor, Jonathan Watts, explains the science behind why wildfires are getting worse and what we need to do to tackle the problem

  Tagged under: Wildfires | IPCC | Climate Change


The UN's big climate report buried some bad news about our eating habits

  2021-08-14 (or before) in Mother Jones - Smart, fearless journalism

Methane may hold the key to deciding whether the earth continues to morph into a disaster-movie set over the next generation.

  Tagged under: Meat Production | Methane | IPCC | Food Production and Consumption


Sixth Assessment Report — IPCC

  2021-08-11 (or before) in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

  Tagged under: IPCC


Let’s say it without flinching: the fossil fuel industry is destroying our future | Simon Lewis

  2021-08-10 in The Guardian

Following the unequivocal IPCC climate report, we must all put pressure on governments to end the fossil fuel era, says environment scientist Simon Lewis

  Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change


Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis

  2021-08-10 (or before) in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

  Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change


The IPCC’s 6th Assessment Report and implications for #Manchester (aka “Eleven Theses on futility, backed up with footnotes (1)”)

  2021-08-09 in Manchester Climate Monthly | To inform, inspire and involve

Today the latest “we are all doomed” climate report comes out. It is the latest in a long long (see below) line of such reports.  Climate activists will want to believe that this, at last will…

  Tagged under: IPCC | Activism


Major climate changes inevitable and irreversible – IPCC’s starkest warning yet

  2021-08-09 in The Guardian

Report warns temperatures likely to rise by more than 1.5C bringing widespread extreme weather

  Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Greenhouse Gases | IPCC | Climate Change


We are not reaching 1.5ºC earlier than previously thought

  2021-08-09 in RealClimate

What does the new IPCC report say about the likelihood of meeting the Paris goal of 1.5ºC?

  Tagged under: IPCC


Reduce methane or face climate catastrophe, scientists warn

  2021-08-06 in The Guardian

Exclusive: IPCC says gas, produced by farming, shale gas and oil extraction, playing ever-greater role in overheating planet

  Tagged under: Farming | COP26 | Greenhouse Gases | Methane | IPCC | Climate Change


William Nordhaus versus the United Nations on Climate Change Economics - Econlib

  2021-07-26 (or before) in Econlib - The Library of Economics and Liberty

William Nordhaus was a co-recipient of this year’s Nobel Prize in economics for his pioneering work on the economics of climate change. On the day of the Nobel announcement, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UN IPCC) released a special report1 advising the governments of the world on various steps necessary to limit […]

  Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change | Economics


Economic failures of the IPCC process | Prof Steve Keen on Patreon

  2021-07-25 (or before) in Patreon

  Tagged under: Economics | IPCC


On avoiding dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system: Formidable challenges ahead

  2021-07-04 (or before) in PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Science

The observed increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases (GHGs) since the preindustrial era has most likely committed the world to a warming of 2.4°C (1.4°C to 4.3°C) above the preindustrial surface temperatures. The committed warming is inferred from the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates of the greenhouse forcing and climate sensitivity. The estimated warming of 2.4°C is the equilibrium warming above preindustrial temperatures that the world will observe even if GHG concentrations are held fixed at their 2005 concentration levels but without any other anthropogenic forc...

  Tagged under: Oceans | Arctic | Greenhouse Gases | IPCC | Climate Change | Sea Level | Climate Change Mitigation | Tipping Points


Few realistic scenarios left to limit global warming to 1.5°C

  2021-05-16 (or before) in Science Daily

Of the over 400 climate scenarios assessed in the 1.5°C report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), only around 50 scenarios avoid significantly overshooting 1.5°C. Of those only around 20 make realistic assumptions on mitigation options, for instance the rate and scale of carbon removal from the atmosphere or extent of tree planting, a new study shows. All 20 scenarios need to pull at least one mitigation lever at 'challenging' rather than 'reasonable' levels.

  Tagged under: Oceans | Global Warming | IPCC | Climate Change | Climate Change Mitigation | Carbon Capture and Storage


Climate scientists: concept of net zero is a dangerous trap

  2021-04-27 (or before) by in The Conversation

Prominent academics, including a former IPCC chair, round on governments worldwide for using the concept of net zero emissions to ‘greenwash’ their lack of commitment to solving global warming.

  Tagged under: IPCC | Net Zero


We’re Hurtling Toward Global Suicide | The New Republic

  2021-03-20 (or before) in The New Republic

Why we must do everything differently to ensure the planet’s survival

  Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change | Economics


Expert IPCC Reviewer Speaks Out

  2020-11-20 in Counter Punch

Expert IPCC Reviewer Speaks Out Roger Hallam, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion/XR recently interviewed Peter Carter, M.D., who has the distinguished

  Tagged under: Extinction Rebellion | IPCC | Extinction


Ice Sheet Melting Is Perfectly in Line With Our Worst-Case Scenario, Scientists Warn

  2020-09-09 (or before) by in ScienceAlert

The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, which hold enough frozen water to lift oceans 65 metres, are tracking the UN's worst-case scenarios for sea level rise, researchers said Monday, highlighting flaws in current climate change models.

  Tagged under: Oceans | IPCC | Climate Change | Antarctic | Ice Melting | Sea Level


Negative emissions tech helps, but it's no magic bullet for the climate crisis | Tamsin Edwards

  2020-07-20 in The Guardian

Sprinkling rock dust on fields is no replacement for reducing emissions, says the academic Tamsin Edwards

  Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | IPCC | Climate Change


IMF chief 'couldn't sleep' after reading climate report: 'What have we done?'

  2020-01-24 (or before) in Yahoo Finance - stock market live, quotes, business & finance news

'The big eye opener was when last year I read IPCC report,' Kristalina Georgieva said. 'I tell you, I could not sleep that night.'

  Tagged under: IPCC | Finance


The environment in 2050: flooded cities, forced migration – and the Amazon turning to savannah

  2019-12-30 in The Guardian

Unless we focus on shared solutions, violent storms and devastating blazes could be the least of the world’s troubles. Civilisation itself will be at risk

  Tagged under: Deforestation | Extreme Weather | Wildfires | Drought | Amazon Rainforest | IPCC | Climate Change | Geoengineering


Science NOT Silence - March For Science

  2019-12-17 (or before) in marchforscience.org

The groundbreaking IPCC 1.5° report – authored by the world’s leading climate scientists – is being blocked from UN climate ...

  Tagged under: Activism | IPCC


Does Greta Thunberg’s Lifestyle Equal Climate Denial? One Climate Scientist Seems To Suggest So.

  2019-11-15 (or before) by in Forbes

The climate debate has taken an interesting turn. It is no longer a shouting match between climate affirmers and climate deniers. Now the debate is taking place among climate affirmers on the subject of personal responsibility for combating climate change.

  Tagged under: Greta Thunberg | IPCC | Climate Change


The Paris Climate Problem: A Dangerous Lack of Urgency - Inside Climate News

  2019-11-07 in Inside Climate News

While nearly all of the world’s countries have pledged to cut their greenhouse gas emissions, the reductions they’re planning in the short term—over the next 10 years—aren’t nearly enough, leading scientists warn in a new report. Nearly two-thirds of the pledges under the Paris climate agreement are “totally insufficient” to meet critical climate targets, the […]

  Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | IPCC | The Paris Agreement


RCP 8.5: Business-as-usual or a worst-case scenario?

  2019-09-22 in Climate Nexus | Changing the Conversation on Climate

There is debate over whether the climate change scenario RCP 8.5 represents a "business as usual” scenario, a “high emissions”, or a "worst-case" scenario.

  Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change


Teenage activists and an IPCC triumph

  2019-08-17 (or before) in Nature

The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a well-timed blueprint for action. Decision makers must now pay attention — a nascent youth movement is showing them how. The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a well-timed blueprint for action.

  Tagged under: Activism | Climate Change | IPCC


This is why we talk of extinction – A slideshow precis/analysis for-the-busy of the latest UN IPCC report – Jeremy Leggett

  2019-08-10 (or before) in Jeremy Leggett - Climate, energy, tech, and the future of civilisation

  Tagged under: IPCC | Extinction


U.N. Climate Report Merely a Blueprint for Destroying the World Economy

  2019-06-03 (or before) by in The Heritage Foundation

What will it take to keep the planet habitable? According to some eco-warriors, all that’s necessary is to end capitalism — the one economic system that has lifted billions from poverty and suffering. The latest United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report led Eric Holthaus, a Grist writer, to tweet enthusiastically, “The world’s top scientists just gave rigorous backing to systematically dismantle capitalism as a key requirement to maintaining civilization and a habitable planet.”

  Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change | Economics | Capitalism


You Are Stealing Our Future: Greta Thunberg, 15, Condemns the World’s Inaction on Climate Change

  2018-12-14 (or before) in YouTube

https://democracynow.org - Fifteen-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg addressed the U.N. plenary last night in Katowice, Poland, condemning glo...

  Tagged under: Greta Thunberg | Greenhouse Gases | IPCC | Climate Change | Activism | Climate Justice


'Window is narrowing': scientists urge action at UN climate talks

  2018-12-11 in The Guardian

Gilet jaunes protests cast shadow as concerns raised over backlash against rapid change

  Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | IPCC | Climate Change | Wind Power | Activism


Past four years hottest on record, data shows

  2018-11-29 in The Guardian

World running out of time to combat climate change, warns meteorological organisation

  Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Greenhouse Gases | IPCC | Climate Change


A Radically Realistic Climate Vision | by Barbara Unmüßig - Project Syndicate

  2018-11-01 by Barbara Unmüßig in Project Syndicate

Barbara Unmüßig argues that limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels is both possible and essential.

  Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change


Mary Robinson on climate change: ‘Feeling “This is too big for me” is no use to anybody’

  2018-10-12 by Rory Carroll in The Guardian

The former president of Ireland has a new raison d’être: saving the planet. Yet, despite the dire warnings of this week’s IPCC report, she is surprisingly upbeat

  Tagged under: Mary Robinson | Climate Change | IPCC


Climate Science Deniers Respond to IPCC 1.5C Report with Anger, Fear, and Distortion

  2018-10-11 by in DeSmog

A big UN report arrived on Monday, saying in no uncertain terms that the world has up to two decades to massively cut emissions by transforming the global economy if we want to avoid terrible climate impacts. Given the implications of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) findings — government intervention, progressive social policies, more international aid […]

  Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Climate Change | Disinformation and Misinformation | Climate Change Impacts | Economics


We have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe, warns UN

  2018-10-08 in The Guardian

Urgent changes needed to cut risk of extreme heat, drought, floods and poverty, says IPCC

  Tagged under: Oceans | Drought | IPCC | Climate Change | Sea Level


Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040 (Published 2018)

  2018-10-08 in The New York Times

  Tagged under: IPCC


World 'nowhere near on track' to avoid warming beyond 1.5C target

  2018-09-27 in The Guardian

Exclusive: Author of key UN climate report says limiting temperature rise would require enormous, immediate transformation in human activity

  Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change


IPCC attribution statements redux: A response to Judith Curry

  2014-08-27 in RealClimate

I have written a number of times about the procedure used to attribute recent climate change (here in 2010, in 2012 (about the AR4 statement), and again in 2013 after AR5 was released). For people who want a summary of what the attribution problem is, how we think about the human contributions and why the IPCC reaches the conclusions it does, read those posts instead of this one. The bottom line is that multiple ...

  Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change


Why climate change will likely be worse than the models predict

  2013-09-04 by in blog.rsb.org.uk

Dr Aaron Thierry is a quantitative ecologist who recently graduated from The University of Sheffield’s Department of Animal and Plant Sciences. He is extremely concerned about the level of un…

  Tagged under: Extreme Weather | IPCC | Predictions | Climate Change


House Republicans cut funding to UN climate science body

  2011-02-21 in The Guardian

Funding ban to IPCC part of cuts package that would slash spending on environmental protection

  Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change | US Politics


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