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Why model climate?

August 26, 2014 · by · in Climate, Communication, Presentations · 5 Comments

I wrote a talk on climate modelling, aimed at the interested-but-non-specialist public.  Here it is. http://vimeo.com/103371375 It touches on: 1) The choices we have to make as a society. 2) The difficulty of doing controlled experiments with a single Earth. 3) The idea of a climate model. 4) A really simple climate model from first […]

Why I don’t advocate for climate science policy

January 30, 2014 · by · in Climate, Communication, Policy · 12 Comments

I was going to write a long essay on why I try to avoid advocating for any one particular policy for climate, but I think this probably makes the point fairly well. One of the funny things about the hoo-ha around Tamsin’s piece was that the reaction rather confirmed the point*. People hate hate HATE […]