Tag Archives: climate change
Climate modelling, deep learning and AI
Earth system modelling – and particularly weather forecasting, is in the middle of a disruptive event. The last two years have seen deep learning forecasting methods go from being a promising idea, to keeping up with state-of-the-art approaches to weather forecasting. The new models might be computationally expensive to train, but can be hundreds or […]
Climate denial on TikTok
Social media is a really important means of spreading climate misinformation. I’ve been trying, in a small way, to spread *good* climate information on TikTok for about a year now, and I’ve learned a few things about how the platform works. Getting views The views on my videos have gone from a few hundred views […]
Constraining the carbon cycle in a land surface model – a talk for EGU23
I’m attending the EGU 2023 assembly this week, and gave a talk on our latest paper Constraining the carbon cycle in JULES-ES1.0. Attending online works fine, but doesn’t give you all the bonuses of meeting in person, getting the lowdown on the coolest talks coming up, and catching up with old colleagues and friends. One […]
Communicating climate change through social media
I updated my previous talk for scientists on surviving social media for a more general audience – this time for MSc students. They were an engaging bunch, and a 50 minute lecture stretched into a two-and-a-half-hour mega discussion, which obviously I’m all for. One thing that came up is that one of the students was […]
The best climate science journals (update)
What are the best/most influential/most read/most overrated journals in climate science? This turns out to be quite hard to judge, as climate science these days can seemingly include everything from economics, to biochemistry, and back to psychology. Google Scholar has a list of what it thinks are the best journals in atmospheric science. Here is […]
Internal variability in surface temperature and the hiatus
Our paper Quantifying the likelihood of a continued hiatus in global warming is published today in Nature Climate Change. Here is the New Scientist take, the Carbon Brief take, and the Met Office Research News article. Chris Roberts took on a huge task, processing massive amounts of data in the CMIP5 climate model archive, and leading […]
Why model climate?
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 […]
A brief comment on timing
In a comment on Mora et al. (2013), we highlight some errors the authors make in calculating and expressing the uncertainty in the timing of “climate departure” – the time at which a particular place on Earth will see a climate unprecedented in the historical record. There is a reply by the authors of the […]
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