I was beyond surprised when Michael Mann blocked me on Twitter yesterday. Mann is the ubiquitous voice of climate change in the media, director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University and pusher of the “hockey stick” analogy for the industrial-age rise of anthropogenic CO2. I have been fascinated by weather my whole life. As a child […]
This passage from the brilliant essay Facing Extinction by Catherine Ingram is the one that really gets to me. Ingram underscores the challenges of being around others who are in denial and the way we must each individually come to terms with this divide. But she also gives us a way out, a way to be in the world however […]
While the focus is on fossil fuels and CO2, the creeping danger is methane, which is 84x as powerful a greenhouse gas. A side-by-side comparison of the growth of these gases 1983-2021 leaves no doubt the trouble this planet faces in the near-term:
I just discovered a draft of the IPCC AR6 WG1 introduction that hasn’t been previously seen. For the first time, here it is for all to see.
Thanks! Shame on NOAA for not making that clear.
My first article addresses this question. See "the third mistake" and it's fix.
This is confusing to me. Pre-industrial the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere was about 280ppm. But there was significant…
Complete cessation of burning fossil fuels is on the far side of Net Zero, and we're making very little progress…
Hi, Eliot. Thank you for this discussion. My big takeaway is 1.5 by 2027ish, 2.0 by 2035, and 2.5 by…
Thanks for this. The big nugget of clarity I got from this was the example of what reducing emissions 7%…
I think that must be someone else. My writing about climate issues is all on this site.
Fair question. Here are all the greenhouse gases with historical concentrations and projected out until 2500. https://gmd.copernicus.org/articles/13/3571/2020/