I will be helping give a webinar on the climate and hazard work underpinning the Australian National Climate Risk Assessment (NCRA), Monday 20 Oct - please register! events.teams.microsoft.com/event/b1585f...
check out our section in AR6 Ch 1 - it was clear back then and has only further confirmed since (I did the regional analysis) www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/w...
I'm trying to imagine their perspective - the entire field of climate science is corrupted, deluded or groupthink. None of it can be trusted. Only these five brave heroes can do what needs to be done. So no review or comments, lots of self citation etc. is all justified.
Pretty bold position really
It was interesting to think through some interesting questions on this - what will humanity look like in 10,000 years? I make a couple of points about climate change for this interesting article in Cosmos cosmosmagazine.com/earth/climat...
Thanks @amosupdates.bsky.social I had big shoes to fill!
Dr Michael Grose gives his talk on climate update. Six supported datasets agree in global mean temperature trends
@bobkopp.net you may be interested that we both point to your commentary paper, I'd be interested in your feedback if you have any ☺️
Thanks for the interest Nada, the recording is now available at the original link above 😊Hope you're doing well
thanks to all who came along, great points made by Ben Newell on our perceptions and decision-making, and some good Q&A (although I know we only scratched the surface) - over 1300 attendees(!) reflecting the always strong interest in the topic and how we respond to it
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Please come to this webinar next week, an important (and always hot) topic and a lot of things to talk about.
I will try to be fair and balanced, but having different perspectives is really important
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I had a really good conversation with the journalist on this - covering humid heat vs dry heat, the limits to adaptation and all sorts of things, he is great and this is such an important issue
Big picture - we will stabilise the climate sooner of later, so we need to understand it - and have good definitions of 'stabilise' both globally and regionally (and appropriate alternative terms).
Happy to be a very small contributor to this nice paper from UniMelb student Alex and supervisors @andrewkingclimate.bsky.social and @drjobrown.bsky.social well done Alex!
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really interesting analysis of 2023 and 2024 in the new WMO SotC - worth a look!
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...all the details and the ‘facts’ supporting this desire can all change fluidly, inconsistencies and contradictions are all totally fine. Because it is about power and not reality – in fact it is about power over reality. It is so against our training as researchers, but very real I think
…a world where things are simple with a bad guy vs. a good guy with a simple plan, nothing is chaotic and there are no structural problems with complex causes like climate change, injustice – someone just needs to come in and make people shut up about these. If people shut up then it will be fine...
…but if you don’t mind spoilers, the last half goes much broader than flat earth, into Qanon etc. and in the last 10 min concluding some people deeply want ‘restorative authoritarianism’ - the wish for a strong man coming to come in, put things back ‘where they belong’…
Thinking about the state of - things - I found this useful to watch back. If you don’t want spoilers, I recommend watching the whole thing – the first half includes a really nice demo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTfh...
Hi - I'd like to share this story of what is happening at NOAA GFDL, where some of my colleagues and I worked until the mass firings at NOAA last week.
"...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"
We have organised an online workshop for applications that will need to select subsets of models in CMIP7, and how it can be improved over CMIP6 - both scientific and technical aspects.
Please register if you're keen!
This was in my World Book encyclopedia (1980 edition) growing up - an interesting time capsule of where we thought things were going
(sorry, Friday afternoon and I'm getting silly - great work on the interview, very clear and helpful!)
It's amazing the strike all occurred in that red circle! Must be related to crop circles 😁
(replying to all of the above) - yes, when I said 'realistic' I meant based on real glaciology, not that it would be effective or plausible!
The costs/benefit does seem crazy, but I wonder if given the costs of SLR on New York, London or Amsterdam, it starts to make even the crazy maths make sense?
Back in 2021 I was very privileged to play a small part in the 'megafires' section in the 10 new insights in climate science - it was a good choice by the editors at the time, and has only proven more relevant since 10insightsclimate.science/year-2021/3-...
Very interesting. The speculative fiction book 'ministry for the future' by Kim Stanley Robinson includes one sub-plot about ice shelf interventions, it seemed quite realistic (it also includes an SRM storyline too). Have you read that?
The video also points out how our reaction doesn't have to be weird eugenics, authoritarianism, Mars colonies or whatever - we can actually think about the structures and material conditions we need.
I think climate change folks need to be more on top of this.
Anyway, worth a watch!
