Curry's thoughts about her testimony, reactions to her testimony, and common ground with Kim Cobb on so-called "no regrets" policy options: "And the response from some segments has been very illuminating. Sometimes I think these people don’t really want to make progress in addressing climate change, but rather are using the issue as a club to enforce their tribalism and/or achieve social justice objectives. I think they actually LIKE the gridlock and climate wars." https://judithcurry.com/2019/02/07/climate-hypochondria-and-tribalism-vs-winning/
https://www.richmond.com/news/natio...cle_3859558e-34d2-5de0-9e20-11fe3cf68b51.html -looks like us civil engineers have a lot of work ahead of us...
No, that’s what it is. Not every person who believes in climate change thinks it’s some huge existential existence issue.
It was 80 degrees here a few days ago and it's snowing right now. Obviously climate change is real, and it's happening faster than we thought.
Curry's piece on sea level rise today: https://judithcurry.com/2019/02/08/sea-level-rise-whiplash/ her summary/conclusions: "My original motivation for assessing the RCP8.5 scenario was that all of the really catastrophic sea level rise scenarios for the 21st century seem to depend on rather extreme (if not impossible) levels of CO2 and radiative forcing. If you take away RCP8.5 scenarios, SLR is not so alarming, at least on the time scale of the 21st century. "Of the three papers, the Whitehouse one may be the most important (the other two seem part of the WAIS MICI whiplash phenomena – who knows what the next round of papers will show). However, Whitehouse et al. has gotten zero press attention. Perhaps because you have to dig deep to figure out the broader climate implications of the paper. Hopefully my little blog post will draw some extra attention to the this paper. "After the extreme alarm associated with the 2016 DeConto and Pollard paper, we are seeing a whiplash back to more reasonable (and less alarming values) of 21st century sea level rise. DeConto presented a talk at AGU on the latest simulations, apparently they are also predicting lower sea level rise from MICI, but the paper is under review and they are not publicly commenting on it yet. "The rapidity of the ice sheet instability research reminds me of the heyday in 2006 of the hurricane and global warming research, with weekly whiplash between alarming papers and nothing-here-to-see papers. I assume that this research topic will generally converge to an agreed upon list of things we don’t know, so we can better constrain the worst case sea level rise scenario for the 21st century. "In any event, to me this seems like the most interesting, fast moving and important topic in climate research right now."
A "Green New Deal" as in green ****, which when you see it the toilet makes you stop for a moment and say "Huh?", but then you flush it anyway because you know it's just another piece of ****.
