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Unforced variations: Jun 2020
This month’s open thread on climate science issues.
Unforced variations: May 2020
This month’s climate science open thread.
Nenana Ice Classic 2020
Readers may recall my interest in phenological indicators of climate change, and o...
Regional climate modeling and some common omissions
There is a growing need for local climate information in order to update our under...
A problem with YouTube
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) started to stream sessions at their annual me...
Forced variations: Apr 2020
Open thread for climate solutions.
Unforced Variations: Apr 2020
Open thread for climate science topics.
Unbelievably, this is no April’s fool joke
Last week, a colleague shared a tweet with a link to a very unusual paper. I first...
Further perspectives on pandemics and climate change
I have recently been asked whether the present corona pandemic will have any conse...
Coronavirus and climate
As we collectively reel from the changes wrought by the current pandemic, people a...
Comments on allocating resources to fusion-energy research a...
The following is based on a note written to a journalist asking for my opinion on ...
Who is controlling who? The curious case of the algae and th...
Sea anemones are animals that are very much like corals, except they don’t make st...
On learning to see the glass as half full
My mom died recently. (Apparently, “I’m so sorry for your loss” and “Thank you” ar...
Consumerism as addiction
Matt Rozsa of Salon.com asked me to comment on ‘addiction as a metaphor for our ec...
Carl Sagan Lecture by Ken Caldeira at the 2018 Fall American...
This is an edited transcript from my Carl Sagan Lecture on 10 Dec 2018 at the Amer...
A proposal for recommending and ranking scientific literatur...
This blog post was motivated by a twitter conversation involving Andy Revkin. Scie...
On choosing problems to work on
This rant is from an email sent to my research group. It seems that some of us hav...
What do you do when a poorly expressed idea is quoted out of...
I woke up this morning to read The Federalist quoting me out of context, putting w...
Steps to writing a scientific paper based on model results
My postdocs and I are having a discussion about how to be more efficient in produc...
How much ice is melted by each carbon dioxide emission?
I am refining and extending a back-of-envelope calculation here that I did for an...