by Judith Curry It’s time to move beyond the old debates and endless gridlock, and find pragmatic, new leverage points to tackle climate change. – Jon Foley Jon Foley has an interesting essay entitled Breaking the Cycle of Climate Inaction. Excerpts: … Continue reading →
The latest IPCC report will not bridge the ideological divide on climate change so it is up to governments to find the sensible centre. – Warwick McKibben The Australian media continues with thought provoking articles on climate change. This week, … Continue reading →
by Judith Curry Diagnosis: paradigm paralysis, caused by motivated reasoning, oversimplification, and consensus seeking; worsened and made permanent by a vicious positive feedback effect at the climate science-policy interface. In a previous post, I discussed the IPCC’s diagnosis of a … Continue reading →
by Judith Curry Mitigation, adaptation, and the threat to biodiversity. Several years ago, Conservation Biology has published a paper with the provocative title Mitigation, adaptation, and the thread to biodiversity, by European biologists James Patterson, Miguel Araujo, Pam Berry, Jake … Continue reading →
by Judith Curry The modification of the 2C climate target will put an end to the vision of a “science-based” climate policy – Oliver Geden ‘Avoiding dangerous climate change’ is essentially synonymous with limiting the average global surface temperature increase … Continue reading →
