Carbon-neutrality by 2050
This year several governments announced that their countries will be carbon neutral by 2050. This is a cheap promise, of course, as the target is so far in the future…
This year several governments announced that their countries will be carbon neutral by 2050. This is a cheap promise, of course, as the target is so far in the future…
In August, French blogger Pauline Harmange published a booklet titled Moi les hommes, je les dรฉteste (Me, men, I loathe them), which caused quite a stir in France (and a…
In his Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals Kant argued that the moral law (assuming there is one) must be unconditional and universal. As part of that argument he made…
One of the oldest quantitative claims in climate science is that the likely global average temperature increase due to a doubling of atmospheric COโ is between 1.5 and 4.5ยฐC. This…
According to the Global Annual to Decadal Climate Update published this week, the global mean temperature is projected to be more than 1ยฐC above the pre-industrial average in this and…
In 2019 typhoon Hagibis destroyed part of the railroad that leads to Hakone, a small town near a volcanic lake in Japan that has a long history as a resort…
Presumably, you are aware that weโre in the middle of a disaster. Thatโs unpleasant โ to say the least โ but itโs also quite instructive. There is much we can…
Suddenly everyone seems to have opinions about viruses and how to deal with them. If youโve been following this blog for a while, you may already know my opinion about…
[Updates and corrections below original post.] In The 2020s and Beyond I mentioned that โblack swansโ (unpredictable, extreme events) can seriously mess up any prediction. In that article I sketched…