Paris Agreement: Dead at Ten (James Hansen was right)

“[The Paris agreement] is a fraud really, a fake…. It’s just worthless words.” ( – James Hansen, below)

Climate Adaptation vs. Mitigation Fail

Adaptation itself requires a whole lot of cement and steel, which requires a lot of affordable, reliable energy, not wind and solar. And that means higher, incremental CO2 emissions.

Claim: California’s Carbon Mitigation Efforts May be Thwarted by Climate Change Itself

“We need our forests and other plant-covered areas to provide a ‘natural climate solution’ of removing carbon dioxide from the air, but heat and drought caused by the very problem…

A ‘Plan B’ for Addressing Climate Change and the Energy transition

Prosperity is the best the indicator of resilience.  Resilient societies that learn from previous threats are best prepared to be anti-fragile and respond to whatever threats the future holds.

California’s carbon mitigation efforts may be thwarted by climate change itself

In a paper published today in the American Geophysical Union journal AGU Advances, the UCI Earth system scientists stressed that rising temperatures and uncertain precipitation will cause a decrease in California’s…

Four fronts for climate policy

Reposted from Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. Posted on March 25, 2019 by curryja  by Judith Curry “For decades, scientists and policymakers have framed the climate-policy debate in a simple way:…