Climate Change
1
Climate Change
1.1
Neo-liberal Climate Change
I Climate Models
2
Climate Models
2.1
University of Chicago
2.2
Mental Picture of Greenhouse Effect
2.3
Political IAMs
2.4
CAP6
2.5
Coupled Climate-Social Models
2.6
DICE Climate Model
2.6.1
The failure of Dice Economics
2.7
E3ME-FTT-GENIE
2.8
EZ-Climate Model
2.9
FAIR Climate Model
2.10
GCAM
2.11
Global Calculator
2.12
Mimi Framework
2.13
MODTRAN
2.14
Monash Climate Model
2.15
PAGE
2.16
Bern Simple Climate Model (BernSCM)
2.17
NorESM
2.17.1
CCSM4
2.17.2
NorESM Features
2.18
AI in Climate Research
2.19
Climate Catastrophe
2.19.1
Endgame
2.20
Goal Index
2.21
Model Drift
2.22
Model-evaluation
2.22.1
Measuering Forcings
3
Values in Climate Science
II Climate System
4
Climate System
4.1
EEI - Earth Energy Imbalance
4.2
Convection
4.3
El Nino
4.4
Earth Energy Imbalance (EEI)
4.4.1
Energy Imbalance Trend (TEEI)
4.5
Hurricanes
4.6
Jet Stream
4.6.1
Quasi-Resonant Amplification (QRA)
4.7
Total Solar Irradiance
4.8
Spatial Shock
4.8.1
Coastal Flooding
5
Climate Stability
6
Tipping
6.1
Tipping Points in Clouds
6.2
Timing Tipping
7
Climate Change Indicators
7.1
EPA
7.2
Guardian
8
IPCC
8.1
Shared Socioeconomic Pathways
III Measurements
9
Attribution
9.1
Attribution Studies Timeline
9.2
Map of Attribution Studies
9.3
Bottom Trawling CO2 release
9.4
Company Attribution
10
Carbon Budget
10.1
Net-zero
10.2
Revelle factor
11
Climate Sensitivity
11.1
Climate Feedbacks
11.2
Global Warming Pipeline
11.2.1
Equilibrium Warming
11.3
ECS - Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity
11.3.1
Roe and Baker Distribution
11.3.2
GCM based Approach
11.3.3
GCM free Approach
11.4
Remote Sensing of Tipping Points
11.5
Exxon’s 1980s Scenario
12
CO2 vs Temperature: Causality
12.1
Temperature lags CO2 during deglaciation
12.2
Hen-Or-Egg Causality
12.2.1
Causal Structure by Information Flow Analysis
12.3
The 1940s CO2 Plateau
12.4
Origins of CO2 increase
12.4.1
Anthropogenic CO2
13
CO2 Isotopes
13.1
Suess Effect
13.2
Isotopic discrimination of land photosynthesis
13.3
Isotopic signature of Anthropocene
14
Decoupling
15
Paleoclimate
15.1
Holocen Thermal Maxima
16
Pattern Effect
17
Temperature Measurements
17.1
Hockey Stick Graph
17.2
El Niño - La Niña
18
Water Vapor
IV Elements
19
Albedo
20
Atmosphere
20.1
Emissions
20.1.1
Volcanos
20.1.2
Anual Greenhouse Gas Index (AGGI)
20.1.3
CO2
20.1.4
Carbon Cycle
20.1.5
Methane
20.1.6
Methane Reservoir Laptev Sea
20.1.7
Methane-Hydrates
20.1.8
Methane emission rates
20.1.9
Methane (other)
20.1.10
Methane - Wetland Feedback
20.1.11
Methane Removal
20.1.12
Hydrogen (Leakage)
20.2
Aerosols
20.3
Ozone Layer
20.3.1
Artic Ozone Hole
20.4
Stratosphere shrinking
20.4.1
N2O
20.5
Contrails
20.6
Clouds
20.7
Attributing Emissions
20.7.1
Norway’s Responsibility
20.7.2
Global North vs South Responsibility
20.7.3
Concrete / Cement
21
Forests
21.1
Forests tipping: go from sink to source of CO2 due to temperature increase.
21.1.1
Photosynthesis Failure
21.2
Amazonas Firetrap
21.3
Plant and Cut - Forest CCS
21.4
Deforestation Footprint
22
Grasslands
23
Groundwater
23.1
Groundwater rise
24
Ice Sheet
24.1
Greenland
24.2
Antarctica
24.2.1
Sea-level Rise from Antarctica
24.2.2
Thwaites
24.2.3
Gyre Ross
24.3
Arctic Sea Ice
24.4
Ice Sheet Collapse
25
Ocean
25.1
Ocean Temperature
25.2
Ocean Skin
25.3
Ocean Heat Content
25.3.1
Deep Ocean Heat Content
25.4
El Niño - La Niña
25.4.1
2023 Ocean Heat Surge
25.5
Ocean Acidification
25.5.1
Outgassing
25.6
Ocean-Atmosphere Carbon Balance
25.6.1
Air-Sea Flux Calculation
25.6.2
Fungus fast track carbon
25.6.3
Ocean Carbon Sink
25.7
Sea Level Rise
25.7.1
Uncertainty
25.7.2
TSLS Transient Sea Level Sensitivity
25.7.3
High-End Seal Level Rise Estimate
25.8
AMOC - Gulf Stream
25.8.1
The Rise and Fall of AMOC
25.8.2
Rethinking AMOC
25.9
AMOC Collapse EWS (Early Warning Signals)
25.10
Whale Mitigation
25.11
Antarctica’s Role
25.12
Failing phytoplankton, failing oxygen
26
Permafrost
27
Soil
27.1
Soil Depth
27.2
Peatland
27.3
Land Use Change (LUC)
27.3.1
Climate effect of Land Use Change
27.4
Fertilizers
27.5
Regenerative Agriculture
27.6
Rice Fields
27.7
Fungi
V Policy
28
Adaptation
28.1
Lagging mitigation, lagging adaptation
28.2
Mobilization for Adaptation
28.2.1
Climate Grant Universities
29
Carbon Pricing
29.1
CBAM
29.2
Policy Sequencing
29.3
Limited Impact on Emissions
29.4
Carbon Price Norway
30
Carbon Offsets
30.1
Market Upscaling
31
CSS - Carbon Capture and Storage
31.1
CSS Unrealistic Costs
31.2
CSS will not work as planned and is a dangerous distraction
31.3
CSS and DAC cause more Damage than Good
31.4
BECCS
31.5
CDR - Mitigation Deterrence
31.6
CCS - Not a Climate Solution
31.7
CO2 Direct Air Capture DAC
31.8
Smokestack CO2 removal
31.9
OCR - Ocean-based Carbon Removal
31.9.1
Ebb
31.10
Thermodynamics of DAC
32
SAI Stratospheric Aerosol Injection
33
Cap and Trade
34
Fee and dividend
35
SAI Stratospheric Aerosol Injection
36
SCC - Social Costs of Carbon
36.1
The most important number you have never heard of
36.1.1
Greenstone Testimony
36.1.2
Greenstone Estimating SCC (MIT CEEPR WP 2011-006):*
36.1.3
Greenstone: Updating SCC
36.2
Current Prices far below SCC
36.3
Stern Stiglitz Alternative Approach
36.3.1
Stern Stiglitz Carbon Pricing Commission
36.4
MCC - Mortality Cost of Carbon
37
Geoengineering
37.1
A desparate idea
37.2
Solar Geoengineering
37.3
Ocean Geoengineering
38
Fair Shares
VI Impacts
39
Impacts
40
Draught
40.0.1
European Draught Extremes
41
Rainfall
41.1
Decreased Globel Precipitation Area
41.2
Quasi-stationary Rainstorms
41.3
Landslides
41.4
Water availability
41.4.1
Energy Crops takes away Water
41.5
Agricultural Productivity
41.5.1
Synchronized Low Yields
41.5.2
Crop Yield Draught Sensitivity
42
Human Health
42.1
Morbidity and Mortality
42.2
Humid Heat Bulbs
42.2.1
Urban Heat Exposure
42.3
COVID
42.4
Metabolism
42.5
Melting Glacier Viral Spillovers
43
Societal Collapse
43.1
Deep Adaptation
44
Climate Controvercies
VII Actions
45
Action Strategy
45.1
Authoritarian or Democratic Action
45.2
STS - Societal Transformation Scenario
45.3
Societal Impact (Lack of)
45.4
Deep Adaptation
46
Academic Failure
47
Capitalism and Climate Change
47.1
Orthogonal?
48
Climate Finance
48.1
Green Investing
48.2
Sustainable Finance
48.3
Financial Stability
48.3.1
Methods and Data
49
Legal Action
49.1
Ecocide: Crime?
49.2
German Constitutional Court
49.3
EU Import Ban
50
Lobbying
51
Net Zero
51.1
Net Zero Trap
51.2
Net Negative
51.3
Direct Air Capture
51.4
Net Zero Targeting
51.5
Action Tracker
51.5.1
Net Negative
51.6
Scope3 Value Chain Emissions
52
Outreach
53
Climate Politics
53.1
Asset Revaluation - Existential Politics
53.2
Climate Clubs
53.3
Climate Debt
53.4
Distributive Conflicts vs Commons Free-riders
54
Technology
54.1
Cement
VIII Appendices
Appendices
A
About
B
History
C
Links
D
NEWS
D.1
230908 Antarctica Polar Amplification
D.2
230116 No US Green Monetary Policy - but EU?
D.3
211104 Global CO2 emissions have been flat for a decade, new data reveals
D.4
211104 Top climate scientists are sceptical that nations will rein in global warming
D.5
210921 Microsoft CO2-removal
D.6
210909 ORCA turned on - Iceland
D.7
210715 Arctic Sea Ice at Record Low
D.8
210526 Dutch Court against Shell
D.9
210509 NDCs need 80% increase to 2°C
D.10
210508 Young Legal Action
D.11
210424 Earth’s Axis tilted by Melting Glaciers
D.12
210410 CO2 and Methane surged in 2020
D.13
210404 Gas Sustainability
D.14
210220 US SCC Update in Progress
D.15
210215 Focus on Steel, Meat and Cement
D.16
210127 10 New Insights in Climate Science 2020
D.17
210130 Adaptation Summit
D.18
210118 Warming all anthropogenic
D.19
21014 Globale Temperature 1880-2020
D.20
210104 Not so long lag?
D.21
210102 Climate Finance Shadow Report 2020
E
Sitelog
On Github
Climate
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Societal Collapse
43.1
Deep Adaptation
(More unde ‘Actions’)
Bendell (2018) Deep Adaption: A Map for Navigating Climate Tradegy (pdf)