Dive right in: Why positive feedback doesn’t necessarily lead to runaway warming – Positive feedback happens when the response to some change amplifies that change. For example: The Earth heats up, and some of the sea ice near the poles…
What difference can a degree or two make? Well the answer, as I’m sure that you will know is a lot. The image below taken from the IPCC’s fourth assessment report (AR4) gives a simple (although now out of date)…
Dive right in: Sustainability: Choices, choices, choices – great piece by the BBC’s Richard Black. Matt Ridley and the Holocene Optimum – Matt Ridley making elementary mistakes again, you’d think he has some sort of wider agenda. Oh, he has.…
Dive right in: Climate skeptic hides the incline in global temperatures – shock horror. Heat stress – setting a limit on what we can adapt to – if you didn”t know already, >7C temp rises will be bad, very bad.…