Climate Scientist responds to Sabine Hossenfelder on Climate Sensitivity

ClimateAdam — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 15:36:48 +0000

How hot will our planet actually get? Climate scientists try to answer this question by evaluating the “climate sensitivity”. And if you’ve watched the recent Sabine Hossenfelder, you may be left with the impression that climate change wasn’t much to worry about… but now it is. So I’m here to explain what the evidence is actually showing us, and why the situation is a little more nuanced than Sabine’s commentary may have suggested. And crucially I break down how climate scientists arrive at a number for the crucial “climate sensitivity”, to give us a sense for how much global warming we’re in for.

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Zeke Hausfather https://twitter.com/hausfath

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==MORE INFO==

Sabine video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S9sDyooxf4
My video on landmark climate sensitivity paper: https://youtu.be/7tMAkhQCJ48?si=XxdpXJP2zOA3x4ko
Nature Comment on hot models: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01192-2
Hot models too hot historically: https://esd.copernicus.org/articles/11/737/2020/esd-11-737-2020.html
… and for the last “ice age”
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2021MS002776
Explanation of climate sensitivity: https://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-how-scientists-estimate-climate-sensitivity/
The epic study on climate sensitivity: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019RG000678
Weather forecast to validate model: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019MS001986
Associated comment piece: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01484-5
Why such forecasts tests should be carried out: https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/qj.23
The James Hansen paper: https://academic.oup.com/oocc/article/3/1/kgad008/7335889
Critiques of it:
https://twitter.com/hausfath/status/1720098321161957761 (check the replies too)
https://michaelmann.net/content/comments-new-article-james-hansen
https://www.eenews.net/articles/james-hansen-is-back-with-another-dire-climate-warning/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/12/26/global-warming-accelerating-climate-change/
Do climate protests work: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2378023120925949
IEA net zero roadmap: https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/9a698da4-4002-4e53-8ef3-631d8971bf84/NetZeroRoadmap_AGlobalPathwaytoKeepthe1.5CGoalinReach-2023Update.pdf

==CREDITS==

Sabine photo from Sabine Hossenfelder
Ice core clip from The Conversation
Ocean visual and temperature projection from Nasa
Greek floods by Weather events

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Climate change – Averting catastrophe | DW Documentary

DW Documentary — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 16:00:37 +0000

In the last 30 years, CO2 emissions have increased by 60 percent worldwide. The most pressing problem facing our civilization is global warming. What solutions could there be? This documentary accompanies activists in their efforts to combat climate change.

According to scientists, if by the year 2100 the global temperature has risen more than 1.5 degrees Celsius on levels recorded in the year 1850, the consequences could be devastating for people and the environment. But will we manage to achieve this ambitious goal? Around the world, politicians, companies, laboratories and universities are struggling to find solutions.

The film team visits climate rescuers in Sudan, Indonesia and Europe. Their inventive spirit cools buildings, connects countries with green electricity lines or sucks carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. Their work helps determine the living conditions of generations to come.

Every time the women of Shagra plant an acacia seedling in the sand of Darfur, it is an occasion of great joy in the Sudanese village. The tree will drive its roots 100 meters into the ground and be better able to withstand the droughts in the Sahel than most other plants. It will secrete gum sap when women scratch the bark after a few years. The sale of gum arabic will alleviate poverty in the village.

65,000 acacias are already growing in Darfur: a blessing for the bitterly poor region, as well as a carbon dioxide reservoir that can help limit global warming.

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