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Why bother about mankind in 2100?
I spend a lot of time on Bluesky—and occasionally on X—following the back-and-forth surrounding decarbonization. What lies ahead regarding global warming? It is clear that we are currently leaving the +1.5°C mark behind us; furthermore, it seems quite clear to me that within 15 ±3 years—that is, practically tomorrow—we will also have left the +2.0°C … Continue reading Why bother about mankind in…
On the necessity of market regulations
This is a copy of a comment written to a Guardian piece. A sound, healthy market system is something artificial like a garden: the plants grow by themselves, but without the supervision of the gardener, some nasty, but successful species will outcompete the beautiful flowers, all order will be lost and the whole thing will … Continue reading On the necessity of market regulations
climate & energy digest: february 2026
In the last post I tried to lure you to my substack monthly post and newsletter. In this post, i just copied the thing in . Note, that there are post for august, september 2025 and january 2026 over there. monthly climate & energy digest February 2026 Seeing the picture in the noise. General Account … Continue reading climate & energy digest: february 2026
A Monthly Climate and Energy Digest
I went to the competition at substack and set up a monthly climate and energy news and background digest. Covering a broad spectrum of earth system, emissions, climate science, politics and economy (as far as it is climate related), you get all infos of a month in one place. So it’s kind of a “long … Continue reading A Monthly Climate and Energy Digest
Five papers about global warming rate doubling
Research results emerging since a couple of years show an almost doubling of global warming rate. The five most important sources to support this claim are: Earth’s Energy Imbalance More Than Doubled in Recent Decades – Mauritsen – 2025 – AGU Advances – Wiley Online Library This is based on the difference between the absorbed … Continue reading Five papers about global warming rate doubling
Coalitions are always weaker
We are currently seeing the peculiar fact that although the European part of NATO is superior to Russia in terms of defence spending, total number of soldiers, tanks and aircraft, experts still consider it too weak to fend off a Russian attack, for example in the Baltic states. The European forces in the Baltics are … Continue reading Coalitions are always weaker
the paw of the beast
the beast has left its marks and they are not reassuring it has been unleashed again we are the beast
Warming Rate Jump to 0,33 K/decade
This is what my go-to climate blogger tamino found as expectancy value for the next ten years or so, with an uncertainty of ± 0,08 K/decade. What this means is: there is an unsettlingly high probability of warming having become considerably faster and us having much less time to act on it. Much less: the … Continue reading Warming Rate Jump to 0,33 K/decade
Global Warming Acceleration: What’s Nibbling the Clouds Away
2023 was a record year and 2024 will top it. That would be two years in a row of more than 1.5°C warming compared to the pre-industrial baseline. The acceleration of global warming over the last decade or so, which has been noted here several times, is becoming more apparent. The statistician’s blog Tamino has … Continue reading Global Warming Acceleration: What’s Nibbling the Clouds Away