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It is not widely understood that carbon dioxide persists in the atmosphere for centuries, so our future will depend on the total amount we humans put into it over the next several decades. This is the paramount fact that separates climate change from all other environmental problems.

– Clive Hamilton Utopias in the Anthropocene

Final AGU Posting – Found Poetry from the Poster Sessions

If you don’t know what the poster session is like, you don’t know what AGU is like. I’m here to help. [more]

Day 4 at AGU – Productive Self-Doubt and Healthy Retraction

The key to advancing your scientific conclusion is to be your own harshest critic. As a beginner, you will find yourself wrong far more often than right. But you will be wrong in ever more interesting ways. [more]

Day 3 at AGU – I didn’t learn much about science

—Michael Tobis

Science has a problem. But science doesn’t have a strategy. [more]

Beyond Planet Three

Conversations about worthwhile sustainability readings from elsewhere on the web

ATTP takes on Prof Steve Fuller

It may well be interesting to study scientists as a group, but it can tell you very little (if anything) about science itself. If you want to understand the systems being studied, you study those systems, you don’t study those who are doing the research. here
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Alarming Arctic Sea Ice Animation

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We Need Facts Now More Than Ever.

By mt. On Twitter. Storified. [more]

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First Night at AGU – TIL

Today I Learned, on good authority, that it remains impossible to exclude 3 meters of sea level rise within a single human lifetime from West Antarctica alone.

If it is possible, it’s further impossible to exclude it in the lifetimes of people now living.

The time scales of the collapse of calving ice sheets depend sensitively on temperature and on the height of the cliff. [more]

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Scott Adams is a Tosser

Stoat argues that the fundamental question Scott Adams poses, How the heck can you – a non-expert – judge who is right? – remains a good one; but that his answer is worthless. [more]

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