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Realclimate redesign

5 Aug 2021 by group

After more than 15 years with basically the same layout, the Realclimate website – while still functional – has become increasing anachronistic both in appearance and ‘under the hood’. In order to take advantage of more up to date web-site designs and new features that have been developed since the early 2000s (!), we need to upgrade the site, and while we are at it, update the theme and design, while maintaining an aesthetic link to the original.

With this post, we can reveal the new layout.

The differences are not related to content but to appearance – all of the material is still here – but the new layout is much fresher and includes much better support for people reading the site on their phones or iPads. We are using larger typefaces, cleaner menus and a more content-focused presentation for posts.

All of this is intended to improve the reader/commenter experience, but it’s inevitable that we have missed some aspects and/or some of the design features may be suboptimal for some. We will endeavor to fix any issues or problems that you find. So please comment below if you like it or hate it, if you find anything that’s broken or if you have any specific requests for tweaks. We’ll try and iterate over the next few days to get it right.

Thanks!

Filed Under: Climate Science

Unforced Variations: Aug 2021

2 Aug 2021 by group

This month is IPCC month – the Sixth Assessment Report from Working Group 1 is out on Monday August 9. We’ll have some detailed comments once it’s out, but in the meantime, feel free to speculate widely (always considering that IPCC is restricted to assessing existing literature…).

Open thread – please stick to climate science topics.

Filed Under: Climate Science, IPCC, Open thread

Rapid attribution of PNW heatwave

7 Jul 2021 by group

Summary: It was almost impossible for the temperatures seen recently in the Pacific North West heatwave to have occurred without global warming. And only improbable with it.

It’s been clear for at least a decade that global warming has been in general increasing the intensity of heat waves, with clear trends in observed maximum temperatures that match what climate models have been predicting. For the specific situation in the Pacific NorthWest at the end of June, we now have the first attribution analysis from the World Weather Attribution group – a consortium of climate experts from around the world working on extreme event attribution. Their preprint (Philip et al.) is available here.

Trends in Tmax globally
[Read more…] about Rapid attribution of PNW heatwave

Filed Under: Climate impacts, Climate modelling, Climate Science, heatwaves, Instrumental Record, statistics

Forced Responses: July 2021

2 Jul 2021 by group

A new bi-monthly open thread for climate solutions discussions. Climate science threads go here.

Filed Under: Open thread, Solutions

Unforced Variations: July 2021

2 Jul 2021 by group

This month’s open thread for climate science. Probably a good time to discuss attribution for extreme heat, wildfires, hurricane intensity and intense precipitation.

Lytton's Main Street, before and after yesterday's devastating fire.

(Photo from a Chilliwack Fire Department member) pic.twitter.com/OaoRvg1ch3

— Justin McElroy (@j_mcelroy) July 1, 2021

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread

Unforced Variations: Jun 2021

2 Jun 2021 by group

This month’s open thread for climate science. Start of the meteorological summer, official hurricane season (outlook), the final stretches of the IPCC AR6 review process and a rare conjunction of Father’s Day and the summer solstice. Please stay on topic.

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread

Forced Responses: May 2021

2 May 2021 by group

A bimonthly open thread on climate solutions. Perhaps unsurprisingly this is always the most contentious comment thread on the site, but please try and be constructive and avoid going off on wild tangents.

Filed Under: Open thread, Solutions

Unforced Variations: May 2021

1 May 2021 by group

This month’s open thread for climate science topics.

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread

Unforced Variations: Apr 2021

1 Apr 2021 by group

This month’s open thread for climate science discussions. Be nice, it’s Earth month.

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread

Looking for help with an electricity tax-swap idea

3 Mar 2021 by group

Guest commentary from Yoram Bauman

Everyone from Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to Elon Musk thinks that putting a price on carbon is an important step in tackling climate change. Politically, however, carbon taxes and cap-and-trade systems face an uphill battle, in part because they could drive up the prices of household basics like gasoline and electricity. There are many worthy proposals for addressing this concern, mostly focused on the idea of using carbon pricing revenue to pay for things like per-capita dividends, green investments, or reductions in payroll taxes. 

But what if you could put a price on carbon without driving up consumer prices? In California, for example, the impact of the cap-and-trade system on residential electric bills is reduced substantially by the semi-annual Climate Credits that households receive on their bills. 

[Read more…] about Looking for help with an electricity tax-swap idea

Filed Under: Solutions

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