To those following the superficial political spin of climate policy, a UN organisation admitting that climate mitigation has failed may come as a surprise. Yet one does not have to go too deeply into the new UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2018 to see that this tacit admission is clearly the case. It is contained within […]
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UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2018 Part 3 – UNEP tacitly admits climate mitigation is a failure
Posted by manicbeancounter on 12/12/2018
https://manicbeancounter.com/2018/12/12/unep-emissions-gap-report-2018-part-3-unep-tacitly-admits-climate-mitigation-is-a-failure/
UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2018 Part 2 – Emissions Projections by Country
On previous UNEP Emission Gap Reports I found that although they showed the aggregate global projected emissions, there has been no breakdown by country. As mitigation policies are mostly enacted by nation states, and the aim is to reduce global emissions, it would be useful to actually see how each of the near 200 nation […]
Posted by manicbeancounter on 03/12/2018
https://manicbeancounter.com/2018/12/03/unep-emissions-gap-report-2018-part-2-emissions-projections-by-country/
UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2018 Part 1 – The BBC Response
Over the past year I have mentioned a number of times to UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2017. The successor 2018 EGR (ninth in the series) has now been published. This is the first in a series of short posts looking at the issues with the report. First up is an issue with the reporting by […]
Posted by manicbeancounter on 29/11/2018
https://manicbeancounter.com/2018/11/29/unep-emissions-gap-report-2018-part-1-the-bbc-response/
How climate damage costings from EPA Scientists are misleading and how to correct
The Los Angeles Times earlier this month had an article From ruined bridges to dirty air, EPA scientists price out the cost of climate change. (Hattip Climate Etc.) By the end of the century, the manifold consequences of unchecked climate change will cost the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars per year, according to a […]
Posted by manicbeancounter on 17/04/2019
https://manicbeancounter.com/2019/04/17/how-climate-damage-costings-from-epa-scientists-are-misleading-and-how-to-correct/
Nobel Laureate William Nordhaus demonstrates that pursuing climate mitigation will make a nation worse off
Summary Nobel Laureate Professor William Nordhaus shows that the optimal climate mitigation policy is for far less mitigation than UNIPCCC proposes. That is to constrain warming by 2100 to 3.5°C instead of 2°C or less. But this optimal policy is based on a series of assumptions, including that policy is optimal and near universally applied. […]
Posted by manicbeancounter on 15/03/2019
https://manicbeancounter.com/2019/03/15/nobel-laureate-william-nordhaus-demonstrates-that-climate-mitigation-will-make-a-nation-worse-off/
Two false claims on climate change by the IPPR
An IPPR report This is a crisis: Facing up to the age of environmental breakdown published yesterday, withing a few hours received criticism from Paul Homewood at notalotofpeopleknowthat, Paul Matthews at cliscep and Andrew Montford at The GWPF. has is based on an April 2018 paper by billionaire Jeremy Grantham. Two major issues, that I want […]
Posted by manicbeancounter on 14/02/2019
https://manicbeancounter.com/2019/02/14/two-false-claims-on-climate-change-by-the-ippr/
Camp Fire California – Lessons in the Limits & Harms of Political Action
I believe that there is a prayer that politicians should adopt.Called the Serenity Prayer, and written by Reinhold Niebuhr it begins God grant me the serenityto accept the things I cannot change;courage to change the things I can;and wisdom to know the difference. The order is the right way round. Most “things” a politician – […]
Posted by manicbeancounter on 27/12/2018
https://manicbeancounter.com/2018/12/27/camp-fire-california-lessons-in-the-limits-harms-of-political-action/
BBCs misleading reporting of COP 24 Katowice Agreement
As usual, the annual UNFCCC COP meeting reached an agreement after extra time, said nothing substantial, but tried to dress up the failure as something significant. The BBC’s exuberant reporting of the outcome by Matt McGarth seriously misleads readers as to the substance of the agreement when he states The Katowice agreement aims to deliver […]
Posted by manicbeancounter on 17/12/2018
https://manicbeancounter.com/2018/12/17/bbcs-misleading-reporting-of-cop-24-katowice-agreement/
Why can’t I reconcile the emissions to achieve 1.5C or 2C of Warming?
Introduction At heart I am beancounter. That is when presented with figures I like to understand how they are derived. When it comes to the claims about the quantity of GHG emissions that are required to exceed 2°C of warming I cannot get even close, unless by making some a series of assumptions, some of […]
Posted by manicbeancounter on 03/10/2018
https://manicbeancounter.com/2018/10/03/why-cant-i-reconcile-the-emissions-to-achieve-1-5c-or-2c-of-warming/
