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How do the new estimates of transient climate response affect the social cost of CO2?
21 May 2013

How do the new estimates of transient climate response affect the social cost of CO2?

by cwhope | posted in: green taxes | 9

A new paper by Otto et al in Nature Geoscience has made an updated estimate of the transient climate response (TCR) implied by the climate change we have observed from 1970 to 2009. It finds the TCR to lie in the … Continued

climate, climate change
Did dinosaurs warm the world?
12 May 2012

Did dinosaurs warm the world?

by cwhope | posted in: dinosaurs | 0

Possibly, by up to one and a half degrees. This recent paper in the journal Current Biology claims that the digestive tracts of dinosaurs emitted 520 Mtonnes of methane a year, comparable to the total modern-day methane emissions. The authors … Continued

climate change, dinosaurs

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